Venice International Film Festival 2012

Logo of the 69th Venice International Film Festival

The Hotel Excelsior, meeting point for the first Venice film market

The 69th  Venice International Film Festival ( 69th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica in Italian ) took place from August 29 to September 8, 2012 . Along with the Berlinale and the Cannes International Film Festival, they are among the three most important A festivals in the world. 2012 3231 long and short films were submitted for the festival, one of which (more than 50 from over 40 countries into three sections Venezia 69 , Out of Competition , Orizzonti ) and two retrospectives ( 80! , Venezia Classici ) were presented. All of the films listed were world premieres. Most frequently, productions and co-productions from France were represented (25 films), followed by Italy (20) and the United States (15). The main prize went to the South Korean contribution Pieta by Kim Ki-duk . The film focuses on a young and brutal Seoul debt collector (played by Lee Jung-jin ) who encounters an elderly woman ( Cho Min-soo ) who claims to be his mother.

The main venue on the Lido was the Palazzo del Cinema with the Sala Grande (1032 seats). Other venues in 2012 were the Sala Darsena (1300 seats), PalaBiennale (1700), the Sala Perla in Venice's Casino (400) and the Sala Volpi (150), which was temporarily set up in the main venue .

Film Festival opened with Mira Nair's running out of competition political thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist . The literary film adaptation based on the novel of the same name by Mohsin Hamid (English title: The Fundamentalist Who Didn't Want To Be ) tells the story of a Pakistani Princeton graduate (played by Riz Ahmed ) who made a career in the United States but after the terrorist attacks returns to his home country on September 11, 2001 . The final film was L'homme qui rit by Jean-Pierre Améris with Gérard Depardieu and Emmanuelle Seigner in the leading roles.

The Italian Alberto Barbera became the new director of the film festival, which is part of the Biennale di Venezia , in 2012 . The former director of the Turin Film Festival and the National Film Museum there ( Museo nazionale del Cinema ) had already held this position from December 1998 to April 2002 and replaced Marco Müller, who had directed the film festival since 2004 (it became known in March 2012 that Müller would take over the helm of the rival Rome Film Festival ). A newly introduced regulation stipulated the number of films in the international competition competing for the Golden Lion to a maximum of 20, after more and more films had competed for the main prize of the festival in previous editions. At the same time, no more than eleven film productions were to be shown outside of the competition in the future, and the number of official subsidiary sections was reduced to one ( Orizzonti ) in addition to the retrospectives . Other significant innovations were the opening of an official film market, such as in Cannes and Berlin, under the direction of Frenchman Pascal Diot (“Venice Film Market”, August 30 to September 3 in the Hotel Excelsior ), where film rights could be bought and sold, and the facility of the "Biennale College", a special workshop for the production of low-budget films by young international directors. For the first time in the history of the film festival, online streams of feature-length and short films were also offered for a fee as part of the Orizzonti section .

Francesco Rosi was already the winner . The Italian film director and screenwriter, who won the main prize of the film festival in 1963 for his socially critical feature film Hands over the city , was honored with the Golden Lion for the life's work of a filmmaker. This honor went hand in hand with the world premiere of a restored version of his film The Mattei Case , for which he won the main prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972.

Polish actress Kasia Smutniak , who works in Italy, was chosen to host the opening and closing ceremonies.

Official Sections

competition

jury

Jury President: the American Michael Mann

Statistics (as of 2012) * = former Golden Lion winner
Director	Invitations
Takeshi Kitano *	7th
Kim Ki-duk	4th
Marco Bellocchio , Brian De Palma	3
Francesca Comencini , Brillante Mendoza , Ulrich Seidl	2
Paul Thomas Anderson , Olivier Assayas , Ramin Bahrani , Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth , Rama Burshtein , Daniele Ciprì , Xavier Giannoli , Harmony Korine , Terrence Malick , Valeria Sarmiento , Kirill Serebrennikow	1

