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Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica
The world's oldest film festival was first held in 1932 as part of the Venice Biennale.
Rich Cline was on the Queer Lion jury at the festival in 2016, 2017 and 2022.

Venice Festival site
81st Venice International
Film Festival

28 AUGUST - 7 SEPTEMBER 2024
in Venice, Italy

2 0 2 4   A W A R D S
Golden Lion: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
Silver Lion: VERMIGLIO
Special Jury Prize: APRIL
Director: Brady Corbet (THE BRUTALIST)
Actress: Nicole Kidman (BABYGIRL)
Actor: Vincent Lindon (THE QUIET SON)
Screenplay: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega (I'M STILL HERE)
Queer Lion: SOUL OF THE DESERT
Lion of the Future: Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Mastroianni Award: Paul Kircher
(AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM)
Life Achievement: Peter Weir and Sigourney Weaver
Glory to the Filmmaker: Claude Lelouch
Doc on Cinema: CHAIN REACTIONS
Restored Film: ECCE BOMBO
Horizons: THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME
Horizons - Jury Prize:
ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES
Horizons - Audience Award: THE WITNESS
Horizons - Director: Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Horizons - Actress: Kathleen Chalfant (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Horizons - Actor: Francesco Gheghi (FAMILIA)
Horizons - Screenplay:
Venice Days - Audience Award: MANAS
Venice Days - Career Award: Alice Rohrwacher
Venice Days - Creative Talent: Federica Di Giacomo
Critics Week: DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY
Critics Week - Audience Award:
PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH
Critics Week - Independent Film: ANYWHERE ANYTIME
Critics Week - Technical: HOMEGROWN
Critics Week - Innovation: DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY
Fipresci: THE BRUTALIST
Fipresci - Parallel Sections:
THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME
Nuovoimaie: Tecia Insolia (FAMILIA) and
Martina Scrinzi (VERMIGLIO)
Leoncino d'Oro: THE QUIET SON
Immersive Grand Prize: ITO MEIKYU
Graffetta d'Oro: BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
Immersive Jury Prize: OTO'S PLANET
Immersive Achievement: IMPULSE

Ambassador of Hope: KING IVORY
Arca CinemaGiovani: THE BRUTALIST
Arca CinemaGiovani - Italian: VITTORIA
Authors Under 40: Jiang Xiaoxuan
(TO KILL A MONGOLIAN HORSE)
Authors Under 40 - Director:
Anne-Sophie Bailly (MON INSEPARABLE)
and Elizabeth Lo (MISTRESS DISPELLER)
Authors Under 40 - Cinematography: Bogdan Muresanu (THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME)
Brian: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
Ca' Foscari: SUGAR ISLAND
Casa Wabi-Mantarraya: FAMILIAR TOUCH
Cict-Unesco: THE FISHERMAN
Cinema for Unicef: FAMILIA
CinemaSara: THE BRUTALIST
Edipo Re: KILL THE JOCKEY
Europa Cinemas Label: ALPHA
Fai Persona: PEACOCK
Fedic: VITTORIA
Film Impresa: Anne-Sophie Bailly (MON INSEPARABLE)
Golden Musa: RIEFENSTAHL
Green Drop: VERMIGLIO
ImpACT: THE QUIET SON
Interfilm: QUIET LIFE
Lanterna Magica: THE STORY OF FRANK AND NINA
Lizzani: SICILIAN LETTERS
Nave d'Argento: WOLFS
Netpac: MISTRESS DISPELLER
Pasinetti: SICILIAN LETTERS
Pasinetti - Actress: Romana Maggiora Vergano
(IL TEMPO CHE CI VUOLE)
Pellicola d'Oro - Costumes: Antonella Bachini (BATTLEFIELD)
Pellicola d'Oro - Electrician: Kristian De Martiis (VERMIGLIO)
Pellicola d'Oro - Props: Italo Maurizi (SICILIAN LETTERS)
RB Casting: Francesco Gheghi (FAMILIA)
Signis: I'M STILL HERE
Sorriso Diverso - Italian: VERMIGLIO
Sorriso Diverso - Foreign: MON INSEPERABLE
Soundtrack Stars: Hildur Gudnadottir (JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX) and Colapesce (SICILIAN LETTERS)
Unimed: THE BRUTALIST
XR Fan Experience: UNCANNY ALLEY: A NEW DAY

