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![]() 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. | |||
![]() 79th Venice International Film Festival 30 AUGUST - 9 SEPTEMBER 2023 in Venice, Italy
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![]() 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 - 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 | |
![]() 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) ![]() COUP DE CHANCE (Allen, Fr) COUP! (Stark/Schuman, US) DAAAAAALI! (Dupieux, Fr) DAY OF THE FIGHT (Huston, US) DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM (Kroger, Ger) ![]() EN ATTENDANT LA NUIT (Rouzet, Fr) ENEA (Castellitto, It) ENZO JANNACCI VENGO ANCH'IO (Verdelli, It) ![]() L'EXPERIENCE Zola(Matarrese, Fr) EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING (Reisz, Hun) EYE TWO TIMES MOUTH (Aviles, Mex) THE FEATHERWEIGHT (Kolodny, US) FELICITA (Ramazzotti, 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) ![]() 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) INVELLE (Massi, It) |
![]() ![]() ![]() LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I'M WINNING (Mann, Ger) LOVE IS A GUN (Lee, Tai) LUBO (Diritti, It) ![]() MAKING OF (Kahn, Fr) MALQUERIDAS (Gilbert, Chl) ![]() 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) ![]() 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) ![]() ![]() 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 ) ![]() STANE (Kusijanovic, US) UNA STERMINATA DOMENICA (Parroni, Ire) STOLEN (Tejpal, Ind) ![]() THE SUN WILL RISE (Najafi, Irn) TATAMI (Nattiv/Ebrahimi, Geo) THROUGH THE NIGHT (Girard, Bel) VERMIN (Vanicek, Mor) VIVANTS (Delaporte, Fr) THE VOURDALAK (Beau, Fr) WITH THE GRACE OF A GOD (Roja, It) WOMAN OF... (Szumowska/Englert, Pol) ![]() THE WRITER IN THE TREES (Chiarini, It) YURT (Tuna, Tur) | ||
![]() Film Festival 31 AUGUST - 10 SEPTEMBER 2022 in Venice, Italy
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Venice Immersive VR | 2 0 2 2 A W A R D S | ||
![]() 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 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 Venice Days - People's Choice: BLUE JEAN Venice Days - Director: Claudia Varejao (WOLF AND DOG) Venice Days - Cinema of the Future: THE MAIDEN 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 - Parallel Sections: AUTOBIOGRAPHY Authors Under 40: Isabella Carbonell (DOGBORN) and Cristina Grosan (ORDINARY FAILURES) Brian: THE LORD OF THE ANTS Casa Wabi-Mantarraya: SAINT OMER Cict-Unesco: NUCLEAR Cinema & Arts: MUSIC FOR BLACK PIGEONS CinemaSara: THE WHALE Edipo Re: SAINT OMER Europa Cinemas Label: DIRTY DIFFICULT DANGEROUS Fai Persona: THE SITTING DUCK Fanheart3: DON'T WORRY DARLING Fedic: THE LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY Green Drop: WHITE NOISE Interfilm: THE WHALE Lanterna Magica: NEZOUH Leoncino d'Oro: THE WHALE Lizzani: CHIARA Nuovoimaie Talent - Young Actor: Leonardo Maltese (THE LORD OF THE ANTS) Nuovoimaie Talent - Young Actress: Margarita Mazzucco (CHIARA) Pasinetti: DRY Pellicola d'Oro - Production: THE LORD OF THE ANTS Pellicola d'Oro - Camera: THE LORD OF THE ANTS Pellicola d'Oro - Costumes: CHIARA RB Casting: THE LORD OF THE ANTS Signis: CHIARA Smithers: ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Sorriso Diverso - Italian: CHIARA Sorriso Diverso - Foreign: THE WHALE Soundtrack Stars: DRY Soundtrack Stars - Life Achievement: Stefano Bollani Unimed: BARDO | ||
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![]() ![]() ALONE (Najafi, Irn) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Mubarak, Ina) ![]() ![]() BEATING SUN (Philippe Petit, Fr) BENTU (Mereu, It) * BEYOND THE WALL (Jalilvand, Irn) BLANQUITA (Guzzoni, Chl) ![]() BLOOD (Costa, Por) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() THE BRIDE (Trefaut, Por) * CALL OF GOD (Kim, Est) ![]() CHIARA (Nicchiarelli, It) A COMPASSIONATE SPY (James, US) COPENHAGEN COWBOY (Winding Refn, Den) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() DIRTY, DIFFICULT, DANGEROUS (Charaf, Fr) DOGBORN (Carbonell, Swe) ![]() ![]() DRY (Virzi, It) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() FREEDOM ON FIRE (Afineevsky, Ukr) GOLIATH (Yerzhanov, Kaz) HANGING GARDENS (Al Daradji, Irq) ![]() THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD (Mitevska, Mac) HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN? (Zoric/Gluscevic, Ser) I EAT YOUR HEART (Mezzapesa, It) IF YOU ARE GOOD (Collizzolli/Gaglianone, It) ![]() * IN VIAGGIO (Rosi, It) INNOCENCE (Davidi, Den) AN INVISIBLE ENEMY (Campagna/Savonitto, It) THE KIEV TRIAL (Loznitsa, Ned) KRISTOS, THE LAST CHILD (Amati, It) LAND OF UPRIGHT PEOPLE (Mereu, It) THE LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY (Ghezzi/Gagliardo, It) |
![]() LAS LEONAS (Achaval/Bondi, It) ![]() ![]() * THE LORD OF THE ANTS (Amelio, It) ![]() LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG (Lukich, Ukr) THE MAIDEN (Foy, Can) A MAN (Ishikawa, Jpn) THE MARCH ON ROME (Cousins, It) MARGINI (Falsetti, It) ![]() THE MATCHMAKER (Argenteri, It) ![]() MUSIC FOR BLACK PIGEONS (Leth/Koefoed, Den) NEZOUH (Kaadan, Syr) ![]() NOTTE FANTASMA (Risuleo, It) NUCLEAR (Stone, US) OLIMPIA'S WAY (Ceron, It) ![]() ![]() THE ORIGIN OF EVIL (Marnier, Fr) ![]() OUR TIES (Zem, Fr) PABLO DI NEANDERTHAL (Matarazzo, It) ![]() ![]() POUR LA FRANCE (Hami, Fr) PRINCESS (De Paolis, It) QUEENS (Benkiran, Mor) RIGET EXODUS (von Trier, Den) ![]() THE SITTING DUCK (Salome, Fr) ![]() ![]() SPACCAOSSA (Pirrotta, It) STONEWALLING (Ji/Otsuka, Jpn) ![]() ![]() LA TIMIDEZZA DELLE CHIOME (Bertani, It) TO THE NORTH (Mincan, Rom) TRENQUE LAUQUEN (Citarella, Arg) * VALERIA IS GETTING MARRIED (Vinik, Isr) VERA (Covi/Frimmel, Aut) VICTIM (Blasko, Svk) WE ARE HERE TO TRY (De Lazzari/Quadri, It) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() WITHOUT HER (Vazirdaftari, Irn) ![]() WORLD WAR III (Seyedi, Irn) ZAPATOS ROJOS (Kaiser, Mex) | ||
![]() Film Festival 1-11 SEP 2021 in Venice, Italy
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![]() 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 - 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 | ||
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