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Showing posts with label Venice Film Festival. Show all posts

Saturday, September 11, 2021

VENEZIA 2021

 78th Venice Film Festival Winners





COMPETITION

Golden Lion
L’Evénement, directed by Audrey Diwan

Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize
The Hand Of God, directed by Paolo Sorrentino

Silver Lion, Best Director
Jane Campion, The Power Of The Dog

Volpi Cup Best Actress
Penelope Cruz, Parallel Mothers

Volpi Cup Best Actor
John Arcilla, On The Job: The Missing 8

Best Screenplay
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Lost Daughter

Special Jury Prize
Il Buco, directed by Michelangelo Frammartino

Marcello Mastroianni Award for for Best New Young Actor or Actress
Filippo Scotti, The Hand Of God


ORIZZONTI

Best Film
Pilgrims, directed by Laurynas Bareisa

Best Director
Eric Gravel, A Plein Temps

Special Jury Prize
El Gran Movimiento, directed by Kiro Russo

Best Actress
Laure Calamy, A Plein Temps

Best Actor
Piseth Chhun, White Building

Best Screenplay
Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes: 107 Mothers

Best Short Film
Los Huesos, directed by Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña

Audience Award Armani Beauty
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic, directed by Teemu Nikki





LION OF THE FUTURE 

Luigi De Laurentiis Award For Best Debut Film
Imaculat, directed by Monica Stan, George Chiper Lillemark


QUEER LION

Best Film
La dernière séance (The Last Chapter) directed by Gianluca Matarrese


VENICE VR EXPANDED

Grand Jury Prize for Best VR
Goliath: Playing With Reality, directed by Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla

Best VR Experience
Le Bal De Paris De Blanca Li, directed by Blanca Li

Best VR Story
End Of Night, directed by David Adler


LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT GOLDEN LION

Roberto Benigni
Jamie Lee Curtis


Saturday, September 12, 2020

VENEZIA 2020

77th Venice Film Festival Winners 



Venezia 2020 - Complete list of winners:


COMPETITION

Golden Lion: Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

Grand Jury Prize: New Order - Michel Franco

Silver Lion for Best Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Wife of a Spy

Best Actress: Vanessa Kirby - Pieces of a Woman

Best Actor: Pierfrancesco Favino - Padrenostro

Best Screenplay: The Disciple - Chaitanya Tamhane

Special Jury Prize: Dear Comrades - Andrei Konchalovsky

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Rouhollah Zamani - Sun Children

 


ORIZZONTI

Best Film: The Wasteland - Ahmad Bahrami

Best Director: Genus Pan - Lav Diaz

Special Jury Prize: Listen - Ana Rocha de Sousa

Best Actress: Khansa Batma - Zanka Contact

Best Actor: Yahya Mahayni - The Man Who Sold His Skin

Best Screenplay: I Predatori - Pietro Castellitto

Best Short Film: Entre tú y milagros - Mariana Safron



LION OF THE FUTURE

Luigi De Laurentiis Award for Best Debut Film: Listen - Ana Rocha de Sousa


VIRTUAL REALITY COMPETITION

Best VR: The Hangman at Home: An Immersive Single User Experience - Michelle and Uri Kranot

Best VR Experience:  Finding Pandora X - Kiira Benzing

Best VR Story: Killing a Superstar - Fan Fan


LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT GOLDEN LION

Tilda Swinton

Ann Hui



Thursday, July 25, 2019

VENEZIA 2019

76th Venice International Film Festival




VENEZIA 76 - FILMS IN COMPETITION

The Truth, dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Opening Film)
The Perfect Candidate, Haifaa Al Mansour
About Endlessness, dir: Roy Andersson
Wasp Network, dir: Olivier Assayas
Marriage Story, dir: Noah Baumbach
Guest of Honor, dir: Atom Egoyan
Ad Astra, dir: James Gray
A Herdade, dir: Tiago Guedes
Gloria Mundi, dir: Robert Guediguian
Waiting for the Barbarians, dir: Ciro Guerra
Ema, dir: Pablo Larrain
Saturday Fiction, dir: Lou Ye
Martin Eden, dir: Pietro Marcello
La Mafia Non E Piu Quella di Una Volta, dir: Franco Maresco
The Painted Bird, dir: Vaclav Marhoul
The Mayor of Rione Sanita, dir: Mario Martone
Babyteeth, dir: Shannon Murphy
Joker, dir: Todd Phillips
J’Accuse, dir: Roman Polanski
The Laundromat, dir: Steven Soderbergh
No. 7 Cherry Lane, dir: Yonfan

