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| Location | Venice, Italy |
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| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion – Lebanon Silver Lion – Women Without Men |
| Festival date | 2–12 September 2009 |
| Website | Website |
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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. The international competition jury, chaired by 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)[7]
- Ang Lee, Taiwanese director, screenwriter and producer (Jury President)
- Sergei Bodrov, Russian director, screenwriter and producer
- Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress, director and screenwriter
- Liliana Cavani, Italian director and screenwriter
- Joe Dante, American director, producer, editor and actor
- Anurag Kashyap, Indian director, writer, producer and actor
- Luciano Ligabue, Italian director, writer and singer-songwriter
Horizons (Orizzonti)[8]
- Pere Portabella, Spanish politician, director, and producer (President)
- Bady Minck, Luxembourger filmmaker and artist
- Gina Kim, South Korean filmmaker and academic
- Garin Nugroho, Indonesian director
- Gianfranco Rosi, Italian director, cinematographer, producer and screenwriter
Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film)[9]
- Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker (President)
- Ramin Bahrani, American director and screenwriter
- Gianni Di Gregorio, Italian director, screenwriter and actor
- Antoine Fuqua, American director and producer
- Sam Taylor-Wood, English filmmaker and photographer
Corto-Cortissimo (Short Film Competition)[10]
- Stuart Gordon American filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter and playwright (President)
- Steve Ricci, Italian cinematographer, screenwriter and editor
- Sitora Alieva, Russian artistic director of the International Film Festival Kinotav
Controcampo Italiano[11]
- Carlo Lizzani, Italian director, screenwriter and critic (President)
- Giulio Questi, Italian director and screenwriter
- Marina Sanna, Italian chief editor of cinema magazine
Official selection[edit]
In competition[edit]
The following films competed for the Golden Lion:[12]
- 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 | Chengdu, wo ai ni | Fruit Chan & Cui Jian | China |
| Delhi-6 | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | India | |
| Dev.D | Anurag Kashyap | India | |
| Great Directors (documentary) | Angela Ismailos | United States | |
| Green Days | Ruzhaye Sabz | Hana Makhmalbaf | Iran |
| Gulaal ( गुलाल ) | Anurag Kashyap | India | |
| The Hole (3D) | Joe Dante | United States | |
| The Informant! | Steven Soderbergh | United States | |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats | Grant Heslov | United States | |
| Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (documentary) | Abel Ferrara | Italy | |
| N/A | L'oro di Cuba (documentary) | Giuliano Montaldo | Italy |
| 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 (documentary) | Prove per una tragedia siciliana | Roman Paska & John Turturro | Italy |
| Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story | Ehki ya shahrazade | Yousry Nasrallah | Egypt |
| South of the Border | Oliver Stone | United States | |
| Valhalla Rising | Nicolas Winding Refn | Denmark, United Kingdom | |
| Yona Yona Penguin | Yonayona pengin | Rintaro | Japan, France |
Short film competition[edit]
The following films were selected for the Short film competition (Corto Cortissimo) section:[14]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line-up | Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Opening film | Plastic Bag | Ramin Bahrani | United States |
| Closing Film | The It.Aliens | Clemens Klopfenstein, Lukas Klopfenstein | Italy, Switzerland |
| Special Events | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 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[edit]
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1428 (documentary) | 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 (documentary) | Il colore delle parole | Marco Simon Puccioni | Italy |
| Cow | Dou niu | Guan Hu | China |
| Crush (5 segments) | Korotkoe zamykanie | Petr Buslov, Alexei German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan Vrypayev | 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 | Touxi | 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 (documentary) | Women ceng jing de wuchanzhe | Xiaolu Guo | China |
| The One All Alone (documentary) | 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 (documentary) | Peter Schreiner | Austria | |
| Villalobos (documentary) | Romuald Karmakar | Germany | |
| Woman on Fire Looks for Water | Woo Ming Jin | Malaysia, South Korea | |
| Horizons Events | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno (documentary) | Pappi Corsicato | Italy |
| The Marriage (documentary, short) | Peter Greenaway | Italy, Spain |
