65th Venice International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | Burn After Reading |
|---|---|
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion - The Wrestler |
| Hosted by | Ksenia Rappoport |
| Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 2008 |
| Website | Website |
The 65th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on 27 August 2008 by Burn After Reading,[1] and closed on 6 September 2008.[2] International competition jury, led by Wim Wenders, awarded Golden Lion to The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky.[2]
Most of the films at the festival were world premieres.[3] Featured in the 65th film festival was a restored version of Federico Fellini's 1952 comedy The White Sheik with forty minutes of newly discovered footage.[4] Films screened out of competition included 35 Shots of Rum by Claire Denis, Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin, and an autobiographical documentary by Agnès Varda.[2] The record for the longest film at the festival went to Philippine director Lav Diaz's Melancholia, with a running time of approximately seven and a half hours, and which was included in the Orizzonti competition section.[3]
77-year-old Italian film director Ermanno Olmi received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.[5][6][7] The festival was dedicated to the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, who was notable for his contributions to Arab cinema.[2] The festival's shorts competition began 1 September 2008 with Natalie Portman's directorial debut, Eve. Kseniya Rappoport was the host of the opening and closing ceremonies.[8]
Juries
[edit]The international juries of the 65th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[9]
Main Competition (Venezia 65)
[edit]- Wim Wenders, German filmmaker, playwright, author and photographer - Jury President
- Yuri Arabov, Russian screenwriter, writer, poet and educator
- Valeria Golino, Italian actress and director
- Douglas Gordon, Scottish artist
- John Landis, American filmmaker, actor and producer
- Lucrecia Martel, Argentine filmmaker, and producer
- Johnnie To, Hong Kong director and producer
Horizons (Orizzonti)
[edit]- Chantal Akerman, Belgian filmmaker, artist and professor of film - Jury President
- Nicole Brenez, French historian, theoretician and professor of cinema
- Barbara Cupisti, Italian documentary director and actress
- José Luis Guerín, Spanish filmmaker and educator
- Veiko Õunpuu, Estonian filmmaker
Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film)
[edit]- Abdellatif Kechiche, Tunisian-French actor, and filmmaker - Jury President
- Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
- Gregory Jacobs, American director, producer and screenwriter
- Donald Ranvaud, British producer and film journalist
- Heidrun Schleef, Italian screenwriter and producer
Official Sections
[edit]In Competition
[edit]The competitive section of the official selection is an international competition of feature films in 35mm and digital HD format running for the Golden Lion.[10][11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achilles and the Tortoise | アキレスと亀 | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Birdwatchers | La terra degli uomini rossi | Marco Bechis | Italy |
| The Burning Plain | Guillermo Arriaga | United States | |
| Giovanna's Father | Il papà di Giovanna | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | United States | |
| Inju: The Beast in the Shadow | Inju, la bête dans l'ombre | Barbet Schroeder | France |
| Inland | Gabbla | Tariq Teguia | Algeria, France |
| Jerichow | Christian Petzold | Germany | |
| Milk | Süt | Semih Kaplanoglu | Turkey, France, Germany |
| The Other One | L’Autre | Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic | France |
| Paper Soldier | Бумажный солдат | Aleksei German | Russia |
| A Perfect Day | Un giorno perfetto | Ferzan Özpetek | Italy |
| Plastic City | 荡寇 | Yu Lik-wai | Brazil, China, China（Hong Kong）, Japan |
| Ponyo | 崖の上のポニョ | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| Rachel Getting Married | Jonathan Demme | United States | |
| The Seed of Discord | Il seme della discordia | Pappi Corsicato | Italy |
| The Sky Crawlers | スカイ·クロラ | Mamoru Oshii | Japan |
| Teza | ጤዛ | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia, Germany, France |
| This Night | Nuit de Chien | Werner Schroeter | France, Germany, Portugal |
| Vegas: Based on a True Story | Amir Naderi | United States | |
| The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | United States, France | |
- Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.
