The 70th annual Venice International Film Festival took place in Venice, Italy from 28 August to 7 September 2013.[1] American film director William Friedkin was presented with a lifetime achievement award.[2] Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was the president of the jury. He was previously the president of the jury at the 40th edition in 1983.[3][4] Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, was the opening film of the festival.[5] Italian actress Eva Riccobono hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival.[6]
Opening film | Gravity |
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Closing film | Amazonia |
Location | Venice, Italy |
Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: Sacro GRA |
Hosted by | Eva Riccobono |
Festival date | 28 August – 7 September 2013 |
Website | www |
The Golden Lion was awarded to the Italian documentary film Sacro GRA.[7] It was the first documentary film to win the award at the Venice Festival.[8][9]
The following people were selected for the main competition jury:[10]
The following films were selected for the main competition:[11][12]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Ana Arabia | Amos Gitai | Israel, France | |
Child of God | James Franco | United States | |
L'intrepido | Gianni Amelio | Italy | |
Jealousy | La Jalousie | Philippe Garrel | France |
Joe | David Gordon Green | United States | |
Miss Violence | Alexandros Avranas | Greece | |
Night Moves | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
Parkland | Peter Landesman | ||
Philomena | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom | |
The Police Officer's Wife | Die Frau des Polizisten | Philip Gröning | Germany |
The Rooftops | لسطوح | Merzak Allouache | Algeria, France |
Sacro GRA | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy | |
Stray Dogs | 郊遊 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan, France |
Tom at the Farm | Tom à la ferme | Xavier Dolan | Canada, France |
Tracks | John Curran | United Kingdom, Australia | |
Under the Skin | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom, United States | |
The Unknown Known | Errol Morris | United States | |
Via Castellana Bandiera | Emma Dante | Italy, Switzerland, France | |
The Wind Rises | 風立ちぬ | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
The Zero Theorem | Terry Gilliam | United Kingdom, United States |
The following films were selected for the out of competition section:[13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Amazonia (closing film) | Thierry Ragobert | France, Brazil | |
The Canyons | Paul Schrader | United States | |
Con il fiato sospeso | Costanza Quatriglio | Italy | |
Disney Mickey Mouse - O' Sole Minnie (Season 1, Episode 12) | Paul Rudish, Aaron Springer, Clay Morrow | United States | |
Gravity (opening film) | Alfonso Cuarón | United States | |
Home from Home | Die andere Heimat — Chronik einer Sehnsucht | Edgar Reitz | Germany |
Locke | Steven Knight | United Kingdom | |
Moebius | 뫼비우스 | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea |
A Promise | Une promesse | Patrice Leconte | France |
Redemption | Miguel Gomes | Portugal, France, Germany, Italy | |
Harlock: Space Pirate | 宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック | Aramaki Shinji | Japan |
Unforgiven | 許されざる者 | Lee Sang-Il | Japan |
Walesa: Man of Hope | Wałęsa. Człowiek z nadziei | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
Wolf Creek 2 | Greg McLean | Australia | |
Non Fiction | |||
The Armstrong Lie | Alex Gibney | United States | |
At Berkeley | Frederick Wiseman | ||
How Strange to Be Named Federico | Che strano chiamarsi Federico - Scola racconta Fellini | Ettore Scola | Italy |
Pine Ridge | Anna Eborn | Denmark | |
Summer 82 When Zappa Came to Sicily | Salvo Cuccia | Italy, United States | |
'Til Madness Do Us Part | 瘋愛 | Wang Bing | Hong Kong, France |
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel | Ukraina ne Bordel | Kitty Green | Australia |
The Voice of Berliguer | La voce di Berlinguer | Mario Sesti, Teho Teardo | Italy |
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[14]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Feature films | |||
Eastern Boys | Robin Campillo | France | |
First Snowfall | La prima neve | Andrea Segre | Italy |
Fish & Cat | Mahi Va Gorbeh | Shahram Mokri | Iran |
