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66th Venice International Film Festival

Summary

The 66th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was held from 2 to 12 September 2009, with Maria Grazia Cucinotta serving as the festival's hostess.[1][2] The opening film of the festival was Baarìa by Giuseppe Tornatore and the closing film was Chengdu, I Love You by Fruit Chan and Cui Jian.

66th Venice International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmBaarìa
Closing filmChengdu, I Love You
LocationVenice, Italy
Founded1932
AwardsGolden Lion – Lebanon
Hosted byMaria Grazia Cucinotta
Festival date2–12 September 2009
WebsiteWebsite
Venice Film Festival chronology
66th Venice International Film Festival

The international competition jury, chaired by Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, awarded the Golden Lion to Lebanon by Samuel Maoz.[3]

Juries edit

The international juries of the 66th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[4][5][6]

Main competition (Venezia 66) edit

Horizons (Orizzonti) edit

Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film) edit

Corto-Cortissimo (Short Film Competition) edit

  • Stuart Gordon American filmmaker, theater director and playwright - Jury President[10]
  • Steve Ricci, Italian cinematographer, screenwriter and editor
  • Sitora Alieva, Russian artistic director of the International Film Festival Kinotav

Controcampo Italiano edit

  • Carlo Lizzani, Italian director, screenwriter and critic - Jury President[11]
  • Giulio Questi, Italian director and screenwriter
  • Marina Sanna, Italian chief editor of cinema magazine

Official Sections edit

In Competition edit

The following films competed for the Golden Lion:[12]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Accident 意外 Cheang Pou-Soi China（Hong Kong）
Around a Small Mountain 36 vues du pic Saint-Loup Jacques Rivette France, Italy
Baarìa (opening film) Giuseppe Tornatore Italy, France
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Werner Herzog United States
Between Two Worlds Ahasin Wetei Vimukthi Jayasundara Sri Lanka
The Big Dream Il grande sogno Michele Placido Italy, France
Capitalism: A Love Story Michael Moore United States
The Double Hour La doppia ora Giuseppe Capotondi Italy
Grandmother Lola Brillante Mendoza France, Philippines
Lebanon Samuel Maoz Israel, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Life During Wartime Todd Solondz United States
Lourdes Jessica Hausner Austria
Mr Nobody Jaco van Dormael Belgium, Canada, France, Germany
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Werner Herzog United States
Persécution Patrice Chéreau France
Prince of Tears 淚王子 Yonfan Taiwan
The Road John Hillcoat United States
A Single Man Tom Ford
Soul Kitchen Fatih Akın Germany
Survival of the Dead George A. Romero Canada, United States
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man Tetsuo Project Shinya Tsukamoto Japan
The Traveller المسافر Ahmad Maher Egypt, Italy
White Material Claire Denis France
The White Space Lo spazio bianco Francesca Comencini Italy
Women Without Men Zanan-e bedun-e mardan Shirin Neshat Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco
Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion for best film.

Out of Competition edit

The following films were screened as Out of competition:[13]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Brooklyn's Finest Antoine Fuqua United States
Chengdu, I Love You (closing film) 成都我爱你 Fruit Chan, Cui Jian China
Delhi-6 Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra India
Dev.D Anurag Kashyap
Great Directors Angela Ismailos United States
Green Days Ruzhaye Sabz Hana Makhmalbaf Iran
Gulaal गुलाल Anurag Kashyap India
The Hole Joe Dante United States
The Informant! Steven Soderbergh
The Men Who Stare at Goats Grant Heslov
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli Abel Ferrara Italy
L'oro di Cuba Giuliano Montaldo
Rambo (Director's Cut) Sylvester Stallone United States
REC 2 Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza Spain
The Red Shadows Le ombre rosse Francesco Maselli Italy
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy Prove per una tragedia siciliana Roman Paska, John Turturro
Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story إحكي يا شهرزاد Yousry Nasrallah Egypt
South of the Border Oliver Stone United States
Valhalla Rising Nicolas Winding Refn Denmark, United Kingdom
Yona Yona Penguin よなよなペンギン Rintaro Japan, France

