76th Venice International Film Festival
 Official festival poster by Lorenzo Mattotti. | |
| Opening film | The Truth |
|---|---|
| Closing film | The Burnt Orange Heresy |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Joker |
| Hosted by | Alessandra Mastronardi[1] |
| Festival date | 28 August – 7 September 2019 |
| Website | labiennale |
The 76th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 7 September 2019.[2]
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel was the Jury President of the main competition.[3] The Truth, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was the festival's opening film.[4]
The Golden Lion was awarded to Joker, directed by Todd Phillips.[5]
Juries
Main Competition (Venezia 76)
- Lucrecia Martel, Argentine filmmaker - Jury President[3][6]
- Piers Handling, Canadian film historian and critic, executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival
- Mary Harron, Canadian director
- Stacy Martin, French actress
- Rodrigo Prieto, Mexican cinematographer
- Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor
- Paolo Virzì, Italian director and screenwriter
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italian filmmaker - Jury President[6]
- Mark Adams, artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Rachid Bouchareb, French filmmaker
- Álvaro Brechner, Uruguayan filmmaker
- Eva Sangiorgi, artistic director of the Vienna International Film Festival
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film
- Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker and actor - Jury President[6]
- Antonietta De Lillo, Italian director and screenwriter
- Hend Sabry, Tunisian actress
- Michael J. Werner, American-Hongkongese film producer
- Terence Nance, American filmmaker
Venice Virtual Reality
- Laurie Anderson, American composer, artist and director - Jury President[6]
- Francesco Carrozzini, Italian photographer
- Alysha Naples, Italian designer
Venice Classics
- Costanza Quatriglio, Italian director and screenwriter[6]
Official Section
In Competition
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[4][7][8]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| About Endlessness | Om det oändliga | Roy Andersson | Sweden, Germany, Norway |
| Ad Astra | James Gray | United States | |
| Babyteeth | Shannon Murphy | Australia | |
| The Domain | A Herdade | Tiago Guedes | Portugal, France |
| Ema | Pablo Larraín | Chile | |
| Gloria Mundi | Robert Guédiguian | France | |
| Guest of Honour | Atom Egoyan | Canada | |
| Joker | Todd Phillips | United States | |
| The Laundromat | Steven Soderbergh | United States | |
| The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be | La mafia non è più quella di una volta | Franco Maresco | Italy |
| Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello | Italy, France | |
| The Mayor of Rione Sanità | Il sindaco del Rione Sanità | Mario Martone | Italy |
| No.7 Cherry Lane | 繼園臺七號 | Yonfan | Hong Kong, China |
| An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | Roman Polanski | France, Italy |
| The Painted Bird | Nabarvené ptáče | Václav Marhoul | Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine |
| The Perfect Candidate | المرشحة المثالية | Haifaa al-Mansour | Saudi Arabia |
| Saturday Fiction | 兰心大剧院 | Lou Ye | China |
| The Truth (opening film) | La vérité | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan, France |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | Ciro Guerra | Italy, United States | |
| Wasp Network | Olivier Assayas | France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium | |
- Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion winner.
Out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[9][7][10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | |||
| Adults in the Room | Costa-Gavras | France, Greece | |
| The Burnt Orange Heresy (closing film) | Giuseppe Capotondi | United Kingdom, Italy | |
| The King | David Michôd | United Kingdom, Hungary | |
| Mosul | Matthew Michael Carnahan | United States | |
| Seberg | Benedict Andrews | United States, United Kingdom | |
| To Live | Vivere | Francesca Archibugi | Italy |
| Volare | Tutto il mio folle amore | Gabriele Salvatores | |
| Non Fiction | |||
| 45 Seconds of Laughter | Tim Robbins | United States | |
| Citizen K | Alex Gibney | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Citizen Rosi | Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi | Italy | |
| Collective | Colectiv | Alexander Nanau | Romania, Luxemburg |
| I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo | Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | Italy | |
| The Kingmaker | Lauren Greenfield | United States | |
| Il pianeta in mare | Andrea Segre | Italy | |
| Roger Waters: Us + Them | Roger Waters | United Kingdom | |
| State Funeral | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Lithuania | |
| Woman | Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova | France | |
| Special screenings | |||
| Electric Swan | Konstantina Kotzamani | France, Greece, Argentina | |
| Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Irréversible - Inversion intégrale | Gaspar Noé | France | |
| Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut | Matt Wells | United Kingdom | |
| The New Pope (episodes 2 and 7) | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France, Spain | |