OUT OF COMPETITION – FEATURE FILMS

Seberg, dir: Benedict Andrews
Vivere, dir: Francesco Archibugi
The Burnt Orange Heresy, dir: Giuseppe Capotondi (Closing Film)
The King, dir: David Michod
Adults in the Room, dir: Costa Gavras
Mosul, dir: Matthew Michael Carnahan
Tutto il Mio Folle Amore, dir: Gabriele Salvatores

OUT OF COMPETITION – SPECIAL SCREENINGS

No One Left Behind, dir: Guillermo Arriaga
Electric Swan, dir: Konstantina Kotzamani
Irreversible – Integral Verson, dir: Gaspar Noe
ZeroZeroZero, dir: Stefano Sollima
The New Pope, dir: Paolo Sorrentino
Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick And Eyes Wide Shut, dir: Matt Wells
Eyes Wide Shut, dir: Stanley Kubrick

OUT OF COMPETITION – DOCUMENTARIES

Woman, dirs.: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova
Roger Waters Us + Them, dir: Sean Evans, Roger Waters
I Diari Di Angela – Noi Due Cineaste. Capitolo Secondo, dirs: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Citizen K, dir: Alex Gibney
Citizen Rosi, dirs: Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi
The Kingmaker, dir: Lauren Greenfield
State Funeral, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
Collective, dir: Alexander Nanau
45 Seconds of Laughter, dir: Tim Robbins
Il Pianeta In Mare, dir: Andrea Segre

ORIZZONTI

Zumiriki, dir: Osker Alegria
Blanco en Blanco, dir: Theo Court
Mes Jours de Gloire, dir: Antoine De Bary
Pelican Blood, dir: Katrin Gebbe
Un Fils, dir: Mehdi M Barsaoui
Nevia, dir: Nunzia De Stefano
Moffie, dir: Oliver Hermanus
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha, dir: Sahraa Karimi
Rialto, dir: Peter Mackie Burns
The Criminal Man, dir: Dmitry Mamuliya
Revenir, dir: Jessica Palud
Giants Being Lonely, dir: Grear Patterson
Verdict, dir: Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Balloon, dir: Pema Tseden
Just 6.5, dir: Saeed Roustaee
Shadow of Water, dir: Sanal Kumar
Sole, dir: Carlo Sironi
Atlantis, dir: Valentyn Vasyanovych
Madre, dir: Rodrigo Sorogoyen

SPECIAL EVENT

Goodbye Dragon Inn, dir: Tsai Ming-Liang

SCONFINI

Effeto Domino, dir: Alessandro Rossetto
Once More Unto the Breach, dirs: Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini
The Scarecrows, dir: Nouri Bouzid
Chiara Ferragni – Unposted, dir: Elisa Amoruso

VENICE CLASSICS

The Incredible Shrinking Man, dir: Jack Arnold
The Grim Reaper, dir: Bernardo Bertolucci
The Spider’s Strategem, dir: Bernardo Bertolucci
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, dir: Luis Bunuel
The Crossing of the Rhine, dir: André Cayette
Maria Zef, dir Vittorio Cottafavi
Crash, dir: David Cronenberg
Francisca, dir: Manoeul De Oliveira
The House is Black, dir: Forough Farrokhzad
The White Sheik, dir: Federico Fellini
Current, dir: Istvan Gaal
The Hills of Marlik, dir: Ebrahim Golestan
Death of a Bureaucrat, dir: Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Out of the Blue, dir: Dennis Hopper
Ecstasy, dir: Gustav Machaty
Mauri, dir: Merata Mita
Pigeon Shoot, dir: Giuliano Montaldo
New York, New York, dir: Martin Scorsese
The Red Snowball Tree, dir: Vasiliy Shukshin
Way of a Gaucho, dir: Jacques Tourneur

VENICE VIRTUAL REALITY (in competition – Interactive)

