71st Venice International Film Festival
Festival Poster | |
Opening film | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) |
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Closing film | The Golden Era |
Location | Venice, Italy |
Founded | 1932 |
Awards |
Golden Lion – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize – The Look of Silence Silver Lion - Best Director – The Postman's White Nights |
Hosted by | Luisa Ranieri |
Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 2014 |
Website | Website |
The 71st annual Venice Film Festival took place in Venice, Italy between 27 August to 6 September 2014.[1] The Swedish film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence won the Golden Lion award. Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence won the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.
American filmmakers Thelma Schoonmaker and Frederick Wiseman were the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement award.[2] French composer Alexandre Desplat was the head of the jury for the main competition section.[3]
Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film Birdman opened the festival.[4][5] Ann Hui's drama film The Golden Era served as the closing night film.[6] Italian actress Luisa Ranieri hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival.[7]
The festival poster paid tribute to François Truffaut, as it featured the character of Antoine Doinel portrayed by Jean-Pierre Léaud from Truffaut's 1959 drama film The 400 Blows.[8][9]
Juries
- Main Competition[3]
- Alexandre Desplat: French composer (President of Jury)
- Joan Chen: Chinese actress and director
- Philip Groning: German director
- Jessica Hausner: Austrian director
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Indian novelist
- Sandy Powell: English costume designer
- Tim Roth: British actor
- Elia Suleiman: Palestinian director
- Carlo Verdone: Italian actor and director
- Horizons (Orizzonti)[10]
- Ann Hui: Hong Kong director (President of Jury)
- Moran Atias: Israeli actress
- Pernilla August: Swedish actress and director
- David Chase: American writer and director
- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Chadian director
- Roberto Minervini: Italian director
- Alin Taşçıyan: Turkish critic
- Luigi De Laurentiis[11]
- Alice Rohrwacher: Italian director (President of Jury)
- Lisandro Alonso: Argentine director
- Ron Mann: Canadian filmmaker
- Vivian Qu: Chinese filmmaker
- Razvan Radulescu: Romanian novelist and film director
Official selection
In Competition
The following films were selected for the main competition:[12][13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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99 Homes | N/A | Ramin Bahrani | United States |
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | Roy Andersson | Sweden, Germany, Norway, France |
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)[14] | N/A | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | United States |
Black Souls | Anime nere | Francesco Munzi | Italy, France |
Far from Men | Loin des hommes | David Oelhoffen | France |
Fires on the Plain | Nobi | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan |
Good Kill | N/A | Andrew Niccol | United States |
Hungry Hearts | Saverio Costanzo | Italy | |
Leopardi | Il giovane favoloso | Mario Martone | Italy |
The Price of Fame | La Rançon de la gloire | Xavier Beauvois | France, Belgium, Switzerland |
Le Dernier Coup de marteau | Le Dernier Coup de marteau | Alix Delaporte | France |
Manglehorn | N/A | David Gordon Green | United States |
Pasolini | Pasolini | Abel Ferrara | France, Belgium, Italy |
Red Amnesia | 闯入者 | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
Sivas | Sivas | Kaan Müjdeci | Turkey |
Tales | قصه ها (Ghesse-ha) | Rakhshan Bani-E'temad | Iran |
The Cut | The Cut | Fatih Akın | Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Poland, Turkey |
The Look of Silence | Senyap | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, UK |
The Postman's White Nights | Belye nochi pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna | Andrei Konchalovsky | Russia |
Three Hearts | 3 cœurs | Benoît Jacquot | France |
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[12][13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Words with Gods | N/A | Guillermo Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco, Bahman Ghobadi, Hideo Nakata, Alex de la Iglesia | Mexico, United States |
She's Funny That Way | N/A | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
Dearest | 親愛的 | Peter Ho-sun Chan | Hong Kong, China |
Olive Kitteridge | N/A | Lisa Cholodenko | United States |
Burying the Ex | N/A | Joe Dante | United States |
Perez. | Perez. | Edoardo De Angelis | Italy |
La zuppa del demonio | La zuppa del demonio | Davide Ferrario | Italy |
The Sound and the Fury | N/A | James Franco | United States |
Tsili | Tsili | Amos Gitai | Israel, Russia, Italy, France |
The State-Mafia Pact | La trattativa | Sabina Guzzanti | Italy |
The Golden Era | 黃金時代 | Ann Hui | China, Hong Kong |
Revivre | 화장 | Im Kwon-taek | South Korea |
The Humbling | N/A | Barry Levinson | United States |
The Old Man of Belem | O velho do restelo | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France |
Italy in a Day | Un giorno da italiani | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy, UK |
