The 68th annual Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

, held in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, took place from 31 August to 10 September 2011. American film director Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky

Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University to study film theory and the American Film Institute to study both live-action and animation filmmaking...

 was announced as the Head of the Jury. American actor and film director Al Pacino

Al Pacino

Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...

 was presented with the Glory to the Film-maker award on 4 September, prior to the premiere of his upcoming film Wilde Salome

Wilde Salome

Wilde Salome is 2011 American documentary-drama film written, directed by and starring Al Pacino. An exploration of Oscar Wilde's play Salome, the film premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival...

. Marco Bellocchio was awarded with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in September. The festival opened with the American film The Ides of March

The Ides of March (film)

The Ides of March is a 2011 American political drama thriller film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay written by Clooney, along with Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon. The film is an adaptation of Willimon's 2008 play Farragut North...

, directed by George Clooney

George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...

.

Films in competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (film) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 English-language espionage film directed by Tomas Alfredson, from a screenplay written by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan based on the 1974 novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré...		Tomas Alfredson Tomas Alfredson Tomas Alfredson is a Swedish film director, best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film Let the Right One In...	and  Early Modern France
Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights (2011 film) Wuthering Heights is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kaya Scodelario as Catherine and James Howson as Heathcliff. The screenplay, written by Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed, is based on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.- Cast :* Kaya Scodelario...		Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnold Andrea Arnold OBE is a filmmaker and former actress from England, who made her feature film directorial debut in 2006 with Red Road.-Early TV work:...
People Mountain People Sea People Mountain People Sea (film) People Mountain People Sea is a 2011 Chinese-Hong Kong film directed by Cai Shangjun. It was selected for the main competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival....	人山人海, Ren shan ren hai	Cai Shangjun Cai Shangjun Cai Shangjun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then, his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter. Cai was part of the team, along with Zhang Yang, Diao Yi'nan, and Liu Fendou, that co-wrote the screenplays...	Mainland China and  Hong Kong
Texas Killing Fields		Ami Canaan Mann Ami Canaan Mann Ami Canaan Mann is an American film, television director, producer and screenwriter. She has worked as a television and film writer since writing the NYPD Blue episode 'Tea and Sympathy' in 2000. She has won three awards, all in 2001 for her first film as a director, Morning...	United States
		George Clooney George Clooney George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...	United States
When the Night When the Night When the Night is a 2011 Italian drama film directed by Cristina Comencini. It is based on Comencini's novel with the same title. The film competed in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September.-Cast:...	Quando la notte	Cristina Comencini	Italy
Terraferma Terraferma (film) Terraferma is a 2011 Italian drama film directed by Emanuele Crialese. The film premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The film has been selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:...		Emanuele Crialese Emanuele Crialese Emanuele Crialese is an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is a native of Rome. He studied filmmaking in New York City...	Italy
		David Cronenberg David Cronenberg David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...	Germany and  Canada
4:44 Last Day on Earth 4:44 Last Day on Earth 4:44 Last Day on Earth is a 2011 American drama film directed by Abel Ferrara. The film competed in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September....		Abel Ferrara Abel Ferrara Abel Ferrara is an American film screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer , Ms. 45 , King of New York , Bad Lieutenant and The Funeral .-Early life:Ferrara was born in the Bronx of Italian and Irish descent...	United States
Killer Joe Killer Joe (film) Killer Joe is a 2011 American comedy film directed by William Friedkin. The film competed in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival in September.-Cast:...		William Friedkin William Friedkin William Friedkin is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The French Connection in 1971 and The Exorcist in 1973; for the former, he won the Academy Award for Best Director...	United States
That Summer That Summer (film) That Summer is a 2011 drama film directed by Philippe Garrel, starring Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Céline Sallette and Jérôme Robart. Its original French title is Un été brûlant, which means "A burning summer". The film tells the story of a stormy relationship between an actress and a painter...		Philippe Garrel Philippe Garrel Philippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival...	Early Modern France
The Last Man on Earth The Last Man on Earth (2011 film) The Last Man on Earth is a 2011 Italian science fiction drama film directed by Gian Alfonso Pacinotti. Its original Italian title is L'ultimo terrestre, which means "The last earthling". The story follows a man with relational problems while aliens visit Earth...	L'Ultimo Terrestre	Gipi Gipi Gianni Pacinotti, better known by the pseudonym of Gipi, is an Italian cartoonist, filmmaker, and author.-Biography:Born in Pisa in 1963, he began his career illustrating for the publishing and advertising industries....	Italy
	桃姐, Taojie	Ann Hui Ann Hui Ann Hui On-Wah is a Hong Kong film director, film producer and occasional screenwriter, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave.-Early life:...	Mainland China and  Hong Kong
The Exchange The Exchange (film) The Exchange is an Israeli drama film directed by Eran Kolirin. The film was screened in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in September 2011....	Hahithalfut	Eran Kolirin Eran Kolirin Eran Kolirin is an Israeli screenwriter and film director.His directorial debut and as of 2008 his only feature-length film is The Band's Visit . The film was a critical success, winning eight Awards of the Israeli Film Academy and prizes at several international film festivals...	Israel and  Germany
Alps Alps (film) Alps is a 2011 Greek drama film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It stars Aggeliki Papoulia and Ariane Labed, and was co-written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou...	Αλπεις, Alpeis	Yorgos Lanthimos Yorgos Lanthimos Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek filmmaker and theatre director.Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. Through the 90’s he directed a series of videos for Greek dance-theater companies...	Greece
Shame Shame (2011 film) Shame is an erotic drama film co-written and directed by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Shame was co-produced by Film4 and See-Saw Films...		Steve McQueen Steve McQueen (artist) Steve Rodney McQueen CBE is a British artist and filmmaker. He is a winner of the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival, a Turner Prize and BAFTA.-Early years:...
Carnage Carnage (2011 film) Carnage is a 2011 black comedy drama film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the acclaimed play God of Carnage by French playwright Yasmina Reza. The film is an international co-production of France, Germany, Poland and Spain.-Plot:...		Roman Polanski Roman Polanski Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...	Early Modern France,  Germany,  Spain and  Poland
Faust Faust (2011 film) Faust is a 2011 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German...	Фауст	Alexander Sokurov Alexander Sokurov Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a semi-documentary, Russian Ark , filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust , which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.- Life and work...	Russia
Dark Horse Dark Horse (2011 film) Dark Horse is an upcoming film written and directed by Todd Solondz planned for release in late 2011.-Plot:Based on news reports and a press release from October 2010, the film is about Abe, a 30-something male living with his parents, reluctantly working for his father while pursuing his hobby of...		Todd Solondz Todd Solondz Todd Solondz is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background...	United States
Himizu Himizu (film) is 2011 Japanese drama film based on a manga of the same name by Minoru Furuya. Himizu is directed by director Sion Sono, whose works includes films like Cold Fish and Guilty of Romance ....	ヒミズ	Sion Sono Sion Sono is a controversial Japanese filmmaker and poet. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan, and is best known for his films as well as avant-garde poetry performances.-Early career:...	Japan
Chicken with Plums Chicken with Plums (film) Chicken with Plums is a 2011 French drama film directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. It is based on the graphic novel of the same name. The film premiered in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2011...	Poulet aux prunes	Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...  and Vincent Paronnaud Vincent Paronnaud Pascal Stadler , a.k.a. Winshluss, is a French comics artist and filmmaker. He is best known for cowriting and codirecting with Marjane Satrapi the highly acclaimed animated film Persepolis , for which they received numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as well...	Early Modern France,  Belgium and  Germany
Life Without Principle Life Without Principle (film) Life Without Principle is a 2011 Hong Kong crime drama film produced and directed by Johnnie To and starring Lau Ching Wan, Richie Ren and Denise Ho. This film was screened in competition at the 68th Venice Film Festival on 9 September 2011...	奪命金, Dyut ming gam	Johnnie To Johnnie To Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born 22 April 1955, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas...	Hong Kong
Seediq Bale Seediq Bale Seediq Bale is the fourth studio album by the Taiwanese black metal band ChthoniC, and the first to receive full promotion and release outside of Asia... (Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale)	賽德克·巴萊, Sài dé kè ba lái	Wei Te-Sheng Wei Te-Sheng Wei Te-Sheng , Taiwan) is the director of Cape No. 7, the 2nd top-selling film in Taiwanese history.-Career:Wei’s film career began when he got a job in a small production house. Then he became an assistant in Edward Yang's film studio in 1995. When Yang was filming Mahjong , he was promoted to...	Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