| Reading Book of Blockade (Citaem Blokadnuju Knigu) (documentary) | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| The Death of Pentheus (short) | Philip Haas | United States |
| La Bohème (short) | Werner Herzog | United Kingdom |
| Faces of Seoul (aka Seo-wool eui ul-gul) (documentary) | Gina Kim | United States, South Korea |
| Hugo en Afrique (documentary) | Stefano Knuchel | Switzerland |
| Via della croce (documentary) | Serena Nono | Italy |
| Mudanza (short) | Pere Portabella | Spain |
| Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri (documentary) | Elisabetta Sgarbi | Italy |
| La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (documentary) | Frederick Wiseman | United States |
| Cock-Crow (55 min) | David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi | Italy |
| Daimon (49 min) | David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi | Italy |
- 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]
- The Incredibles by Brad Bird
- Up by Pete Docter & Bob Peterson (screenplay)
- Toy Story 3-D by John Lasseter
- Toy Story 2 3-D by John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon
- Finding Nemo by Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich
Cortocampo Italiano[edit]
The following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section:[17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Type of film |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cosmonaut | Cosmonauta | Susanna Nicchiarelli | Coming-of-age |
| David's Birthday | Il Compleanno | Marco Filiberti | Drama |
| Giuseppe De Santis | Carlo Lizzani | Documentary, TV-movie | |
| Hollywood on the Tiber | Hollywood sul Tevere | Marco Spagnoli | Documentary |
| In the Eyes | Negli occhi | Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti | Documentary |
| The Little | Il Piccolo | Maurizio Zaccaro | Documentary |
| Poets (lit.) | Poeti | Toni D'Angelo | Documentary |
| Sputnik 5 | Susanna Nicchiarelli | Short animation | |
| Ten Winters | Dieci Inverni | Valerio Mieli | Romance |
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]
This is a list of the fiction feature films screened:
Autonomous sections[edit]
Venice International Film Critics' Week[edit]
The following films were selected for the 24th International Film Critics' Week:[19]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Cafe Noir | Ka-pe-neu-wa-reu | Jung Sung-il | South Korea |
| A Rational Solution | Det enda rationella | Jörgen Bergmark[20] | Sweden |
| Domain | Domaine | Patric Chiha[21] | France, Austria |
| Kakraki (en. Crawfishlike) | Ilya Demichev[22] | Russia | |
| Foxes (aka Little Foxes) | Lištičky | Mira Fornay[23] | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland |
| Tehroun | Téhéran | Nader T. Homayoun[24] | France, Iran |
| Special Events - Out of competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line-up | Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Opening film | Metropia | Tarik Saleh | Sweden |
| Closing film | The Pothole (Chaleh) | Ali Karim | Iran |
| Other * | Videocracy | Erik Gandini | Sweden |
- * Special Event in collaboration with Venice Days
Venice Days[edit]
The following films were selected for the 6th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[25][26]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Ape | Apan | Jesper Ganslandt | Sweden |
| Barking Water | Sterlin Harjo | United States | |
| Cell 211 | Celda 211 | Daniel Monzón | Spain, France |
| The Last Days of Emma Blank | De laatste Dagen van Emma Blank | Alex van Warmerdam | Netherlands |
| Desert Flower | Sherry Hormann | UK, Germany, Austria, France | |
| What Do You Know About Me (documentary) | Di me cosa ne sai | Valerio Jalongo | Italy |
| France | Francia | Israel Adrián Caetano | Argentina |
| Fat People | Gordos | Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | Spain |
| Harragas | Merzak Allouache | Algeria, France | |
| Honeymoons | Goran Paskaljevic | Serbia, Albania | |
| I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive | Je suis heureux que ma mere soit vivante | Claude Miller, Nathan Miller | France |
| Hymn to Love | L’amore e basta | Stefano Consiglio | Italy |
| The Horde | La horde | Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher | France |
| Blood and Rain | La sangre y la lluvia | Jorge Navas | Colombia, Argentina |
| N/A | Mille giorni di Vito (short) | Elisabetta Pandimiglio | Italy |
| Poetry, You See Me (documentary) | Poesia che mi guardi | Marina Spada | Italy |
| Silent Voice | Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront | Léa Fehner | France |
| Out of competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Occasion | Title | Director(s) | Country |
| Films on Reality | Ragazze la vita trema (documentary) | Paola Sangiovanni | Italy |
| Special Event w/ Critics' Week | Videocracy | Erik Gandini | Sweden |
| Special Event 100 + 1 | The Swindlers (I magliari) (1959) | Francesco Rosi | Italy, France |