Michael Mann was presented at the beginning of June 2012 as the successor to last year's jury president Darren Aronofsky . This made him the third consecutive US jury president since Quentin Tarantino ( 2010 ). The film director, screenwriter and producer man who repeatedly stressed no genre director wanting to be had, in the past the few auteurs of Hollywood counted -Kinos. He presented his thriller Collateral in Venice in 2004 , while in 2011 he worked as a producer on the competition entry Texas Killing Fields , directed by his daughter Ami Canaan Mann . According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , “image, sound, music and production design, actors and locations form a symbiosis right from the start” in Mann’s work , “which is what makes films so special” .

As in previous years, the jury president was supported in his decision by jury members, with the number increased by two compared to previous years. Most of them were filmmakers:

• Marina Abramović - Serbian performance artist
• Laetitia Casta - French actress and model
• Peter Ho-Sun Chan - Hong Kong Cinema Director and Producer
• Ari Folman - Israeli film director, screenwriter and producer
• Matteo Garrone - Italian film director, screenwriter and producer
• Ursula Meier - Swiss director
• Samantha Morton - British actress
• Pablo Trapero - Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer

Competitors for the Golden Lion

The competition program was announced on July 26, 2012 at an official press conference in Rome. By June 21, the deadline for submission, 1,459 films had been proposed. On August 7th, Paul Thomas Anderson's feature film The Master was another competition film submitted. 18 productions from 13 countries competed for the Golden Lion, the main prize of the festival. As with previous editions, the majority of the films shown came from Europe (11), followed by the United States (4) and Asia (3). With the exception of the Japanese director Takeshi Kitano, who was invited for the seventh time with Outrage Beyond ( honored with the Golden Lion for Hana-Bi in 1997 ), none of the invited filmmakers could win the main prize of the festival.

As in previous years, US filmmakers were represented most frequently with four entries, followed by their colleagues from Italy (three) and France (two). The directors of ten of the 18 announced productions ( Olivier Assayas , Ramin Bahrani , co-directors Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth , Rama Burshtein , Daniele Ciprì , Xavier Giannoli , Harmony Korine , Terrence Malick , Valeria Sarmiento and Kirill Serebrennikow ) make their debut in the competition of Venice. As in last year's edition, German and Swiss filmmakers were not represented. In contrast, the Austrian Ulrich Seidl received his second invitation to Venice. After Hundstage (special jury prize 2001), Seidl competed in 2012 with the coproduction Paradies: Glaube . The second part of his Paradise trilogy (the first part Paradise: Love was invited to the competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2012 ) focuses on a single woman around 50 (played by Maria Hofstätter ). She spends her vacation walking from house to house with a "Wandering Mother of God statue" to make Austria more Catholic. A guerrilla war develops over marriage and religion when her wheelchair-dependent husband, an Egyptian Muslim ( Nabil Saleh ), returns to her after years of absence.