Feature films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Almayer's Folly Almayer's Folly (film) Almayer's Folly is an upcoming film directed by Chantal Akerman, starring Stanislas Merhar, Aurora Marion and Marc Barbé. It is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1895 debut novel Almayer's Folly, and tells the story of a Dutchman searching for pirate treasure in Malaysia. The setting has been...		Chantal Akerman Chantal Akerman Chantal Anne Akerman is a Belgian film director, artist, and professor of film at the European Graduate School. Akerman's best-known film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , exemplifies a dedication to the ellipses of conventional narrative cinema.-Early life:Akerman was born to...	Belgium and France
	白蛇傳說之法海, Baish echuanshuo	Tony Ching Siu-Tung Ching Siu-tung Ching Siu-tung , also known as Tony Ching, is a Hong Kong action choreographer, actor, film director and producer, who has directed over 20 films, including the critically acclaimed supernatural fantasy A Chinese Ghost Story .-Career:...	China and Hong Kong
Summer Games Summer Games (film) Summer Games is a 2011 Swiss drama film written and directed by Rolando Colla. The film has been selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Fiorella Campanella as Marie* Armando Condolucci as Nic...	Giochi d'estate	Rolando Colla	Switzerland and Italy
Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Politician Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Politician Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad and the Politician is an Egyptian documentary directed by Tamer Ezzat, Ahmad Abdalla, Ayten Amin and Amr Salama. The film is divided in three parts covering respectively the protesters, the police forces and a profile of Hosni Mubarak by several political figures....	تحرير 2011: الطيب والشرس والسياسي	Tamer Ezzat, Ahmad Abdalla Ahmad Abdalla Ahmad Abdalla El Sayed Abdelkader is an Egyptian film director, editor and screen writer.His debut feature film is Heliopolis - 2009, his second film is Microphone - 2010- Microphone - 2010 :... , Ayten Amin and Amr Salama	Egypt
		Philippe Faucon	Belgium
		Mary Harron Mary Harron Mary Harron is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter best known for her films I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page.-Overview:...	Canada and Ireland
Vivan las Antipodas!		Victor Kossakovsky Victor Kossakovsky Victor Kossakovsky is a Russian filmmaker. He began his career in motion pictures at the Leningrad studio of Documentaries as assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor in 1978. In many of his films, Kossakovsky plays all of the roles of editor, cinematographer, writer, and director...	Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, Chile and Russia
Alois Nebel Alois Nebel Alois Nebel is a 2011 Czech animated drama film directed by Tomáš Luňák, based on the comic-book trilogy by Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír 99. It is set in the late 1980s in a small village in the Jeseník Mountains, close to the Polish border, and tells the story of a train dispatcher who begins to...		Tomáš Luňák	Czech Republic and Germany
W.E		Madonna Madonna (entertainer) Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...	United Kingdom
Eva		Kike Maillo	Spain and France
Scossa		Francesco Maselli Francesco Maselli Francesco Maselli or Citto Maselli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 38 films since 1949... , Carlo Lizzani, Ugo Gregoretti Ugo Gregoretti Ugo Gregoretti is an Italian film director, actor and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1956. He was born in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Ro.Go.Pa.G. * Les plus belles escroqueries du monde...  and Nino Russo	Italy
		Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou	France
		Ermanno Olmi Ermanno Olmi Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....	Italy
Wilde Salome Wilde Salome Wilde Salome is 2011 American documentary-drama film written, directed by and starring Al Pacino. An exploration of Oscar Wilde's play Salome, the film premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival...		Al Pacino Al Pacino Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...	United States
Tormented Tormented (2011 film) is a 2011 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Shimizu. The film involves Kiriko and her younger half-brother Daigo who are haunted by a large rabbit-doll...		Takashi Shimizu Takashi Shimizu Takashi Shimizu is a Japanese film director, best known for the Ju-on series of horror films.-Filmography:...	Japan
Contagion Contagion (film) Contagion is a 2011 American medical thriller disaster film directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film has an ensemble cast that includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, and Bryan Cranston. Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal...		Steven Soderbergh Steven Soderbergh Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...	United States
Violet Wister's Damsels in Distress		Whit Stillman Whit Stillman Whit Stillman is an American writer-director known for his sly depictions of the "urban haute bourgeoisie" Whit Stillman (born John Whitney Stillman on January 25, 1952) is an American writer-director known for his sly depictions of the "urban haute bourgeoisie" Whit Stillman (born John Whitney...	United States