In the Basement | Im Keller | Ulrich Seidl | Austria |
The Boxtrolls | N/A | Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable | United States |
Nymphomaniac Volume II | Nymphomaniac Volume I (Long Version) Director's Cut | Lars Von Trier | Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium |
Horizons
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[3]
Feature films
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Theeb | ذيب | Naji Abu Nowar | Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, United Kingdom |
Line of Credit | Kreditis Limiti | Salome Alexi | Georgia, Germany, France |
Cymbeline | N/A | Michael Almereyda | United States |
Without Pity | Senza nessuna pietà | Michele Alhaique | Italy |
Near Death Experience | NDE (Near Death Experience) | Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern | France |
La vita oscena | La vita oscena | Renato De Maria | Italy |
Reality | Réalité | Quentin Dupieux | France, Belgium |
Goodnight Mommy | Ich seh, Ich seh | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Austria |
Hill of Freedom | 자유의 언덕 | Hong Sangsoo | South Korea |
Bypass | N/A | Duane Hopkins | United Kingdom |
The President | N/A | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Georgia, France, United Kingdom, Germany |
Jackie & Ryan | N/A | Ami Canaan Mann | United States |
Belluscone: A Sicilian Story | Belluscone, una storia siciliana | Franco Maresco | Italy |
Nabat | Nabat | Elchin Musaoglu | Azerbaijan |
Heaven Knows What | N/A | Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie | United States, France |
These Are the Rules | Takva Su Pravila | Ognjen Svilicic | Croatia, France, Serbia, Macedonia |
Court | Court | Chaitanya Tamhane | India |
Short films
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Bache | La bambina | Ali Asgari | Italy, Iran |
Ferdinand Knapp | Ferdinand Knapp | Andrea Baldini | France |
Mademoiselle | Mademoiselle | Guillaume Gouix | France |
Castillo y el Armado | Castillo y el Armado | Pedro Harres | Brazil |
Daily Bread | Pat-Lehem | Idan Hubel | Israel |
3/105 | 3/105 | Avelina Prat, Diego Opazo | Spain |
Maryam | Maryam | Sidi Saleh | Indonesia |
Art | Arta | Adrian Sitaru | Romania |
Era Apocrypha | N/A | Brendan Sweeny | United States |
Great Heat | 大暑 | Chen Tao | China |
Cams | Cams | Carl-Johan Westregård | Sweden |
In Overtime | Fi Al Waqt Al Dae'a | Rami Yasin | Jordan, Palestine |
Out of Competition
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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On the Bride's Side | Io sto con la sposa | Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry | Italy, Palestine |
Lift You Up | N/A | Ramin Bahrani | United States |
L'attesa del maggio | L'attesa del maggio | Simone Massi | Italy |
Autonomous sections
International Critics’ Week
The following films were selected for the 29th Venice International Film Critics' Week:[15]
Feature films
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Dancing with Maria | Dancing with Maria | Ivan Gergolet | Italy, Argentina, Slovenia |
40-Love | Terre battue | Stéphane Demoustier | France |
The Council of Birds | Zerrumpelt Herz | Timm Kroger | Germany |
No One's Child | Ничије дете (Ničije dete) | Vuk Ršumović | Serbia |
The Coffin in the Mountain | 殡棺 | Xin Yukun | China |
Flapping in The Middle of Nowhere | Đập cánh giữa không trung | Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp | Vietnam, France, Norway, Germany |
Villa Touma | Villa Touma | Suha Arraf | Israel, Germany[16][17][18][19][20] |
Out of Competition (Special screening)
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Melbourne | Melbourne | Nima Javidi | Iran |
The Market | Arance e Martello | Diego Bianchi | Italy |
Venice Days
The following films were selected for the 11th edition of the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section:[21]
Official selection
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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El Cinco | El 5 de talleres | Adrián Biniez | Argentina, Uruguay |
Return to Ithaca | Retour à Ithaque | Laurent Cantet | France |
Before I Disappear | N/A | Shawn Christensen | United States |
The Smell of Us | The Smell of Us | Larry Clark | France |
Messi | Messi | Álex de la Iglesia | Spain |
The Dinner | I nostri ragazzi | Ivano De Matteo | Italy |
Summer Nights | Les nuits d'été | Mario Fanfani | France |
Patria | Patria | Felice Farina | Italy |
The Farewell Party | Mita Tova | Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon | Israel, Germany |
Métamorphoses | Métamorphoses | Christophe Honoré | France |
Between 10 and 12 | Tussen 10 en 12 | Peter Hoogendoorn | Netherlands |
One on One | 일대일 | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea |
The Goob | N/A | Guy Myhill | United Kingdom |
Labour of Love | Asha jaoar majhe | Aditya Vikram Sengupta | India |
They Have Escaped | He ovat paenneet | JP Valkepää | Finland, Netherlands |
Special events
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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9x10 novanta | 9x10 novanta | Marco Bonfanti, Sara Fgaier, Claudio Giovannesi, Alina Marazzi, Pietro Marcello, Giovanni Piperno, Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Randi, Alice Rohrwacher, Roland Sejko | Italy |