These Sleepless Nights, dir: Gabo Arora
Loveseat, dir: Kiira Benzing
Glimpse (Preview), dirs: Benjamin Cleary, Michael O’Connor
Porton Down, dir: Callum Cooper
Bodyless, dir: Hsin-Chien Huang
Pagan Peak VR, dirs: Ioulia Isserlis, Max Sacker
A Life in Flowers, dir: Armando Kirwin
The Line, dir: Ricardo Laganaro
Inori, dir: Miwa Komatsu
Cosmos Within Us, dir: Tupac Martir
Doctor Who the Edge of Time, dir: Marcus Moresby
Britannia VR: Out of Your Mind, dir: Kim-Leigh Pontin
Downloaded, dir: Ollie Rankin
The Key, dir: Celine Tricart

VENICE VIRTUAL REALITY (in competition – Linear)

Battle Hymn, dir: Yair Agmon
Battlescar – Punk Was Invented By Girls, dirs: Martin Allais, Nico Casavecchia
Daughters of Chibok, dir: Joel Benson
Only the Mountain Remains (5×1 Project), dir: Chiang Wei Liang
Ghost in the Shell: Ghost Chaser, dir: Hirokai Higashi
Passenger, dirs: Isobel Knowles, Van Sowerwine
The Waiting Room VR, dir: Victoria Mappleback
Black Bag, dir: Qing Shao
VR Free, dir: Milad Tangshir
Gloomy Eyes, dirs: Tereso Jorge, Fernando Maldonado
O [5×1 Project], dir: Qiu Yang
Ex Anima Experience, dirs: Pierre Zandrowicz, Bartabas

BIENNALE COLLEGE CINEMA

The End of Love, dir: Keren Ben Rafael
Lessons of Love, dir: Chiara Campara
This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, dir: Jeremiah Lemonhang Mosese



Wednesday, July 25, 2018

VENEZIA 2018

75th Venice International Film Festival





VENEZIA 75 - FILMS IN COMPETITION

First Man, dir: Damien Chazelle (Opening Film)
The Mountain, dir: Rick Alverson
Doubles Vies, dir: Olivier Assayas
The Sisters Brothers, dir: Jacques Audiard
The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, dirs: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Vox Lux, dir: Brady Corbet
22 July, dir: Paul Greengrass
Roma, dir: Alfonso Cuarón
Suspiria, dir: Luca Guadagnino
Werk Ohne Autor, dir: Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
The Nightingale, dir: Jennifer Kent
The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthiomos
Peterloo, dir: Mike Leigh
Capri-Revolution, dir: Mario Martone
What You Gonna Do When The World’s On Fire?, dir: Roberto Minervini
Sunset, dir: Laszlo Nemes
Frères Ennemis, dir: David Oelhoffen
Nuestro Tiempo, dir: Carlos Reygadas
At Eternity’s Gate, dir: Julian Schnabel
Acusada, dir: Gonzalo Tobal
Killing, dir: Shinya Tsukamoto


OUT OF COMPETITION

A Star Is Born, dir: Bradley Cooper
Mi Obra Maestra, dir: Gaston Duprat
Un Peuple Et Son Roi, dir: Pierre Schoeller
A Tramway In Jerusalem, dir: Amos Gitai
La Quietud, dir: Pablo Trapero
Shadow, dir: Zhang Yimou
Dragged Across Concrete, dir: S Craig Zahler


OUT OF COMPETITION – SPECIAL EVENT

The Other Side Of The Wind, dir: Orson Welles
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, dir: Morgan Neville


OUT OF COMPETITION – SPECIAL SCREENINGS

L’Amica Geniale (My Brilliant Friend), dir: Saverio Costanza
Il Diario Di Angela – Noi Due Cineasti, dir: Yervant Gianikian


OUT OF COMPETITION – DOCUMENTARIES

A Letter To A Friend In Gaza, dir: Amos Gitai
Aquarela, dir: Victor Kossakovsky
El Pepe, Una Vida Suprema, dir: Emir Kusturica
Process, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
Carmine Street Guitars, dir: Ron Mann
Isis, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls Of Mosul., dirs: Francesca Mannocchi, Alessio Romenzi
American Dharma, dir: Errol Morris
Introduzione All’Oscuro, dir: Gaston Solnicki
Your Face, dir: Tsai Ming-Liang
1938 Diversi, dir: Giorgi Treves
Monrovia, Indiana, dir: Frederick Wiseman
Una Storia Senza Nome, dir: Roberto Ando
Les Estivants, dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi


HORIZONS

Sulla Mia Pelle, dir: Alessio Cremonini (Opening Film)
Manta Ray, dir: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
Soni, dir: Ivan Ayr
The River, dir: Emir Baigazin
La Noche De 12 Anos, dir: Alvaro Brechner
Deslembro, dir: Flavia Castro
The Announcement, dir: Mahmut Fazil Coskun
Un Giorno All’Improvviso, dir: Ciro D’Emilio
Charlie Says, dir: Mary Harron
Amanda, dir: Mikhael Hers
The Day I Lost My Shadow, dir: Soudade Kaadan
L’Enkas, dir: Sarah Marx
The Man Who Surprised Everyone, dirs: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksy Chupov
Memories Of My Body, dir: Garin Nugroho
As I Lay Dying, dir: Mostafa Sayyari
La Profezia Dell’Armadillo, dir: Emanuele Scaringi
Tel Aviv On Fire, dir: Sameh Zoabi
Jinpa, dir: Pema Tseden
Stripped, dir: Yaron Shani


SCONFINI (formerly Cinema in the Garden)

The Tree Of Life (Extended Cut), dir: Terrence Malick
Arrivederci Saigon, dir: Wilma Labate
Il Ragazzo Piu Felice Del Mondon, dir: Gipi
Il Banchiere Anarchio, dir: Giulio Base
Blood Kin, dir: Ramin Bahrani
Magic Lantern, dir: Amir Naderi
L’Heure De La Sortie, dir: Sebastien Marnier
Camorra, dir: Francesco Patierno


VENICE CLASSICS

They Live, dir: John Carpenter
The Night Porter, dir: Liliana Cavani
The Naked City, dir: Jules Dassin
Brick And Mirror, dir: Ebrahim Golestan
Street Of Shame, dir: Kenji Mizoguchi
Il Posto, dir: Ermanno Olmi
Last Year At Marienbad, dir: Alain Resnais
The Place Without Limits, dir: Arturo Ripstein
Adieu Philippine, dir: Jacques Rozier
The Ascent, dir: Larisa Shepitko
The Killers, dir: Don Siegel
The Killers, dir: Robert Siodmark
The Night Of The Shooting Stars, dirs: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow AKA The Mad Fox, dir: Toma Uchida
Death In Venice, dir: Luchino Visconti
The Golem – How He Came Into The World, dir: Paul Wegener
Nothing Sacred, dir: William A Wellman
Some Like It Hot, dir: Billy Wilder


VENICE CLASSICS – DOCUMENTARIES

The Great Buster, dir: Peter Bogdanovich
Women Making Films: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, dir: Mark Cousins
Humberto Mauro, dir: André Di Mauro
Living The Light – Robby Muller, dir: Claire Pijman
24/25 Il Fotogramma In Piu, dirs: Giancarlo Rolandi, Federico Pontiggia
Nice Girls Don’t Stay For Breakfast, dir: Bruce Weber
Friedkin Uncut, dir: Francesco Zippel


VENICE VIRTUAL REALITY (In Competition – Interactive)

Make Noise, dir: May Abdalla
The Unknown Patient, dir: Michael Beets
Buddy VR, dir: Chuck Chae
Umami, dir: Landia Egal
Eclipse, dir: Astruc Jonathan, Favre Aymeric
The Horrifically Virtual Reality, dir: Marie Jourdren
Spheres, dir: Eliza McNitt
A Discovery of Witches – Hiding in Plain Sight, dir: Kim-Leigh Pontin
The Roaming – Wetlands, dir: Mathieu Pradat
Kobold, dirs: Max Sacker, Ioulia Isserlis
Awavena, dir: Lynette Wallworth


VENICE VIRTUAL REALITY (In Competition – Linear)

Even In The Rain, dir: Lindsay Branham
Trail Of Angels, dir: Kristina Buozyte
X-Ray Fashion, dir: Francesco Carrozzini
Half Life VR – Short Version, dir: Robert Connor
Crow: The Legend, dir: Eric Darnell
Age Of Sail, dir: John Kahrs
Mindpalace, dirs: Carl Krause, Dominik Stockhausen
Ballavita, dir: Gerda Leopold
Borderline, dir: Assaf Machnes
Shennong: Taste Of Illusion, dirs: Mi Li, Wang Zheng
The Great C, dir: Steve Miller
L’Ile Des Morts, dir: Benjamin Nuel
Home After War, dirs: Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke
Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity, dirs: Elli Raynai, Irem Harnak
Lucid, dir: Pete Short
The Last One Standing VR, dirs: Wang Jiwen, Liu Yang
Fresh Out, dirs: Wey Sam, Tao Fangchao
1943: Berlin Blitz, dir: David Whelan
Rooms, dir: Christian Zipfel