Events

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
In the Name of the Father (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement)	Nel nome del padre	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
Mildred Pierce (Tribute to Todd Haynes)		Todd Haynes Todd Haynes Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.- Style and themes :The writes that "Haynes is...	United States
Duvidha Duvidha Duvidha is a 1973 Bollywood ghost movie directed by Mani Kaul. The film stars Ravi Menon and Raisa Padamsee. The film was critically acclaimed and won the director National Film Award for Best Direction and Critics Award for Best film at the 1974 Filmfare Awards.The film is based on a story by... (Mani Kaul: 25.12.1944-6.7.2011)		Mani Kaul Mani Kaul Mani Kaul was an Indian film director of Hindi films. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Started his career with Uski Roti , which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win...	India
Questa storia qua		Alessandro Paris and Sibylle Righetti	Italy
We Can't Go Home Again We Can't Go Home Again We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental feature film directed by Nicholas Ray in collaboration with his film students at SUNY Binghamton. Ray and the students play fictionalized versions of themselves.... (Nicholas Ray 1911-2011)		Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause....	United States
Don't Expect too Much (Nicholas Ray 1911-2011)		Susan Ray	United States
India: Matri Bhumi (Rossellini Ritrovato)		Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Rossellini was one of the directors of the Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as Roma città aperta to the movement.-Early life:Born in Rome, Roberto Rossellini lived on the Via Ludovisi, where Benito Mussolini had...	Italy
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel		Lisa Immordino Vreeland	United States

Short films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
		Collectif Abounaddara	Syria
Vanguard		Collectif Abounaddara	Syria
Evolution (Megaplex)		Marco Brambilla Marco Brambilla Marco Brambilla is an Italian-born Canadian artist and filmmaker who works in the United States. Educated at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, where he studied film, he first worked in commercials and feature films, directing the successful 1993 science fiction film Demolition Man...	United States
Marco Bellocchio, Venezia		Pietro Marcello	Italy
		Mario Martone Mario Martone Mario Martone is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1985. His film L'amore molesto was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival...	Italy
Joule		David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi	Italy
Spell. The Hypnotist Dog		David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi	Italy
Suite		David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi	Italy

