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66th Venice International Film Festival

Italian film festival in 2009

66th Venice International Film Festival

Italian film festival in 2009

FieldValue
name66th Venice International Film Festival
imageVeniceFilmFestival66poster.jpg
captionFestival poster
opening*Baarìa*
closing*Chengdu, I Love You*
locationVenice, Italy
founded1932
awardsGolden Lion:
*Lebanon*
hostMaria Grazia Cucinotta
date2–12 September 2009
website[Website](http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/)
chronologyVenice Film Festival
preceded_by[65th](65th-venice-international-film-festival)
followed_by[67th](67th-venice-international-film-festival)

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66th Venice International Film Festival

The 66th annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 2 to 12 September 2009, at Venice Lido in Italy.

Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee was the jury president for the main competition. Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta was the Host of the opening and closing ceremonies. The Golden Lion was awarded to Lebanon by Samuel Maoz.

The festival opened with Baarìa by Giuseppe Tornatore, and the closed with Chengdu, I Love You by Fruit Chan and Cui Jian.

Juries

Main competition (''Venezia 66'')

  • Ang Lee, Taiwanese filmmaker and producer - Jury President
  • Sergei Bodrov, Russian filmmaker and producer
  • Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress and filmmaker
  • Liliana Cavani, Italian filmmaker
  • Joe Dante, American director, producer, editor and actor
  • Anurag Kashyap, Indian director, writer, producer and actor
  • Luciano Ligabue, Italian director, writer and singer-songwriter

''[[Orizzonti]]''

  • Pere Portabella, Spanish politician, director, and producer - Jury 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)

  • Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker - Jury 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)

  • Stuart Gordon, American filmmaker, theater director and playwright - Jury President
  • Steve Ricci, Italian cinematographer, screenwriter and editor
  • Sitora Alieva, Russian artistic director of the International Film Festival Kinotav

Controcampo Italiano

  • Carlo Lizzani, Italian director, screenwriter and critic - Jury President
  • Giulio Questi, Italian director and screenwriter
  • Marina Sanna, Italian chief editor of cinema magazine

Official Sections

In Competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
*Accident*意外Cheang Pou-SoiChina(Hong Kong)
*Around a Small Mountain**36 vues du pic Saint-Loup*Jacques RivetteFrance, Italy
*Baarìa* (opening film)Giuseppe TornatoreItaly, France
*Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans*Werner HerzogUnited States
*Between Two Worlds**Ahasin Wetei*Vimukthi JayasundaraSri Lanka, France
*The Big Dream**Il grande sogno*Michele PlacidoItaly, France
*Capitalism: A Love Story*Michael MooreUnited States
*The Double Hour**La doppia ora*Giuseppe CapotondiItaly
*Grandmother**Lola*Brillante MendozaFrance, Philippines
***Lebanon*****Samuel Maoz****Israel, France, Germany, United Kingdom**
*Life During Wartime*Todd SolondzUnited States
*Lourdes*Jessica HausnerAustria
*Mr Nobody*Jaco Van DormaelBelgium, Canada, France, Germany
*My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done*Werner HerzogUnited States
*Persécution*Patrice ChéreauFrance
*Prince of Tears*淚王子YonfanTaiwan
*The Road*John HillcoatUnited States
*A Single Man*Tom Ford
*Soul Kitchen*Fatih AkınGermany
*Survival of the Dead*George A. RomeroCanada, United States
*Tetsuo: The Bullet Man**Tetsuo Project*Shinya TsukamotoJapan
*The Traveller*المسافرAhmad MaherEgypt, Italy
*White Material*Claire DenisFrance
*The White Space**Lo spazio bianco*Francesca ComenciniItaly
*Women Without Men**Zanan-e bedun-e mardan*Shirin NeshatGermany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
*Brooklyn's Finest*Antoine FuquaUnited States
*Chengdu, I Love You* (closing film)成都我爱你Fruit Chan and Cui JianChina
*Delhi-6*Rakeysh Omprakash MehraIndia
*Dev.D*Anurag Kashyap
*Great Directors*Angela IsmailosUnited States
*Green Days**Ruzhaye Sabz*Hana MakhmalbafIran
*Gulaal*गुलालAnurag KashyapIndia
*The Hole*Joe DanteUnited States
*The Informant!*Steven Soderbergh
*The Men Who Stare at Goats*Grant Heslov
*Napoli, Napoli, Napoli*Abel FerraraItaly
*L'oro di Cuba*Giuliano Montaldo
*Rambo* (director's cut)Sylvester StalloneUnited States
*REC 2*Jaume Balagueró, Paco PlazaSpain
*The Red Shadows**Le ombre rosse*Francesco MaselliItaly
*Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy**Prove per una tragedia siciliana*Roman Paska, John Turturro
*Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story*إحكي يا شهرزادYousry NasrallahEgypt
*South of the Border*Oliver StoneUnited States
*Valhalla Rising*Nicolas Winding RefnDenmark, United Kingdom
*Yona Yona Penguin*よなよなペンギンRintaroJapan, France

