63rd Venice International Film Festival
The 63rd annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on 30 August 2006 with Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia and was closed on 9 September 2006. Host of the event was Italian actress Isabella Ferrari.[1] During the festival, retrospectives were held on the one hundredth anniversary of the births of three major Italian directors: Roberto Rossellini, Mario Soldati and Luchino Visconti. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to American director David Lynch. All the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premiere in the festival history since the Second World War.[2][3]
Contents
Juries
The international juries of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[4][5]
Main Competition (Venezia 63)
- Catherine Deneuve, French actress (Jury President)
- Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
- Juan Josè Bigas Luna, Spanish director and writer
- Paulo Branco, Portuguese producer
- Cameron Crowe, American director, screenwriter and producer
- Chulpan Khamatova, Russian film, theater and TV actress
- Park Chan-wook, South Korean director and screenwriter
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Philip Gröning, German director and screenwriter (President)
- Carlo Carlei, Italian director
- Giuseppe Genna, Italian writer
- Keiko Kusakabe, Japanese producer and distributor
- Yousri Nasrallah, Egyptian director
Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film)
- Paula Wagner, American producer (President)
- Stefania Rocca, Italian actress
- Guillermo del Toro, Mexican director and screenwriter
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian director and producer
- Andrei Plakhov, Russian critic
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)
- Teboho Mahlatsi, South African director and producer (President)
- Francesca Calvelli, Italian editor
- Aleksey Fedortchenko, Russian director
Official selection
In competition
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.[6]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Black Book | Zwartboek | Paul Verhoeven | Netherlands, Germany, UK |
The Black Dahlia | Brian De Palma | USA, Germany | |
Bobby | Emilio Estevez | United States | |
Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | United States | |
Dry Season | Daratt | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | Chad, France, Belgium, Austria |
Euphoria | Ejforija | Ivan Vyrypaev | Russia |
Exiled | Fong juk | Johnnie To | Hong Kong, China |
Falling | Fallen | Barbara Albert | Austria |
The Fountain | Darren Aronofsky | United States | |
Hollywoodland | Allen Coulter | United States | |
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | Hei yanquan | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan, France, Austria |
The Missing Star | La stella che non c'è | Gianni Amelio | Italy |
Mushishi | Katsuhiro Otomo | Japan | |
The Golden Door | Nuovomondo | Emanuele Crialese | Italy, France |
Paprika | Papurika | Satoshi Kon | Japan |
Private Fears in Public Places | Cœurs | Alain Resnais | France, Italy |
Private Property | Nue Propriété | Joachim Lafosse | Belgium, Luxembourg, France |
The Queen | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom | |
Still Life | Sanxia haoren | Jia Zhangke | China |
Syndromes and a Century | Sang sattawat | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand, France |
These Encounters of Theirs (aka) | Quei loro incontri | Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet | Italy, France |
The Untouchable | L'intouchable | Benoît Jacquot | France |
- Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.
Out of competition
Works by directors already established in past editions of the Festival, and films deemed appropriate for a midnight screening.[7]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Banquet | Yeyan | Feng Xiaogang | China |
N/A | Belle Toujours | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France |
The Devil Wears Prada | David Frankel | United States | |
A Few Days in September | Quelques jours en Septembre | Santiago Amigorena | France, Italy |
INLAND EMPIRE | David Lynch | USA, Poland, France | |
The Island | Ostrov | Pavel Lounguine | Russia |
The Magic Flute | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, France | |
Tales from Earthsea | Gedo Senki | Goro Miyazaki | Japan |
World Trade Center | Oliver Stone | United States |
Out of Competition – Midnight | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
The City of Violence | Jjakpae | Ryoo Seung-wan | South Korea |
Have You Another Apple? (aka) | Baaz ham sib daari? | Bayram Fazli | Iran |
Retribution | Sakebi | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
Rob-B-Hood | Bo bui gai wak | Benny Chan | China |
Summer Love | Piotr Uklansky | Poland | |
To Let | Para entrar a vivir | Jaume Balagueró | Spain |
The Wicker Man | Neil LaBute | United States |
Special event | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Letters from the Sahara | Lettere dal Sahara | Vittorio De Seta | Italy |
Horizons
A section aiming to provide a picture of the new trends in cinema.[8]
Fiction | |||
