Venice International Film Festival 2015

Impression of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival

Lorenzo Vigas , winner of the Golden Lion for Desde allá

The 72nd  Venice International Film Festival ( Italian 72nd Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica ) took place from September 2nd to 12th, 2015. Alongside the Berlinale and the Cannes International Film Festival, they are among the three most important A festivals in the world and were directed for the fourth time by Alberto Barbera .

The film festival opened with Baltasar Kormákurs Everest , which was shown out of competition in the competition for the Golden Lion . The main prize of the competition went to Lorenzo Vigas ' film Desde allá .

Bertrand Tavernier (left) and Brian De Palma are honored with awards

Bertrand Tavernier and Brian De Palma were honored with special prizes . The French film director and screenwriter Tavernier, who competed twice in vain for the main prize in 1986 with At Midnight (Pasinetti Prize) and 1992 with Auf opener Straße , was honored with the Golden Lion for the life's work of a filmmaker. This honor goes hand in hand with a position as guest director of the Venezia Classici (Venice Classics) series , in which Tavernier will present a selection of rare, forgotten or underrated films. The American film director Brian De Palma was honored with a special prize, the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award . He had competed four times in the competition for the Golden Lion and in 2007 received a Silver Lion for Redacted . The award went hand in hand with the world premiere of the documentary De Palma by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow .

Official festival poster
Simone Massi / Studio Graph.X (Milan) , 2015
Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

The official festival poster was presented in early June 2015 and is dedicated to the art house film . Drawn by the Italian animation filmmaker Simone Massi , there is a blonde woman in the foreground who is supposed to remind of Nastassja Kinski ( Paris, Texas ). The figure of Antoine Doinel (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud ) can be seen in the background , based on the last take from François Truffaut's film They kissed and they beat him (1959). Doinel had also been the godfather of last year's festival poster. Both this year's poster and those from the previous years 2012 to 2014 are intended to create a mise-en-abyme effect for the viewer and tell a little story with references to numerous films.

In 2015, in the 100th year of Mario Monicelli's birth (1915–2010), the film festival commemorated the filmmaker with the screening of a restored version of Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973) and the art project “Fantasmi”. For the project, Monicelli's long-time partner, the artist Chiara Rapaccini (better known under the stage name "RAP") reworked unpublished recordings from the 1960s to 1990s showing the filmmaker on the set. Monicelli had originally wanted to throw the documents away.

Moderator Elisa Sednaoui

The Italian-French actress Elisa Sednaoui has been selected to host the opening and closing ceremonies.

Official Sections

competition

jury

Jury President Alfonso Cuarón

Statistics (as of 2015) * = former winner of the Golden Lion
Director	Invitations
Amos Gitai	6th
Marco Bellocchio	5
Jerzy Skolimowski	4th
Giuseppe M. Gaudino , Xavier Giannoli , Alexander Sokurow *	2
Emin Alper , Laurie Anderson , Sue Brooks , Drake Doremus , Atom Egoyan , Cary Fukunaga , Luca Guadagnino , Oliver Hermanus , Tom Hooper , Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson , Piero Messina , Pablo Trapero , Lorenzo Vigas , Christian Vincent , Zhao Liang	1

The President of the Jury for the 2015 Venice Film Festival was Alfonso Cuarón . The film director, screenwriter and producer, together with his compatriots Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro, are part of a “new Mexican wave” in Hollywood . He won for his space thriller Gravity , with which he opened the festival out of competition in 2013 , among others. a. the director's Oscar . Cuarón took part in the Venice competition twice, in 2001 with Y Tu Mamá También - Lust for Life (screenplay award) and in 2006 with Children of Men (Laterna Magica award).

Several jury members are at the side of the jury president when awarding the prizes. It was almost exclusively filmmakers:

• Elizabeth Banks - American actress, film producer and director
• Emmanuel Carrère - French writer, screenwriter and film director
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Turkish film director and screenwriter ( Golden Palm of Cannes 2014 )
• Hou Hsiao-Hsien - Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and film producer (Golden Lion 1989 , Director Award in Cannes 2015 )
• Diane Kruger - German actress
• Francesco Munzi - Italian film director and screenwriter ( competitor 2014 )
• Paweł Pawlikowski - Polish film director and screenwriter ( Oscar - Best Foreign Language Film 2015)
• Lynne Ramsay - British film director and screenwriter

Competitors for the Golden Lion

The official program for the 72nd edition was presented during a press conference on July 29, 2015 at the Grand Hotel Excelsior .