Corto Cortissimo (Short Film Competition) edit

The following films were selected for the Corto Cortissimo (Short film competition) section:[14]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
In competition
Felicità Salome Aleksi Georgia
The Kinematograph Kinematograf Tomek Baginski Poland
I Know There’s a Man So Che C'è Un Uomo Gianclaudio Cappai Italy
This Is Earth, My Brother To je zemljia, brat moj Jan Cvitkovič Slovenia, Italy
Still Birds Alle Fugler Sara Eliassen Norway
Bliss O Teu Sorriso Pedro Freire Brazil
The Game Il Gioco Adriano Giannini Italy
Object #1 Murad Ibragimbekov Russia
Girllikeme Rowland Jobson United Kingdom
Firstborn Eersgeborene Etienne Kallos South Africa, United States
Mom’S Vacation Umma-E Huga Kwang-Bok Kim South Korea
Storage David Lea United Kingdom
Of Clouds and Hands Nuvole, Mani Simone Massi France
Sinner Meni Philip Israel
Family Jewels Martin Stitt United States, United Kingdom
For Two Er Ren Shijie Tan Singapore
Bicycle Jitensha Dean Yamada Japan, United States
Kingyo Edmund Yeo Japan, Malaysia
Out of Competition
Plastic Bag (Opening film) Ramin Bahrani United States
The It.Aliens (Closing Film) Clemens Klopfenstein, Lukas Klopfenstein Italy, Switzerland
Special Events
Recordare Leonardo Carrano, Alessandro Pierattini Italy
The City in the Sky La città nel cielo Giacomo Cimini United Kingdom, Italy
The Second Family La seconda famiglia Alberto Dall'Ara Italy
Earth Tzu Nyen Ho Singapore
Radio Riccardo Pugliese United States, Italy
War Uerra Paolo Sassanelli Italy
A la lune montante Annarita Zambrano France
Highlighted title indicates Corto Cortissimo Lion winner.

Horizons (Orizzonti) edit

The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[15]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
1428 Haibin Du China
Adrift Choi voi Bui Thac Chuyen Vietnam
Bets and Wedding Dresses Tris di donne & abiti nuziali Vincenzo Terracciano Italy
Buried Secrets Dowaha Raja Amari Tunisia
Clash Engkwentro Pepe Diokno Philippines
The Color of Words Il colore delle parole Marco Simon Puccioni Italy
Cow 斗牛 Guan Hu China
Crush Korotkoe zamykanie Pyotr Buslov, Alexei German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan Vyrypaev Russia
Francesca (Opening film) Bobby Paunescu Romania
I Am Love Io sono l'amore Luca Guadagnino Italy
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz Brazil
Judge 透析 Jie Liu China
The Man’s Woman and Other Stories Aadmi ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya Amit Dutta India
The Movie Orgy - Ultimate Version Joe Dante United States
Once upon a time Proletarian 曾经的无产者 Xiaolu Guo China
The One All Alone Frank Scheffer Netherlands
One-Zero Wahed-Sefr Kamla Abou Zekry Egypt
Paraiso Héctor Gálvez Peru
Pepperminta Pipilotti Rist Switzerland
Repo Chick Alex Cox United States
Sunstroke Insolação Felipe Hirsch, Daniela Thomas Brazil
Tender Parasites Zarte Parasiten Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe Germany
Totò Peter Schreiner Austria
Villalobos Romuald Karmakar Germany
Woman on Fire Looks for Water Woo Ming Jin Malaysia, South Korea
Horizons Events
Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno Pappi Corsicato Italy
The Marriage Peter Greenaway Italy, Spain
Reading Book of Blockade Chitaem 'Blokadnuju knigu' Alexander Sokurov Russia
The Death of Pentheus Philip Haas United States
La Bohème Werner Herzog United Kingdom
Faces of Seoul Seo-wool eui ul-gul Gina Kim United States, South Korea
Hugo en Afrique Stefano Knuchel Switzerland
Via della croce Serena Nono Italy
Mudanza (short) Pere Portabella Spain
Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri Elisabetta Sgarbi Italy
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris Frederick Wiseman France, United States
Cock-Crow David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi Italy
Daimon
Highlighted title indicates the Lion of the Future winner

