65th Venice International Film Festival
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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 Golden Lion 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 Shots of Rum by Claire Denis, Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin, and an autobiographical documentary by 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 was included in the Orizzonti competition section.[3]
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 Arab cinema.[2] The festival's shorts competition began 1 September 2008 with Natalie Portman's directorial debut, Eve. Kseniya Rappoport was the host of the opening and closing ceremonies.[8]
The international juries of the 65th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[9]
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]
New works by directors who have been honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.[12]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature films | |||
| 35 Shots of Rum | 35 Rhums | Claire Denis | France, Germany |
| The Beaches of Agnès | Les Plages d'Agnes | Agnès Varda | France |
| Burn After Reading (opening film) | Joel and Ethan Coen | United States | |
| Embodiment of Evil | Encarnação do Demônio | Jose Mojica Marins | Brazil |
| Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit | ギララの逆襲／洞爺湖サミット危機一発 | Minoru Kawasaki | Japan |
| Puccini and the Girl | Puccini e la fanciulla | Paolo Benvenuti | Italy |
| Queens of Langkasuka | ปืนใหญ่จอมสลัด | Nonzee Nimibutr | Thailand |
| Shirin | شیرین | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| Vinyan | Fabrice Du Welz | France, United Kingdom, Belgium | |
| Short films | |||
| Do Visível ao Invisível | Manoel de Oliveira | Brazil, Portugal | |
| Cry Me a River | 河上的爱情 | Jia Zhangke | China, Spain, France |
| Vicino al Colosseo c’è Monti | Mario Monicelli | Italy | |
| Special Event | |||
| Yuppi du | Adriano Celentano | Italy | |
| Events | |||
| Bajo el signo de las sombras (1984) | Ferrán Alberich | Spain | |
| Bicycle Thieves (1948) | Ladri di biciclette | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| Cairo Station (1958) | باب الحديد | Youssef Chahine | Egypt, France |
| Life in Shadows (1947) | Vida en Sombras | Lorenzo Llbobet Gracia | Spain |
| Orfeus 9 (1975) | Orfeo 9 | Tito Schipa Jr. | Italy |
| La rabbia di Pasolini (2008) | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci | Italy | |
| Takadanobaba Duel (1937) | Kettô Takadanobaba | Masahiro Makino, Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan |
| Tutto è musica (1963) | Domenico Modugno | Italy | |
| Nel blu dipinto di blu - Volare (1959) | Piero Tellini | ||
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| 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 | |
| Un Lac | Philippe Grandrieux | France | |
| Melancholia | Lav Diaz | Philippines | |
| Pa-ra-da | Marco Pontecorvo | Italy, France, Romania | |
| Parc | Arnaud des Pallières | France | |
| Perfect Life | 完美生活 | Emily Tang | China, China（Hong Kong） |
| Khastegi | خستگی | Bahman Motamedian | Iran |
| Wild Field | Дикое поле | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Russia |
| Zero Bridge | Tariq Tapa | India, United States | |
| Documentaries | |||
| 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 | |||
| Antonioni su Antonioni | Carlo Di Carlo | Italy | |
| La fabbrica dei tedeschi | Mimmo Calopresti | ||
| Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa | Daniele Di Biasio | ||
| ThyssenKrupp Blues | Pietro Balla, Monica Repetto | ||
| Valentino: The Last Emperor | Matt Tyrnauer | United States | |
| Venezia '68 | Antonello Sarno, Steve Della Casa | Italy | |
| Verso Est | Laura Angiulli | Italy, Bosnia | |
The following films were selected for the Short film competition (Corto Cortissimo) section:[14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| 1937 | Giacomo Gatti, Francesco Carrozzini | United States, 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 | 我的 | 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 |