Out of Competition
[edit]New works by directors who have been honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.[12]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature films | |||
| 35 Shots of Rum | 35 Rhums | Claire Denis | France, Germany |
| The Beaches of Agnès | Les Plages d'Agnes | Agnès Varda | France |
| Burn After Reading (opening film) | Joel and Ethan Coen | United States | |
| Embodiment of Evil | Encarnação do Demônio | Jose Mojica Marins | Brazil |
| Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit | ギララの逆襲／洞爺湖サミット危機一発 | Minoru Kawasaki | Japan |
| Puccini and the Girl | Puccini e la fanciulla | Paolo Benvenuti | Italy |
| Queens of Langkasuka | ปืนใหญ่จอมสลัด | Nonzee Nimibutr | Thailand |
| Shirin | شیرین | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| Vinyan | Fabrice Du Welz | France, United Kingdom, Belgium | |
| Short films | |||
| Do Visível ao Invisível | Manoel de Oliveira | Brazil, Portugal | |
| Cry Me a River | 河上的爱情 | Jia Zhangke | China, Spain, France |
| Vicino al Colosseo c’è Monti | Mario Monicelli | Italy | |
| Special Event | |||
| Yuppi du | Adriano Celentano | Italy | |
| Events | |||
| Bajo el signo de las sombras (1984) | Ferrán Alberich | Spain | |
| Bicycle Thieves (1948) | Ladri di biciclette | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| Cairo Station (1958) | باب الحديد | Youssef Chahine | Egypt, France |
| Life in Shadows (1947) | Vida en Sombras | Lorenzo Llbobet Gracia | Spain |
| Orfeus 9 (1975) | Orfeo 9 | Tito Schipa Jr. | Italy |
| La rabbia di Pasolini (2008) | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci | Italy | |
| Takadanobaba Duel (1937) | Kettô Takadanobaba | Masahiro Makino, Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan |
| Tutto è musica (1963) | Domenico Modugno | Italy | |
| Nel blu dipinto di blu - Volare (1959) | Piero Tellini | ||
Horizons (Orizzonti)
[edit]The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| The First Day of Winter | Il primo giorno d’inverno | Mirko Locatelli | Italy |
| Goodbye Solo | Ramin Bahrani | United States | |
| The Herb of the Rat | A Erva do Rato | Julio Bressane | Brazil |
| I'm Gonna Explode | Voy a explotar | Gerardo Naranjo | Mexico |
| Jay | Francis Xavier Pasion | Philippines | |
| Un lac | Philippe Grandrieux | France | |
| Melancholia | Lav Diaz | Philippines | |
| Pa-ra-da | Marco Pontecorvo | Italy, France, Romania | |
| Parc | Arnaud des Pallières | France | |
| Perfect Life | 完美生活 | Emily Tang | China, China（Hong Kong） |
| Khastegi | خستگی | Bahman Motamedian | Iran |
| Wild Field | Дикое поле | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Russia |
| Zero Bridge | Tariq Tapa | India, United States | |
| Documentaries | |||
| Below Sea Level | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, United States | |
| L'Exil et le royaume | Andreο Schtakleff, Jonathan Le Fourn | France | |
| Los Herederos | Eugenio Polgovsky | Mexico | |
| In Paraguay | Ross McElwee | United States | |
| Puisque nous sommes nés | Jean-Pierre Duret, Andréa Santana | France, Brazil | |
| Women | Huang Wenhai | China, Switzerland | |
| Z32 | Avi Mograbi | Israel, France | |
| Horizons Events | |||
| Antonioni su Antonioni | Carlo Di Carlo | Italy | |
| La fabbrica dei tedeschi | Mimmo Calopresti | ||
| Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa | Daniele Di Biasio | ||
| ThyssenKrupp Blues | Pietro Balla, Monica Repetto | ||
| Valentino: The Last Emperor | Matt Tyrnauer | United States | |
| Venezia '68 | Antonello Sarno, Steve Della Casa | Italy | |
| Verso Est | Laura Angiulli | Italy, Bosnia | |
- Highlighted titles indicate the Horizons Awards for Best Film and Best Documentary respectively.
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)
[edit]The following films were selected for the Short film competition (Corto Cortissimo) section:[14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| 1937 | Giacomo Gatti, Francesco Carrozzini | United States, Italy, France | |
| The Altruists | De onbaatzuchtigen | Koen Dejaegher | Belgium |
| Ashes Engagement | Noces de cendre | Pierre Eden Simon | Belgium |
| The Butcher’s Shop | Philip Haas | United States | |
| Corpus/Corpus | Christophe Loizillon | France | |
| The Dinner | Vacsora | Karchi Perlmann | Hungary |
| Every Breath You Take | Vdih (working title) | Igor Sterk | Slovenia |
| I Don't Dream in German | Ich träume nicht auf Deutsch | Ivana Lalovic | Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| I’m in Away from Here | Catriona MacInnes | United Kingdom | |
| Land and Bread | Tierra y Pan | Carlos Armella | Mexico |
| Lies | Lögner | Jonas Odell | Sweden |
| Mine | 我的 | Liu Hui | China |
| Sand | Zand | Joost Van Ginkel | Netherlands |
| The Second Coming | Teine tulemine | Tanel Toom | Estonia |
| The Stars Don't Twinkle in Outer Space | Peter Thwaites | United Kingdom | |
| Ten | Dix | Bif | France, United Kingdom |
| We Who Stayed Behind | Vi der blev tilbage | Martin de Thurah | Denmark |
| When I’m 20 | Khi toi 20 | Dang Di Phan | Vietnam |
| Out of competition | |||
| Eve (Opening film) | Natalie Portman | United States | |
| Jarred (Closing film) | Martin Gaiss | ||
| Alba | Giorgia Farina | Italy | |
| Il colore della Bassa | Giuseppe Morandi | ||
| Un canto lontano | Alberto Momo | ||
| Managua Boxing | Frediana Fornari | ||
- Highlighted title indicates Lion for Best Short Film winner.
