76th Venice International Film Festival
The 76th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 7 September 2019.[1] Film director Lucrecia Martel was appointed as the President of the Jury.[2] The Truth, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was selected to open the festival.[3] The Golden Lion was awarded to Joker, directed by Todd Phillips.[4]
Contents
Jury
Main Competition (Venezia 76)[5]
- Lucrecia Martel, Argentine director and screenwriter (Jury President)[2]
- Piers Handling, Canadian film historian and critic, executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival
- Mary Harron, Canadian director
- Stacy Martin, French actress
- Rodrigo Prieto, Mexican cinematographer
- Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor
- Paolo Virzì, Italian director and screenwriter
Horizons[5]
- Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italian director and screenwriter (Jury President)
- Mark Adams, artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Rachid Bouchareb, French filmmaker
- Álvaro Brechner, Uruguayan filmmaker
- Eva Sangiorgi, artistic director of the Vienna International Film Festival
Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film[5]
- Emir Kusturica, Serbian director, screenwriter and actor (Jury President)
- Antonietta De Lillo, Italian director and screenwriter
- Hend Sabry, Tunisian actress
- Michael J. Werner, American-Hongkongese film producer
- Terence Nance, American filmmaker
Venice Virtual Reality[5]
- Laurie Anderson, American composer, artist and director (Jury President)
- Francesco Carrozzini, Italian photographer
- Alysha Naples, Italian designer
Venice Classics[5]
- Costanza Quatriglio, Italian director and screenwriter
Official selection
In Competition
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[3][6][7]
Out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[8][6][9]
Fiction | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Adults in the Room | Costa-Gavras | France, Greece | |
The Burnt Orange Heresy | Giuseppe Capotondi | United Kingdom, Italy | |
The King | David Michôd | United Kingdom, Hungary | |
Mosul | Matthew Michael Carnahan | United States | |
Seberg | Benedict Andrews | United States, United Kingdom | |
To Live | Vivere | Francesca Archibugi | Italy |
Tutto il mio folle amore | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy |
Non-Fiction | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
45 Seconds of Laughter | Tim Robbins | United States | |
Citizen K | Alex Gibney | United Kingdom, United States | |
Citizen Rosi | Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi | Italy | |
Collective | Colectiv | Alexander Nanau | Romania, Luxemburg |
I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo | Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | Italy | |
The Kingmaker | Lauren Greenfield | United States | |
Il pianeta in mare | Andrea Segre | Italy | |
Roger Waters: Us + Them | Roger Waters | United Kingdom | |
State Funeral | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Lithuania | |
Woman | Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova | France |
Special screenings | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Electric Swan | Konstantina Kotzamani | France, Greece, Argentina | |
Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States | |
Irréversible - Inversion intégrale | Gaspar Noé | France | |
Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut | Matt Wells | United Kingdom | |
The New Pope (episodes 2 and 7) | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France, Spain | |
No One Left Behind | Guillermo Arriaga | Mexico | |
ZeroZeroZero (episodes 1 and 2) | Stefano Sollima | Italy |
Horizons
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Italian: Orizzonti ) section:[6][10]
Horizons Competition | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Atlantis | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine | |
Balloon | Qìqiú (气球) | Pema Tseden | China |
Bik eneich - Un fils | Mehdi M. Barsaoui | Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar | |
White on White | Blanco en blanco | Théo Court | Spain, Chile, France, Germany |
The Criminal Man | Borotmokmedi (ბოროტმოქმედი) | Dmitry Mamuliya | Georgia, Russia |
Giants Being Lonely | Grear Patterson | United States | |
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha | Sahraa Karimi | Afghanistan | |
Just 6.5 | Metri shisho nim (متری شش و نیم) | Saeed Roustayi | Iran |
Madre | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain, France | |
My Days of Glory | Mes jours de gloire | Antoine de Bary | France |
Moffie | Oliver Hermanus | South Africa | |
Nevia | Nunzia De Stefano | Italy | |
