65th Venice International Film Festival
The 65th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on 27 August 2008 by Burn After Reading,[1] and closed on 6 September 2008.[2] International competition jury, led by Wim Wenders, awarded Leone d'Oro to The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky.[2]
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | Burn After Reading |
|---|---|
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion - The Wrestler |
| Hosted by | Ksenia Rappoport |
| Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 2008 |
| Website | Website |
Most of the films at the festival were world premieres.[3] Featured in the 65th film festival was a restored version of Federico Fellini's 1952 comedy The White Sheik with forty minutes of newly discovered footage.[4] Films screened out of competition included 35 Rums by French director Claire Denis, Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami's film, Shirin and an autobiographical documentary by Belgium-born director Agnès Varda.[2] The record for the longest film at the festival went to Philippine director Lav Diaz's Melancholia, with a running time of approximately seven and a half hours, and which is included in the Orizzonti (Horizons) section.[3]
65th Venice International Film Festival
77-year-old Italian film director Ermanno Olmi received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.[5][6][7] The festival was dedicated to the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, who was notable for his contributions to post-war Arab cinema.[2] The festival's shorts competition began 1 September 2008 with Natalie Portman's directorial debut, Eve. Kseniya Rappoport will also hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.[8]
Juries
The international juries of the 65th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[9]
Main Competition (Venezia 65)
- Wim Wenders, German filmmaker, playwright, author and photographer (Jury President)
- Yuri Arabov, Russian screenwriter, writer, poet and educator
- Valeria Golino, Italian actress and director
- Douglas Gordon, Scottish artist
- John Landis, American director, screenwriter, actor and producer
- Lucrecia Martel, Argentine director, screenwriter, and producer
- Johnnie To, Hong Kong director and producer
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Chantal Akerman, Belgian director, artist and professor of film (President)
- Nicole Brenez, French historian, theoretician and professor of cinema
- Barbara Cupisti, Italian documentary director and actress
- José Luis Guerín, Spanish filmmaker and educator
- Veiko Õunpuu, Estonian film director and screenwriter
Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film)
- Abdellatif Kechiche, Tunisian-French actor, director and screenwriter (President)
- Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
- Gregory Jacobs, American director, producer and screenwriter
- Donald Ranvaud, British producer and film journalist
- Heidrun Schleef, Italian screenwriter and producer
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.[10][11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achilles and the Tortoise | Akiresu to Kame | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Birdwatchers | La terra degli uomini rossi | Marco Bechis | Italy |
| The Burning Plain | Guillermo Arriaga | United States | |
| Giovanna's Father | Il papà di Giovanna | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | United States | |
| Inju: The Beast in the Shadow | Inju, la bête dans l'ombre | Barbet Schroeder | France |
| Inland | Gabbla | Tariq Teguia | Algeria, France |
| Jerichow | Christian Petzold | Germany | |
| Milk | Süt | Semih Kaplanoglu | Turkey, France, Germany |
| The Other One | L’Autre | Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic | France |
| Paper Soldier | Bumazhnyy soldat | Aleksei German | Russia |
| A Perfect Day | Un giorno perfetto | Ferzan Özpetek | Italy |
| Plastic City | Dangkou | Yu Lik-wai | Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Japan |
| Ponyo | Gake no Ue no Ponyo | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| Rachel Getting Married | Jonathan Demme | United States | |
| The Seed of Discord | Il seme della discordia | Pappi Corsicato | Italy |
| The Sky Crawlers | Sukai Kurora | Mamoru Oshii | Japan |
| Teza | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia, Germany, France | |
| This Night | Nuit de Chien | Werner Schroeter | France, Germany, Portugal |
| Vegas: Based on a True Story | Amir Naderi | United States | |
| The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | USA, France | |
- Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.