Feature films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
L'Oiseau		Yves Caumon Yves Caumon Yves Caumon is a French director. He is Professor in Toulouse's University in France. He worked as assistant-director with Agnès Varda, and Jean-Paul Civeyrac....	France
Hail		Amiel Courtin-Wilson	Australia
Nocturnos		Edgardo Cozarinsky Edgardo Cozarinsky Edgardo Cozarinsky is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing Vudú urbano.- Life :His family name goes back to his great grandparents, Jewish immigrants from Kiev and Odessa at the end of the 19th century, his first name tells of his mother's infatuation with Edgar Allan Poe.After an...	Argentina
Amore Carne		Pippo Delbono	Italy and Switzerland
Sal		James Franco James Franco James Edward Franco is an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, painter, performance artist and instructor at New York University. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s...	United States
Whores' Glory		Michael Glawogger Michael Glawogger Michael Glawogger is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.From 1981 to 1982 Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and then from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy...	Austria and Germany
Tae Peang Phu Deaw (P-047)		Kongdej Jaturanrasmee	Thailand
Die Herde des Herrn		Romuald Karmakar Romuald Karmakar Romuald Karmakar is a German film director and screenwriter. He was born in Wiesbaden as the son of an Indian father and a French mother. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens. He won several awards, including the Bavarian Film Award for Best Screenplay...	Germany
Stateless Things	Jultak dongshi	Kim Kyong-mook	South Korea
Swirl	Girimunho	Helvécio Marins, Jr. and Clarissa Campolina	Brazil, Spain and Germany
Photographic Memory		Ross McElwee Ross McElwee Ross McElwee is an American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, and Harvard professor, known for his autobiographical films about his family and personal life, usually interwoven with an episodic journey of some sort. Many cultural aspects of his southern upbringing are present in his...	United States and France
Cut		Amir Naderi Amir Naderi Amir Naderi is a notable Iranian film director, screenwriter and one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Persian cinema. Mr Naderi is currently in Japan working on CUT, his new feature film, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Takako Tokiwa, due to be released in 2011.Naderi developed his...	Japan
Hollywood Talkies		Oscar Perez and Maria Del Mar De Ribot	Spain
The Invader		Nicolas Provost	Belgium
Shock Head Soul		Simon Pummel	Netherlands and United Kingdom
Two Years at Sea		Ben Rivers Ben Rivers Ben Rivers is a contemporary experimental film maker and artist based in London. His work has been shown in many film festivals and galleries throughout the world, and won numerous awards...	United Kingdom
Alms of the Blind Horse	Anhey ghorhey da daan	Gurvinder Singh	India
The Orator The Orator The Orator is a 2011 Samoan and New Zealand film written and directed by Tusi Tamasese. It is the first ever Samoan feature film, "entirely shot in Samoa, in the Samoan language, with a Samoan cast and story"...	O le tulafale	Tusi Tamasese Tusi Tamasese Tusi Tamasese is a Samoan New Zealander film director.He is of high chiefly descent, of the Tupua Tamasese lineage....	New Zealand and Samoa
Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours		Rirkrit Tiravanjia	Thailand and Mexico
Verano		José Luis Torres Leiva	Chile
Kotoko		Shinya Tsukamoto Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.-Biography:Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging...	Japan
Le Petit poucet		Marina de Van Marina de Van Marina de Van is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* See the Sea...	France
Swan Swan (film) Swan is an upcoming 2011 Portuguese film directed by Teresa Villaverde.-Reception:The film will be shown at the Orizzonti section of the 68th Venice International Film Festival....	Cisne	Teresa Villaverde Teresa Villaverde Teresa Villaverde is a Portuguese film director. Her film Os Mutantes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...	Portugal
The Sword Identity The Sword Identity -Plot:Once upon a time in the Southern Chinese city of Guancheng, there lived four families, each of them faithful keepers of martial arts. Anyone who wanted to establish a new sect, or a new form of kung fu, had to fight his way through the family's gates...	Wokou de zongji	Haofeng Xu	China
Would You Have Sex with an Arab?		Yolande Zauberman Yolande Zauberman - Filmography :*Classified People *Caste criminelle *Me Ivan, You Abraham *Clubbed to Death *La Guerre à Paris *Paradise now - Journal d'une femme en crise - External links :...	France