OUT OF COMPETITION – BEST OF VR (Interactive)

VR_I, dirs: Gilles Jobin, Caecilia Charbonnier, Sylvain Chagué


OUT OF COMPETITION – BEST OF VR (Linear)

Battlescar, dirs: Nico Casavecchia, Martin Allias
Arden’s Wake: Tide’s Fall, dir: Eugene YK Chung
Ghost In The Shell: Virtual Reality Diver, dir: Higashi Hiroaki
Isle Of Dogs: Behind The Scenes (In Virtual Reality), dirs: Paul Raphael, Felix Lajeunesse
Tales Of Wedding Rings VR, dir: Sou Kaei


OUT OF COMPETITION – BIENNALE COLLEGE CINEMA – VR (Linear)

In The Cave, dir: Ivan Gergolet
Elegy, dir: Marc Guidoni
Metro Veinte: Cita Ciega, dir: Maria Belen Poncio
Floodplain, dir: Deniz Tortum


BIENNALE COLLEGE

Zen Sul Ghiaccio Sottile, dir: Margherita Ferri
Deva, dir: Petra Szöcs
Yuva, dir: Emre Yeksan


Tuesday, August 1, 2017

VENEZIA 2017

74th Venice International Film Festival




Competition

Downsizing, Alexander Payne, USA (Opening Film)
Ammore e Malavita, Manetti Brothers, Italy
Ex Libris.  The New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman, USA (documentary)
First Reformed, Paul Schrader, USA
Foxtrot, Samuel Maoz, Israel, Germany, France and Switzerland
Hannah, Andrea Pallaoro, Italy, Belgium and France
Human Flow, Ai Weiwei, Germany and USA (documentary)
Angels Wear White (嘉年華 Jia nian hua), Vivian Qu, China and France
Jusqu'à la garde, Xavier Legrand, France
La Villa (The House by the Sea), Robert Guédiguian, France
L'Insulte (The Insult), Ziad Doueiri, France and Lebanon
Lean on Pete, Andrew Haigh, UK
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif Kechiche, France and Italy
mother!, Daren Aronofsky, USA
The Third Murder (三度目の殺人 Sandome no Satsujin), Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan 

Suburbicon, George Clooney, USA
Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton, Australia
The Leisure Seeker, Paolo Virzì, Italy
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro, USA
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh, UK
Una Famiglia, Sebastiano Riso, Italy




Out of Competition

Feature Films

Outrage Coda (アウトレイジ 最終章 Autoreiji Saishusho), Takeshi Kitano, Japan
Brawl in Cell Block 99, S. Craig Zahler, USA
Il Colore Nascosto delle Cose, Silvio Soldini, Italy and Switzerland
La mélodie, Rachid Hami, France
Le Fidèle (Racer and the Jailbird), Michaël R. Roskam, Belgium, France and Netherlands
Loving Pablo, Fernando León de Aranoa, Spain and Bulgaria
Our Souls at Night, Ritesh Batra, USA
The Private Life of a Modern Woman, James Toback, USA
Victoria & Abdul, Stephen Frears, UK
Zama, Lucercia Martel, Argentina and Brazil

Documentaries

Cuba and the Cameraman, Jon Alpert, USA
Diva!, Francesco Patierno, Italy 
Happy Winter, Giovanni Totaro, Italy
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond. The Story of Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman and Tony Clifton, Chris Smith, USA and Canada
My Generation, David Batty, UK
Piazza Vittorio, Abel Ferrara, Italy
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, Stephen Nomura Schible, USA
The Devil and Father Amorth, William Friedkin, USA 
This is Congo, Daniel McCabe, Congo

TV Series

Wormwood, Errol Morris, USA (6 episodes)

Special Events

Casa d'Altri, Gianni Amelio, Italy, 16'
Il Signor Rotpeter, Antonietta de Lillo, Italy, 37'
Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller, Jerry Kramer, USA, 45'
Michael Jackson's Thriller 3D, John Landis, USA, 14'