Out of competition
New works by directors who have been honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.[12]
| Feature films | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 35 Shots of Rum | 35 Rhums | Claire Denis | France, Spain |
| The Beaches of Agnès | Les Plages d'Agnes | Agnès Varda | France |
| Burn After Reading | Joel and Ethan Coen | United States | |
| Cry Me a River (short) | Heshang aiqing | Jia Zhangke | China, Spain, France |
| Embodiment of Evil | Encarnação do Demônio | Jose Mojica Marins | Brazil |
| Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit | Girara no Gyakushū: Tōyako Samitto Kiki Ippatsu | Minoru Kawasaki | Japan |
| Puccini and the Girl | Puccini e la fanciulla | Paolo Benvenuti | Italy |
| Queens of Langkasuka | Puen yai jom sa lad | Nonzee Nimibutr | Thailand |
| Shirin | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | |
| Vinyan | Fabrice Du Welz | France, UK, Belgium | |
| Short films | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country | |
| Do Visível ao Invisível (short segment from Mundo Invisível) | Manoel de Oliveira | Brazil, Portugal | |
| Vicino al Colosseo c’è Monti (documentary, short) | Mario Monicelli | Italy | |
| Special Event | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country | |
| Yuppi du | Adriano Celentano | Italy | |
| Events | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| N/A | Bajo el signo de las sombras (1984 documentary) | Ferrán Alberich | Spain |
| Bicycle Thieves (1948) | Ladri di biciclette | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| Cairo Station (1958) | Bab el-hadid | Youssef Chahine | Egypt, France |
| Life in Shadows (1947) | Vida en Sombras | Lorenzo Llbobet Gracia | Spain |
| Orfeus 9 (1975) | Orfeo 9 | Tito Schipa Jr. | Italy |
| N/A | La rabbia di Pasolini (2008, documentary) | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci | Italy |
| Takadanobaba Duel (1937) | Kettô Takadanobaba | Masahiro Makino, Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan |
| N/A | Tutto è musica (1963 musical) | Domenico Modugno | Italy |
| Volare (1959) | Nel blu dipinto di blu - Volare | Piero Tellini | Italy |
Short film competition
The following films were selected for the Short film competition (Corto Cortissimo) section:[13]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 1937 | Giacomo Gatti Francesco Carrozzini | USA, Italy, France | |
| The Altruists | De onbaatzuchtigen | Koen Dejaegher | Belgium |
| Ashes Engagement | Noces de cendre | Pierre Eden Simon | Belgium |
| The Butcher’s Shop | Philip Haas | United States | |
| Corpus/Corpus | Christophe Loizillon | France | |
| The Dinner | Vacsora | Karchi Perlmann | Hungary |
| Every Breath You Take | Vdih (working title) | Igor Sterk | Slovenia |
| I Don't Dream in German | Ich träume nicht auf Deutsch | Ivana Lalovic | Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| I’m in Away from Here | Catriona MacInnes | United Kingdom | |
| Land and Bread | Tierra y Pan | Carlos Armella | Mexico |
| Lies | Lögner | Jonas Odell | Sweden |
| Mine | Wode | Liu Hui | China |
| Sand | Zand | Joost Van Ginkel | Netherlands |
| The Second Coming | Teine tulemine | Tanel Toom | Estonia |
| The Stars Don't Twinkle in Outer Space | Peter Thwaites | United Kingdom | |
| Ten | Dix | Bif | France, United Kingdom |
| We Who Stayed Behind | Vi der blev tilbage | Martin de Thurah | Denmark |
| When I’m 20 | Khi toi 20 | Dang Di Phan | Vietnam |
| Corto Cortissimo Events - Out of competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Occasion | Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Opening film | Eve | Natalie Portman | United States |
| Closing film | Jarred | Martin Gaiss | United States |
| 'Event' | Alba | Giorgia Farina | Italy |
| 'Event' | Il colore della Bassa | Giuseppe Morandi | Italy |
| 'Event' | Un canto lontano | Alberto Momo | Italy |
| 'Event' | Managua Boxing | Frediana Fornari | Italy |
- Highlighted title indicates Lion for Best Short Film winner.