Events

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Annunciation		Eija-Liisa Ahtila Eija-Liisa Ahtila Eija-Liisa Ahtila is a video artist and photographer. She lives and works in Helsinki.In 1998 Eija-Liisa Ahtila participated in the second edition of Manifesta. She was the winner of the inaugural Vincent Award in 2000. In 2002 she had a solo show at Tate Modern, and in 2006 her multi-screen video...	Finland
Century of Birthing	Siglo ng pagluluwal	Lav Diaz Lav Diaz Lav Diaz or Lavrente Indico Diaz is a Filipino independent filmmaker, born in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines, on December 30, 1958....	Philippines
Il silenzio di pelesjan		Pietro Marcello	Italy
Birmingham Ornament		Andrey Silvestrov and Yuri Leiderman	Russia
Monkey Sandwich		Wim Vandekeybus Wim Vandekeybus Wim Vandekeybus is a Belgian choreographer, dancer, film director and actor. His dance company is based in Brussels, and is called Ultima Vez. He directed several shows, since his first piece in 1987, What The Body Does Not Remember...	Belgium

Medium-length and short films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Palaces of Pity	Palácios de pena	Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt	Portugal
The Sun's Incubator	Hadinat al shams	Ammar Al-Beik	Syria
Piattaforma Luna		Yuri Ancarini	Italy
Accidentes Gloriosos		Mauro Andrizzi and Marcus Lindeen	Sweden, Denmark and Argentina
Hypercrisis		Josef Dabernig	Austria
In attesa dell'avvento		Felice D'Agostino and Arturo Lavorato	Italy
Snow Canon		Mati Diop	France
Golden Bird	Sonchidi	Amit Dutta	India
Parabeton. Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete		Heinz Emigholz Heinz Emigholz Heinz Emigholz is a filmmaker, actor, artist, writer and producer. He is a Professor for Experimental film at Berlin University of the Arts and at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. He worked as an illustrator and a retoucher, and studied philosophy and literary studies in Hamburg...	Germany
Movimenti di un tempo impossibile		Flatform	Italy
From Tokyo	Iz Tokio	Aleksej German, Jr.	Russia
Notes sur nos voyages en Russie 1989-1990		Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci-Lucchi	Italy
Meteor		Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller	Germany
Start		Mattias Gustafsson	Sweden
663114		Isamu Hirabayashi	Japan
Late and Deep		Devin Horan	Norway
Louyre – This Our Still Life		Andrew Kötting Andrew Kötting Andrew Kötting is a British film director, writer and artist.Kötting was born in Kent. He studied BA Fine Art at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, London, 1984; MA in Mixed Media, Slade School of Art, London 1988. In 1989 he collaborated with Leila McMillan in setting up BadBLoOd & siBYL...	United Kingdom
Passing Through the Night		Wattanapume Laisuwanchai	Thailand
Black Mirror at the National Gallery		Mark Lewis Mark Lewis (artist) Mark Lewis in Hamilton, Ontario is a Canadian artist. Noted for his film installations, Lewis represented Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale.-Biography:...	Canada
All the Lines Flow Out		Charles Lim Yi Yong	Singapore
Modern N° 2		Mirai Mizue	Japan
Dialogical Abrasion	Dialogischer Abrieb	Yves Netzhammer Yves Netzhammer Yves Netzhammer is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Zurich. Born in Schaffhausen, he studied architecture there and later obtained a diploma at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, department of visual design. He has been working with video installations, slide projections,...	Switzerland
The Tracks of My Tears 2		Axel Petersén Axel Petersen Axel Johannes Petersen was a Danish athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.In the 100 metres, Petersen took second place in his first round heat with a time of 11.5 seconds. He did not advance to the semifinals.-References:...	Sweden
Conference		Norbert Pfaffenbichler	Austria
Moving Stories		Nicolas Provost	Belgium
River Rites		Ben Russell Ben Russell (filmmaker) Ben Russell is an American experimental filmmaker. Russell developed his reputation over the numerous shorts he made throughout the 2000s, many as part of his "Trypps" series, and as the curator of the Magic Lantern Cinema in Providence, Rhode Island...	United States
Miss Candace Hilligoss' Flickering Halo		Fabio Scacchioloi and Vincenzo Core	Italy

International Critics' Week

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
		Hernán Belón	Argentina
		Michale Boganim	France, Germany, Poland and Ukraine
Marécages		Guy Édoin	Canada
Stockholm East	Stockholm Östra	Simon Kaijser da Silva	Sweden
Totem		Jessica Krummacher	Germany
Missione di Pace		Fancesco Lagi	Italy
Là-Bas		Guido Lombardi	Italy
Louise Wimmer		Cyril Mennegun	France
		Kyzza Terraza	Mexico

Venice Days

The following films are set to be screened as part of the Venice Days section:

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Another Silence		Santiago Amigorena Santiago Amigorena Santiago Amigorena is an Argentine screenwriter, film producer, film director and actor.In 2007 he was nominated at the Mar del Plata Film Festival for Best Film in A Few Days in September....	France, Canada, Brazil and Argentina
My Name Is Ki		Ladzek Dawid	Poland
Beyond the Glass	Di là del vetro	Andrea di Bari	Italy
Ruggine		Daniele Gaglianone	Italy
Guilty	Présumé coupable	Vincent Garenq	France
All Our Desires	Toutes nos envies	Philippe Lioret Philippe Lioret Philippe Lioret is a French film director.- Filmography :*1993: Tombés du ciel*1997: Tenue correcte exigée*2001: Mademoiselle*2004: L'Équipier*2006: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas*2009: Welcome...	France
Historias... Que So Existem Quando Lembradas		Julia Murat	Brazil and France
Twilight Portrait	Портрет в сумерках	Angelina Nikonova	Russia
Io Sono Li		Andrea Segre	Italy and France
Last Winter	Hiver dernier	John Shank John Shank John Shank was an actor in English Renaissance theatre, a leading comedian in the King's Men during the 1620s and 1630s.-Early career:...	Belgium and France
Café de Flore		Jean-Marc Vallée Jean-Marc Vallée Jean-Marc Vallée is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is best known for the film C.R.A.Z.Y. which is one of the most successful films in Quebec history, both financially and critically...	Canada and France
Love and Bruises		Lou Ye Lou Ye Lou Ye , born 1965, is a Chinese writer-director who is commonly grouped with the "Sixth Generation" directors of Chinese cinema.-Films:Born in Shanghai, Lou was educated at the Beijing Film Academy. In 1993, he made his first film Weekend Lover, but it was not released until two years later in 1995...	France
Habibi		Susan Youssef	Palestine, United Arab Emirates and Netherlands

Special Events

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Testimony	Edut	Shlomi Elkabetz	Israel
Voi Siete Qui		Francesco Matero	Italy
Cuba in the Age of Obama	Cuba Nell'Epoca di Obama	Gianni Minà Gianni Mina Gianni Mina is a French professional tennis player. On the junior circuit, Mina reached a career-high combined ranking of No...	Italy
The Kaiser of California The Kaiser of California The Kaiser of California, better known as "The Emperor of California" , is a 1936 film that has the unique distinction of being the first western film made in Nazi Germany...	Der Kaiser von Kalifornien	Luis Trenker Luis Trenker Luis Trenker was a German-language South Tyrolian film director, architect, and actor.-Biography:...	Germany
Crazy Horse		Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman is an American documentary filmmaker. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer...	France and United States

Open Space

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
		Renzo Carbonera	Italy
Hit the Road, Nonna		Duccio Chiarini	Italy
	Mundial olvidado	Lorenzo Garzella and Filippo Macelloni	Italy and Argentina
Radici		Carlo Luglio	Italy
Più Coma Un Artista		Elisabetta Pandimiglio	Italy
Dietro il Buio		Giorgio Pressburger Giorgio Pressburger Giorgio Pressburger is an Italian writer of novels and short stories.Born in Budapest, Pressburger settled in Italy in 1956, where he worked as a film and theatre director. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Italian Culture in Hungary. His book The Law of White Spaces won the...	Italy
Valdagno, Arizona		Pyoor	Italy and United States

In addition, the three nominees for the European Parliament

European Parliament

The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

's 2011 Lux Prize

Lux Prize

The European Parliament LUX Prize, introduced in 2007, is a prize given to a competing film by the European Parliament. It is named after the unit of illuminance, "lux", which is Latin for "light"...

 will receive screenings as part of this section. The films are Attenberg

Attenberg

Attenberg is a Greek drama film directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and Ariane Labed won the Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress. It was filmed in the Aspra Spitia village of Boeotia...

by Athina Rachel Tsangari, The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011 film)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 2011 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ariane Ascaride as Marie-Claire* Jean-Pierre Darroussin as Michel...

by Robert Guédiguian

Robert Guédiguian

Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin....

 and Play by Ruben Östlund

Ruben Östlund

Ruben Östlund is a Swedish film director. Originally a director of skiing film, he has directed three feature-length fiction films: The Guitar Mongoloid from 2004, Involuntary from 2008 and Play, scheduled to be released in 2011.-Career:Ruben Östlund started as a director of skiing films in the...

.

Juries

International competition

• Darren Aronofsky
  Darren Aronofsky
  Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. He attended Harvard University to study film theory and the American Film Institute to study both live-action and animation filmmaking...
  
  , American director, jury president
• Eija-Liisa Ahtila
  Eija-Liisa Ahtila
  Eija-Liisa Ahtila is a video artist and photographer. She lives and works in Helsinki.In 1998 Eija-Liisa Ahtila participated in the second edition of Manifesta. She was the winner of the inaugural Vincent Award in 2000. In 2002 she had a solo show at Tate Modern, and in 2006 her multi-screen video...
  
  , Finnish visual artist and filmmaker
• David Byrne
  David Byrne
  David Byrne may refer to:*David Byrne , musician and former Talking Heads frontman**David Byrne , his eponymous album*David Byrne , Irish footballer*David Byrne , English footballer...
  
  , British musician
• Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.- Style and themes :The writes that "Haynes is...
  
  , American director
• Mario Martone
  Mario Martone
  Mario Martone is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1985. His film L'amore molesto was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  , Italian director
• Alba Rohrwacher
  Alba Rohrwacher
  Alba Caterina Rohrwacher is an Italian actress.Alba Rohrwacher was born in Florence, the daughter of a German father and an Italian mother. She studied acting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Her first movie role was in 2004 in L'amore ritrovato. In 2008 she was awarded the...
  