2 0 2 3   F I L M S
2073 (Kapadia, UK)
AFTER PARTY (Strakaty, Cz)
AICHA (Barsaoui, Tun)
ALPHA (Van Ewijk, Ned)
THE AMERICAN BACKYARD (Avati, It)
AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM (Boukherma/Boukherma, Fr)
ANYWHERE ANYTIME (Tangshir, It)
APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (Costa, Br)
APRIL (Kulumbegashvili, Geo)
BABY INVASION (Korine, US)
BABYGIRL (Reijn, US)
BASILEIA (Torre, It)
BATTLEFIELD (Battaglia/Amelio, It)
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (Burton, US)
BESTIARI, ERBARI, LAPIDARI (d'Anolfi/Parenti, It)
BOOMERANG (Fotouhi, Irn)
BOSCO GRANDE (Schillaci, Fr)
BROKEN RAGE (Kitano, Jpn)
THE ANTIQUE (Glurjidze, Geo)
THE BOOK OF JOY (Lugan, Fr)
THE BRUTALIST (Corbet, US)
CARISSA (Jacobs/Devon, SA)
CARLO MAZZACURAT: UNA CERTA IDEA DI CINEMA (Monteleone/Canale, It)
CHAIN REACTIONS (Philippe, US)
CLOUD (Kurosawa, pn)
CONSTEL LACIO PORTABELLA (Zulian, Sp)
DESERT SUITE (Ferraro, It)
DICIANNOVE (Tortorici, It)
* DISCLAIMER (Cuaron, UK)
DIVA FUTURA (Steigerwalt, It)
DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY (Linh, Vie)
EDGE OF NIGHT (Suer, Ger)
THE EYE OF THE HEN (Gallina/De Lillo)
FAMILIA (Costabile, It)
FAMILIAR TOUCH (Friedland, US)
FAMILIES LIKE OURS (Vinterberg, Den)
FEELING BETTER (Mastandrea, It)
FINALEMENT (Lelouch, Fr)
THE FISHERMAN (Martinson, Gha)
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT (Lurie/ Friedler, US, Ger)
HAPPY HOLIDAYS (Copti, Pal)
HAPPYEND (Sora, Jpn, US)
HARVEST (Tsangari, UK)
HIGH STAKES: A NIGHT IN THE WARD (Dota)
HOLD ON MISS! ISABELLA DUCROT UNLIMITED (Stambrini)
HOMEGROWN (Premo, US)
HONEYMOON (Ozirna, Ukr)
* HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA – CHAPTER 2 (Costner, US)
I AM THE BEAUTY OF YOUR BEAUTY, I AM THE FEAR OF YOUR FEAR (Tan, Mys)
I WILL REVENGE THIS WORLD WITH LOVE: SERGEJ PARADJANOV (Jian, Arm)
I'M STILL HERE (Salles, Br)
ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 (Olsson, Swe)
JANUAR 2 (Szilagyi, Hun)
JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (Phillips, US)
KILL THE JOCKEY (Ortega, Arg)
KING IVORY (Swab, US)
KORA (Varejao, Br)
L'ATTACHEMENT (Tardieu, Fr)
LE CINEMA DE JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD (Leuthy, Fr)
LITTLE JAFFNA (Valin, Fr)
LOVE, KJAERLIGHET (Haugerud, Nor)

