51st Venice International Film Festival

The 51st annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 1 September to 12 September, 1994.^[1][2]

51st Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: Before the Rain Vive L'Amour
Festival date	1 – 12 September 1994
Website	Website

American filmmaker David Lynch was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winners were Before the Rain directed by Milcho Manchevski and Vive L'Amour directed by Tsai Ming-liang.

Jury

Main Competition

The following people comprised the 1994 jury:^[3]

• David Lynch, American filmmaker, actor, music and visual artist
• Olivier Assayas, French filmmaker and film critic
• Margherita Buy, Italian actress
• Gaston Kaboré, Burkinabé filmmaker
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer
• Nagisa Oshima, Japanese filmmaker
• David Stratton, English-Australian film critic
• Uma Thurman, American actress
• Carlo Verdone, Italian actor and filmmaker

Official Sections

The following films were selected to be screened:^[4]

In Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
6 Days, 6 Nights	À la folie	Diane Kurys	France
Ashes of Time	東邪西毒	Wong Kar-Wai	Hong Kong, China
Before the Rain	Пред дождот	Milcho Manchevski	Macedonia. France, United Kingdom
The Bull	Il toro	Carlo Mazzacurati	Italy
The Heart's Cry	Le cri du coeur	Idrissa Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso, France
Heavenly Creatures		Peter Jackson	New Zealand
In the Heat of the Sun	陽光燦爛的日子	Jiang Wen	China
Lamerica		Gianni Amelio	Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin	Жизнь и необыча́йные приключе́ния солда́та Ива́на Чо́нкина	Jiří Menzel	Russia, Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom, Italy
Little Odessa		James Gray	United States
Magic Hunter	Büvös vadász	Ildikó Enyedi	Hungary, France, Switzerland
Natural Born Killers		Oliver Stone	United States
Il branco		Marco Risi	Italy
Pigalle		Karim Dridi	France
A Shadow You Soon Will Be	Una sombra ya pronto serás	Héctor Olivera	Argentina
Somebody to Love		Alexandre Rockwell	United States
The Tit and the Moon	La Teta y la luna	Bigas Luna	Spain
Two Brothers, My Sister	Três Irmãos	Teresa Villaverde	Portugal
Vive L'Amour	愛情萬歲	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan

Out of competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Bullets Over Broadway		Woody Allen	United States
Declarations of Love	Dichiarazioni d'amore	Pupi Avati	Italy
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood	Genesi: La creazione e il diluvio	Ermanno Olmi	Italy, Germany
Oasi		Cristiano Bortone	Italy
Il Postino: The Postman	Il postino	Michael Radford	Italy, France
Staggered		Martin Clunes	United Kingdom
Tom & Viv		Brian Gilbert	United Kingdom

Special events

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Amnesia		Gonzalo Justiniano	Chile
Eagles Don't Hunt Flies	Águilas no cazan moscas	Sergio Cabrera	Colombia
Jason's Lyric		Doug McHenry	United States
Motel Eden	El jardín del edén	María Novaro	Mexico
The Peacocks	I pavoni	Luciano Manuzzi	Italy
Rio's Love Song	Veja Esta Canção	Carlos Diegues	Brazil
You Drive Me Crazy	Du bringst mich noch um	Wolfram Paulus	Austria
Words Upon the Window Pane		Mary McGuckian	Ireland
Tribute to Jacques Doillon
Du fond du coeur		Jacques Doillon	France

Window on Images

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Die Stimme des Igels		Jochen Kuhn	Germany
Enastros tholos		Kostas Aristopoulos	Greece
Everynight ... Everynight		Alkinos Tsilimidos	Australia
The Kingdom	Riget	Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred	Denmark
Limita		Denis Evstigneev	Russia
Loaded		Anna Campion	United Kingdom
Mil e Uma		Suzana de Moraes	Brazil
Oublie-moi		Noémie Lvovsky	France
S.F.W.		Jefery Levy	United States
Once Were Warriors		Lee Tamahori	New Zealand
Tsahal		Claude Lanzmann	France
Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele		Jon Jost	Germany
Vanya on 42nd Street		Louis Malle	United States
Weird Tales	Strane storie	Sandro Baldoni	Italy
Medium-length films
Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring	Arisha, der Bär und der steinerne Ring	Wim Wenders	France
Only the Brave		Ana Kokkinos	Australia
Voilà		Bruno Podalydès	France
Paradjanov: A Requiem		Ron Holloway	United States

Venetian Nights

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
47 Ronin		Kon Ichikawa	Japan
Captives		Angela Pope	United Kingdom
Clear and Present Danger		Phillip Noyce	United States
Forrest Gump		Robert Zemeckis	United States
Love and Human Remains		Denys Arcand	Canada
Metal Skin		Geoffrey Wright	Australia
The Night and the Moment		Anna Maria Tatò	France, United Kingdom, Italy
The Nightmare Before Christmas		Henry Selick	United States
True Lies		James Cameron	United States
Wolf		Mike Nichols	United States
Woodstock 25th Anniversary Director' s Cut		Michael Wadleigh	United States

Italian panorama

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Anni Ribelli		Rosalia Polizzi	Italy, Argentina
Da qualche parte in città		Michele Sordillo	Italy
Ladri di cinema		Piero Natoli
Love Burns	Anime fiammeggianti	Davide Ferrario
Once a Year, Every Year	Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno	Gianfrancesco Lazotti	Italy, France, Belgium
Take Me Away	Portami via	Gianluca Maria Tavarelli	Italy
The True Life of Antonio H.	La vera vita di Antonio H.	Enzo Monteleone

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:^[5]

• Accumulator 1 (Akumulátor 1) by Jan Svěrák (Czech Republic)
• Cracking Up by Matt Mitler (United States)
• Don’t Get Me Started by Arthur Ellis (United Kingdom)
• The Road to Paradise (Doroga V Ray) by Vitalij Moskalenko (Russia)
• Frankie, Jonny und die anderen... Schattenkämpfer by Hans-Erich Viet (Germany)
• Ilayum Mullum (aka Leaves And Thorns) by K.P. Sasi (India)
• Iron Horsemen by Gilles Charmant (France)
• Passé-Composé (en. Past Imperfect) by Françoise Romand (France, Tunisia)
• That Eye, the Sky by John Ruane (Australia)

Official Awards

Main Competition

• Golden Lion:
  • Before the Rain by Milčo Mančevski
  • Vive L'Amour by Tsai Ming-liang
• Silver Lion:
  • Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson
  • Little Odessa by James Gray
  • The Bull by Carlo Mazzacurati
• Grand Special Jury Prize: Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone
• Golden Osella:
  • Best Director: Gianni Amelio for Lamerica
  • Best Screenplay: Bigas Luna, Cuca Canals for La teta y la luna
  • Best Cinematography: Christopher Doyle for Ashes of Time
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Xia Yu for In the Heat of the Sun
  • Best Supporting Actor: Roberto Citran for The Bull
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Maria de Medeiros for Três Irmãos
  • Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave for Little Odessa

Career Golden Lion

• Al Pacino
• Suso Cecchi d'Amico
• Ken Loach

Independent Awards

The President of the Italian Senate's Gold Medal

• Život a neobyčejná dobrodružství vojáka Ivana Čonkina by Jiří Menzel

Golden Ciak

• Living It Up by Paolo Virzì

FIPRESCI Prize

• Before the Rain by Milčo Mančevski
• Vive L'Amour by Tsai Ming-liang

OCIC Award

• Lamerica by Gianni Amelio