Orizzonti


Feature Films

No Date, No Signature (Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza), Vahid Jalilvand, Iran
Brutti e Cattivi (Ugly Nasty People), Cosimo Gomez, Italy and France
Caniba, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, France
Espèces menacées, Gilles Bourdos, France and Belgium
Gatta Cenerentola, Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marion Guarnieri and Dario Sansone,  Italy (animation)
The Cousin (Ha Ben Dod), Tzahi Grad, Israel
The Testament (
Ha'Edut), Amichai Greenberg, Israel and Austria 
Invisible, Pablo Giorgelli, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Germany
Krieg, Rick Ostermann, Germany
La Nuit ou j'ai nagé (The Night I Swam), Damien Manivel and Igarashi Kohei, France and Japan'
La Vita in Comune, Edoardo Winspeare, Italy
Les Bienheureux, Sofia Djama, France and Belgium
Los Versos del Olvido, Alireza Khatami, France, Germany, Netherlands and Chile
Marvin, Anne Fontaine, France
Disappearance, Ali Asgari, Iran and Qatar
Nico, 1988, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italy and Belgium
The Rape of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski, USA
Under the Tree (Undir trénu), Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Iceland, Denmark, Poland and Germany
West of Sunshine, Jason Raftopoulos, Australia

Short Films

8th Continent, Pavlos Iordanopoulos, Greece, 11'
Apia, Myrsini Aristidou, Cyprus and France, 13'
Astrometal, Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis, Greece, 15'
Death of the Sound Man, Sorayos Prapapan, Thailand and Myanmar, 16'
By The Pool, Laurynas Bareiša, Lithuania, 16'
Gros Chagrin, Céline Devaux, France, 15' (animation)
Himinn Opinn, Gabriel Sanson and Clyde Gates, Belgium, 19'
Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu (It's Easier to Raise Cattle), Amanda Nell Eu, Malaysia, 18'
L'Ombra della Sposa, Alessandra Pescetta, Italy, 11'
Meninas Formicida, João Paulo Miranda Maria, France and Brasil, 12'
Mon Amour, Mon Ami, Adriano Valerio, Italy, 15' 


Sunday, September 11, 2016

Venezia Winners 2016

73rd Venice International Film Festival Winners




MAIN COMPETITION

Golden Lion: The Woman Who Left, directed by Lav Diaz
Grand Jury Prize: Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford
Silver Lion, Best Director: Amat Escalante, La Region Salvaje AND Andrei Konchalovsky, Paradise
Volpi Cup, Best Actress: Emma Stone, La La Land
Volpi Cup, Best Actor: Oscar Martinez, El Ciudadano Ilustre
Best Screenplay: Noah Oppenheim, Jackie
Special Jury Prize: The Bad Batch, dir: Ana Lily Amirpour
Marcello Mastroianni Award for for Best New Young Actor or Actress: Paula Beer, Frantz

VENICE HORIZONS

Best Film: Liberami, directed by Federica di Giacomo
Best Director: Fien Troch, Home
Special Jury Prize: Big Big World, directed by Reha Erdem
Best Actress: Ruth Diaz, The Fury Of A Patient Man
Best Actor: Nuno Lopes, Sao Jorge
Best Screenplay: Wang Bing, Bitter Money
Best Short Film: La Voz Perdida, directed by Marcelo Martinessi

Lion of the Future – “Luigi de Laurentiis” Award for a Debut Film: The Last Of Us, directed by Ala Eddine Slim

VENICE CLASSICS

Best Restoration: Break-Up – The Man With The Balloons, directed by Marco Ferreri
Best Documentary on Cinema: Le Concours, directed by Claire Simon

QUEER LION

Best Film: Heartstone, directed by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Monday, August 1, 2016

VENEZIA 2016

73rd Venice International Film Festival




VENEZIA 73 COMPETITION:

La La Land, dir: Damien Chazelle (US) opening night film
The Bad Batch, dir: Ana Lily Amirpour (US)
Une Vie, dir: Stéphane Brizé (France/Belgium)
The Light Between Oceans, dir: Derek Cianfrance (US/Australia/New Zealand)
El Ciudadano Ilustre, dirs: Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat (Argentina/Spain)
Spira Mirabilis, dirs: Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti (Italy/Switzerland)
The Woman Who Left, dir: Lav Diaz (Philippines)
La Region Salvaje, dir: Amat Escalante (Mexico)
Nocturnal Animals, dir: Tom Ford (US)
Piuma, dir: Roan Johnson (Italy)
Paradise, dir: Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia/Germany)
Brimstone, dir: Martin Koolhoven (Netherlands/Germany/Belgium/France/UK/Sweden)
On The Milky Road, dir: Emir Kusturica (Serbia/UK/US)
Jackie, dir: Pablo Larrain (US/Chile)
Voyage Of Time, dir: Terrence Malick (US/Germany)
El Cristo Ciego, dir: Christopher Murray (Chile/France)
Frantz, dir: François Ozon (France)
Questi Giorni, dir: Giuseppe Piccioni (Italy)
Arrival, dir: Denis Villeneuve (US)
Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez, dir: Wim Wenders (France/Germany)