The Life After | La vida después | David Pablos | Mexico |
Little Brother | Bauyr | Serik Aprymov | Kazakhstan |
Medeas | Andrea Pallaoro | United States, Italy | |
My Name Is Hmmm... | Je m'appelle Hmmm... | Agnès B. | France |
Palo Alto | Gia Coppola | United States | |
Ruin | Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Michael Cody | Australia | |
The Sacrament | Ti West | United States | |
Small Homeland | Piccola patria | Alessandro Rossetto | Italy |
Some Girls | Algunas chicas | Santiago Palavecino | Argentina |
Still Life | Uberto Pasolini | United Kingdom, Italy | |
The Third Half | Il terzo tempo | Enrico Maria Artale | Italy |
We Are the Best! | Vi Är Bäst! | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden, Denmark |
Why Don't You Play in Hell? | Jigoku de naze warui | Sion Sono | Japan |
Wolf Children | Wolfskinder | Rick Ostermann | Germany |
Short Films Competition | |||
Aningaaq | Jonas Cuarón | United States | |
The Audition | Michael Haussman | Italy | |
Ballkoni | Lendita Zeqiraj | Kosovo | |
Blanco | Ignacio Gatica | Argentina | |
Cold Snap | Leo Woodhead | New Zealand | |
Death For a Unicorn | Riccardo Bernasconi, Francesca Reverdito | Switzerland | |
La gallina | Manel Raga | Spain | |
Houses With Small Windows | Bülent Öztürk | Belgium | |
Kush | Shubhashish Bhutiani | India | |
Minesh | Shalin Sirkar | South Africa, Germany, Denmark | |
Un pensiero Kalašnikov | Giorgio Bosisio | Italy, United Kingdom | |
Quello Che Resta | Valeria Allievi | Italy | |
Sishui (Stagnant Water) | Xiaowei Wang | China | |
Toutes les belles choses | Cécile Bicler | France |
The following selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinema were screened for this section:[15]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Restored Films | |||
Le 15/8 (1973) | Chantal Akerman, Samy Szlingerbaum | Belgium | |
The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954) | Don Weis | United States | |
Il Bacio di Tosca (aka Tosca's Kiss) (1984) | Daniel Schmid | Switzerland | |
La Bête humaine (aka The Human Beast) (1938) | Jean Renoir | France | |
Bread and Chocolate (1974) | Pane e cioccolata | Franco Brusati | Italy |
A Bullet For The General (1966) | Quién Sabe? | Damiano Damiani | |
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996) | 甜蜜蜜 | Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Hong Kong |
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981) | Сјећаш ли се Доли Бел? | Emir Kusturica | Yugoslavia |
Equinox Flower (1958) | 彼岸花 | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
Hands Over the City (1963) | Le mani sulla città | Francesco Rosi | Italy, France |
Hotel Monterey (1972) | Chantal Akerman | Belgium, United States | |
In the Heat of the Sun (1993) | 陽光燦爛的日子 | Jiang Wen | China, Hong Kong |
Kapurush (1965) | কাপুরুষ | Satyajit Ray | India |
Let's Get Lost (1988) | Bruce Weber | United States | |
Little Fugitive (1953) | Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, Ray Ashley | ||
Mahapurush (1965) | Satyajit Ray | India | |
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) | 戦場のメリークリスマス | Nagisa Ôshima | United Kingdom, Japan |
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) | Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | United States | |
My Darling Clementine (1946) | John Ford | ||
My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1984) | Мой друг Иван Лапшин | Aleksey German Sr. | Soviet Union |
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) | ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
Nidhanaya (1970) | Lester James Peries | Sri Lanka | |
Paisan (1946) | Paisà | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973) | La proprietà non è più un furto | Elio Petri | Italy |
Providence (1977) | Alain Resnais | France, Switzerland, United Kingdom | |
Sandra (1965) | Vaghe stelle dell'orsa... | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
The Shape of Night (1964) | 夜の片鱗 | Noboru Nakamura | Japan |
Sorcerer (1977) | William Friedkin | United States | |
White Rock (1977) | Tony Maylam | United Kingdom | |
Documentaries about cinema | |||
Il Bacio di Tosca, Une restauration numérique | Richard Szotyori | Switzerland | |
Bertolucci on Bertolucci | Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano | Italy | |