M: SON OF THE CENTURY (Wright, It)
MALDOROR (Du Welz, Bel)
A MAN FELL (Lorusso, It)
MANAS (Brennand, Br)
MARCO, THE INVENTED TRUTH (Garano/Arregi, Sp)
MARIA (Larrain, It)
MAROUN RETURNS TO BEIRUT (Serhal, Qatar, Leb)
MISTRESS DISPELLER (Lo, Chn, US)
THE MIU MIU AFFAIRE (Citarella, Arg)
MIYAZALI, L'ESPRIT DE LA NATURE (Favier, Fr)
THE MOHICAN (Farrucci, Fr)
MON INSEPARABLE (Bailly, Fr)
MY BIRTHDAY (Filippi, It)
THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME (Muresanu, Romania, Ser)
THE NEW YEARS (Sorogoyen/Romero/Santos, Sp)
NO SLEEP TILL (Simpson, US)
OF DOGS AND MEN (Rosenberg, Isr)
ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES (Fıratoglu, Tur)
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (Macdonald/Rice-Edwards, UK)
THE OPEN COUPLE (Di Giacomo, It)
THE ORDER (Kurzel, Can)
PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH (Massey, UK)
PAVEMENTS (Perry, US)
PEACHES GOES BANANAS (Losier, France, Bel)
PEACOCK (Wenger, Aut)
PERFUMED WITH MINT (Hamdy, Egy)
PHANTOSMIA (Diaz, Ph)
PLANET B (Rapin, Fr)
POOJA, SIR (Rauniyar, Nepal, US)
POSSIBILITY OF PARADISE (Kovacevic, Ser)
QUASI A CASA (Pavone)
QUEER (Guadagnino, It)
QUIET LIFE (Avranas, Fr)
THE QUIET SON (Coulin/Coulin, Fr)
RIEFENSTAHL (Veiel, Ger)
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Almodovar, Sp)
RUSSIANS AT WAR (Trofimova, Fr)
SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS (Quay/Quay, UK)
SEEKING HEAVEN FOR MR RAMBO (Mansour, Egy)
SEMPRE (Fina)
SEPARATED (Morris, US)
SEPTEMBER 5 (Fehlbaum, Ger)
SICILIAN LETTERS (Grassadonia/Piazza, It)
SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH (Zhurba, Ukr)
SOUL OF THE DESERT (Taboada-Tapia, Col)
THE STORY OF FRANK AND NINA (Randi, It)
STRANGER EYES (Yeo, Sin)
SUDAN, REMEMBER US (Meddeb, Fr)
SUGAR ISLAND (Terrero, DR)
SUPER HAPPY FOREVER (Igarashi, Jpn)
TAXI MONAMOUR (De Caro, It)
IL TEMPO CHE CI VUOLE (Comencini, It)
THREE FRIENDS (Mouret, Fr)
TO KILL A MONGOLIAN HORSE (Jiang , Mon)
TWST: THINGS WE SAID TODAY (Ujica, Fr)
VAKHIM (Pirani)
VERMIGLIO (Delpero, It)
VITTORIA (Cassigoli/Kauffman, It)
VOLONTE: L'UOMO DAI MILLE VOLTI (Zippel, It)
WHY WAR (Gitai, France, Swi)
WISHING ON A STAR (Kerekes, It)
THE WITNESS (Saeivar, Ger)
WOLFS (Watts, US)
YOUTH (HOMECOMING) (Wang, Fr)