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English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
Crickets | Koorogi | Shinji Aoyama | Japan |
The Hottest State | Ethan Hawke | United States | |
Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters | Tachiguishi retsuden | Mamoru Oshii | Japan |
El cobrador: In God We Trust | Paul Leduc | Mexico, Argentina, Brasil | |
Courthouse on Horseback | Mabei shang de fating | Liu Jie | China |
Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight | Non prendere impegni stasera | Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | Italy |
Free Floating | Svobodnoe plavanie | Boris Khlebnikov | Russia |
Heimat Fragments: The Women | Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen | Edgar Reitz | Germany |
I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave | Ana alati tahmol azouhour ila qabriha | Hala Alabdalla Yakoub & Ammar Al Beik | Syria, France |
Infamous | Douglas McGrath | United States | |
Quijote | Mimmo Paladino | Italy | |
Rain Dogs | Taiyang yu | Ho Yuhang | Malaysia, Hong Kong |
Requiem from Java | Opera Jawa | Garin Nugroho | Indonesia |
Rome Rather Than You (aka) | Roma wa la n’touma | Tariq Teguia | Algeria, France |
Suely in the Sky | O Céu de Suely | Karim Aïnouz | Brasil |
Documentaries | ||
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Title | Director(s) | Production country |
Bellissime 2 – Dagli anni Sessanta ad oggi | Giovanna Gagliardo | Italy |
Dong | Jia Zhangke | China |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon | David Leaf & John Scheinfeld | United States |
When the Leeves Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | Spike Lee | United States |
Special events | ||
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Title | Director(s) | Production country |
Akamas | Panicos Chrysanthou | Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Turkey |
C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle | Alain Robbe-Grillet | France, Belgium |
Kill Gil 2 | Gil Rossellini | Italy, Switzerland |
Il mio paese | Daniele Vicari | Italy |
Pasolini prossimo nostro | Giuseppe Bertolucci | Italy, France |
- Highlighted title indicate the Horizons Awards for Best Film and Best Documentary respectively.
Corto Cortissimo
International competition of 35mm short films, in world premiere, not exceeding 30 minutes in length.[9]
In competition | ||
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Title | Director(s) | Production country |
Levelek | Ferenc Cakò | Hungary |
Comment on freine dans une descente? | Alix Delaporte | France |
The Making of Parts | Daniel Elliott | UK |
Detektive | Andreas Goldstein | Germany |
Treinta Años | Nicolás Lasnibat | France, Chile |
Um Ano Mais Longo | Marco Martins | Portugal |
Mum | Mads Matthiesen | Denmark |
"Faça sua Escolha" | Paula Miranda | Brazil |
Pharmakon | Ioakim Mylonas | Cyprus |
Rien ne va plus | Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hàmos | Germany |
Trillizas Propaganda | Fernando Salem | Argentina |
Simanei Derech | Shimon Shai | Israel |
Fib 1477 | Lorenzo Sportiello | Italy |
What Does Your Daddy Do? | Martin Stitt | UK |
Eva reste au placard les nuits de pleine lune | Alex Stockman | Belgium |
In the Eye Abides the Hear | Mary Sweeney | USA |
Adults only | Joon Han Yeo | Malaysia |
Out of competition | ||
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Sekalli sa Meokgo | Teboho Mahlatsi | South Africa |
- Highlighted title indicates Lion for Best Short Film winner.
The secret story of Russian cinema
Special monografic section on the Secret story of Russian cinema from 1934 to 1974.[10]
English title | Original title | Year | Director(s) |
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Accordion (aka) | Garmon' | 1934 | Igor Savchenko |
Jolly Fellows | Vesiolye rebiata | 1934 | Grigori Aleksandrov |
Circus | Cirk | 1936 | Grigori Aleksandrov |
The Country Bride | Bogataja nevesta | 1938 | Ivan Pyryev |
Volga-Volga | 1938 | Grigori Aleksandrov | |
Tractor-Drivers | Traktoristy | 1939 | Ivan Pyryev |
Musical Story (aka) | Muzykalnaya istoriya | 1940 | Aleksandr Ivanovsky & Gerbert Rappaport |
Tanya | Svetly put' | 1940 | Grigori Aleksandrov |
They Met in Moscow | Svinarka i pastukh | 1941 | Ivan Pyryev |
Six P.M. | V shest chasov vechera posle voyny | 1944 | Ivan Pyryev |
Springtime | Vesna | 1947 | Grigori Aleksandrov |
Cossacks of the Kuban | Kubanskie kazaki' | 1950 | Ivan Pyryev |
Bountiful Summer | Shchedroe leto | 1950 | Boris Barnet |
Carnival Night' | Karnavalnaya noch | 1956 | Eldar Ryazanov |
Our Dear Doctor (aka) | Nash milyy doktor | 1956 | Shaken Ajmanov |
Cherry Town | Cheriomushki | 1963 | Gerbert Rappaport |
Save the Drowning Man (aka) | Spasite utopayushchego | 1969 | Pavel Arsenov |
A Lover's Romance | Romans o vlyublyonnykh | 1974 | Andrei Konchalovsky |
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
This is a special section dedicated to the Brazilian movie-maker, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, one of the fathers of new cinema and a famous renewal of Brazilian cinema. His daughter, Alice de Andrade, also a producer, restored the fourteen works that constitute all of her father's filmography.[11]