Movie	Director	country	Actor (selection)
Après may (Love)	Olivier Assayas	France	Clément Métayer , Lola Créton , Félix Armand
At any price	Ramin Bahrani	United States	Dennis Quaid , Zac Efron , Kim Dickens , Heather Graham
Bella addormentata (Bella addormentata)	Marco Bellocchio	Italy, France	Toni Servillo , Isabelle Huppert , Alba Rohrwacher , Michele Riondino , Maya Sansa , Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
The fifth season (La Cinquième season)	Peter Brosens Jessica Woodworth	Belgium, Netherlands, France	Aurélia Poirier , Django Schrevens , Sam Louwyck , Gill Vancompernolle
Un giorno speciale	Francesca Comencini	Italy	Filippo Scicchitano , Giulia Valentini
Izmena (Измена) (Betrayal)	Kirill Serebrennikov	Russia	Franziska Petri , Dejan Lilic , Albina Dzhanabaeva , Arturs Skrastins
Lemale et Ha'chalal (Fill the Void)	Rama Burshtein	Israel	Hadas Yaron , Yiftach Klein , Irit Sheleg , Chaim Sharir
Linhas de Wellington	Valeria Sarmiento	Portugal, France	Nuno Lopes , Soraia Chaves , John Malkovich , Marisa Paredes , Melvil Poupaud , Mathieu Amalric
The Master	Paul Thomas Anderson	United States	Philip Seymour Hoffman , Joaquin Phoenix , Amy Adams
Outrage Beyond	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	Tomokazu Miura , Ryo Kase , Fumiyo Kohinata , Toshiyuki Nishida
Paradise: Faith (Paradise: Faith)	Ulrich Seidl	Austria, France, Germany	Maria Hofstätter , Nabil Saleh
passion	Brian De Palma	France, Germany	Rachel McAdams , Noomi Rapace , Paul Anderson , Karoline Herfurth
Pieta (피에타)	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea	Cho Min-soo , Lee Jung-jin
Sinapupunan (Thy Womb)	Brilliant Mendoza	Philippines	Nora Aunor , Bembol Rocco
Spring breakers	Harmony Korine	United States	James Franco , Selena Gomez , Vanessa Hudgens , Ashley Benson , Heather Morris
È stato il figlio	Daniele Ciprì	Italy	Toni Servillo , Giselda Volodi , Alfredo Castro , Fabrizio Falco
Superstar	Xavier Giannoli	France, Belgium	Kad Merad , Cecile de France
To the wonder	Terrence Malick	United States	Ben Affleck , Olga Kurylenko , Rachel McAdams , Javier Bardem

Orizzonti

Pierfrancesco Favino

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 were accepted. For the first time in the history of the film festival, Orizzonti offered online streams of 10 featured feature films and 13 short films. From August 20, 500 worldwide “virtual cinema tickets” were offered at a price of 4.20 euros per person. The films, with English subtitles in their original language, were available to users for 24 hours from the day they were shown.

The Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino chaired the international jury . The following jury members stood by his side:

• Sandra den Hamer , director of the Amsterdam Film Museum and former director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2000–2004)
• Runa Islam , video artist from Bangladesh
• Jason Kliot , American film producer
• Nadine Labaki , Lebanese director and actress
• Milčo Mančevski , Macedonian director and screenwriter (winner of the Golden Lion 1994)
• Amir Naderi , Iranian director and screenwriter

Feature films

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Araf (Araf. Somewhere in Between)	Yeşim Ustaoğlu	Turkey	Neslihan Atagül , Baris Hacihan , Özcan Denis , Nihal Yalçin , Ilgaz Kocaturk
Bellas mariposas	Salvatore Mereu	Italy	Sara Podda , Maya Mulas , Micaela Ramazzotti
Boxing Day	Bernard Rose	United Kingdom, United States	Danny Huston , Matthew Jacobs
Gaosu tamen, wo cheng baihe qu le (Fly with the Crane)	Ruijun Li	China	Ma Xingehun , Tang Long , Wang Siyi
Gli equilibristi	Ivano De Matteo	Italy, France	Valerio Mastandrea , Barbora Bobuľová
L'intervallo	Leonardo di Costanzo	Italy, Switzerland, Germany	Francesca Riso , Alessio Gallo , Carmine Paternoster , Salvatore Ruocco
Ja tozhe hochu (I Also Want It)	Alexey Balabanov	Russia	Yrii Matveev , Alexander Mosin , Oleg Garkusha , Alisa Shitikova
Kapringen (A Hijacking)	Tobias Lindholm	Denmark	Pilou Asbæk , Søren Malling
Khanéh Pedari (The Paternal House)	Kianoush Ayari	Iran	Mehdi Hashemi , Mehran Rajabi , Nasser Hashemi , Shahab Hosseini
Leones	Jazmin Lopez	Argentina, France, the Netherlands	Julia Volpato , Pablo Sigal , Macarena Del Corro , Diego Vegezzi , Tomas Mackinlay
Low tide	Roberto Minervini	United States, Italy, Belgium	Daniel Blanchard , Melissa Blanchard , Vernon Wilbanks
Menatek Ha-maim	Idan Hubel	Israel	Moshe Ivgy , Naama Shapira , Tom Yefet
San zi mei (Three Sisters)	Ibrahim El Batout	France, China	documentary
Sennen no yuraku (The Millennial Rapture)	Kōji Wakamatsu	Japan	Shinobu Terajima , Shiro Sano , Kengo Kora , Sosuke Takaoka , Shota Sometani
El Sheita Elli Fat (Winter of Discontent)	Ibrahim El Batout	Egypt	Amr Waked , Salah Al Hanafy , Farah Youssef
Tango Libre	Frédéric Fonteyne	Belgium, France, Luxembourg	François Damiens , Sergi López , Jan Hammenecker , Anne Paulicevich , Zacharie Chasseriaud
Wadjda	Haifaa Al Mansour	Saudi Arabia, Germany	Waad Al-Masanif , Abdullrahman Algohani , Reem Abdullah , Sultan Al Assaf , Ahd Kamel
Yema	Djamila Sahraoui	Algeria, France	Djamila Sahraoui , Samir Yahia , Ali Zarif