These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered (1946-1975)
[edit]Retrospective screenings and restorations. Special mono-graphic sessions dedicated to the "secret story of Italian cinema". This is the fifth part of the retrospective, initiated at the 61st edition of the festival.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction | ||
| Agostino (1962) | Mauro Bolognini | |
| Arcana (1972) | Giulio Questi | |
| The Basilisks (1963) | I basilischi | Lina Wertmüller |
| La bella di Lodi (1963) | Mario Missiroli | |
| City of Pain (1949) | La città dolente | Mario Bonnard |
| The City Stands Trial (1952) | Processo alla città | Luigi Zampa |
| Difficult Years (1948) | Anni difficili | Luigi Zampa |
| The Doll That Took the Town (1956) | La donna del giorno | Francesco Maselli |
| The Earth Cries Out (1949) | Il grido della terra | Duilio Coletti |
| Fire! (1968) | Fuoco! | Gian Vittorio Baldi |
| Flashback (1969) | Raffaele Andreassi | |
| A Girl... and a Million (1962) | La cuccagna | Luciano Salce |
| Leoni al sole (1961) | Vittorio Caprioli | |
| Letter at Dawn (1948) | Una lettera all’alba | Giorgio Bianchi |
| A New World (1964) | Un monde nouveau | Vittorio De Sica |
| Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1969) | Toh è Morta la Nonna | Mario Monicelli |
| Opiate '67 (1963) | I Mostri | Dino Risi |
| Our Lady of the Turks (1968) | Nostra Signora dei Turchi | Carmelo Bene |
| Paris, My Love (1962) | Parigi o cara | Vittorio Caprioli |
| Pelle Viva | Giuseppe Fina | |
| Revenge (1946) | Un uomo ritorna | Max Neufeld |
| The Sky Is Red (1950) | Il cielo è rosso | Claudio Gora |
| Smog (1963) | Franco Rossi | |
| Violent Life (1962) | Una vita violenta | Paolo Heusch, Brunello Rondi |
| The White Sheik (1952) | Lo Sceicco Bianco | Federico Fellini |
| Documentaries and shorts | ||
| E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975) | Gianfranco Angelucci, Liliana Betti | |
| Italia proibitac (1963) | Enzo Biagi | |
| La Forza e la Ragione (1971) | Roberto Rossellini | |
| Mysteries of Rome (1963) | I misteri di Roma | (collective film) |
| Provini per "Il padre selvaggio" (1962)[15] | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| Spot Banca di Roma (1992) | Federico Fellini | |
Autonomous sections
[edit]Venice International Film Critics' Week
[edit]The following films were selected for the 23rd International Film Critics' Week:[16]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| The Apprentice | L'apprenti | Samuel Collardey | France |
| Cucumber | Huanggua / Qing gua | Zhou Yaowu | China |
| Kabuli Kid | Barmak Akram | France, Afghanistan | |
| Mid-August Lunch | Pranzo di ferragosto | Gianni Di Gregorio | Italy |
| Nightguards | Čuvari noći | Namik Kabil | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Sell Out! | Yeo Joonhan | Malaysia | |
| Two Lines | Iki Çizgi | Selim Evci | Turkey |
| Out of competition | |||
| Cold Lunch (Opening film) | Lønsj | Eva Sørhaug | Norway |
| Pinuccio Lovero - Sogno di una morte di mezza estate (opening film) | Pippo Mezzapesa | Italy | |
- Highlighted title indicates the Lion Of The Future winner.