OUT OF COMPETITION:

The Magnificent Seven, dir: Antoine Fuqua (US) closing night film
The Young Pope (episodes 1&2), dir: Paolo Sorrentino (Italy/France/Spain/US)
The Bleeder, dir: Philippe Falardeau (US/Canada)
Hacksaw Ridge, dir: Mel Gibson (US/Australia)
The Journey, dir: Nick Hamm (UK)
A Jamais, dir: Benoît Jacquot (France/Portugal)
Gantz: O, dir: Yasushi Kawamura (Japan)
The Age Of Shadows, dir: Jee-woon Kim (Korea)
Monte, dir: Amir Naderi (Italy/US/France)
Tommaso, dir: Kim Rossi Stuart (Italy)

Documentaries

Our War, dirs: Bruno Chiaravalloti (Italy/US)
I Called Him Morgan, dir: Kasper Collin (Sweden/US)
One More Time With Feeling, dir: Andrew Dominik (UK)
Austerlitz, dir: Sergei Loznitsa (Germany)
Assalto Al Cielo, dir: Francesco Munzi (Italy)
Safari, dir: Ulrich Seidl (Austria/Denmark)
American Anarchist, dir: Charlie Siskel (US)
Planetarium, dir: Rebecca Zlotowski (France/Belgium)

ORIZZONTI:

Tarde Para La Ira, dir: Raul Arevalo (Spain)
King Of The Belgians, dirs: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth (Belgium/Netherlands/Bulgaria)
Through The Wall, dir: Rama Burshtein (Israel)
Liberami, dir: Federica Di Giacomo (Italy/France)
Big Big World, dir: Reha Erdem (Turkey)
Gukoroku, dir: Kei Ishikawa (Japan)
Maudite Poutine, dir: Karl Lemieux (Canada)
Sao Jorge, dir: Marco Martins (Portugal/France)
Dawson City: Frozen Time, dir: Bill Morrison (US/France)
Réparer Les Vivants, dir: Katel Quillévéré (France/Belgium)
White Sun, dir: Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal/US/Qatar/Netherlands)
Malaria, dir: Parviz Shahbazi (Iran)
Kekszakallu, dir: Gaston Solnicki (Argentina)
Home, dir: Fien Troch (Belgium)
Die Einsiedler, dir: Ronny Trocker (Germany/Austria)
Il Piu Grande Sogno, dir: Michele Viannucci (Italy)
Boys In The Trees, dir: Nicholas Verso (Australia)
Bitter Money, dir: Bing Wang (Hong Kong/France)
Dark Night, dir: Tim Sutton (US) special screening, out of competition

CINEMA NEL GIARDINO:

Inseparables, dir: Marcos Carnevale (Argentina)
Franca: Chaos And Creation, dir: Francesco Carrozzini (Italy/US)
In Dubious Battle, dir: James Franco (US)
The Net, dir: Kim Ki-duk (Korea)
L’Estate Addosso, dir: Gabriele Muccino (Italy)
The Secret Life Of Pets, dir: Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney (US)
Robinu, dir: Michele Santoro (Italy)
My Art, dir: Laurie Simmons (US)

BIENNALE COLLEGE CINEMA:

Ears, dir: Alessandro Aronadio (Italy)
Hotel Salvation, dir: Shubhashish Bhutiani (India)
One Sister, dirs: Sofia Brokenshire, Verena Kuri (Argentina)
La Soledad, dir: Jorge Thielen-Armand (Venezuela)

VENICE CLASSICS:

The Nights Of Zayandeh-Rood, dir: Moshen Makhmalbaf (Iran 1990)
Manhattan, dir: Woody Allen (US 1979)
Pretty Poison, dir: Noel Black (US 1968)
Money, dir: Robert Bresson (France/Switzerland 1983)
Everybody Go Home!, dir: Luigi Comencini (Italy/France 1960)
The Man With The Balloons, dir: Marco Ferreri (Italy/France 1965)
The Brat, dir: John Ford (US 1931)
The Great Sacrifice, dir: Veit Harlan (Germany 1942)
Twentieth Century, dir: Howard Hawks (US 1934)
Legend Of The Mountain, dir: King Hu (Hong Kong 1979)
The Ondekoza, dir: Tai Kato (Japan 1979)
Seven Samurai, dir: Akira Kurosawa (Japan 1954)
An American Werewolf In London, dir: John Landis (UK 1981)
Le Voleur, dir: Louis Malle (France/Italy 1965)
Dark Eyes, dir: Nikita Michalkov (Italy/USSR 1987)
The Battle Of Algiers, dir: Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy/Algeria 1966)
1848, dir: Dino Risi (Italy 1948)
Scent Of A Woman, dir: Dino Risi (Italy 1974)
Dawn Of The Dead (European cut), dir: George Romero (US/Italy 1978)
Stalker, dir: Andrej Tarkovskij (USSR 1979)
The City Stands Trial, dir: Luigi Zampa (Italy 1952)

VENICE CLASSICS DOCUMENTARIES:

Events In A Cloud Chamber, dir: Ashim Ahluwalia (India)
The Man Came Along – A Conversation With Ermanno Olmi, dir: Alessandro Bignami (Italy)
Bozzetto Non Troppo, dir: Marco Bonfanti (Italy)
Perche Sono Un Genio! Lorenza Mazzetti, dirs: Stefano Della Casa, Francesco Frisari (Italy)
Along For The Ride, dir: Nick Ebeling (US)
A Journey Through 3D Cinema – A Vintage Tale, dir: Jesus Garces Lambert (Italy)
Water And Sugar. Carlo Di Palma, The Colors Of Life, dir: Fariborz Kamkari (Italy)
David Lynch The Art Of Life, dirs: Jon Nguyen, Neergaard Holm, Rick Barnes (US/Denmark)
Cinema Futures, dir: Michael Palm (Austria)
The Graduation, dir: Claire Simon (France/Beligum)

Sunday, September 13, 2015

VENEZIA 2015

72nd Venice International Film Festival

WINNERS



MAIN COMPETITION

Golden Lion: From Afar (Desde alla), directed by Lorenzo Vigas
Silver Lion, Best Director: Pablo Trapero, The Clan
Grand Jury Prize: Anomalisa, directors: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
Volpi Cup, Best Actor:  Fabrice Luchini, L’Hermine (Courted)
Volpi Cup, Best Actress: Valeria Golino, Per Amor Vostro
Marcello Mastroianni Award for for Best New Young Actor or Actress: Abraham Attah, Beasts of No Nation
Best Screenplay: Christian Vincent, L’Hermine (Courted)
Special Jury Prize: Frenzy, directed by Emin Alper

Golden Lion Winner - From Afar - directed by Lorenzo Vigas

VENICE HORIZONS

Best Film: Free In Deed, directed by Jake Mahaffy
Best Director: Brady Corbet, The Childhood Of A Leader
Special Jury Prize: Neon Bull, directed by Gabriel Mascaro
Special Prize for Best Actor or Actress: Dominique Leborne, Tempête
Best Short Film: Belladonna, directed by Dubravka Turic

LION OF THE FUTURE
Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film: The Childhood of a Leader, directed by Brady Corbet

VENICE CLASSICS
Best Documentary on Cinema: The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin, directed by Yves Montmayeur
Best Restoration: Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

VENICE DAYS AWARD
Early Winter, directed by Michael Rowe

BNL PEOPLE´S CHOICE AWARD
As I Open My Eyes, directed by Leyla Bouzid

LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS
As I Open My Eyes, directed by Leyla Bouzid

LAGUNA SUD PRIZE
Best Film: Lolo, directed by Julie Delpy
Best Italian Discovery: Arianna, directed by Carlo Lavagna

FEDEORA PRIZES (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean)

VENICE 72
Best European Film in Competition: Francofonia, directed by Alexander Sokurov

VENICE DAYS
Best Film: Underground Fragrance, directed by Pengfei
Best Young Director: Ruchika Oberoi, Island City
Best Young Actress: Ondina Quadri, Arianna

CRITICS’ WEEK
Best Film: Kalo Pothi, directed by Bahadur Bham Min
Best DoP: Benthey Dean, Tanna

QUEER LION
Best Film: The Danish Girl, directed by Tom Hooper