  , Italian actress
• André Téchiné
  André Téchiné
  André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....
  
  , French director

Orizzonti

• Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
  
  , Chinese director, jury president
• Stuart Comer, British Curator of Film at Tate Modern
  Tate Modern
  Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
  
  
• Odile Decq, French architect
• Marianne Khoury, Egyptian director
• Jacopo Quadri, Italian film editor

Controcampo Italiano

• Stefano Incerti, Italian author, jury president
• Aureliano Amadei, Italian actor
• Cristiana Capotondi
  Cristiana Capotondi
  - Biography :Capotondi was born in Rome to an Italian family of Italian Jewish descent. She graduated from the Università La Sapienza in Rome with a degree in communication sciences....
  
  , Italian actress

"Luigi De Laurentiis" Venice Award for a Debut Film

• Carlo Mazzacurati
  Carlo Mazzacurati
  Carlo Mazzacurati is an Italian film director and screenwriter born in Padua. He started his cinema career in 1980.His better known film include Il Toro and La lingua del santo...
  
  , Italian director, jury president
• Aleksei Fedorchenko
  Aleksei Fedorchenko
  Aleksey Fedorchenko is a film director from Yekaterinburg, Russia who won accolades at the Venice Film Festival with the mockumentary First on the Moon and later with Silent Souls , a magical realist tale about the long-extinct Finnic tribe of Merya....
  
  , Russian director
• Fred Roos
  Fred Roos
  -Life and career:Roos was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Florence Mary and Victor Otto Roos. Beginning in television as a casting director for The Andy Griffith Show, Roos went on to produce most of Francis Ford Coppola's films subsequent to The Godfather, including Apocalypse Now...
  
  , American producer
• Charles Tesson, French Artistic Director of the International Critic's Week
  International Critic's Week
  The International Critics' Week , founded in 1962 and organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, is the oldest parallel competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival. It showcases first and second feature films by directors from all over the world, and has remained true to its tradition...
  
   at the Cannes Film Festival
  Cannes Film Festival
  The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
  
  
• Serra Yilmaz, Turkish actress

Venezia 68

• Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion) for the best film: Faust
  Faust (2011 film)
  Faust is a 2011 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German...
  
  
• Leone d'Argento (Silver Lion) for the best director: Cai Shangjun
  Cai Shangjun
  Cai Shangjun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then, his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter. Cai was part of the team, along with Zhang Yang, Diao Yi'nan, and Liu Fendou, that co-wrote the screenplays...
  
  , for People Mountain People Sea
  People Mountain People Sea (film)
  People Mountain People Sea is a 2011 Chinese-Hong Kong film directed by Cai Shangjun. It was selected for the main competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival....
  
  
• Special Jury Prize
  Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)
  The Special Jury Prize is an award given at the Venice Film Festival. It is awarded to one or two films per year and is considered less prestigious than the main award, the Golden Lion.-Awards:*1951 A Streetcar Named Desire by Elia Kazan...
  
  : Terraferma
  Terraferma (film)
  Terraferma is a 2011 Italian drama film directed by Emanuele Crialese. The film premiered at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The film has been selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:...
  
  by Emanuele Crialese
• Coppa Volpi for the Best Actor
  Volpi Cup
  The Volpi Cups are the principal awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Formal acting awards were introduced in the second festival . Initially they were called Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment. The name Volpi Cup was introduced the following year...
  
  : Michael Fassbender
  Michael Fassbender
  Michael Fassbender is an Irish-German actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Archie Hicox in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Magneto in the superhero blockbuster X-Men: First Class...
  
  , for Shame
  Shame (2011 film)
  Shame is an erotic drama film co-written and directed by Steve McQueen, starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan. Shame was co-produced by Film4 and See-Saw Films...
  
  
• Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress
  Volpi Cup
  The Volpi Cups are the principal awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Formal acting awards were introduced in the second festival . Initially they were called Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment. The name Volpi Cup was introduced the following year...
  
  : Deanie Ip
  Deanie Ip
  Deanie Ip is a Cantopop singer and Chinese actress, known for supporting roles. She has won the Hong Kong Film Awards twice , while her Cantopop albums were released by Universal Music Group and several local labels...
  
  , for A Simple Life
  A Simple Life
  A Simple Life, also known as Sister Peach, is an upcoming Hong Kong drama film directed by Ann Hui and starring Andy Lau and Deanie Ip...
  
  
• Premio Marcello Mastroianni
  Premio Marcello Mastroianni
  The Marcello Mastroianni Award is one of the awards given out at the Venice International Film Festival. It was established in 1998 in honor of the great Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, who died at the end of 1996. The award was created to recognize an emerging actor or...
  