''Corto Cortissimo'' (Short Film Competition)

The following films were selected for the Corto Cortissimo (Short film competition) section:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryIn competitionOut of CompetitionSpecial Events
*Felicità*Salome AleksiGeorgia
*The Kinematograph**Kinematograf*Tomek BaginskiPoland
*I Know There’s a Man**So Che C'è Un Uomo*Gianclaudio CappaiItaly
*This Is Earth, My Brother**To je zemljia, brat moj*Jan CvitkovičSlovenia, Italy
*Still Birds**Alle Fugler*Sara EliassenNorway
*Bliss**O Teu Sorriso*Pedro FreireBrazil
*The Game**Il Gioco*Adriano GianniniItaly
*Object #1*Murad IbragimbekovRussia
*Girllikeme*Rowland JobsonUnited Kingdom
***Firstborn******Eersgeborene*****Etienne Kallos****South Africa, United States**
*Mom’S Vacation**Umma-E Huga*Kwang-Bok KimSouth Korea
*Storage*David LeaUnited Kingdom
*Of Clouds and Hands**Nuvole, Mani*Simone MassiFrance
*Sinner*Meni PhilipIsrael
*Family Jewels*Martin StittUnited States, United Kingdom
*For Two**Er Ren*Shijie TanSingapore
*Bicycle**Jitensha*Dean YamadaJapan, United States
*Kingyo*Edmund YeoJapan, Malaysia
*Plastic Bag* (Opening film)Ramin BahraniUnited States
*The It.Aliens* (Closing Film)Clemens Klopfenstein, Lukas KlopfensteinItaly, Switzerland
*Recordare*Leonardo Carrano, Alessandro PierattiniItaly
*The City in the Sky**La città nel cielo*Giacomo CiminiUnited Kingdom, Italy
*The Second Family**La seconda famiglia*Alberto Dall'AraItaly
*Earth*Tzu Nyen HoSingapore
*Radio*Riccardo PuglieseUnited States, Italy
*War**Uerra*Paolo SassanelliItaly
*A la lune montante*Annarita ZambranoFrance

''[[Orizzonti]]''

The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryHorizons Events
*1428*Haibin DuChina
*Adrift**Choi voi*Bui Thac ChuyenVietnam
*Bets and Wedding Dresses**Tris di donne & abiti nuziali*Vincenzo TerraccianoItaly
*Buried Secrets**Dowaha*Raja AmariTunisia
***Clash******Engkwentro*****Pepe Diokno****Philippines**
*The Color of Words**Il colore delle parole*Marco Simon PuccioniItaly
*Cow*斗牛Guan HuChina
*Crush**Korotkoe zamykanie*Pyotr Buslov, Alexei German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan VyrypaevRussia
*Francesca* (Opening film)Bobby PaunescuRomania
*I Am Love**Io sono l'amore*Luca GuadagninoItaly
*I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You**Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo*Marcelo Gomes, Karim AïnouzBrazil
*Judge**透析*Jie LiuChina
*The Man’s Woman and Other Stories**Aadmi ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya*Amit DuttaIndia
*The Movie Orgy - Ultimate Version*Joe DanteUnited States
*Once Upon a Time Proletarian**曾经的无产者*Xiaolu GuoChina
*The One All Alone*Frank SchefferNetherlands
*One-Zero**Wahed-Sefr*Kamla Abou ZekryEgypt
*Paraiso*Héctor GálvezPeru
*Pepperminta*Pipilotti RistSwitzerland
*Repo Chick*Alex CoxUnited States
*Sunstroke**Insolação*Felipe Hirsch, Daniela ThomasBrazil
*Tender Parasites**Zarte Parasiten*Christian Becker, Oliver SchwabeGermany
*Totò*Peter SchreinerAustria
*Villalobos*Romuald KarmakarGermany
*Woman on Fire Looks for Water*Woo Ming JinMalaysia, South Korea
*Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno*Pappi CorsicatoItaly
*The Marriage*Peter GreenawayItaly, Spain
*Reading Book of Blockade*''Chitaem 'Blokadnuju knigu'''Alexander SokurovRussia
*The Death of Pentheus*Philip HaasUnited States
*La Bohème*Werner HerzogUnited Kingdom
*Faces of Seoul**Seo-wool eui ul-gul*Gina KimUnited States, South Korea
*Hugo en Afrique*Stefano KnuchelSwitzerland
*Via della croce*Serena NonoItaly
*Mudanza* (short)Pere PortabellaSpain
*Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri*Elisabetta SgarbiItaly
*La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet**La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris*Frederick WisemanFrance, United States
*Cock-Crow*David Zamagni, Nadia RanocchiItaly
*Daimon*