Short films

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Bansulli (The Flute)	Min Bham	Nepal	Nikita Budhthapa , Ghanashyam Giri , Naresh Bhandari
Cargo	Carlo Sironi	Italy	Lidiya Liberman , Flavius ​​Gordea , Marius Bizau , Inga Chiriac
Cho-De (Invitation)	Min-Young Yoo	South Korea	Lee Sang-hee
Diamond Sutra	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan	Lee Kang-sheng
Franck-Etienne vers la béatitude	Constance Meyer	France	Gérard Depardieu , Marina Foïs , Samir Guesmi
I'm the one	Paola Morabito	Australia	James Fraser , Maya Stange , Alan Dukes
Las manos limpias	Carlos Armella	Mexico	Sonia Couoh , Francisco Godínez
Living still life	Bertrand Mandico	France, Belgium, Germany	Elina Löwensohn
Luisa no está en casa	Celia Rico Clavellino	Spain	Asunción Balaguer , Fernando Guillén , María Alfonsa Rosso
Marla	Nick King	Australia	Eddie Ritchard , Dale March , Lani Tupu
Miracle Boy	Jake Mahaffy	United States	Cameron Cannon , Carter Taylor , Adam DeLany , Tyler Cook
O Afinador	Bernando Camargo Matheus Parizi	Brazil	Lui Seixas , Norival Rizzo , Sandra Corveloni
Resistant	Renate Costa Salla Sorri	Denmark, Paraguay, Finland	Alberto Bonnet
La sala	Alessio Giannone	Italy	Nicola Valenzano , Ketty Volpe , Gianfranco Gengari , Filomena La Vacca
Titloi telous (Out of Frame)	Yorgos Zois	Greece

Retrospectives

80!

The retrospective 80! based on the first edition of the Venice Film Festival 80 years ago, was dedicated to seven rare feature films and three medium-length and short films that were screened at the festival. The copies came from the holdings of the Historic Archives of the Contemporary Arts of the Biennale (ASAC). In preparation, the films were restored at L'Immagine Ritrovata in Bologna and digitally or analogously transferred to a 35 mm format .

Feature films

• The Last Night ( Poslednjaja notsch ) by Juli Raisman (Soviet Union, 1936)
• God needs people ( Dieu a besoin des hommes ) by Jean Delannoy (France, 1950)
• Genghis Khan by Manuel Conde and Salvador Lou (Philippines, 1950).
• The Brigant ( Il brigante ) by Renato Castellani (Italy, 1961)
• Free at Last by Gregory Shuker , James Desmond and Nicholas Proferes (United States, 1968)
• Pagine chiuse by Gianni Da Campo (Italy, 1968)
• Stress to three ( Stress es tres, tres ) by Carlos Saura (Spain, 1968)