| Out of competition | |||
| Eve (Opening film) | Natalie Portman | United States | |
| Jarred (Closing film) | Martin Gaiss | ||
| Alba | Giorgia Farina | Italy | |
| Il colore della Bassa | Giuseppe Morandi | ||
| Un canto lontano | Alberto Momo | ||
| Managua Boxing | Frediana Fornari | ||
Retrospective screenings and restorations. Special mono-graphic 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.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction | ||
| Agostino (1962) | Mauro Bolognini | |
| Arcana (1972) | Giulio Questi | |
| The Basilisks (1963) | I basilischi | Lina Wertmüller |
| La bella di Lodi (1963) | Mario Missiroli | |
| City of Pain (1949) | La città dolente | Mario Bonnard |
| The City Stands Trial (1952) | Processo alla città | Luigi Zampa |
| Difficult Years (1948) | Anni difficili | Luigi Zampa |
| The Doll That Took the Town (1956) | La donna del giorno | Francesco Maselli |
| The Earth Cries Out (1949) | Il grido della terra | Duilio Coletti |
| Fire! (1968) | Fuoco! | Gian Vittorio Baldi |
| Flashback (1969) | Raffaele Andreassi | |
| A Girl... and a Million (1962) | La cuccagna | Luciano Salce |
| Leoni al sole (1961) | Vittorio Caprioli | |
| Letter at Dawn (1948) | Una lettera all’alba | Giorgio Bianchi |
| A New World (1964) | Un monde nouveau | Vittorio De Sica |
| Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1969) | Toh è Morta la Nonna | Mario Monicelli |
| Opiate '67 (1963) | I Mostri | Dino Risi |
| Our Lady of the Turks (1968) | Nostra Signora dei Turchi | Carmelo Bene |
| Paris, My Love (1962) | Parigi o cara | Vittorio Caprioli |
| Pelle Viva | Giuseppe Fina | |
| Revenge (1946) | Un uomo ritorna | Max Neufeld |
| The Sky Is Red (1950) | Il cielo è rosso | Claudio Gora |
| Smog (1963) | Franco Rossi | |
| Violent Life (1962) | Una vita violenta | Paolo Heusch, Brunello Rondi |
| The White Sheik (1952) | Lo Sceicco Bianco | Federico Fellini |
| Documentaries and shorts | ||
| E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975) | Gianfranco Angelucci, Liliana Betti | |
| Italia proibitac (1963) | Enzo Biagi | |
| La Forza e la Ragione (1971) | Roberto Rossellini | |
| Mysteries of Rome (1963) | I misteri di Roma | (collective film) |
| Provini per "Il padre selvaggio" (1962)[15] | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| Spot Banca di Roma (1992) | Federico Fellini | |
The following films were selected for the 23rd International Film Critics' Week:[16]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| The Apprentice | L'apprenti | Samuel Collardey | France |
| Cucumber | Huanggua / Qing gua | Zhou Yaowu | China |
| Kabuli Kid | Barmak Akram | France, Afghanistan | |
| Mid-August Lunch | Pranzo di ferragosto | Gianni Di Gregorio | Italy |
| Nightguards | Čuvari noći | Namik Kabil | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Sell Out! | Yeo Joonhan | Malaysia | |
| Two Lines | Iki Çizgi | Selim Evci | Turkey |
| Out of competition | |||
| Cold Lunch (Opening film) | Lønsj | Eva Sørhaug | Norway |
| Pinuccio Lovero - Sogno di una morte di mezza estate (opening film) | Pippo Mezzapesa | Italy | |
The following films were selected for the 5th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[17][18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| 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) | |||
| Che saccio | Camille d'Arcimoles | Italy | |
| Il passato è il mio bastone | Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza | ||
| Villa degli Autori – Open Space | |||
| Adius Piero Ciampi e altre storie | Ezio Alovisi | Italy | |
| Emilia Galotti: dal Settecento ad oggi | Alessandro Berdini | ||
| Lo stato d’eccezione | Germano Maccioni | ||
| Un paese diverso | Silvio Soldini, Giorgio Garini | ||
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 65th edition:[19]
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[21]
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