[[Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement]]

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:

  • The Incredibles by Brad Bird
  • Up by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
  • 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''

The following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)
*Cosmonaut**Cosmonauta*Susanna Nicchiarelli
*David's Birthday**Il Compleanno*Marco Filiberti
*Giuseppe De Santis*Carlo Lizzani
*Hollywood on the Tiber**Hollywood sul Tevere*Marco Spagnoli
*In the Eyes**Negli occhi*Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti
*The Little**Il Piccolo*Maurizio Zaccaro
*Poets**Poeti*Toni D'Angelo
*Sputnik 5*Susanna Nicchiarelli
*Ten Winters**Dieci Inverni*Valerio Mieli

Italian Retrospective: These Phantoms 2

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.

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)
*Accidenti alla guerra!...* (1948)Giorgio Simonelli
*Break Up* (1965)*L'uomo dei cinque palloni*Marco Ferreri
*Carmen di Trastevere* (1963)Carmine Gallone
*Death of a Friend* (1959)*Morte di un amico*Franco Rossi
*Dreams Die at Dawn* (1961)*I sogni muoiono all'alba*Indro Montanelli, Enrico Gras, Mario Craveri
*Easy Years* (1953)*Anni facili*Luigi Zampa
*Un eroe del nostro tempo* (1960)Sergio Capogna
*The Flame That Will Not Die* (1949)*La Fiamma che non si spegne*Vittorio Cottafavi
*Galileo* (1968)Liliana Cavani
*Girl in the Window* (1961)*La ragazza in vetrina*Luciano Emmer
*The Great War* (1959)*La grande guerra*Mario Monicelli
*House of Ricordi* (1954)*Casa Ricordi*Carmine Gallone
*Hurricane Rosy* (1979)*Temporale Rosy*Mario Monicelli
*The Invisible Ones* (1988)*Gli Invisibili*Pasquale Squitieri
*Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It* (1970)*Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo*Salvatore Samperi
*Love in Rome* (1960)*Un amore a Roma*Dino Risi
*The Lovemakers* (1961)*La viaccia*Mauro Bolognini
*Margherita and Her Three Uncles* (1942)*Margherita fra i tre*Ivo Perilli
*The Naked Hours* (1964)*Le ore nude*Marco Vicario
*Nerosubianco* (1968)Tinto Brass
*Noi cannibali* (1953)Antonio Leonviola
*One Between the Crowd* (1946)*Uno tra la folla*Ennio Cerlesi, Piero Tellini
*Princess Cinderella* (1941)*Cenerentola e il Signor Bonaventura*Sergio Tofano
*A Quiet Place in the Country* (1969)*Un tranquillo posto di campagna*Elio Petri
*The Reunion* (1963)*La Rimpatriata*Damiano Damiani
*The Ship of Condemned Women* (1954)*La nave delle donne maledette*Raffaello Matarazzo
*Stories in the Sand* (1963)*Storie sulla sabbia*Riccardo Fellini
*The Stranger's Hand* (1954)*La mano dello straniero*Mario Soldati
*Il tramontana* (1965)Adriano Barbano
*Tre nel mille* (1971)Franco Indovina
*The Wanderers* (1956)*I girovaghi*Hugo Fregonese
*Women Without Names* (1950)*Donne senza nome*Géza von Radványi

