The 55th Venice International Film Festival took place from September 3rd to 13th, 1998.
The following jury was appointed for the competition: Ettore Scola (jury president), Héctor Babenco , Šarūnas Bartas , Kathryn Bigelow , Reinhard Hauff , Danièle Heymann , Ismail Merchant , Luis Sepúlveda and Tilda Swinton .
competition
The following films took part in the festival competition:
| Movie title
|
Director
|
Country of production
|
Actor (selection)
|
|
L'albero delle pere
|
Francesca Archibugi
|
Italy
|
Valeria Golino , Niccolò Senni , Sergio Rubini
|
|
Bulworth
|
Warren Beatty
|
United States
|
Warren Beatty , Halle Berry , Sean Astin
|
|
Autumn story
|
Eric Rohmer
|
France
|
Marie Rivière , Béatrice Romand
|
|
Hilary & Jackie
|
Anand Tucker
|
UK
|
Emily Watson , Rachel Griffiths , James Frain
|
|
Hurlyburly
|
Anthony Drazan
|
United States
|
Sean Penn , Kevin Spacey , Robin Wright
|
|
The gardens of Eden
|
Alessandro D'Alatri
|
Italy
|
Kim Rossi Stewart , Boris Terral , Kassandra Voyagis
|
|
The last curtain
|
Pino Solanas
|
France , Argentina
|
Eduardo Pavlovsky , Ângela Correa
|
|
The lovers of the Arctic Circle
|
Julio Médem
|
Spain , France
|
Najwa Nimri , Fele Martínez
|
|
Lola runs
|
Tom Tykwer
|
Germany
|
Franka Potente , Moritz Bleibtreu , Herbert Knaup
|
|
New Rose Hotel
|
Abel Ferrara
|
United States
|
Christopher Walken , Willem Dafoe , Asia Argento
|
|
I piccoli maestri
|
Daniele Luchetti
|
Italy
|
Stefano Accorsi , Stefania Montorsi , Giorgio Pasotti
|
|
Place Vendôme
|
Nicole Garcia
|
France
|
Catherine Deneuve , Jean-Pierre Bacri , Emmanuelle Seigner
|
|
Rounders
|
John Dahl
|
United States
|
Matt Damon , Edward Norton , John Turturro
|
|
Black cat, white cat
|
Emir Kusturica
|
France , Germany , Yugoslavia , Austria , Greece , USA
|
Bajram Severdzan , Branka Katić , Miki Manojlović
|
|
That's how we laughed *
|
Gianni Amelio
|
Italy
|
Francesco Giuffrida , Enrico Lo Verso
|
|
The silence
|
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
|
Iran , France
|
|
|
Dance to freedom
|
Pat O'Connor
|
Ireland , UK , USA
|
Meryl Streep , Michael Gambon , Catherine McCormack
|
|
Terminus paradis
|
Lucian Pintilie
|
France , Romania
|
Costel Cascaval , Dorina Chiriac
|
|
Tráfico
|
João Botelho
|
Portugal , France , Denmark
|
Joaquim Oliveira , Rita Blanco
|
|
Voleur de vie
|
Yves Angelo
|
France
|
Emmanuelle Béart , Sandrine Bonnaire
|
* = Golden lion
Award winners
Sean Penn won the Acting Award that year
Further prices
Web links