| Special Event 100 + 1 | Vittorio D. (documentary) | Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri | Italy |
| Tribute to Signe Baumane | Teat Beat of Sex (1 min. animation) | Signe Baumane | United States |
Awards[edit]
Official selection[edit]
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 66th edition of the festival:[3]
In competition (Venezia 66)
- Golden Lion: Lebanon by Samuel Maoz
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Shirin Neshat for Women Without Men
- Special Jury Prize: Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akın
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Colin Firth, for A Single Man
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Kseniya Rappoport, for The Double Hour
- Marcello Mastroianni Award, for the best emerging actor or actress: Jasmine Trinca for The Big Dream
- Osella for Outstanding Technical Contribution: Sylvie Olivé for Mr. Nobody
- Osella for Best Screenplay: Todd Solondz for Life During Wartime
Horizons awards (Premi Orizzonti)
- Best Film: Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno
- Best Documentary: 1428 by Haibin Du
- Special mention: The Man's Woman and Other Stories by Amit Dutta
Lion of the Future
- Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film: Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno (Horizons)
Short Film awards (Corto Cortissimo Lion)
- Best Short Film: Firstborn (Eersgeborene) by Etienne Kallos
- Venice Nomination to the European Film Awards 2009: Sinner by Meni Philip
- Special mention: Felicità by Salomé Aleksi
Controcampo Italiano
- Best feature Film: Cosmonaut by Susanna Nicchiarelli
- Special mention: In the Eyes (Negli occhi) by Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti
Special awards
- Special Lion for Overall Work: John Lasseter and the Directors of Disney-Pixar
- Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Sylvester Stallone
- Persol 3-D Award for Best Stereoscopic Film: The Hole by Joe Dante (Out of competition)
Autonomous sections[edit]
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[27]
Venice International Film Critics' Week
- "Region of Veneto for quality cinema" Award: Tehroun by Takmil Homayoun Nader
- Future Film Festival Digital Award: Metropia by Tarik Saleh & Special mention for Up by Pete Docter
Venice Days (Giornati degli Autori)
- Label Europa Cinemas Award: The Last Days of Emma Blank by Alex van Warmerdam
- FEDIC Award - Special mention: What Do You Know About Me by Valerio Jalongo
Other collateral awards[edit]
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[27]
- FIPRESCI Award (ex-aequo):[28]
- Best Film (Main competition): Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
- Best Film (Horizons): Adrift (Choi voi) by Bui Thac Chuyen
- SIGNIS Award: Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
- Special mention: Lebanon by Samuel Maoz
- Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI):
- Best Director: Giuseppe Tornatore for Baarìa
- Best Film: The White Space (Lo spazio bianco) by Francesca Comencini
- Best Actor: Filippo Timi for The Double Hour
- Best Actress: Margherita Buy for The White Space
- Special award: Riccardo Scamarcio for The Big Dream
- Special award: Armando Testa – Povero ma moderno by Pappi Corsicato (Horizons)
- Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola Award: Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore
- La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award: Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
- C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award: The Traveller (Al-Musafir) by Ahmad Maher
- UNICEF Award: Women Without Men by Shirin Neshat[29]
- Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans by Werner Herzog
- Biografilm Lancia Award:
- Best fiction film: Mr. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael
- Best documentary: In the Eyes (Negli occhi) by Francesco Del Grosso & Daniele Anzellotti (Cortocampo Italiano)
- Queer Lion for the best Movie with LGBT Themes & Queer Culture: A Single Man by Tom Ford
- Brian Prize by UAAR: Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
- Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs): Cosmonauta by Susanna Nicchiarelli (Cortocampo Italiano)
- FEDIC Award: The White Space (Lo spazio bianco) by Francesca Comencini
- Arca Cinemagiovani Awards:
- Best Film Venezia 66: Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin
- Best Italian Film: The Double Hour (La doppia ora) by Giuseppe Capotondi
- Lina Mangiacapre Award: Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (Ehky ya Schahrazad) by Yousry Nasrallah (Out of competition)
- Air For Film Fest Award: The White Space (Lo spazio bianco) by Francesca Comencini
- Open Award 2009: Capitalism: A love story by Michael Moore
- Gianni Astrei Award: The White Space (Lo spazio bianco) by Francesca Comencini
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