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following films were selected for the 24th International Film Critics' Week:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryIn competitionOut of competition
*Cafe Noir**Ka-pe-neu-wa-reu*Jung Sung-ilSouth Korea
*A Rational Solution**Det enda rationella*Jörgen BergmarkSweden
*Domain**Domaine*Patric ChihaFrance, Austria
*Crawfishlike**Kakraki*Ilya DemichevRussia
*Foxes**Lištičky*Mira FornayCzech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland
***Tehroun******Téhéran*****Nader T. Homayoun****France, Iran**
*Metropia* (opening film)Tarik SalehSweden
*The Pothole* (closing film)*Chaleh*Ali KarimIran
*Videocracy*Erik GandiniSweden

Venice Days

The following films were selected for the 6th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production countryIn competitionOut of competition
*The Ape**Apan*Jesper GanslandtSweden
*Barking Water*Sterlin HarjoUnited States
*Blood and Rain**La sangre y la lluvia*Jorge NavasColombia, Argentina
*Cell 211**Celda 211*Daniel MonzónSpain, France
*Desert Flower*Sherry HormannUnited Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France
*Fat People**Gordos*Daniel Sánchez ArévaloSpain
*France**Francia*Israel Adrián CaetanoArgentina
*Harragas*Merzak AllouacheAlgeria, France
*Honeymoons*Goran PaskaljevicSerbia, Albania
*The Horde**La horde*Yannick Dahan, Benjamin RocherFrance
*Hymn to Love**L’amore e basta*Stefano ConsiglioItaly
*I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive**Je suis heureux que ma mere soit vivante*Claude Miller, Nathan MillerFrance
***The Last Days of Emma Blank******De laatste Dagen van Emma Blank*****Alex van Warmerdam****Netherlands**
*Mille giorni di Vito*Elisabetta PandimiglioItaly
*Poetry, You See Me**Poesia che mi guardi*Marina Spada
*Silent Voice**Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront*Léa FehnerFrance
*What Do You Know About Me**Di me cosa ne sai*Valerio JalongoItaly
*Ragazze la vita trema*Paola SangiovanniItaly
*The Magliari* (1959)*I magliari*Francesco RosiItaly, France
*Teat Beat of Sex*Signe BaumaneUnited States
*Videocracy*Erik GandiniSweden
*Vittorio D*Mario Canale, Annarosa MorriItaly

Official Awards

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 Akin
  • 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: Jasmine Trinca for The Big Dream
  • Golden Osella for Outstanding Technical Contribution: Sylvie Olivé for Mr. Nobody
  • Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Todd Solondz for Life During Wartime

Horizons (''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

Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film

  • Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno

Short Film Competition (''Corto Cortissimo'')

  • Best Short Film: Firstborn 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 by Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti

[[Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement]]

  • John Lasseter

Special awards

  • 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)

Independent Sections Awards

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: Up by Pete Docter

Venice Days (''[[Giornate degli Autori|Giornati degli Autori]]'')

  • Label Europa Cinemas Award: The Last Days of Emma Blank by Alex van Warmerdam

Independent Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:

[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Award]]

  • Best Film (Main competition): Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
  • Best Film (Horizons): Adrift by Bui Thac Chuyen

[[Queer Lion]]

  • A Single Man by Tom Ford

[[SIGNIS|SIGNIS Award]]

  • Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
    • Special mention: Lebanon by Samuel Maoz

Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI)

  • Best Film: The White Space by Francesca Comencini
  • Best Director: Giuseppe Tornatore for Baarìa
  • 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

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 by Ahmad Maher

UNICEF Award

  • Women Without Men by Shirin Neshat

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 by Francesco Del Grosso & Daniele Anzellotti

Brian Prize by [[Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics|UAAR]]

  • Lourdes by Jessica Hausner

Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs)

  • Cosmonauta by Susanna Nicchiarelli

FEDIC Award

  • The White Space by Francesca Comencini
    • Special Mention: What Do You Know About Me by Valerio Jalongo

Arca Cinemagiovani Awards

  • Best Film: Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin
  • Best Italian Film: The Double Hour by Giuseppe Capotondi

Lina Mangiacapre Award

  • Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story by Yousry Nasrallah

Air For Film Fest Award

  • The White Space by Francesca Comencini

Open Award 2009

  • Capitalism: A love story by Michael Moore

Gianni Astrei Award

  • The White Space by Francesca Comencini

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