Feature films | ||
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English title | Original title | Year |
Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (documentary) | Garrincha, Alegria do Povo | 1963 |
The Priest and the Girl | O Padre e a Moça | 1966 |
Macunaíma | 1969 | |
The Conspirators (aka) | Os Inconfidentes | 1972 |
Conjugal Warfare | Guerra Conjugal | 1975 |
N/A | O Homen do Pau-Brasil | 1981 |
Short films | |||
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Title | Year | Title | Year |
O Mestre de Apipucos (documentary) | 1959 | Brasilia, Contradições de Uma Cidade Nova (doc.) | 1967 |
O Poeta do Castelo (documentary) | 1959 | Linguagem da Persuasão (doc.) | 1970 |
Couro de Gato | 1960 | Vereda Tropical (doc.) | 1977 |
Cinéma Nôvo (documentary) | 1967 | O Aleijadinho (doc.) | 1978 |
Secret History of Italian Cinema 3
Special monographic sessions dedicated to the secret story of Italian film from 1937 to 1979. This is the third part of the retrospective of Italian Film, initiated at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.[12]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Restoration |
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Centennial of Rossellini, Soldati and Visconti | |||
In High Places (1942) | Quartieri alti | Mario Soldati | Cineteca Nazionale |
Obsession (1943) | Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | Cineteca Nazionale, Ripley's Film, SKY Italia |
Rome, Open City (1945) | Roma, città aperta | Roberto Rossellini | Cineteca Nazionale, Department of Cultural Policies of the City of Rome, Cinecittà Digital |
Flight Into France (1948) | Fuga in Francia | Mario Soldati | Cineteca Nazionale |
Anna Magnani, episode from We, the Women (1953) | Luchino Visconti | Cineteca Nazionale, Ripley's Film | |
Ingrid Bergman, episode from We, the Women (1953) | Roberto Rossellini | Cineteca Nazionale, Ripley's Film | |
General Della Rovere (1959) | Il generale della Rovere | Roberto Rossellini | Cineteca Nazionale, Gruppo Editoriale Minerva – Raro Video, National Museum of Cinema of Torino, Historical Archive of the Biennale, LVR |
The secret story of Italian cinema | |||
The Ferocious Saladin (1937) | Il feroce Saladino | Mario Bonnard | Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, National Museum of Cinema of Torino, Cineteca of Bologna – Laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata |
For a Few Dollars More (1965) | Per qualche dollaro in più | Sergio Leone | Cineteca di Bologna – Laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata, SKY Italia |
From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) | Dalla nube alla resistenza | Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet | Only copy of this archive is at the Cineteca of Bologna |
Autonomous sections
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for the 21st Venice International Film Critics’ Week:[13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Lizard (lit.) | El Amarillo | Sergio Mazza | Argentina |
My One and Onlies | Egyetleneim | Gyula Nemes[14] | Hungary |
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | Dito Montiel | United States | |
Hyena | Hiena | Grzegorz Lewandowski[15] | Poland |
Premonition | Le Pressentiment | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | France |
On the Trail of Igor Rizzi | Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi | Noël Mitrani | Canada |
Do over | Yi Nian Zhichu | Yu-Chieh Cheng | Taiwan |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Special Event | |||
The Rieducation | La rieducazione | Davide Alfonsi, Alessandro Fusto & Denis Malagnino | Italy |
Homage to Otto Preminger | |||
Bunny Lake is Missing | Otto Preminger | UK, USA |
Venice Days
The following films were selected for the 3rd edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[16]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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7 Years | 7 Ans | Jean-Pascal Hattu | France |
N/A | Chicha tu madre | Gianfranco Quattrini | Argentina, Peru |
N/A | Come l'ombra | Marina Spada | Italy |
Dark Blue Almost Black | Azuloscurocasinegro | Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | Spain |
Dreams of Dust | Rêves de poussière | Laurent Salgues | Burkina Faso, Canada, France |
N/A | L’etoile du soldat | Christophe de Ponfilly | France, Germany, Afghanistan |
Falkenberg Farewell | Farväl Falkenberg | Jesper Ganslandt | Denmark, Sweden |
Khadak | Jessica Woodworth & Peter Brosens | Belgium, Germany, Holland | |
Meanwhile (aka) | Mientras tanto | Diego Lerman | Argentina, France |
The Night of the Sunflowers | La noche de los girasoles) | Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | |
Offscreen | Christoffer Boe | Denmark | |
N/A | L'udienza è aperta | Vincenzo Marra | |
WWW - What a Wonderful World | Faouzi Bensaïdi | Morocco, France |
Awards
Official selection
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 63rd edition:[17]
In Competition (Venezia 63)
- Golden Lion: Sanxia haoren by Jia Zhangke
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Alain Resnais for Private Fears in Public Places