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement edit

As part of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2009, which was conferred to John Lasseter and the Directors of Disney-Pixar, the following American animation films were presented:[16]

Cortocampo Italiano edit

The following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section:[17]

English title Original title Director(s)
Cosmonaut Cosmonauta Susanna Nicchiarelli
David's Birthday Il Compleanno Marco Filiberti
Giuseppe De Santis Carlo Lizzani
Hollywood on the Tiber Hollywood sul Tevere Marco Spagnoli
In the Eyes Negli occhi Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti
The Little Il Piccolo Maurizio Zaccaro
Poets Poeti Toni D'Angelo
Sputnik 5 Susanna Nicchiarelli
Ten Winters Dieci Inverni Valerio Mieli

Italian Retrospective: These Phantoms 2 edit

For this retrospective section on Italian cinema, 39 feature and 26 short films were screened, including documentaries. The films were mainly from the period 1946 - 1971, with a few only films going back to the 1930s and reaching up to 2009.[18]

English title Original title Director(s)
Accidenti alla guerra!... (1948) Giorgio Simonelli
Break Up (1965) L'uomo dei cinque palloni Marco Ferreri
Carmen di Trastevere (1963) Carmine Gallone
Death of a Friend (1959) Morte di un amico Franco Rossi
Dreams Die at Dawn (1961) I sogni muoiono all'alba Indro Montanelli, Enrico Gras, Mario Craveri
Easy Years (1953) Anni facili Luigi Zampa
Un eroe del nostro tempo (1960) Sergio Capogna
The Flame That Will Not Die (1949) La Fiamma che non si spegne Vittorio Cottafavi
Galileo (1968) Liliana Cavani
Girl in the Window (1961) La ragazza in vetrina Luciano Emmer
The Great War (1959) La grande guerra Mario Monicelli
House of Ricordi (1954) Casa Ricordi Carmine Gallone
Hurricane Rosy (1979) Temporale Rosy Mario Monicelli
The Invisible Ones (1988) Gli Invisibili Pasquale Squitieri
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970) Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo Salvatore Samperi
Love in Rome (1960) Un amore a Roma Dino Risi
The Lovemakers (1961) La viaccia Mauro Bolognini
Margherita and Her Three Uncles (1942) Margherita fra i tre Ivo Perilli
The Naked Hours (1964) Le ore nude Marco Vicario
Nerosubianco (1968) Tinto Brass
Noi cannibali (1953) Antonio Leonviola
One Between the Crowd (1946) Uno tra la folla Ennio Cerlesi, Piero Tellini
Princess Cinderella (1941) Cenerentola e il Signor Bonaventura Sergio Tofano
A Quiet Place in the Country (1969) Un tranquillo posto di campagna Elio Petri
The Reunion (1963) La Rimpatriata Damiano Damiani
The Ship of Condemned Women (1954) La nave delle donne maledette Raffaello Matarazzo
Stories in the Sand (1963) Storie sulla sabbia Riccardo Fellini
The Stranger's Hand (1954) La mano dello straniero Mario Soldati
Il tramontana (1965) Adriano Barbano
Tre nel mille (1971) Franco Indovina
The Wanderers (1956) I girovaghi Hugo Fregonese
Women Without Names (1950) Donne senza nome Géza von Radványi

