Venice International Film Festival 2016
The 73rd Venice International Film Festival ( Italian 73rd Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica ) took place at the Lido from August 31 to September 10, 2016 . Along with the Berlinale and the Cannes Film Festival, they are among the three most important A festivals in the world and are under the direction of Alberto Barbera for the fifth time .
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The jury president of the international competition, which among other things awards the Golden Lion for the best film at the festival, was the British director Sam Mendes this year . Lav Diaz 's film Ang Babaeng Humayo (English-language festival title: The Woman Who Left ) won the main prize of the competition .
The Italian actress Sonia Bergamasco was chosen to host the opening ceremony and the final award gala . The film festival opened with Damien Chazelle's musical La La Land with Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in the leading roles. In sympathy for the Accumoli earthquake , which occurred a few days before the start of the festival, with almost 300 dead, the festival management decided to cancel the gala dinner and the reception on the beach at the Grand Hotel Excelsior , which were scheduled after the opening ceremony .
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jerzy Skolimowski , who received the Golden Lion as an honorary award for a life's work , were already the winners .
Festival poster
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The official festival poster was presented at the end of June 2016. Drawn for the fifth time in a row by the Italian animation filmmaker Simone Massi , it shows a dark-haired person with his back turned towards the viewer and wearing a red shirt who is about to pull down a blue poster or a curtain.
Official Sections
Competition ("Venezia 73")
jury
The 2016 Venice Film Festival Jury President was Sam Mendes . The British film and theater director and producer worked as a student at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 1984 and presented his second feature film Road to Perdition in the competition at the 59th Film Festival in 2002 , where it received no awards. Festival director Alberto Barbera praised Mendes' work as “a particularly effective and convincing synthesis of a vocation for distinctive theater and cinema, combined with research into communication methods with an increasingly large number of viewers.” His theater and film productions are “able to meet the expectations of To reconcile the most discerning critics with the tastes of a large audience that seem to transcend all geographical and cultural boundaries. "
Several jury members were at the side of the jury president in awarding the prizes. It was almost exclusively filmmakers:
- Laurie Anderson - American singer, composer and performance artist ( 2015 contestant )
- Gemma Arterton - British actress
- Giancarlo De Cataldo - Italian detective writer and screenwriter
- Nina Hoss - German actress
- Chiara Mastroianni - French actress
- Joshua Oppenheimer - American director (Grand Jury Prize 2014 )
- Lorenzo Vigas - Venezuelan director and screenwriter (2015 Golden Lion winner)
- Zhao Wei - Chinese actress and singer
Competitors for the Golden Lion
The official program for the 73rd edition was presented during a press conference in Rome on July 28, 2016.
Out of competition
Orizzonti
The Orizzonti (German: "Horizonte") section is dedicated to new trends in international film and primarily presents unconventional films, including feature films, documentaries and experimental films. Both short and feature films are accepted.
The French director Robert Guédiguian chaired the international jury . Other members of the jury included the American film critic and historian Jim Hoberman , the Egyptian actress Nelly Karim , the Italian actress Valentina Lodovini , the Korean actress Moon So-ri , the Spanish film critic and scientist José Maria (Chema) Prado and the Indian director Chaitanya Tamhane .
Feature films
Short films
Venezia Classici
The Venezia Classici series ( English Venice Classics ) has been presenting restored classic films as well as documentaries about filmmaking and individual filmmakers since 2012. Part of this is the award of prizes for the best restored film and the best documentary, which is awarded by a jury of film students under the direction of the Italian director Roberto Andò . The section was opened with Shabhaye Zayandeh - rood (The Nights of Zayandeh - rood) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf .
Restored films
- 1848 by Dino Risi (Italy, 1948) - restored by the Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa , Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) and Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo (Milan)
- American Werewolf (An American Werewolf in London) by John Landis (United Kingdom, 1981) - restored by Universal Studios
- The Brat by John Ford (United States, 1931) - restored by the Museum of Modern Art and The Film Foundation
- Break-Up (Break up - L'uomo dei cinque palloni) by Marco Ferreri (Italy / France, 1965) - restored by Cineteca di Bologna and Museo Nazionale del Cinema , in collaboration with Warner Bros.