Pelican Blood | Pelikanblut | Katrin Gebbe | Germany, Bulgaria |
Revenir | Jessica Palud | France | |
Rialto | Peter Mackie Burns | Ireland | |
Shadow of Water | Chola (ചോല) | Sanal Kumar Sasidharan | India |
Sole | Carlo Sironi | Italy | |
Verdict | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines | |
Zumiriki | Óskar Alegría | Spain |
Short films – In competition | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
After Two Hours, Ten Minutes Had Passed | Nach zwei Stunden waren zehn Minuten vergangen | Steffen Goldkamp | Germany |
Austral Fever | Fiebre austral | Thomas Woodroffe | Chile |
Darling | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan, United States | |
Delphine | Chloé Robichaud | Canada | |
The Diver | Jamie Helmer, Michael Leonard | France, Australia | |
Dogs Barking at Birds | Cães que ladram aos pássaros | Leonor Teles | Portugal |
Give Up the Ghost | Zain Duraie | Jordan, Sweden | |
Kingdom Come | Sean Robert Dunn | United Kingdom | |
Sand | Morae | Kim Kyung-rae | South Korea |
Sh_t Happens | David Štumpf, Michaela Mihályi | Czech Republic, Slovakia | |
Superheroes Without Superpowers | Supereroi senza superpoteri | Beatrice Baldacci | Italy |
The Tears Thing | Le coup des larmes | Clémence Poésy | France |
Roqaia | Diana Saqeb Jamal | Afghanistan, Bangladesh |
Short films – Out of competition | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Condor One | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
GUO4 | Peter Strickland | Hungary |
Venice Classics
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[11][12][13]
Restored classic films | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Crash (1996) | David Cronenberg | Canada | |
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) | Ensayo de un crimen | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) | La muerte de un burócrata | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
Ecstasy (1933) | Extase | Gustav Machatý | Czechoslovakia |
Francisca (1981) | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal | |
The Grim Reaper (1962) | La commare secca | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
The House Is Black (1962) | Khaneh siah ast (خانه سیاه است) | Forough Farrokhzad | Iran |
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) | Jack Arnold | United States | |
Maria Zef (1981) | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italy | |
Mauri (1988) | Merata Mita | New Zealand | |
New York, New York (1977) | Martin Scorsese | United States | |
Out of the Blue (1980) | Dennis Hopper | Canada, United States | |
The Red Snowball Tree (1973) | Kalina krasnaya (Калина красная) | Vasily Shukshin | Soviet Union |
Sodrásban (1964) | István Gaál | Hungary | |
The Spider's Stratagem (1970) | Strategia del ragno | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
Tappeha-ye Marlik (1964) | تپههای مارلیک | Ebrahim Golestan | Iran |
Tiro al piccione (1961) | Giuliano Montaldo | Italy | |
Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) | Le Passage du Rhin | André Cayatte | France, Germany, Italy |
Way of a Gaucho (1952) | Jacques Tourneur | United States | |
The White Sheik (1952) | Lo sceicco bianco | Federico Fellini | Italy |
Documentaries on cinema | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Eight Hundred Times Lonely (2019) | Anna Hepp | Germany | |
Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer | Andrey Tarkovsky Jr. | Russia | |
Babenco - Alguém tem que ouvir o coração e dizer: parou | Bárbara Paz | Brazil | |
Boia, maschere e segreti: L'horror italiano degli anni sessanta | Steve Dalla Casa | Italy | |
Fellini fine mai | Eugenio Cappuccio | Italy | |
Fulci for Fake | Simone Scafidi | Italy | |
Life As a B-movie: Piero Vivarelli | Fabrizio Laurenti, Niccolò Vivarelli | Italy | |
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist | Alexandre O. Philippe | United States | |
Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto: Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari | Simone Isola, Fausto Trombetta | Italy |
Sconfini
The following films were selected for the Sconfini section:[14][15]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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American Skin | Nate Parker | United States | |
Beyond the Beach: The Hell and the Hope | Graeme A. Scott, Buddy Squires | United Kingdom | |
Chiara Ferragni – Unposted | Elisa Amoruso | Italy | |
Effetto domino | Alessandro Rossetto | Italy | |
Once More Unto the Beach | Il varco | Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini | Italy |
The Scarecrows | Les épouvantails | Nouri Bouzid | Tunisia, Morocco, Luxembourg |