Venice Festival site 80th Venice International
Film Festival

30 AUGUST - 9 SEPTEMBER 2023
in Venice, Italy

2 0 2 3   A W A R D S
Golden Lion: POOR THINGS
Silver Lion: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
Special Jury Prize: GREEN BORDER
Director: Matteo Garrone
(IO CAPITANO)
Actress: Cailee Spaeny (PRISCILLA)
Actor: Peter Sarsgaard (MEMORY)
Screenplay: Guillermo Calderon &
Pablo Larrain (EL CONDE)
Debut Performance: Seydou Sarr
(IO CAPITANO)
Queer Lion:
HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS
Lion of the Future: LOVE IS A GUN
Life Achievement: Liliana Cavani and Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Glory to the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Doc on Cinema: THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Restored Film: MOVING
Horizons: EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING
Horizons - Jury Prize: AN ENDLESS SUNDAY
Horizons - Audience Award: FELICITA
Horizons - Director: Mika Gustafson
(PARADISE IS BURNING)
Horizons - Actress: Margarita Rosa de Francisco
(EL PARAISO)
Horizons - Actor: Tergel Bold-Erdene (CITY OF WIND)
Horizons - Screenplay: Enrico Maria Artale (EL PARAISO)
Venice Days - Audience Award: THROUGH THE NIGHT
Venice Days - Director: Ariane Louis-Seize (HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON)
Critics Week: MALQUERIDAS
Critics Week - Audience Award: HOARD
Critics Week - Director: Gabriele Biasi
(LA LINEA DE TERMINATORE)
Critics Week - Technical: MALQUERIDAS
Fipresci: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
Fipresci - Parallel Sections: AN ENDLESS SUNDAY
Nuovoimaie - Young Actor: Gianmarco Franchini (ADAGIO)
Nuovoimaie - Young Actress: Sara Ciocca
(NINA OF THE WOLVES)
Immersive Grand Prize: SONGS FOR A PASSERBY
Immersive Jury Prize: FLOW
Immersive Achievement: EMPEROR

Arca CinemaGiovani: GREEN BORDER
Arca CinemaGiovani - Italian:
EL PARAISO
Authors Under 40: Luna Carmoon (HOARD)
Authors Under 40 - writer:
Mika Gustafson (PARADISE IS BURNING)
Brian: TATAMI
Ca' Foscari: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
Casa Wabi-Mantarraya: LOVE IS A GUN
Cict-Unesco: IO CAPITANO
Cinema & Arts: BACKSTAGE
Cinema for Unicef: GREEN BORDER
CinemaSara: GREEN BORDER
Civitas: IO CAPITANO
Edipo Re: IO CAPITANO
Europa Cinemas Label: PHOTOPHOBIA
Fai Persona: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
Fanheart3: DOGMAN
Fedic: IO CAPITANO
Final Cut: CARISSA
Golden Musa: BACKSTAGE and MAKING OF
Green Drop: GREEN BORDER
ImpACT: IO CAPITANO
Lanterna Magica: IO CAPITANO
Leoncino d'Oro: IO CAPITANO
Lizzani: NOWHERE
Pasinetti: IO CAPITANO
Pedicini: HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON
Pellicola d'Oro - Production: IO CAPITANO
Pellicola d'Oro - Camera: FINALLLY DAWN
Pellicola d'Oro - Sets: COMANDANTE
Serandrei: MALQUERIDAS
Signis: IO CAPITANO
Sorriso Diverso - Italian: THE PENITENT
Sorriso Diverso - Foreign: GREEN BORDER
Soundtrack Stars: IO CAPITANO
Soundtrack Stars - Special Prize: ADAGIO
Unimed: POOR THINGS
Verona Film Club: HOARD