Horizons
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[14]
| Fiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The First Day of Winter | Il primo giorno d’inverno | Mirko Locatelli | Italy |
| Goodbye Solo | Ramin Bahrani | United States | |
| The Herb of the Rat | A Erva do Rato | Julio Bressane | Brazil |
| I'm Gonna Explode | Voy a explotar | Gerardo Naranjo | Mexico |
| Jay | Francis Xavier Pasion | Philippines | |
| N/A | Un lac | Philippe Grandrieux | France |
| Melancholia | Lav Diaz | Philippines | |
| Pa-ra-da | Marco Pontecorvo | Italy, France, Romania | |
| Parc | Arnaud des Pallières | France | |
| Perfect Life | Wanmei Shenhuo | Emily Tang | China, Hong Kong |
| Tedium | Khastegi | Bahman Motamedian | Iran |
| Wild Field | Dikoe pole | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Russia |
| Zero Bridge | Tariq Tapa | India, United States | |
| Documentaries | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Below Sea Level | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, United States |
| L'Exil et le royaume | Andreο Schtakleff, Jonathan Le Fourn | France |
| Los Herederos | Eugenio Polgovsky | Mexico |
| In Paraguay | Ross McElwee | United States |
| Puisque nous sommes nés | Jean-Pierre Duret, Andréa Santana | France, Brazil |
| Women | Huang Wenhai | China, Switzerland |
| Z32 | Avi Mograbi | Israel, France |
| Horizons Events (documentaries) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Antonioni su Antonioni | Carlo Di Carlo | Italy |
| La fabbrica dei tedeschi | Mimmo Calopresti | Italy |
| Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa | Daniele Di Biasio | Italy |
| ThyssenKrupp Blues | Pietro Balla, Monica Repetto | Italy |
| Valentino: The Last Emperor | Matt Tyrnauer | United States |
| Venezia '68 | Antonello Sarno, Steve Della Casa | Italy |
| Verso Est | Laura Angiulli | Italy, Bosnia |
- Highlighted titles indicate the Horizons Awards for Best Film and Best Documentary respectively.
These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered (1946-1975)
Retrospective screenings and restorations. Special monographic sessions dedicated to the "secret story of Italian cinema". This is the fifth part of the retrospective, initiated at the 61st edition of the festival.
| Documentaries and shorts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Release Year | |
| E il Casanova di Fellini? | Gianfranco Angelucci, Liliana Betti | 1975 | |
| Italia proibita | Enzo Biagi | 1963 | |
| La Forza e la Ragione (interview to Salvador Allende) | Roberto Rossellini | 1971 | |
| I misteri di Roma (Mysteries of Rome) | (collective film) | 1963 | |
| Provini per "Il padre selvaggio" (a series of auditions for a film never realized)[15] | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1962 | |
| Spot Banca di Roma (commercial short) | Federico Fellini | 1992 | |
Autonomous sections
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following films were selected for the 23rd International Film Critics' Week:[16]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Apprentice | L'apprenti | Samuel Collardey | France |
| Cucumber | Huanggua / Qing gua | Zhou Yaowu[17] | China |
| Kabuli Kid | Barmak Akram | France, Afghanistan | |
| Mid-August Lunch | Pranzo di ferragosto | Gianni Di Gregorio | Italy |
| Nightguards | Čuvari noći | Namik Kabil[18] | Bosnia |
| Sell Out! | Yeo Joonhan[19] | Malaysia | |
| Two Lines | Iki Çizgi' | Selim Evci[20] | Turkey |
| Special Events - Out of competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line-up | Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Opening film | ''Cold Lunch (Lønsj) | Eva Sørhaug | Norway |
| Opening film | Pinuccio Lovero - Sogno di una morte di mezza estate | Pippo Mezzapesa[21] | Italy |
- Highlighted title indicates the Lion Of The Future winner.
Venice Days
The following films were selected for the 5th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[22][23]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| One Day in a Life | Un altro pianeta | Stefano Tummolini | Italy |
| Broken Lines | Sallie Aprahamian | United Kingdom | |
| Machan | Uberto Pasolini | Sri Lanka, Italy, Germany | |
| The Visitor | Muukalainen | Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää | Finland |
| Nowhere Man | (N)iemand | Patrice Toye | Belgium |
| Hooked | Pescuit sportiv | Adrian Sitaru | Romania |
| Landscape No. 2 | Pokrajina št. 2 | Vinko Möderndorfer | Slovenia |
| Scratch | Rysa | Michał Rosa | Poland |
| A Week Alone | Una semana solos | Celina Murga | Argentina |
| Stella | Sylvie Verheyde | France | |
| The Country Teacher | Venkovský učitel | Bohdan Sláma | Czech Republic |
| Portraits (documentaries) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Country | |
| Che saccio | Camille d'Arcimoles | Italy | |
| Il passato è il mio bastone | Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza | Italy | |
| Villa degli Autori – Open Space | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Country | |
| Adius Piero Ciampi e altre storie | Ezio Alovisi | Italy | |
| Emilia Galotti: dal Settecento ad oggi | Alessandro Berdini | Italy | |
| Lo stato d’eccezione | Germano Maccioni | Italy | |