Autonomous sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were selected for the 34th Venice International Critics' Week (Italian: Settimana Internazionale della Critica ):[16]
In competition | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
All This Victory | Jeedar el sot | Ahmad Ghossein | Lebanon, France, Qatar |
Parthenon | Partenonas | Mantas Kvedaravičius | Lithuania, Ukraine, France |
The Prince | El príncipe | Sebastian Muñoz | Chile, Argentina, Belgium |
Psychosia | Psykosia | Marie Grahtø | Denmark, Finland |
Rare Beasts | Billie Piper | United Kingdom | |
Scales | Sayidat al Bahr | Shahad Ameen | United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Saudi Arabia |
Tony Driver | Ascanio Petrini | Italy, Mexico |
Special events – Out of competition | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Bombay Rose (opening film) | Gitanjali Rao | India, United Kingdom, France | |
Sanctorum (closing film) | Joshua Gil | Mexico, Dominican Republic, Qatar |
Venice Days
The following films were selected for the 16th edition of the Venice Days (Italian: Le Giornate degli Autori ) section:[17]
Official selection | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
5 is the Perfect Number | 5 è il numero perfetto | Igort | Italy, Belgium, France |
Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labidi Labbé | Tunisia, France |
Beware of Children | Barn | Dag Johan Haugerud | Norway, Sweden |
A Bigger World | Un monde plus grand | Fabienne Berthaud | France, Belgium |
Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | Jan Komasa | Poland, France |
Lingua Franca (opening film) | Isabel Sandoval | United States, Philippines | |
The Long Walk | Bor Mi Vanh Chark (ບໍ່ມີວັນຈາກ) | Mattie Do | Laos |
Only the Animals | Seules les bêtes | Dominik Moll | France, Germany |
You Will Die at 20 | Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway | |
They Say Nothing Stays the Same | Aru sendo no hanashi (ある 船頭 の 話) | Joe Odagiri | Japan |
The Weeping Woman | La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala, France |
Out of competition | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Time of the Untamed (closing film) | Les chevaux voyageurs | Bartabas | France |
Special events | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Burning Cane | Phillip Youmans | United States | |
House of Cardin | P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes | United States | |
Mondo Sexy | Mario Sesti | Italy | |
My Brother Chases Dinosaurs | Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri | Stefano Cipani | Italy, Spain |
Il prigioniero | Federico Olivetti | Italy | |
Scherza con i fanti | Gianfranco Pannone | Italy |
Miu Miu Women's Tales | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
#17 Shako Mako | Hailey Gates | Italy, United States | |
#18 Brigitte | Lynne Ramsay | Italy, United Kingdom |
Awards
Official selection
The following official awards were presented at the 76th edition:[18]
In Competition
- Golden Lion: Joker by Todd Phillips
- Grand Jury Prize: An Officer and a Spy, by Roman Polanski
- Silver Lion: Roy Andersson for About Endlessness
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Ariane Ascaride for Gloria Mundi
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Luca Marinelli for Martin Eden
- Best Screenplay Award: No.7 Cherry Lane, by Yonfan
- Special Jury Prize: The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be by Franco Maresco
- Marcello Mastroianni Award: Toby Wallace, Babyteeth
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Best Film: Atlantis by Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Best Director: Théo Court for White on White
- Special Jury Prize: Verdict by Raymund Ribas Gutierrez
- Best Actress: Marta Nieto for Madre
- Best Actor: Sami Bouajila for Bik eneich - Un fils
- Best Screenplay: Revenir by Jessica Palud
- Horizons Prize for Best Short: Darling by Sam Sadiq
Lion of the Future
- Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film: You Will Die at 20 by Amjad Abu Alala
Venezia Classici Awards
- Best Documentary on Cinema: Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
- Best Restored Film: Ecstasy (1933)
Special Awards
Autonomous sections
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
Venice Days
- SIAE Award: Marco Bellocchio for The Traitor[19]
- GdA Director's Award: The Weeping Woman by Jayro Bustamante
- Europa Cinemas Label: Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa
Autonomous awards
- Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award: Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger for The Burnt Orange Heresy
- Campari Passion for the Cinema Award: Luca Bigazzi for The New Pope
- Bresson Award: Lucrecia Martel
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