2 0 2 3   F I L M S
21 DAYS UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Mitevska, Mac)
A CIELO ABIERTO (Arriaga/Arriaga, Mex)
ABOUT LAST YEAR (Lavecchia/Surano/Terranova, It)
ACROSS (Dorigotti, It)
ADAGIO (Sollima, It)
AGGRO DR1FT (Korine, US)
AMOR (Serpieri, Lit)
ANNA (Amenta, It)
BACKSTAGE (Mahmoud/Benkirane, Mor)
THE BEAST (Bonello, Fr)
BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS (Attia, Tun)
BYE BYE TIBERIA (Soualem, Pal)
THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL (Friedkin, US)
CASABLANCA (Valerio, Fr)
CITY OF WIND (Purev-Ochir, Mon)
COMANDANTE (De Angelis, It)
EL CONDE (Larrain, Chl)
COUP DE CHANCE (Allen, Fr)
COUP! (Stark/Schuman, US)
DAAAAAALI! (Dupieux, Fr)
DAY OF THE FIGHT (Huston, US)
DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM (Kroger, Ger)
DOGMAN (Besson, Fr)
EN ATTENDANT LA NUIT (Rouzet, Fr)
ENEA (Castellitto, It)
ENZO JANNACCI VENGO ANCH'IO (Verdelli, It)
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, Jpn)
L'EXPERIENCE ZOLA (Matarrese, Fr)
EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING (Reisz, Hun)
EYE TWO TIMES MOUTH (Aviles, Mex)
THE FEATHERWEIGHT (Kolodny, US)
FELICITA (Ramazzotti, It)
FERRARI (Mann, It)
FINALMENTE L'ALBA (Costanzo, It)
FLESH AND BRONZE (Mollo/Cataleta, It)
FOLLOWING THE SOUND (Sugita, Jpn)
FOREMOST BY NIGHT (Iriarte, Sp)
FOREVER-FOREVER (Buryachkova, Ukr)
FRAGMENTS OF A LIFE LOVED (Barreau, It)
FRENTE A GUERNICA (Gianikian/Lucchi, It)
GASOLINE RAINBOW (Ross/Ross, US)
GOD IS A WOMAN (Peyrot, Pan)
GREEN BORDER (Holland, Pol)
HESITATION WOUND (Nacar, Tur)
HIT MAN (Linklater, US)
HOARD (Carmoon, UK)
HOLLY (Troch, Bel)
HOLLYWOODGATE (Nash'at, Ger)
L'HOMME D'ARGILE (Tellenne, Fr)
HORS-SAISON (Brize, Fr)
HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS (Stolevski, Mac)
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON (Louis-Seize, Can)
I KNOW YOUR SOUL (Drljevic, Bos)
Il POPOLO DELLE DONNE: IL FILM (Ancarani, It)
IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS (Lorenz, Ire)
INFESTED (Vanicek, Fr)

INVELLE (Massi, It)
THE INVENTION OF SNOW (Moroni, It)
IO CAPITANO (Garrone, It)
THE KILLER (Fincher, US)
LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I'M WINNING (Mann, Ger)
LOVE IS A GUN (Lee, Tai)
LUBO (Diritti, It)
MAESTRO (Cooper, US)
MAKING OF (Kahn, Fr)
MALQUERIDAS (Gilbert, Chl)
MEMORY (Franco, US)
MENUS PLAISIRS: LES TROISGROS (Wiseman, Fr)
LE MIE POESIE NON CAMBIERANNO IL MONDO (Benini/Piccolo, It)
MILK (Kolk, Ned)
NINA OF THE WOLVES (Antonio Pisu, It) OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENT (Santambrogio, Cub)
OF MONEY AND BLOOD (Giannoli, Fr)
L'ORDINE DEL TEMPO (Cavani, It)
ORIGIN (DuVernay, US)
THE OUTPOST (Morabito, Br)
THE PALACE (Polanski, It)
PARADISE IS BURNING (Gustafson, Swe)
EL PARAISO (Artale, It)
PAROLA AI GIOVANI (Bozzolini, It)
PASSIONE CRITICA (Isola/Montini/Pistagnesi, It)
THE PENITENT: A RATIONAL MAN (Barbareschi, It)
PET SHOP DAYS (Schnabel, US)
PHANTOM YOUTH (Bajrami, Kos)
PHOTOPHOBIA (Ostrochovsky/Pekarcik, Ukr)
POOR THINGS (Lanthimos, UK)
PRISCILLA (Coppola, US)
THE PROMISED LAND (Arcel,Den )
EL RAPTO (Goggi, Arg)
THE RED SUITCASE (Devkota, Nep)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS (Sora, Jpn)
SEM CORACAO (Normande/Tiao, Br)
SHADOW OF FIRE (Tsukamoto, Jpn)
SIDONIE IN JAPAN (Girard, Fr)
SKY PEALS (Hussain, UK)
SNOW IN MIDSUMMER (Aun, Mas)
SNOW LEOPARD (Tseden,Chn )
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (Bayona, Sp)
STANE (Kusijanovic, US)
UNA STERMINATA DOMENICA (Parroni, Ire)
STOLEN (Tejpal, Ind)
THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN (Mavroeidis, Gr)
THE SUN WILL RISE (Najafi, Irn)
TATAMI (Nattiv/Ebrahimi, Geo)
THROUGH THE NIGHT (Girard, Bel)
VIVANTS (Delaporte, Fr)
THE VOURDALAK (Beau, Fr)
WITH THE GRACE OF A GOD (Roja, It)
WOMAN OF... (Szumowska/Englert, Pol)
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (Anderson, US)
THE WRITER IN THE TREES (Chiarini, It)
YURT (Tuna, Tur)


