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.
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | Baarìa |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Chengdu, I Love You |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion – Lebanon |
| Hosted by | Maria Grazia Cucinotta |
| Festival date | 2–12 September 2009 |
| Website | Website |
The international competition jury, chaired by Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, awarded the Golden Lion to Lebanon by Samuel Maoz.[3]
Juries
editThe international juries of the 66th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[4][5][6]
Main competition (Venezia 66)
edit- Ang Lee, Taiwanese filmmaker and producer - Jury President[7]
- 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
Horizons (Orizzonti)
edit- Pere Portabella, Spanish politician, director, and producer - Jury President[8]
- 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 Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film)
edit- Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker - Jury President[9]
- 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)
edit- Stuart Gordon, American filmmaker, theater director and playwright - Jury President[10]
- Steve Ricci, Italian cinematographer, screenwriter and editor
- Sitora Alieva, Russian artistic director of the International Film Festival Kinotav
Controcampo Italiano
edit- Carlo Lizzani, Italian director, screenwriter and critic - Jury President[11]
- Giulio Questi, Italian director and screenwriter
- Marina Sanna, Italian chief editor of cinema magazine
Official Sections
editIn Competition
editThe following films competed for the Golden Lion:[12]
- Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion for best film.
Out of Competition
editThe following films were screened as Out of competition:[13]
Corto Cortissimo (Short Film Competition)
editThe following films were selected for the Corto Cortissimo (Short film competition) section:[14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| 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 | |||
| Plastic Bag (Opening film) | Ramin Bahrani | United States | |
| The It.Aliens (Closing Film) | Clemens Klopfenstein, Lukas Klopfenstein | Italy, Switzerland | |
| Special Events | |||
| 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 (Orizzonti)
editThe following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1428 | 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 | Il colore delle parole | Marco Simon Puccioni | Italy |
| Cow | 斗牛 | Guan Hu | China |
| Crush | Korotkoe zamykanie | Pyotr Buslov, Alexei German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan Vyrypaev | 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 | 透析 | 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 | 曾经的无产者 | Xiaolu Guo | China |
| The One All Alone | 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 | Peter Schreiner | Austria | |
| Villalobos | Romuald Karmakar | Germany | |
| Woman on Fire Looks for Water | Woo Ming Jin | Malaysia, South Korea | |
| Horizons Events | |||
| Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno | Pappi Corsicato | Italy | |
| The Marriage | Peter Greenaway | Italy, Spain | |
| Reading Book of Blockade | Chitaem 'Blokadnuju knigu' | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| The Death of Pentheus | Philip Haas | United States | |
| La Bohème | Werner Herzog | United Kingdom | |
| Faces of Seoul | Seo-wool eui ul-gul | Gina Kim | United States, South Korea |
| Hugo en Afrique | Stefano Knuchel | Switzerland | |
| Via della croce | Serena Nono | Italy | |
| Mudanza (short) | Pere Portabella | Spain | |
| Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri | Elisabetta Sgarbi | Italy | |
| La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet | La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris | Frederick Wiseman | France, United States |
| Cock-Crow | David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi | Italy | |
| Daimon | |||
- Highlighted title indicates the Lion of the Future winner
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
- 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
editThe following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section:[17]
| English title | Original title | Director(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
editFor 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]
| English title | Original title | Director(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
editVenice International Film Critics' Week
editThe following films were selected for the 24th International Film Critics' Week:[19]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| Cafe Noir | Ka-pe-neu-wa-reu | Jung Sung-il | South Korea |
| A Rational Solution | Det enda rationella | Jörgen Bergmark | Sweden |
| Domain | Domaine | Patric Chiha | France, Austria |
| Crawfishlike | Kakraki | Ilya Demichev | Russia |
| Foxes | Lištičky | Mira Fornay | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland |
| Tehroun | Téhéran | Nader T. Homayoun | France, Iran |
| Out of competition | |||
| Metropia (opening film) | Tarik Saleh | Sweden | |
| The Pothole (closing film) | Chaleh | Ali Karim | Iran |
| Videocracy | Erik Gandini | Sweden | |
Venice Days
editThe following films were selected for the 6th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[20][21]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| The Ape | Apan | Jesper Ganslandt | Sweden |
| Barking Water | Sterlin Harjo | United States | |
| Blood and Rain | La sangre y la lluvia | Jorge Navas | Colombia, Argentina |
| Cell 211 | Celda 211 | Daniel Monzón | Spain, France |
| Desert Flower | Sherry Hormann | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France | |
| Fat People | Gordos | Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | Spain |
| France | Francia | Israel Adrián Caetano | Argentina |
| Harragas | Merzak Allouache | Algeria, France | |
| Honeymoons | Goran Paskaljevic | Serbia, Albania | |
| The Horde | La horde | Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher | France |
| Hymn to Love | L’amore e basta | Stefano Consiglio | Italy |
| I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive | Je suis heureux que ma mere soit vivante | Claude Miller, Nathan Miller | France |
| The Last Days of Emma Blank | De laatste Dagen van Emma Blank | Alex van Warmerdam | Netherlands |
| Mille giorni di Vito | Elisabetta Pandimiglio | Italy | |
| Poetry, You See Me | Poesia che mi guardi | Marina Spada | |
| Silent Voice | Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront | Léa Fehner | France |
| What Do You Know About Me | Di me cosa ne sai | Valerio Jalongo | Italy |
| Out of competition | |||
| Ragazze la vita trema | Paola Sangiovanni | Italy | |
| The Swindlers (1959) | I magliari | Francesco Rosi | Italy, France |
| Teat Beat of Sex | Signe Baumane | United States | |
| Videocracy | Erik Gandini | Sweden | |
| Vittorio D | Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri | Italy | |
Official Awards
editThe following Official Awards were conferred at the 66th edition of the festival:[3]
In competition (Venezia 66)
edit- 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: 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)
edit- 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
edit- Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)
edit- 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
edit- Best Feature Film: Cosmonaut by Susanna Nicchiarelli
- Special Mention: In the Eyes by Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti
Special awards
edit- 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
editThe following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[22]
Venice International Film Critics' Week
edit- "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 (Giornati degli Autori)
edit- Label Europa Cinemas Award: The Last Days of Emma Blank by Alex van Warmerdam
Independent Awards
editThe following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[22]
- Best Film (Main competition): Lourdes by Jessica Hausner[23]
- Best Film (Horizons): Adrift by Bui Thac Chuyen
- Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
- Special mention: Lebanon by Samuel Maoz
Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI)
edit- 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
editLa Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award
editC.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award
editUNICEF Award
editChristopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award
editBiografilm Lancia Award
edit- Best Fiction Film: Mr. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael
- Best Documentary: In the Eyes by Francesco Del Grosso & Daniele Anzellotti
Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs)
edit- Cosmonauta by Susanna Nicchiarelli
FEDIC Award
edit- The White Space by Francesca Comencini
- Special Mention: What Do You Know About Me by Valerio Jalongo
Arca Cinemagiovani Awards
edit- Best Film: Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin
- Best Italian Film: The Double Hour by Giuseppe Capotondi
Lina Mangiacapre Award
edit- Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story by Yousry Nasrallah
Air For Film Fest Award
edit- The White Space by Francesca Comencini
Open Award 2009
edit- Capitalism: A love story by Michael Moore
Gianni Astrei Award
edit- The White Space by Francesca Comencini
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