Medium-length and short films

• Pytel blech ( A Bagful of Fleas ) by Věra Chytilová (Czechoslovakia, 1963)
• Zablácené mesto ( Mud-covered City ) by Václav Táborský (Czechoslovakia, 1963)
• Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano by Raúl Ruiz (Chile, 1971)

Venezia Classici

The series Venezia Classici presented in addition to the retrospective 80! restored classic films as well as documentaries about filmmaking and individual filmmakers. In addition to The Mattei case of the honorary award winner Francesco Rosi , a copy of the original version of Heaven's Gate (1980, 219 min) restored by Criterion was shown in the presence of the director Michael Cimino , who received the Persol Award , named after a sponsor of the film festival. The uncut version was premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1982.

Restored films

• The Mattei case ( Il caso Mattei ) by Francesco Rosi (Italy, 1972)
• Heaven's Gate by Michael Cimino (United States, 1980)
• American Dreams by James Benning (United States, 1984)
• Anita Garibaldi by Goffredo Alessandrini (Italy, 1952)
• Blondes preferred by Howard Hawks (United States, 1953)
• Boulevard of the Twilight by Billy Wilder (United States, 1950)
• Carmen Returns Home by Keisuke Kinoshita (Japan, 1951)
• Cinerama South Seas Adventure by Francis D. Lyon , Walter Thompson , Basil Wrangler , Richard Goldstone and Carl Dudley (United States, 1958)
• Investigations against a citizen above suspicion by Elio Petri (Italy, 1970)
• Falstaff by Orson Welles (Spain / Switzerland, 1965)
• Fanny and Alexander by Ingmar Bergman (Sweden, 1982)
• A Free-Feet Ghost by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (United States, 1947)
• Himala by Ishmael Bernal (Philippines, 1982)
• At the age of 20 in the Aures by René Vautier (France, 1972)
• The Pigsty by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1969)
• Stromboli by Roberto Rossellini (Italy, 1949)
• Tell Me Lies by Peter Brook (United Kingdom / United States, 1968)
• Terra animata (1967) and SKMP2 (1968) by Luca Patella (Italy)
• The tenth victim by Elio Petri (Italy, 1965)

Documentaries

• La Guerra dei vulcani by Francesco Patierno (Italy)
• Dai nostri inviati alla Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 1932–1953 by G. Giannotti, D. Savelli, E. Salvatori (Italy)
• Valentino's Ghost by Michael Singh (United States)
• Miradas Múltiples ( La máquina loca ) by Emilio Maillé (Mexico / France / Spain)
• Harry Dean Stanton Partly Fiction by Sophie Huber (United States / Switzerland)
• Conteurs d'images by Noelle Deschamps (France)
• Sedia elettrica, il making-of di 'Io e Te' by Monica Stambrini (Italy)
• Gli anni delle immagini perdute by Adolfo Conti (Italy)
• Monicelli. La versione di Mario by Mario Canale , Felice Farina , Mario Gianni , Wilma Labate and Annarosa Morri (Italy)

Premio Luigi De Laurentiis and independent film series

The Premio Luigi De Laurentiis was awarded by a jury chaired by the Indian film director Shekhar Kapur . The award honored the best debut film by a director ( Lion of the Future ), all sections could be considered. The award was endowed with a sum of 100,000 US dollars.

Two independent film series took place parallel to the film festival. The Italian film critics association Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani organized the International Critics' Week ( Settimana Internazionale della Critica - SIC), during which international debut films were selected by an independent commission. The Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici (ANAC), together with the Associazione Autori e Produttori Indipendenti (API ), prepared the Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days , which showed Italian and foreign feature and documentary films.