Venice Festival site 79th Venice International
Film Festival

31 AUGUST - 10 SEPTEMBER 2022
in Venice, Italy




R I C H ’ S   B E S T   O F   F E S T
  1. NO BEARS
  2. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
  3. ATHENA
  4. BLONDE
  5. SKIN DEEP
  6. TAR
  7. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
  8. BLUE JEAN
  9. WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE
  10. ARGENTINA, 1985
Honourable mention: THE DAMNED DON'T CRY CALL OF GOD. ANHELL69. BONES AND ALL. DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY. ORDINARY FAILURES. L'IMMENSITA. WOLF AND DOG. DREAMIN' WILD. ON THE FRINGE.
See also:
Venice Immersive VR




2 0 2 2   A W A R D S
Golden Lion:
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Silver Lion: SAINT OMER
Special Jury Prize: NO BEARS
Director: Luca Guadagnino
(BONES AND ALL)
Actress: Cate Blanchett (TAR)
Actor: Colin Farrell
(THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN)
Screenplay: Michael McDonagh
(THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN)
Debut Performance: Taylor Russell (BONES AND ALL)
Queer Lion: SKIN DEEP
Lion of the Future: Alice Diop (SAINT OMER)
Life Achievement: Catherine Deneuve and Paul Schrader
Glory to the Filmmaker: Walter Hill
Doc on Cinema: FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE
Restored Film: BRANDED TO KILL
Passion for Film: Arianne Phillips
Venice Days - People's Choice: BLUE JEAN
Venice Days - Director: Claudia Varejao (WOLF AND DOG)
Venice Days - Cinema of the Future: THE MAIDEN

Horizons: WORLD WAR III
Horizons - Jury Prize: BREAD AND SALT
Horizons - Audience Award: NEZOUH
Horizons - Director: Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel (VERA)
Horizons - Actress: Vera Gemma (VERA)
Horizons - Actor: Mohsen Tanabandeh (WORLD WAR III)
Horizons - Screenplay: Fernando Guzzoni (BLANQUITA)
Horizons - Short Film: SNOW IN SEPTEMBER
Critics Week: EISMAYER
Critics Week - Audience Award: MARGINI
Critics Week - Film Club Award: ANHELL69
Critics Week - Technical Award: ANHELL69
Immersive Experience: THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LEAVE
Immersive Grand Prize: FROM THE MAIN SQUARE
Immersive Jury Prize: EGGSCAPE
Fipresci: ARGENTINA, 1985
Fipresci - Parallel Sections: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

2 0 2 2   F I L M S
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Poitras, US)
AMANDA (Cavalli, It)
ANHELL69 (Montoya, Col)
ARGENTINA, 1985 (Mitre, Arg)
ATHENA (Gavras, Fr)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (McDonagh, Ire)
BARDO (Inarritu, Mex)
BEYOND THE WALL (Jalilvand, Irn)
BLONDE (Dominik, US)
BLUE JEAN (Oakley, UK)
BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT (Sharp/Bwayo, Ug)
BONES AND ALL (Guadagnino, US)
BREAD AND SALT (Kocur, Pol)
CALL OF GOD (Kim, Est)
CASA SUSANNA (Lifshitz, Fr)
A COUPLE (Wiseman, Fr)
THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (Boulifa, Mor)
DEAD FOR A DOLLAR (Hill, US)
DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Buirski, US)
DON'T WORRY DARLING (Wilde, US)
DREAMIN' WILD (Polhad, US)
EISMAYER (Wagner, Aut)
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Hogg, UK)
THE FABULOUS ONES (Torre, It)
FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE (Davison, US)