The Show MAS Go On | The Show MAS Go On | Rä di Martino | Italy |
The Lack | The Lack | Masbedo | Italy |
Five Star | N/A | Keith Miller | United States |
Miu Miu Women’s Tales
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Spark and Light | #7 Spark and Light | So Yong Kim | Italy, United States |
Somebody | #8 Somebody | Miranda July | Italy, United States |
Premio Lux
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Class Enemy | Razredni sovražnik | Rok Biček | Slovenia |
Ida | Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland, Denmark |
Girlhood | Bande de filles | Céline Sciamma | France |
Venice Classics
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[22]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Bride | Gelin | Lutfi Akad | Turkey |
Red Chairs, Parma and the Cinema | Poltrone rosse, parma e il cinema | Francesco Barilli | Italy |
China is Near | La Cina è vicina | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
Mouchette | Robert Bresson | France | |
The Innocents | Jack Clayton | United Kingdom | |
Walking the Streets of Moscow | Ya shagayu po Moskve | Georgiy Daneliya | Soviet Union |
Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | |
The Iron Mask | Allan Dwan | United States | |
L'udienza | Marco Ferreri | Italy | |
No End | Bez końca | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
Without Pity | Senza pietà | Alberto Lattuada | Italy |
The Warrior | Maciste alpino | Luigi Maggi, Luigi Romano Borgnetto | Italy |
L'avventura di un soldato | Nino Manfredi | Italy | |
Guys and Dolls | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States | |
Altman | Ron Mann | Canada | |
The Man from Laramie | Anthony Mann | United States | |
Todo modo | Elio Petri | Italy | |
L'Amour existe | Maurice Pialat | France | |
The Tragedy of Macbeth | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom, United States | |
The Tales of Hoffmann | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom | |
A Special Day | Una giornata particolare | Ettore Scola | Italy |
Only She Knows | Kanojo dake ga shitte iru | Osamu Takahashi | Japan |
Stolen Kisses | Baisers volés | François Truffaut | France |
Flowers of Taipei – New Taiwan Cinema | 光陰的故事 -台灣新電影 | Hsieh Chin Lin | Taiwan |
Awards
The following awards were presented at the 71st edition:[23][24]
Official selection
- In Competition
- Golden Lion – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence by Roy Andersson
- Silver Lion – The Postman's White Nights by Andrei Konchalovsky
- Grand Jury Prize – The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer
- Volpi Cup:
- Best Actor – Adam Driver for Hungry Hearts
- Best Actress – Alba Rohrwacher for Hungry Hearts
- Marcello Mastroianni Award – Romain Paul for Le Dernier Coup de marteau
- Best Screenplay Award – Tales by Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
- Special Jury Prize – Sivas by Kaan Mujdeci
- Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film - Court by Chaitanya Tamhane
- Special Awards
- Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement – Thelma Schoonmaker and Frederick Wiseman
- Visionary Talent Award: Frances McDormand[25]
- Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: James Franco;[26]
- Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Best Film - Court by Chaitanya Tamhane
- Best Director - Theeb by Naji Abu Nowar
- Special Jury Prize – Belluscone, una storia siciliana by Franco Maresco
- Special Prize For Best Actor or Actress - Emir Hadžihafizbegović for These Are the Rules
- Horizons Prize for Best Short - Maryam by Sidi Saleh
Autonomous sections
- RaroVideo Audience Award for Best Film - No One's Child by Vuk Ršumović
- FEDEORA (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean) Best Screenplay - No One's Child by Vuk Ršumović
- FEDEORA Best Film - Flapping in The Middle of Nowhere by Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp
- Venice Days Award - Return to Ithaca by Laurent Cantet
- BNL People's Choice Award - The Farewell Party by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon
- Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film - The Dinner by Ivano De Matteo
- FEDEORA Best Film - One on One by Kim Ki-duk
- FEDEORA Best director of a debut film - Aditya Vikram Sengupta for Labour of Love
- Queer Lion Award 2014 - Summer Nights by Mario Fanfani
- Premio Brian - UAAR - The Farewell Party by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon
- Premio Gillo Pontecorvo Arcobaleno Latino - The Show MAS Go On by Rä di Martino
- Premio Cinecibo - The Dinner by Ivano De Matteo
- Francesco Pasinetti Awards[33]
- Pasinetti Award for Best Film - Black Souls by Francesco Munzi
- Pasinetti Award for Best Actor - Elio Germano for Leopardi
- Pasinetti Award for Best Actress - Alba Rohrwacher for Hungry Hearts
- Pasinetti Special Award - The Dinner by Ivano De Matteo
- 1st Akai International Film Festival[34]
- Akai International Film Festival Prize for Best Rivelation - Xin Yucun for The Coffin in the Mountain
- Akai International Film Festival Prize for Best Direction - Francesco Munzi for Black Souls
- Akai International Film Festival Prize for Best Actor - Jacopo Olmo Antinori for The Dinner
- Akai International Film Festival Prize for Best Actress - Iaia Forte for Leopardi, The Show MAS Go On and La vita oscena
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