| No One Left Behind | Guillermo Arriaga | Mexico | |
| ZeroZeroZero (episodes 1 and 2) | Stefano Sollima | Italy | |
Horizons (Orizzonti)
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[7][11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Competition | |||
| A Son | بيك نعيش | Mehdi Barsaoui | Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar |
| Atlantis | Атлантида | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine |
| Balloon | 气球 | Pema Tseden | China |
| White on White | Blanco en blanco | Théo Court | Spain, Chile, France, Germany |
| The Criminal Man | ბოროტმოქმედი | Dmitry Mamuliya | Georgia, Russia |
| Giants Being Lonely | Grear Patterson | United States | |
| Hava, Maryam, Ayesha | Sahraa Karimi | Afghanistan | |
| Just 6.5 | متری شش و نیم | Saeed Roustayi | Iran |
| Mother | Madre | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain, France |
| My Days of Glory | Mes jours de gloire | Antoine de Bary | France |
| Moffie | Oliver Hermanus | South Africa | |
| Nevia | Nunzia De Stefano | Italy | |
| Pelican Blood | Pelikanblut | Katrin Gebbe | Germany, Bulgaria |
| Revenir | Jessica Palud | France | |
| Rialto | Peter Mackie Burns | Ireland | |
| Shadow of Water | ചോല | Sanal Kumar Sasidharan | India |
| Sole | Carlo Sironi | Italy | |
| Verdict | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines | |
| Zumiriki | Óskar Alegría | Spain | |
| Short films – In competition | |||
| After Two Hours, Ten Minutes Had Passed | Nach zwei Stunden waren zehn Minuten vergangen | Steffen Goldkamp | Germany |
| Austral Fever | Fiebre austral | Thomas Woodroffe | Chile |
| Darling | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan, United States | |
| Delphine | Chloé Robichaud | Canada | |
| The Diver | Jamie Helmer, Michael Leonard | France, Australia | |
| Dogs Barking at Birds | Cães que ladram aos pássaros | Leonor Teles | Portugal |
| Give Up the Ghost | Zain Duraie | Jordan, Sweden | |
| Kingdom Come | Sean Robert Dunn | United Kingdom | |
| Sand | Morae | Kim Kyung-rae | South Korea |
| Sh_t Happens | David Štumpf, Michaela Mihályi | Czech Republic, Slovakia | |
| Superheroes Without Superpowers | Supereroi senza superpoteri | Beatrice Baldacci | Italy |
| The Tears Thing | Le coup des larmes | Clémence Poésy | France |
| Roqaia | Diana Saqeb Jamal | Afghanistan, Bangladesh | |
| Short films – Out of competition | |||
| Condor One | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| GUO4 | Peter Strickland | Hungary | |
- Highlighted titles indicate Horizons Prizes for Best Feature Film and Best Short Film respectively.
Venice Classics
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[12][13][14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restored classic films | |||
| Crash (1996) | David Cronenberg | Canada | |
| The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) | Ensayo de un crimen | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
| Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) | La muerte de un burócrata | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| Ecstasy (1933) | Extase | Gustav Machatý | Czechoslovakia |
| Francisca (1981) | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal | |
| The Grim Reaper (1962) | La commare secca | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| The House Is Black (1962) | خانه سیاه است | Forough Farrokhzad | Iran |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) | Jack Arnold | United States | |
| Maria Zef (1981) | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italy | |
| Mauri (1988) | Merata Mita | New Zealand | |
| New York, New York (1977) | Martin Scorsese | United States | |
| Out of the Blue (1980) | Dennis Hopper | Canada, United States | |
| The Red Snowball Tree (1973) | Калина красная | Vasily Shukshin | Soviet Union |
| Sodrásban (1964) | István Gaál | Hungary | |
| The Spider's Stratagem (1970) | Strategia del ragno | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| The Hills of Marlik (1964) | تپههای مارلیک | Ebrahim Golestan | Iran |
| Tiro al piccione (1961) | Giuliano Montaldo | Italy | |
| Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) | Le Passage du Rhin | André Cayatte | France, West Germany, Italy |
| Way of a Gaucho (1952) | Jacques Tourneur | United States | |
| The White Sheik (1952) | Lo sceicco bianco | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Documentaries on cinema | |||
| 800 Mal Einsam - Ein Tag mit dem Filmemacher Edgar Reitz (2019) | Anna Hepp | Germany | |
| Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer | Andrey Tarkovsky Jr. | Russia | |
| Babenco - Alguém tem que ouvir o coração e dizer: parou | Bárbara Paz | Brazil | |
| Boia, maschere e segreti: L'horror italiano degli anni sessanta | Steve Dalla Casa | Italy | |
| Fellini fine mai | Eugenio Cappuccio | ||
| Fulci for Fake | Simone Scafidi | ||
| Life As a B-movie: Piero Vivarelli | Fabrizio Laurenti, Niccolò Vivarelli | ||
| Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist | Alexandre O. Philippe | United States | |
| Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto: Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari | Simone Isola, Fausto Trombetta | Italy | |
- Highlighted titles indicate the Best Restored Film and Best Documentary on Cinema official awards respectively.