  , for the best emerging actor or actress: Shôta Sometani and Fumi Nikaidô for Himizu
  Himizu (film)
  is 2011 Japanese drama film based on a manga of the same name by Minoru Furuya. Himizu is directed by director Sion Sono, whose works includes films like Cold Fish and Guilty of Romance ....
  
  
• Osella for Best Cinematography
  Golden Osella
  The Golden Osella is the name of several awards given at the Venice Film Festival. They are awarded irregularly and in various categories such as directing, screenwriting, cinematography and 'technical contributions'.-Best Director:...
  
  : Robbie Ryan for Wuthering Heights
  Wuthering Heights (2011 film)
  Wuthering Heights is a 2011 British romantic drama film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring Kaya Scodelario as Catherine and James Howson as Heathcliff. The screenplay, written by Andrea Arnold and Olivia Hetreed, is based on Emily Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.- Cast :* Kaya Scodelario...
  
  
• Osella for Best Screenplay
  Golden Osella
  The Golden Osella is the name of several awards given at the Venice Film Festival. They are awarded irregularly and in various categories such as directing, screenwriting, cinematography and 'technical contributions'.-Best Director:...
  
  : Yorgos Lanthimos
  Yorgos Lanthimos
  Yorgos Lanthimos is a Greek filmmaker and theatre director.Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School in Athens. Through the 90’s he directed a series of videos for Greek dance-theater companies...
  
   and Efthimis Filippou for Alps
  Alps (film)
  Alps is a 2011 Greek drama film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It stars Aggeliki Papoulia and Ariane Labed, and was co-written by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou...
  
  
• "Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film: Là-bas by Guido Lombardi
• Controcampo italiano prize (Feature film): to Scialla! by Francesco Bruni
  Francesco Bruni
  Francesco Bruni was an Italian engraver. He engraved a plate of The Assumption of the Virgin after Guido Reni.-References:...
  
  
• Controcampo italiano prize (Short film): to A Chjàna by Jonas Carpignano
• Controcampo italiano prize Doc: to Pugni chiusi by Fiorella Infascelli
  Fiorella Infascelli
  Fiorella Infascelli is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She has directed eight films between 1980 and 2003. Her film The Mask was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  

Orizzonti

• Premio Orizzonti (Orizzonti prize): Kotoko by Shinya Tsukamoto
  Shinya Tsukamoto
  is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.-Biography:Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. He made a number of films, ranging...
  
   (Japan)
• Special Orizzonti jury prize: Whores' Glory by Michael Glawogger
  Michael Glawogger
  Michael Glawogger is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.From 1981 to 1982 Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and then from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy...
  
   (Austria, Germany)
• Premio Orizzonti awards for medium-length film: Accidentes Gloriosos by Mauro Andrizzi and Marcus Lindeen (Sweden, Denmark, Germany)
• Premio Orizzonti award for short film: In attesa dell'avvento by Felice D'Agostino and Arturo Lavorato (Italy)
• Special Mentions:
  • O Le Tulafale
    The Orator
    The Orator is a 2011 Samoan and New Zealand film written and directed by Tusi Tamasese. It is the first ever Samoan feature film, "entirely shot in Samoa, in the Samoan language, with a Samoan cast and story"...
    
    (The Orator) by Tusi Tamasese (New Zealand, Samoa)
  • All The Lines Flow Out by Charles LIM Yi Yong (Singapore)

Collateral Prizes

• Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola: Carnage by Roman Polanski;
• 32/a segnalazione Cinema for Unicef: Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese;
• Premio del pubblico Kino della Settimana della critica: La-bas by Guido Lombardi;
• Premio Label by Europa Cinemas for best european film in Venice Days section: Presume Coupable by Vincent Garenq;
• Premio 'Francesco Pasinetti' by Sngci for best film: Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese;
• Premio Pasinetti for best bebut: The Last Man on Earth by Gian Alfonso Pacinotti;
• Premio Fondazione Mimmo Rotella: The Last Man on Earth by Gian Alfonso Pacinotti and special mention for Pasta nera by Alessandro Piva;
• Premio del Dipartimento per le Pari Opportunita' a Tao jie by Ann Hui;
• Biografilm Lancia Award: Black Block by Carlo Augusto Bachschmidt;
• Future Film Festival Digital Award: Faust by Alexander Sokurov and special mention for Kotoko by Shinya Tsukamoto;
• Queer Lion
  Queer Lion
  Queer Lion is the trophy awarded from 2007 to the “Best Movie with LGBT Themes & Queer Culture” among those presented during the Venice International Film Festival.-History:...
  
   for the best Movie with LGBT Themes & Queer Culture: Wilde Salome by Al Pacino;
• Brian Prize
  Brian Prize
  The Brian Prize is the trophy awarded from 2006 to “A film that highlights and enhances the values ​​of rationality, respect for human rights, democracy, pluralism, promotion of individuality, freedom of conscience, expression and research, the principle of equal opportunities in public...
  
   by UAAR
  Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics
  The Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics is the only nationwide association of atheists and agnostics in Italy...
  
  : The Ides of March by George Clooney.