- The Thief of Paris (Le Voleur) by Louis Malle (France / Italy, 1965) - restored by Gaumont
- The Scent of Women (Profumo di donna) by Dino Risi (Italy, 1974) - restored by CSC-Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, in collaboration with Dean Film
- The Angel with the Killer Hand (Pretty Poison) by Noel Black (United States, 1968) - restored by 20th Century Fox
- The money (L'argent) by Robert Bresson (France / Switzerland, 1983) - restored by MK2
- The Song of Treason (Processo alla città) by Luigi Zampa (Italy, 1952) - restored by CSC-Cineteca Nazionale and Gaumont, in collaboration with Astrea
- Manhattan by Woody Allen (United States, 1979) - restored by Park Circus , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Napoleon on Broadway (Twentieth Century) by Howard Hawks (United States, 1934) - restored by Sony Pictures
- The Ondekoza by Kato Tai (Japan, 1979) - restored by Shōchiku
- Sacrifice by Veit Harlan (Germany, 1944) - restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation
- The Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri) by Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy / Algeria, 1966) - restored by Cineteca di Bologna, Istituto Luce - Cinecittà , in collaboration with Surf Film and Casbah Entertainment
- Black eyes (Oci Ciornie) by Nikita Michalkow (Italy / Soviet Union, 1987) - restored by Istituto Luce, Cinecittà and CSC-Cineteca Nazionale, in collaboration with Viggo
- Shabhaye Zayandeh - rood (The Nights of Zayandeh - rood) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran, 1990) - restored by Makhmalbaf Film House (opening film)
- Shanzhong Chuanqi (Legend of the Mountain) by King Hu (Hong Kong, 1979) - restored by the Taiwan Film Institute
- The Seven Samurai (七 人 の 侍, Shichinin no samurai ) by Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1954) - restored by Tōhō
- Stalker by Andrei Tarkowski (Soviet Union, 1979) - restored by Mosfilm (producer: Karen Shakhnazarov)
- The way back (Tutti a casa) by Luigi Comencini (Italy / France, 1960) - restored by Filmauro and CSC-Cineteca Nazionale
- Zombie ( Dawn of the Dead , European Cut) by George A. Romero (United States / Italy, 1978) - restored by Koch Media , in collaboration with Norton Trust and Antonello Cuomo
Documentaries
- Along for the Ride - Director: Nick Ebeling (United States)
- Acqua e Zucchero - Carlo di Palma , i colori della vita - directed by Fariborz Kamkari (Italy)
- Bozzetto non troppo - Director: Marco Bonfanti (Italy)
- Cinema Futures - Director: Michael Palm (Austria)
- Le concours - Director: Claire Simon (France)
- David Lynch The Art Life - Director: Jon Nguyen , Neergaard Holm and Rick Barnes (United States / Denmark)
- E venne l'uomo - un dialogo con Ermanno Olmi - Director: Alessandro Bignami (Italy)
- Events in a Cloud Chamber - Director: Ashim Ahluwalia (India)
- Perché sono un genio! Lorenza Mazzetti - Direction: Stefano Della Casa and Francesco Frisari (Italy)
- Viaggio nel Cinema in 3D - Una Storia Vintage - Director: Jesus Garcès Lambert (Italy)
Independent film series
Two independent film series will take place parallel to the film festival:
Settimana Internazionale della Critica
Two independent film series will take place parallel to the film festival. The Italian film critics association Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani organizes the International Critics' Week ( Settimana Internazionale della Critica - SIC), during which international debut films are selected by an independent commission. It was modeled on the "Quinzaine des Réalisateurs" at the Cannes Film Festival .
Feature films
Short films
Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days
The Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici (ANAC), together with the Associazione Autori e Produttori Indipendenti (API ), is preparing the Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days , which shows Italian and foreign feature and documentary films.
Official selection
Special performances
| Movie title | Director | Country of production | Actor (selection) |
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| Always shine | Sophia Takal | United States | Davis Mackenzie , Caitlin Fitzgerald |
| Caffè (Coffee) |
Cristiano Bortone | Italy, People's Republic of China, Belgium | Hichem Yacoubi , Arne De Tremerie , Koen De Bouw , Lu Fang-Sheng , Zhuo Tan , Sarah Li , Dario Aita , Miriam Dalmazio , Ennio Fantastichini |
| The profumo del tempo delle favole | Mauro Caputo | Italy | Giorgio Pressburger , Daniele Tenze , Antonio Cacace |
| Rocco |
Thierry Demaiziere Alban Teurlai |
France | Documentary about Rocco Siffredi |
| L'uomo che non cambiò la storia | Enrico Caria | Italy | documentary |
| Vangelo | Pippo Delbono | Italy, Switzerland, Belgium | Pippo Delbono, Zakria Safi , Ugiagbe Nosa |
| You Never Had It. An Evening with Bukowski | Matteo Borgardt | United States, Mexico, Italy | Documentary about Charles Bukowski |
Miu Miu Women's Tales
- Seed - Women's Tales # 11 - Director: Naomi Kawase (Italy, Japan), Actors: Sakura Ando , Jiji Boo , Wakato Kanematsu
- That One Day - Women's Tales # 12 - Director: Crystal Moselle (Italy, United States, United Kingdom), Cast: Rachelle Martinez , Nina Moran , Ardelia Lovelace , Ajani Russell , Jules Lorenzo , Brenn Lorenzo , Kabrina Adams , Amber Coffman
As part of the award of the LUX film prize , the following films were shown:
- As soon as I open my eyes (À peine j'ouvre les yeux) - Director: Leyla Bouzid (France, Tunisia, Belgium, United Arab Emirates)
- My life as a zucchini (Ma vie de Courgette) - Director: Claude Barras (Switzerland, France), animated film