Awards

Overview of the prizes awarded during the festival:

Main prizes (competition for the Golden Lion)

Kim Ki-duk

• Golden Lion : Pieta - Directed by Kim Ki-duk
• Silver Lion - Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson ( The Master )
• Special prize of the jury: Paradies: Glaube - Director: Ulrich Seidl
• Coppa Volpi - Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix ( The Master )
• Coppa Volpi - Best Actress: Hadas Yaron ( In Her Place (Lemale et Ha'chalal))
• Marcello Mastroianni Prize : Fabrizio Falco ( Bella Addormentata and È stato il figlio )
• Best Script: Olivier Assayas ( Après May )
• Best technical achievement: Daniele Ciprì (camera work for È stato il figlio )

• Golden lion for his life's work : Francesco Rosi

Further prices

• FIPRESCI Prize : The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson (competition) and L'intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo (Orizzonti and International Critics Week)
• SIGNIS Prize: To the Wonder by Terrence Malick , Honorable Mention: Lemale et Ha'chalal by Rama Burshtein
• RaroVideo audience award of the International Critics' Week : Äta Sova Dö by Gabriela Pichler
• Label Europa Cinemas Award: Crawl by Hervé Lasgouttes
• Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award: Pieta by Kim Ki-duk
• Cinema for UNICEF mention: È stato il figlio by Daniele Ciprì
• Francesco Pasinetti (SNGCI) Award: L'intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo
• Francesco Pasinetti (SNGCI) Award - Best Documentary: La nave dolce ( The Human Cargo ) by Daniele Vicari
• Francesco Pasinetti (SNGCI) Award - Best Actor: Valerio Mastandrea ( Gli Equilibristi )
• Pasinetti Special Prize: Clarisse by Liliana Cavani
• Brian Award: Bella Addormentata by Marco Bellocchio
• Queer Lion Award (Associazione Cinemarte): The Weight by Jeon Kyu-Hwan
• Arca CinemaGiovani Award (Competition): The Fifth Season (La Cinquième Season) by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
• Arca CinemaGiovani Award (Best Italian Film): La città ideal by Luigi Lo Cascio
• Biografilm Lancia Award: La nave dolce ( The Human Cargo ) by Daniele Vicari and Bad25 by Spike Lee
• CICT - UNESCO “Enrico Fulchignoni” Award: L'intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo
• CICAE - Cinema d'Arte e d'Essai Award: Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour
• CinemAvvenire Award (competition): Paradise: Faith by Ulrich Seidl
• CinemAvvenire Award - Best Film (Il cerchio non è rotondo (Cinema per la pace e la ricchezza delle diversità)): Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour
• FEDIC Award: L'intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo, Honorable Mention: Bellas Mariposas by Salvatore Mereu
• Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award: Après May by Olivier Assayas
• Future Film Festival Digital Award: Bad25 by Spike Lee , Honorable Mention: Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine
• P. Nazareno Taddei Award: Pieta by Kim Ki-duk, Honorable Mention: Sinapupunan by Brillante Mendoza
• Lanterna Magica (CGS) Award: L'intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo
• Open Award: The Company You Keep - The Grant Files (The Company You Keep) by Robert Redford
• La Navicella - Venezia Cinema Award: Sinapupunan by Brillante Mendoza
• Lina Mangiacapre Award: Queen Of Montreuil by Sòlveig Anspach
• AIF - FORFILMFEST Award: L'intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo
• Mouse d'Oro Award: Pieta by Kim Ki-duk
• Mouse d'Argento: Anton does ryadom ( Anton's Right Here ) by Lyubov Arkus
• UK - Italy Creative Industries Award - Best Innovative Budget Award: L'intervallo by Leonardo Di Costanzo
• Gillo Pontecorvo - Arcobaleno Latino Award: Laura Delli Colli
• Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Award: Low Tide by Roberto Minervini
• Interfilm Award for promoting interreligious dialogue: Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour
• Giovani Giurati del Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award: The Company You Keep - The Grant Files (The Company You Keep) by Robert Redford, Special Mention for Toni Servillo
• Premio Cinematografico “Civitas Vitae prossima” Award: Terramatta by Costanza Quatriglio
• Green Drop Award: The Fifth Season (La Cinquième Season) by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth

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

1. ↑ ^{a b} Countries represented at the 69th Venice Film Festival ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2012 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 (accessed July 29, 2012).  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics of the 69th Venice Film Festival ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2012 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 (accessed July 29, 2012).  
3. ↑ Film profile ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2012 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 (accessed September 8, 2012).  
4. ↑ Information ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2012 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 (accessed July 29, 2012).  
5. ↑ 69th Venice International Film Festival, Screenings Schedule. at labiennale.org (accessed October 20, 2012).
6. ↑ Ulrich Seidl's "Paradies: Glaube" in Venice in the competition at derstandard.at, July 26, 2012 (accessed on July 29, 2012).
7. ^ Film Festival and Architecture Biennale: New Festival Directors for Venice at Spiegel Online , December 28, 2011 (accessed July 22, 2012).
8. ↑ Marco Müller takes over the film festival in Rome . In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 18, 2012, No. 21278, p. 26.
9. ↑ ^{a b} cf. Announcement on the homepage labiennale.org (English; accessed on July 22, 2012).
10. ↑ Venice Biennale Cinema section: what's new in 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2012 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, April 18, 2012 (accessed July 22, 2012).  
11. ↑ ^{a b} 10 feature-length and 13 short films from the Orizzonti section available in streaming around the world concurrently with the Lido ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2012 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 20, 2012 (accessed August 29, 2012).  
12. ↑ Francesco Rosi Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, May 10, 2012 (accessed May 11, 2012).  
13. ↑ Kasia Smutniak to host the 69th Venice Film Festival ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 24, 2012 (accessed July 29, 2012).  
14. ↑ Cinema: Michael Mann President of the International Jury of the Venezia 69 Competition ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2012 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 1, 2012 (accessed June 10, 2012).  
15. ↑ Lueken, Verena: Because they know what they are doing . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23 August 2006, No. 195, p. 31.
16. ↑ Michael Mann . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 43/2007 of October 27, 2007, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 25/2012 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
17. ↑ Körte, Peter: Pulsatile . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 5, 2003, No. 30, p. 38.
18. ↑ Marina Abramovic, Laetitia Casta, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Ari Folman, Matteo Garrone, Ursula Meier, Samantha Morton, Pablo Trapero to form the Venezia 69 International Jury chaired by Michael Mann ( Memento of the original from March 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 13, 2012 (accessed July 22, 2012).  
19. ↑ 4 new titles join the roster of the 69th Venice Film Festival ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, August 7, 2012 (accessed August 16, 2012).  
20. ^ PARADISE: Faith in the competition at the Venice Film Festival at ulrichseidl.com (accessed on July 29, 2012).
21. ↑ Sandra den Hamer, Runa Islam, Jason Kliot, Nadine Labaki, Milcho Manchevski, Amir Naderi, to form the Orizzonti International Jury chaired by Pierfrancesco Favino ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 17, 2012 (accessed July 22, 2012).  
22. ↑ «80!» For the 80th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival 10 rare restored films from the Collections of the ASAC ( Memento des Originals from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, June 19, 2012 (accessed July 22, 2012).  
23. ↑ American filmmaker Michael Cimino to receive the Persol 2012 award ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, August 10, 2012 (accessed August 29, 2012).  
24. ↑ Venezia Classici - Restored Films ( Memento of the original from March 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 25, 2012 (accessed July 29, 2012).  
25. ↑ Michel Demopoulos, Isabella Ferrari, Matt Reeves, Bob Sinclar to form the jury for the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film, chaired by Shekhar Kapur ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der 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 17, 2012 (accessed July 22, 2012).  
26. ↑ Collateral Awards of the 69th Venice Film Festival ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2013 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, September 8, 2012 (accessed September 8, 2012).  
27. ↑ Premi ufficiali della 69. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica ( Memento of the original of September 11, 2012 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, September 8, 2012 (accessed September 8, 2012).