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater | Gabe Klinger | United States, Portugal, France | |
A Fuller Life | Samantha Fuller | United States | |
Istintobrass | Massimiliano Zanin | Italy | |
Lino Micciché, Mio padre. Una visione del mondo | Francesco Micciché | ||
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Bruce Weber | United States | |
Non Eravamo Solo... Ladri Di Biciclette. Il Neorealismo | Gianni Bozzacchi | Italy | |
Trespassing Bergman | Jane Magnusson, Hynek Pallas | Sweden, France |
The following films were screened for the "Biennale College - Cinema" section, a higher education training workshop for micro-budget feature films:[16]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Yuri Esposito | Alessio Fava[17] | Italy | |
Memphis | Tim Sutton | United States | |
Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy | Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit | Thailand |
The following films were screened for the "Final Cut in Venice" section, a workshop to support the post-production of films from Africa:[18]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Challatt Tunes | Le Challat de Tunis | Kaouther Ben Hania[19] | Tunisia |
The Cat | El Ott | Ibrahim El-Batout | Egypt |
With Almost Nothing | Avec presque rien... | Nantenaina Lova[20] | Madagascar |
Territorial Pissings | Sibs Shongwe-La Mer | South Africa |
The following films were the Special Screenings of the Official Selection:[21]
Under the project title Venice 70 - Future Reloaded, 70 top film directors were each invited to make a 60-90 second short film, as "both a collective tribute to the Festival (the first festival in the world to reach the milestone of 70 editions) and a reflection on the future of cinema".[23][24][25]
The following films were selected for the Critics' Week:[26][27]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In competition | |||
Salvation Army | L’armée du salut | Abdellah Taïa | France, Morocco |
The Reunion | Återträffen | Anna Odell | Sweden |
The Quispe Girls | Las niñas Quispe | Sebastián Sepúlveda | Chile, France, Argentina |
Class Enemy | Razredni Sovražnik | Rok Biček | Slovenia |
White Shadow | Noaz Deshe | Italy, Germany, Tanzania | |
Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot | Zoran, il mio nipote scemo | Matteo Oleotto | Italy, Slovenia |
Trap Street | Shuiyin jie | Vivian Qu | China |
Special Events - Out of competition | |||
The Art of Happiness (opening film) | L’arte della felicità | Alessandro Rak | Italy |
Illiterate (closing film) | Las analfabetas | Moisés Sepúlveda | Chile |
The following films were selected for the 10th edition of the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section:[28] Starting from this edition, Venice Days has created its own international award "for a film from the entire Official Selection".[29]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In Competition | |||
Alienation | Otchuzhdenie | Milko Lazarov | Bulgaria |
Bethlehem | Yuval Adler | Israel, Germany, Belgium | |
Gerontophilia | Bruce LaBruce | Canada | |
The Good Life | La belle vie | Jean Denizot | France |
Kill Your Darlings | John Krokidas | United States | |
May in the Summer | Cherien Dabis | Jordan, Qatar, United States | |
My Class | La mia classe | Daniele Gaglianone | Italy |
Nobody's Home | Köksüz | Deniz Akçay | Turkey |
The Reconstruction | La reconstrucción | Juan Taratuto | Argentina |
Rigor Mortis | Geung si | Juno Mak | Hong Kong |
Siddharth | Richie Mehta | Canada, India | |
Traitors | Sean Gullette | Morocco, United States | |
Special Events | |||
Julia | J. Jackie Baier | Germany, Lithuania | |
Lenny Cooke | Benny and Josh Safdie | United States | |
Lino Miccichè, mio padre - Una visione del mondo | Francesco Miccichè | Italy | |
The Referee | L'arbitro | Paolo Zucca | Italy, Argentina |
Secchi | Edo Natoli | Italy | |
Three Many Weddings | 3 bodas de más | Javier Ruiz Caldera | Spain |
Venezia Salva | Serena Nono | Italy | |
Miu Miu Women's Tales | |||
Le Donne della Vucciria | Hiam Abbass | Italy | |
The Door | Ava DuVernay | United States, Italy | |
Lux Prize | |||
The Selfish Giant | Clio Barnard | United Kingdom | |
Honey | Miele | Valeria Golino | Italy |
The Broken Circle Breakdown | Felix Van Groeningen | Belgium |
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 70th edition:[30]
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[33]