Venice International Film Festival 1996

The 53rd Venice International Film Festival took place from August 28 to September 7, 1996.

jury

The following jury was appointed for the festival's feature film competition:

Roman Polanski	President of the jury, Polish-French director
Paul Auster	American writer
Souleymane Cissé	Director from Mali
Mrinal Sen	Indian film director
Callisto Cosulich
Anjelica Huston	american actress
Miriam Mifai
Antonio Skármeta	Chilean writer
Hülya Uçansu

Films in competition

The following films took part in the festival competition:

Original title	German title	Director	country
Basquiat	Basquiat	Julian Schnabel	United States
Brigands, chapitre VII	Brigands	Otar Iosseliani	France
Carla's song	Carla's song	Ken Loach	United Kingdom
For Ever Mozart	For Ever Mozart	Jean-Luc Godard	France
The funeral	The funeral	Abel Ferrara	United States
Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi	Men and women, an instruction manual	Claude Lelouch	France
Ilona llega con la lluvia		Sergio Cabrera	Colombia
Michael Collins	Michael Collins	Neil Jordan	United Kingdom
party	party	Manoel de Oliveira	Portugal
Pianese Nunzio, 14 anni a maggio	Pianese Nunzio - May 14th	Antonio Capuano	Italy
Ponette	Ponette	Jacques Doillon	France
Profundo carmesí		Arturo Ripstein	Spain
Tai ping tian guo		Wu Nien-jen	Taiwan
The fiend	The fiend	Volker Schlöndorff	Germany
Vesna va veloce		Carlo Mazzacurati	Italy

Award winners

price	Movie	Award winners
Golden Lion (best film)	Michael Collins	Neil Jordan
Special prize from the jury	Duck dello Spettacolo	For the restoration of Vittorio De Sicas La porta del cielo
Coppa Volpi (best actor)	Michael Collins	Liam Neeson
Coppa Volpi (best actress)	Ponette	Victoire Thivisol
Coppa Volpi (best supporting actor)	The funeral	Chris Penn
Leone Speciale for her life's work		Robert Altman , Vittorio Gassman , Dustin Hoffman , Michèle Morgan

Web links

• Venice Film Festival: 1996 in the Internet Movie Database