Sconfini
The following films were selected for the Sconfini section:[15][16]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Skin | Nate Parker | United States | |
| Beyond the Beach: The Hell and the Hope | Graeme A. Scott, Buddy Squires | United Kingdom | |
| Chiara Ferragni – Unposted | Elisa Amoruso | Italy | |
| Effetto domino | Alessandro Rossetto | ||
| Once More Unto the Beach | Il varco | Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini | |
| The Scarecrows | Les épouvantails | Nouri Bouzid | Tunisia, Morocco, Luxembourg |
Independent Sections
Venice International Critics' Week
The following films were selected for the 34th Venice International Critics' Week (Italian: Settimana Internazionale della Critica):[17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| All This Victory | Jeedar el sot | Ahmad Ghossein | Lebanon, France, Qatar |
| Parthenon | Partenonas | Mantas Kvedaravičius | Lithuania, Ukraine, France |
| The Prince | El príncipe | Sebastian Muñoz | Chile, Argentina, Belgium |
| Psychosia | Psykosia | Marie Grahtø | Denmark, Finland |
| Rare Beasts | Billie Piper | United Kingdom | |
| Scales | Sayidat al Bahr | Shahad Ameen | United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Saudi Arabia |
| Tony Driver | Ascanio Petrini | Italy, Mexico | |
| Special events – Out of competition | |||
| Bombay Rose (opening film) | Gitanjali Rao | India, United Kingdom, France | |
| Sanctorum (closing film) | Joshua Gil | Mexico, Dominican Republic, Qatar | |
Giornate degli Autori
The following films were selected for the 16th edition of the Giornate degli Autori section:[18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| 5 is the Perfect Number | 5 è il numero perfetto | Igort | Italy, Belgium, France |
| Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labidi Labbé | Tunisia, France |
| Beware of Children | Barn | Dag Johan Haugerud | Norway, Sweden |
| A Bigger World | Un monde plus grand | Fabienne Berthaud | France, Belgium |
| Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | Jan Komasa | Poland, France |
| La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala, France | |
| Lingua Franca (opening film) | Isabel Sandoval | United States, Philippines | |
| The Long Walk | ບໍ່ມີວັນຈາກ | Mattie Do | Laos |
| Only the Animals | Seules les bêtes | Dominik Moll | France, Germany |
| You Will Die at Twenty | ستموت في العشرين | Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway |
| They Say Nothing Stays the Same | ある 船頭 の 話 | Joe Odagiri | Japan |
| Out of competition | |||
| Time of the Untamed (closing film) | Les chevaux voyageurs | Bartabas | France |
| Special events | |||
| Burning Cane | Phillip Youmans | United States | |
| House of Cardin | P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes | ||
| Mondo Sexy | Mario Sesti | Italy | |
| My Brother Chases Dinosaurs | Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri | Stefano Cipani | Italy, Spain |
| Il prigioniero | Federico Olivetti | Italy | |
| Scherza con i fanti | Gianfranco Pannone | ||
| Miu Miu Women's Tales | |||
| #17 Shako Mako | Hailey Gates | Italy, United States | |
| #18 Brigitte | Lynne Ramsay | Italy, United Kingdom | |
Official Awards
The following official awards were presented at the 76th edition:[19]
In Competition
- Golden Lion: Joker by Todd Phillips
- Grand Jury Prize: An Officer and a Spy, by Roman Polanski
- Silver Lion: Roy Andersson for About Endlessness
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Ariane Ascaride for Gloria Mundi
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Luca Marinelli for Martin Eden
- Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: No.7 Cherry Lane, by Yonfan
- Special Jury Prize: The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be by Franco Maresco
- Marcello Mastroianni Award: Toby Wallace, Babyteeth
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Best Film: Atlantis by Valentyn Vasyanovych
- Best Director: Théo Court for White on White
- Special Jury Prize: Verdict by Raymund Ribas Gutierrez
- Best Actress: Marta Nieto for Madre
- Best Actor: Sami Bouajila for A Son
- Best Screenplay: Revenir by Jessica Palud
- Horizons Prize for Best Short: Darling by Saim Sadiq
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film (Lion of the Future)
- You Will Die at Twenty by Amjad Abu Alala
Venezia Classici Awards
- Best Documentary on Cinema: Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
- Best Restored Film: Ecstasy (1933)
Independent Sections Awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
Giornate degli Autori
- GdA Director's Award: La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante
- Europa Cinemas Label: Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa
Independent Awards
SIAE Award
Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award
Campari Passion for the Cinema Award
Bresson Award
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