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 |
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The international competition jury, chaired by Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, awarded the Golden Lion to Lebanon by Samuel Maoz.[3]
Juries
The international juries of the 66th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[4][5][6]
Main competition (Venezia 66)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
In Competition
The following films competed for the Golden Lion:[12]
- Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion for best film.
Out of Competition
The following films were screened as Out of competition:[13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn's Finest | Antoine Fuqua | United States | |
| Chengdu, I Love You (closing film) | 成都我爱你 | Fruit Chan, Cui Jian | China |
| Delhi-6 | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | India | |
| Dev.D | Anurag Kashyap | ||
| Great Directors | Angela Ismailos | United States | |
| Green Days | Ruzhaye Sabz | Hana Makhmalbaf | Iran |
| Gulaal | गुलाल | Anurag Kashyap | India |
| The Hole | Joe Dante | United States | |
| The Informant! | Steven Soderbergh | ||
| The Men Who Stare at Goats | Grant Heslov | ||
| Napoli, Napoli, Napoli | Abel Ferrara | Italy | |
| L'oro di Cuba | Giuliano Montaldo | ||
| Rambo (Director's Cut) | Sylvester Stallone | United States | |
| REC 2 | Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Spain | |
| The Red Shadows | Le ombre rosse | Francesco Maselli | Italy |
| Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy | Prove per una tragedia siciliana | Roman Paska, John Turturro | |
| Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story | إحكي يا شهرزاد | Yousry Nasrallah | Egypt |
| South of the Border | Oliver Stone | United States | |
| Valhalla Rising | Nicolas Winding Refn | Denmark, United Kingdom | |
| Yona Yona Penguin | よなよなペンギン | Rintaro | Japan, France |
Corto Cortissimo (Short Film Competition)
The 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)
The 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
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:[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
The 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
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.[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
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The 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
The 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
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 66th edition of the festival:[3]
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 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)
- 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
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
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[22]
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 (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:[22]
FIPRESCI Award
- Best Film (Main competition): Lourdes by Jessica Hausner[23]
- Best Film (Horizons): Adrift by Bui Thac Chuyen
Queer Lion
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
C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award
UNICEF Award
Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award
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 UAAR
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
References
External links
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