- Silver Lion Revelationr: Emanuele Crialese for Nuovomondo
- Special Jury Prize: Daratt by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Helen Mirren for The Queen
- Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Isild Le Besco for L'intouchable
- Award for Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
- Award for Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan for The Queen
- Special Lion: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for their innovation in cinematographic languages
Special Awards
- Golden Lion for lifetime achievement: to David Lynch
Horizons awards (Premi Orizzonti)
- Best Film: Mabei shang de fating by Liu Jie
- Best Documentary: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee
Short Film awards (Corto Cortissimo Lion)
- Silver Lion for Best Short Film: Comment on freine dans une descente? by Alix Delaporte
- UIP Award for the Best European Short Film: The Making of Parts by Daniel Elliott
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- Special Mention: Adults Only by Yeo Joon Han
Autonomous sections
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[17][18][19]
Venice International Film Critics' Week
- Best Film:: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel
- Isvema Award: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel
Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori)
- Lion of the Future
- Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film: Khadak by Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth
- Special mention: 7 Years (7 Ans) by Jean-Pascal Hattu
- Label Europa Cinemas: Dark Blue Almost Black (Azuloscurocasinegro) by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
- Prize Arca Cinemagiovani (Young Cinema Award) – Best Movie "Other Visions": Offscreen by Christoffer Boe
- UAAR Award: Dark Blue Almost Black by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
- Venice Authors Prize: Chicha tu madre by Gianfranco Quattrini & Mientras tanto by Diego Lerman
Other collateral awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[18]
- FIPRESCI Award[20]
- Best Film (Main competition): The Queen by Stephen Frears
- Best Film (Horizons): When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee
- SIGNIS Award: Golden Door (Nuovomondo) by Emanuele Crialese
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- Special mention: Dry Season (Daratt) by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
- Special mention: Private Property (Nue Propriété) by Joachim Lafosse
- UNICEF Award: Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese
- UNESCO Award: Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
- Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI):
- Best Actor: Sergio Castellitto for The Missing Star
- Best Actress: Laura Morante for Private Fears in Public Places
- Best Film: Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese
- Pietro Bianchi Award: Marco Bellocchio
- FEDIC Award: Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese
- Little Golden Lion: Euphoria by Ivan Vyrypaev
- Young Cinema Award – Best International Film: Black Book (Zwartboek) by Paul Verhoeven
- Wella Prize: Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight (Non prendere impegni stasera) by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli (Horizons)
- Open Prize: Dong by Jia Zhangke (Horizons)
- Doc/It Award (ex aequo): Dong by Jia Zhangke & I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave by Hala Alabdalla Yakoub and Ammar Al Beik
- Future Film Festival Digital Award: Inland Empire by David Lynch (Out of competition)
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- Special mention: The Banquet by Feng Xiaogang (Out of competition)
- Laterna Magica Prize: Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón
- Biografilm Award: Bobby by Emilio Estevez
- Best Film: CinemAvvenire Award: Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese
- Cinema for Peace Award: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yanquan) by Tsai Ming-liang
- Award of the City of Rome: Lettere dal Sahara by Vittorio De Seta (Special Events)
- Human Rights Film Network Award: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
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- Special mention: Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
- EIUC Award: Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
- Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award: The Missing Star (La stella che non c'è) by Gianni Amelio
- Gucci Award: Nick Cave (screenplay) for The Proposition by John Hillcoat[21]
The numbers and the nations of the 63rd Show
- Number of countries with a film in one of the official sections: 31
- Countries making their first appearance at the film festival Chad, Cyprus and Indonesia
- Number of films displayed: 2,589, including 1,429 full-length feature films
- Number of full-length feature film officially presented: 62
- During the contest: 21
- Out of the contest: 9 + 7 midnights + 1 special event
- Venice Horizons: 19 + 5 special events
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