| Un paese diverso | Silvio Soldini, Giorgio Garini | Italy | |
Awards
Official selection
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 65th edition:
In Competition (Venezia 65)[24]
- Golden Lion: The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Aleksei German for Bumazhnyy soldat (Paper Soldier)
- Special Jury Prize: Teza by Haile Gerima
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Silvio Orlando for Giovanna's Father
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Dominique Blanc for The Other One
- Marcello Mastroianni Award (for the best emerging actor or actress): Jennifer Lawrence for Burning Plain
- Golden Osella for Best Cinematography: Alisher Khamidhodjaev and Maxim Drozdov for Bumazhnyy soldat
- Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Haile Gerima for Teza
- Special Lion for Overall Work: Werner Schroeter
Horizons awards (Premi Orizzonti)[25]
- Best Film: Melancholia by Lav Diaz (Philippines)
- Best Documentary: Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi
- Special Mention: Un Lac by Philippe Grandrieux & Wo men (We) by Huang Wenhai
Short Film awards (Corto Cortissimo Lion)[26]
- Lion for Best Short Film: Tierra y Pan by Carlos Armella
- Special Mention: Vacsora by Karchi Perlmann
- U.I.P. Award for Best European Short: De onbaatzuchtigen by Koen Dejaegher
Autonomous sections
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
Venice International Film Critics' Week
- Best Film: The Apprentice (L'apprenti) by Samuel Collardey
- Lion of the Future
- Luigi De Laurentiis Award For a Debut Film: Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di ferragosto) by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Isvema Award for a debut or second feature film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Doc/it Award – Special mention: The Apprentice by Samuel Collardey
- "Altre Visioni" Award: Sell Out! by Yeo Joon Han
- EIUC Human Rights Film Award: Kabuli Kid by Akram Barmak
Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori)
- Label Europa Cinemas Award: Machan by Uberto Pasolini
- Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Awards: Stella by Sylvie Verheyde
- FEDIC Award: Machan by Uberto Pasolini
- Lina Mangiacapre Award: Stella by Sylvie Verheyde
Other collateral awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[27]
- FIPRESCI Award[28]
- Best Film (Main competition): Gabbla (Inland) by Tariq Teguia
- Best Film (Out of competition): Goodbye Solo by Ramin Bahrani
- SIGNIS Award: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- Special mention: Vegas: Based on a True Story by Amir Naderi & Teza by Haile Gerima
- Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI):
- Best Film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Special Mention: Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo (Out of competition)
- Best Actor: Silvio Orlando for Giovanna's Father
- Best Actress: Isabella Ferrari for Un giorno perfetto
- Best Film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Doc/it Award – Sicilia Film Commission: Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi
- Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola Award: Giovanna's Father by Pupi Avati
- Queer Lion: One Day in a Life (Un altro pianeta) by Stefano Tummolini
- UNICEF Award: Teza by Haile Gerima
- Art Cinema Award: Dikoe Pole (Wild Field) by Mikheil Kalatozishvili (Out of competition)
- La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award: BirdWatchers (La terra degli uomini rossi) by Marco Bechis
- Biografilm Lancia Award:
- Best Fiction Film: Rachel Getting Married by Jonathan Demme
- Best Documentary: Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi (Horizons)
- Nazareno Taddei Award: Giovanna's Father by Pupi Avati
- Don Gnocchi Award: Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo (Out of competition)
- Special mention: Ezio Greggio for Giovanna's Father
- Future Film Festival Digital Award: The Sky Crawlers by Mamoru Oshii
- Special mention: Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) by Hayao Miyazaki
- Brian Award: Khastegi by Bahman Motamedian (Horizons)
- Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs): Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo (Out of competition)
- CinemAvvenire, Best Film in Competition: Vegas: Based on a True Story by Amir Naderi
- "The circle is not round. Cinema for peace and the richness of diversity" Award: Teza by Haile Gerima
- Bastone Bianco Award (Filmcritica): Achilles and the Tortoise (Akires to kame) by Takeshi Kitano
- Human Rights Film Network Award: The Hurt Locker by Kahryn Bigelow
- Arca Cinemagiovani Award:
- Best Film: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- Best Italian Film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Air For Film Fest Award: Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo
- "Poveri ma belli" Award: Puccini e la fanciulla by Paolo Benvenuti (Out of competition)
- Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award for a film which shows a firm connection with the arts: Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) by Hayao Miyazaki
- Open Award 2008: The Butcher's Shop by Philip Haas
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