- Toni Erdmann - Director: Maren Ade (Germany, Austria, Romania), Actors: Peter Simonischek , Sandra Hüller
Awards
An overview of the prizes awarded in the official sections of the festival:
International competition for the Golden Lion:
- Golden Lion : Ang Babaeng Humayo - Director: Lav Diaz
- Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize: Tom Ford ( Nocturnal Animals )
- Silver Lion - Best Director: Andrei Konchalowski (Rai) and Amat Escalante (La región salvaje)
- Coppa Volpi - Best Actor: Oscar Martínez (El ciudadano ilustre)
- Coppa Volpi - Best Actress: Emma Stone ( La La Land )
- Best Screenplay: Noah Oppenheim ( Jackie )
- Special Jury Prize: The Bad Batch - Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
- Marcello Mastroianni Prize : Paula Beer ( Frantz )
Prize for the best debut film The Italian actor and director Kim Rossi Stuart presented the "Luigi De Laurentiis" Venice Award "(" Lion of the Future ") for the best debut film at the festival as jury president. Spanish film producer Rosa Bosch , who also took part in the jury American actor and director Brady Corbet , Spanish actress Pilar López de Ayala and French film critic Serge Toubiana went to Akher Wahed Fina (English-language festival title: The Last of Us ) by Ala Eddine Slim .
Honorary award
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Honorary laureates 2017: Jean-Paul Belmondo (left) and Jerzy Skolimowski
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Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jerzy Skolimowski received the Golden Lion in 2016 as a lifetime achievement award . The French actor Belmondo became the figurehead of the Nouvelle Vague with Out of Breath (1960) and subsequently advanced to become the existentialist figurehead of the rebellious youth of the 1960s. In 1965 he was represented with the lead role in the crime film Elf am Nacht also in the competition of the Venice Film Festival. "Thanks to his fascinating face, incredible charm and extraordinary versatility, he has played roles in dramas, adventure films and even comedies that made him a star, universally respected by committed directors and escapist cinema alike," said Alberto Barbera. The Polish screenwriter and director Skolimowski competed four times in the competition for the Golden Lion and was awarded the jury's special prize for Das Feuerschiff (1985) and Essential Killing (2010). Barbera describes him as "one of the most representative representatives of modern cinema during the Nouvelle Vague of the 1960s" and alongside Roman Polanski as one of the "two filmmakers who contributed most to the renewal of Polish cinema over the same period."
Further
- The Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award went to Liev Schreiber in 2016 .
- The American film producer Chris Meledandri , CEO of Illumination Entertainment , was honored with a tribute for his contribution to the animation film. This went hand in hand with the Italian premiere of his production Pets . Meledandri was also asked to present excerpts from the planned animated film Sing (2017).
Web links
- Official website of the Venice International Film Festival (Italian, English)
- Official website of the independent sub-section International Critics' Week (Italian, English)
- Official website of the independent subsidiary Venice Days (Italian, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Director Sam Mendes to head the Venezia 73 International Jury ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, April 27, 2016 (accessed July 20, 2016).
- ^ A b "La Biennale di Venezia - Official Awards of the 73rd Venice Film Festival". Accessed September 10, 2016. Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Sonia Bergamasco set to host the opening and closing nights of the 73rd Festival ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, May 4, 2016 (accessed July 20, 2016).
- ↑ La La Land by Damien Chazelle opening film of the 73rd Venice Film Festival ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, June 17, 2016 (accessed July 18, 2016).
- ↑ Cancellation of the gala dinner for the opening ceremony of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, August 25, 2016 (accessed August 28, 2016).
- ↑ a b c Official press release ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 14, 2016 (accessed July 18, 2016).
- ↑ The new poster of the 73rd Venice Film Festival ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, June 24, 2016 (accessed July 18, 2016).
- ↑ a b c Le tre Giurie internazionali della 73. Mostra di Venezia ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 24, 2016 (accessed July 24, 2016).
- ↑ 73rd Venice International Film Festival at labiennale.org (accessed July 20, 2016).
- ↑ Line-Up ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 28, 2016 (accessed July 28, 2016).
- ↑ Robert Guédiguian and Kim Rossi Stuart to head two international juries ( Memento of the original of July 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 8, 2016 (accessed July 20, 2016).
- ↑ The restored films of Venezia Classici ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 22, 2016 (accessed August 4, 2016).
- ^ Jean-Paul Belmondo . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/2009 from June 2, 2009 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
- ↑ Liev Schreiber to receive the Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award 2016 ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, August 5, 2016 (accessed August 5, 2016).
- ↑ La Biennale di Venezia will pay a Special Tribute to US producer Chris Meledandri ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 27, 2016 (accessed August 5, 2016).