Independent Sections edit

Venice International Film Critics' Week edit

The following films were selected for the 24th International Film Critics' Week:[19]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
In competition
Cafe Noir Ka-pe-neu-wa-reu Jung Sung-il South Korea
A Rational Solution Det enda rationella Jörgen Bergmark Sweden
Domain Domaine Patric Chiha France, Austria
Crawfishlike Kakraki Ilya Demichev Russia
Foxes Lištičky Mira Fornay Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland
Tehroun Téhéran Nader T. Homayoun France, Iran
Out of competition
Metropia (opening film) Tarik Saleh Sweden
The Pothole (closing film) Chaleh Ali Karim Iran
Videocracy Erik Gandini Sweden

Venice Days edit

The following films were selected for the 6th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[20][21]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
In competition
The Ape Apan Jesper Ganslandt Sweden
Barking Water Sterlin Harjo United States
Blood and Rain La sangre y la lluvia Jorge Navas Colombia, Argentina
Cell 211 Celda 211 Daniel Monzón Spain, France
Desert Flower Sherry Hormann United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France
Fat People Gordos Daniel Sánchez Arévalo Spain
France Francia Israel Adrián Caetano Argentina
Harragas Merzak Allouache Algeria, France
Honeymoons Goran Paskaljevic Serbia, Albania
The Horde La horde Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher France
Hymn to Love L’amore e basta Stefano Consiglio Italy
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive Je suis heureux que ma mere soit vivante Claude Miller, Nathan Miller France
The Last Days of Emma Blank De laatste Dagen van Emma Blank Alex van Warmerdam Netherlands
Mille giorni di Vito Elisabetta Pandimiglio Italy
Poetry, You See Me Poesia che mi guardi Marina Spada
Silent Voice Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront Léa Fehner France
What Do You Know About Me Di me cosa ne sai Valerio Jalongo Italy
Out of competition
Ragazze la vita trema Paola Sangiovanni Italy
The Swindlers (1959) I magliari Francesco Rosi Italy, France
Teat Beat of Sex Signe Baumane United States
Videocracy Erik Gandini Sweden
Vittorio D Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri Italy

Official Awards edit

The following Official Awards were conferred at the 66th edition of the festival:[3]

In competition (Venezia 66) edit

Horizons (Orizzonti) edit

  • Best Film: Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno
  • Best Documentary: 1428 by Haibin Du
    • Special mention: The Man's Woman and Other Stories by Amit Dutta

Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film edit

Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo) edit

  • Best Short Film: Firstborn by Etienne Kallos
  • Venice Nomination to the European Film Awards 2009: Sinner by Meni Philip
    • Special mention: Felicità by Salomé Aleksi

Controcampo Italiano edit

  • Best Feature Film: Cosmonaut by Susanna Nicchiarelli
    • Special Mention: In the Eyes by Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement edit

Special awards edit

Independent Sections Awards edit

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[22]

Venice International Film Critics' Week edit

  • "Region of Veneto for quality cinema" Award: Tehroun by Takmil Homayoun Nader
  • Future Film Festival Digital Award: Metropia by Tarik Saleh

Venice Days (Giornati degli Autori) edit

Independent Awards edit

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[22]

FIPRESCI Award edit

Queer Lion edit

SIGNIS Award edit

Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI) edit

Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola Award edit

La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award edit

C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award edit

UNICEF Award edit

Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award edit

Biografilm Lancia Award edit

Brian Prize by UAAR edit

Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs) edit

  • Cosmonauta by Susanna Nicchiarelli

FEDIC Award edit

  • The White Space by Francesca Comencini
    • Special Mention: What Do You Know About Me by Valerio Jalongo

Arca Cinemagiovani Awards edit

Lina Mangiacapre Award edit

Air For Film Fest Award edit

  • The White Space by Francesca Comencini

Open Award 2009 edit

  • Capitalism: A love story by Michael Moore

Gianni Astrei Award edit

  • The White Space by Francesca Comencini

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