THE HANGING SUN (Carrozzini, It)
L'IMMENSITA (Crialese, It)
IN VIAGGIO (Rosi, It)
THE LISTENER (Buscemi, US)
LIVING (Hermanus, UK)
THE LORD OF THE ANTS (Amelio, It)
LOVE LIFE (Fukada, Jpn)
MASTER GARDENER (Schrader, US)
MONICA (Pallaoro, US)
NO BEARS (Panahi, Irn)
ON THE FRINGE (Botto, Sp)
ORDINARY FAILURES (Grosan, Cz)
OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN (Zlotowski, Fr)
PADRE PIO (Ferrara, It)
PEARL (West, US)
SAINT OMER (Diop, Fr)
THE SITTING DUCK (Salome, Fr)
SKIN DEEP (Ger) (Schaad, Ger)
THE SON (Zeller, UK)
TAR (Field, US)
THREE NIGHTS A WEEK (Gouelou, Fr)
VALERIA IS GETTING MARRIED (Vinik, Isr)
WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY (Hunting, US)
THE WHALE (Aronofsky, US)
WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE (Diaz, Ph)
WHITE NOISE (Baumbach, US)
WOLF AND DOG (Varejao, Por)


Venice Festival site 78th Venice International
Film Festival

1-11 SEP 2021
in Venice, Italy





2 0 2 1   A W A R D S
Golden Lion: HAPPENING
Silver Lion: THE HAND OF GOD
Special Jury Prize: IL BUCO
Director: Jane Campion
(THE POWER OF THE DOG)
Actress: Penelope Cruz
(PARALLEL MOTHERS)
Actor: John Arcilla
(ON THE JOB: THE MISSING 8)
Screenplay: Maggie Gyllenhaal
(THE LOST DAUGHTER)
Life Achievement: Jamie Lee Curtis
Glory to the Filmmaker: Ridley Scott
Queer Lion: LA DERNIERE SEANCE
Lion of the Future:
Monica Stan & George Chiper-Lillemark (IMACULAT)
Leoncino d'Oro: FREAKS OUT
Critics Week: ZALAVA
Critics Week - Verona Award: ERASING FRANK

Horizons: PILGRIMS
Horizons - Audience Award:
THE BLIND MAN WHO DIDN'T WANT TO SEE TITANIC
Horizons - Director: Eric Gravel (PILGRIMS)
Horizons - Actress: Laure Calamy
(PILGRIMS):
Horizons - Actor: Piseth Chhun
(WHITE BUILDING)
Horizons - Screenplay:
Peter Kerekes & Ivan Ostrochovsky
(107 MOTHERS)
Venice Days - People's Choice: PRIVATE DESERT
Venice Days - Director: Monica Stan &
George Chiper-Lillemark (IMACULAT)
Fipresci: HAPPENING
Fipresci - Parallel Sections: ZALAVA

2 0 2 1   F I L M S
AMERICAN NIGHT (Della Valle, It)
IL BUCO (Frammartino, It)
THE CARD COUNTER (Schrader, US)
COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON (Akl, Leb)
DUNE (Villeneuve, US)
THE HAND OF GOD (Sorrentino, It)
HAPPENING (Diwan, Fr)
INU-OH (Yuasa, Jpn)
THE LAST DUEL (Scott, UK)
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (Wright, UK)

THE LOST DAUGHTER (Gyllenhaal, US)
OFFICIAL COMPETITION(Cohn/Duprat, Sp)
PARALLEL MOTHERS (Almodovar, Sp)
THE POWER OF THE DOG (Campion, NZ)
PRIVATE DESERT (Muritiba, Br)
SPENCER (Larrain, Ger)
TRUE THINGS (Wootliff, UK)

* reviews coming


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