Venice Days
[edit]The following films were selected for the 5th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[17][18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| One Day in a Life | Un altro pianeta | Stefano Tummolini | Italy |
| Broken Lines | Sallie Aprahamian | United Kingdom | |
| Machan | Uberto Pasolini | Sri Lanka, Italy, Germany | |
| The Visitor | Muukalainen | Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää | Finland |
| Nowhere Man | (N)iemand | Patrice Toye | Belgium |
| Hooked | Pescuit sportiv | Adrian Sitaru | Romania |
| Landscape No. 2 | Pokrajina št. 2 | Vinko Möderndorfer | Slovenia |
| Scratch | Rysa | Michał Rosa | Poland |
| A Week Alone | Una semana solos | Celina Murga | Argentina |
| Stella | Sylvie Verheyde | France | |
| The Country Teacher | Venkovský učitel | Bohdan Sláma | Czech Republic |
| Portraits (documentaries) | |||
| Che saccio | Camille d'Arcimoles | Italy | |
| Il passato è il mio bastone | Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza | ||
| Villa degli Autori – Open Space | |||
| Adius Piero Ciampi e altre storie | Ezio Alovisi | Italy | |
| Emilia Galotti: dal Settecento ad oggi | Alessandro Berdini | ||
| Lo stato d’eccezione | Germano Maccioni | ||
| Un paese diverso | Silvio Soldini, Giorgio Garini | ||
Official Awards
[edit]The following Official Awards were conferred at the 65th edition:[19]
In Competition (Venezia 65)
[edit]- Golden Lion: The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Aleksei German for Paper Soldier
- Special Jury Prize: Teza by Haile Gerima
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Silvio Orlando for Giovanna's Father
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Dominique Blanc for The Other One
- Marcello Mastroianni Award: Jennifer Lawrence for Burning Plain
- Golden Osella for Best Cinematography: Alisher Khamidhodjaev and Maxim Drozdov for Paper Soldier
- Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Haile Gerima for Teza
- Special Lion: Werner Schroeter
- Best Film: Melancholia by Lav Diaz
- Best Documentary: Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi
- Special Mention: Un Lac by Philippe Grandrieux & Women by Huang Wenhai
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)
[edit]- Lion for Best Short Film: Tierra y Pan by Carlos Armella[20]
- Special Mention: Vacsora by Karchi Perlmann
- U.I.P. Award for Best European Short: De onbaatzuchtigen by Koen Dejaegher
Luigi De Laurentis Award For a Debut Film
[edit]- Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
Independent Sections Awards
[edit]The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
Venice International Film Critics' Week
[edit]- Best Film: The Apprentice by Samuel Collardey
- Isvema Award for a debut or second feature film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Doc/it Award – Special mention: The Apprentice by Samuel Collardey
- "Altre Visioni" Award: Sell Out! by Yeo Joon Han
- EIUC Human Rights Film Award: Kabuli Kid by Akram Barmak
Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori)
[edit]- Label Europa Cinemas Award: Machan by Uberto Pasolini
- Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Awards: Stella by Sylvie Verheyde
- FEDIC Award: Machan by Uberto Pasolini
- Lina Mangiacapre Award: Stella by Sylvie Verheyde
Independent Awards
[edit]The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[21]
- Best Film (Main competition): Gabbla by Tariq Teguia[22]
- Best Film (Out of competition): Goodbye Solo by Ramin Bahrani
- The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- Special mention: Vegas: Based on a True Story by Amir Naderi & Teza by Haile Gerima
Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI)
[edit]- Best Film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Special Mention: Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo (Out of competition)
- Best Actor: Silvio Orlando for Giovanna's Father
- Best Actress: Isabella Ferrari for Un giorno perfetto
Doc/it Award – Sicilia Film Commission
[edit]- Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi
Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola Award
[edit]- Giovanna's Father by Pupi Avati
- One Day in a Life by Stefano Tummolini
UNICEF Award
[edit]- Teza by Haile Gerima
Art Cinema Award
[edit]- Dikoe Pole (Wild Field) by Mikheil Kalatozishvili
La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award
[edit]- The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award
[edit]- BirdWatchers by Marco Bechis
Biografilm Lancia Award
[edit]- Best Fiction Film: Rachel Getting Married by Jonathan Demme
- Best Documentary: Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi
Nazareno Taddei Award
[edit]- Giovanna's Father by Pupi Avati
Don Gnocchi Award
[edit]- Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo
- Special mention: Ezio Greggio for Giovanna's Father
Future Film Festival Digital Award
[edit]- The Sky Crawlers by Mamoru Oshii
- Special mention: Ponyo by Hayao Miyazaki
Brian Award
[edit]Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs)
[edit]- Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo
CinemAvvenire, Best Film in Competition
[edit]- Vegas: Based on a True Story by Amir Naderi
- "The circle is not round. Cinema for peace and the richness of diversity" Award: Teza by Haile Gerima
Bastone Bianco Award (Filmcritica)
[edit]Human Rights Film Network Award
[edit]- The Hurt Locker by Kahryn Bigelow
Arca Cinemagiovani Award
[edit]- Best Film: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- Best Italian Film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
Air For Film Fest Award
[edit]- Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo
"Poveri ma belli" Award
[edit]- Puccini e la fanciulla by Paolo Benvenuti
Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award
[edit]- Ponyo by Hayao Miyazaki
Open Award 2008
[edit]- The Butcher's Shop by Philip Haas
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