Movie	Director	country	Actor (selection)
11 minut (11 Minutes)	Jerzy Skolimowski	Poland, Ireland	Richard Dormer , Paulina Chapko , Wojciech Mecwaldowski , Dawid Ogrodnik , Andrzej Chyra
Abluka - Everyone distrusts everyone (Abluka)	Emin Alper	Turkey, France, Qatar	Mehmet Özgür , Berkay Ates
Anomalisa	Charlie Kaufman Duke Johnson	United States	Animation film
L'attesa	Piero Messina	Italy, France	Juliette Binoche , Lou de Laâge , Giorgio Colangeli , Domenico Diele , Antonio Folletto , Giovanni Anzaldo
Beasts of No Nation	Cary Fukunaga	United States	Idris Elba , Abraham Attah
Beixi moshuo (Behemoth)	Zhao Liang	China, France	documentary
A bigger splash	Luca Guadagnino	Italy, France	Tilda Swinton , Ralph Fiennes , Matthias Schoenaerts , Dakota Johnson , Corrado Guzzanti
El Clan	Pablo Trapero	Argentina, Spain	Guillermo Francella , Peter Lanzani
The Danish Girl	Tom Hooper	United Kingdom, United States	Eddie Redmayne , Alicia Vikander , Amber Heard , Sebastian Koch , Ben Whishaw , Matthias Schoenaerts
Desde allá	Lorenzo Vigas	Venezuela, Mexico	Alfredo Castro , Luis Silva
The Endless River	Oliver Hermanus	South Africa, France	Nicolas Duvauchelle , Crystal-Donna Roberts , Clayton Evertson , Darren Kelfkens , Denise Newman
Equals	Drake Doremus	United States	Kristen Stewart , Nicholas Hoult , Guy Pearce , Jacki Weaver
Francofonia	Alexander Sokurov	France, Germany, Netherlands	Louis-Do de Lencquesaing , Benjamin Utzerath , Vincent Nemeth , Johanna Korthals Altes , Jean-Claude Caër , Andrey Chelpanov
Heart of a Dog	Laurie Anderson	United States	Laurie Anderson
L'Hermione	Christian Vincent	France	Fabrice Luchini , Sidse Babett Knudsen
Looking for Grace	Sue Brooks	Australia	Richard Roxburgh , Radha Mitchell , Odessa Young , Terry Norris , Harry Richardson
Marguerite	Xavier Giannoli	France, Czech Republic, Belgium	Catherine Frot , André Marcon , Michel Fau , Christa Théret , Denis Mpunga , Sylvain Dieuaide
Per amor vostro	Giuseppe M. Gaudino	Italy, France	Valeria Golino , Massimiliano Gallo , Adriano Giannini
Rabin, the last day	Amos Gitai	Israel, France	Ischac Hiskiya , Pini Mitelman , Michael Warshaviak , Einat Weizman , Rotem Keinan , Yogev Yefet , Yaël Abecassis
Remember	Atom Egoyan	Canada, Germany	Christopher Plummer , Martin Landau , Dean Norris , Bruno Ganz , Jürgen Prochnow , Heinz Lieven
Sangue del mio sangue	Marco Bellocchio	Italy, France, Switzerland	Roberto Herlitzka , Pier Giorgio Bellocchio , Lydiya Liberman , Fausto Russo Alesi , Alba Rohrwacher , Federica Fracassi , Filippo Timi

Out of competition

Feature films and short films:

• Black Mass (United States) - Director: Scott Cooper (with Johnny Depp , Joel Edgerton , Benedict Cumberbatch , Rory Cochrane , Jesse Plemons , Dakota Johnson , Peter Sarsgaard , Kevin Bacon )
• La calle de la amargura (Mexico, Spain) - directed by Arturo Ripstein (with Patricia Reyes Spíndola , Nora Velázquez , Sylvia Pasquel , Arcelia Ramírez , Alejandro Suárez , Alberto Estrella )
• Everest (Opening Film; United Kingdom, United States) - Director: Baltasar Kormákur ( Starring Jason Clarke , Josh Brolin , John Hawkes , Robin Wright , Michael Kelly , Sam Worthington , Keira Knightley , Emily Watson , Jake Gyllenhaal )
• Go with Me (United States, Canada, Sweden) - Director: Daniel Alfredson (with Anthony Hopkins , Julia Stiles , Ray Liotta , Alexander Ludwig , Hal Holbrook , Steve Bacic , Lochlyn Munro )
• Lao pao er ( Mr Six ; graduation film, China) - Director: Hu Guan (with Feng Xiaogang )
• Life and Nothing Else ( La Vie et rien d'autre , France) - Director: Bertrand Tavernier (with Philippe Noiret , Sabine Azéma ) - Re-release of the 1989 film
• Na ri xiawu ( Afternoon , Taiwan) - Director: Tsai Ming-liang (with Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Kang-sheng )
• Non essere cattivo (Italy) - Director: Claudio Caligari (with Luca Marinelli , Alessandro Borghi , Silvia D'Amico , Roberta Mattei )
• Spotlight (United States) - Director: Tom McCarthy (with Michael Keaton , Mark Ruffalo , Rachel McAdams , Stanley Tucci , Liev Schreiber , Brian d'Arcy James )

Martin Scorsese's registered 17-minute short film The Audition with Robert De Niro , Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt in the leading roles was withdrawn before the opening of the film festival. Due to "unexpected technical problems", Scorsese's directorial work was not completed in time for the festival.

Documentaries:

• De Palma (United States) - Director: Noah Baumbach , Jake Paltrow
• L'Esercito Più Piccolo del Mondo (Vatican State, Italy, Switzerland) - Director: Gianfranco Pannone
• Human (France) - Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
• In Jackson Heights (United States) - Director: Frederick Wiseman
• Janis (United States) - Director: Amy Berg
• I ricordi del fiume (Italy) - directed by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio
• Sobytie ( The Event ; Netherlands, Belgium) - Director: Sergei Loznitsa
• Winter on Fire (Ukraine) - Director: Evgeny Afineevsky

Orizzonti

Jonathan Demme

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 series opens with Un monstruo de mil cabezas (A Monster with a thousand Heads) by Rodrigo Plá .

The US film director Jonathan Demme chairs the international jury (he will be awarded the Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award during the film festival ). The following jury members are at his side:

• Anita Caprioli , Italian actress
• Fruit Chan , Hong Kong film director (competitor in 2000 and 2001)
• Alix Delaporte , French film director and screenwriter (competitor 2014)
• Paz Vega , Spanish actress

Feature films

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
The Childhood of a Leader	Brady Corbet	United Kingdom, Hungary, Belgium, France	Liam Cunningham , Bérénice Bejo , Stacy Martin , Yolande Moreau , Tom Sweet , Robert Pattinson
Boi neon	Gabriel Mascaro	Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands	Juliano Cazarré , Maeve Jinkings , Aline Santana , Carlos Pessoa , Vinicíus de Oliveira
Chaharshanbeh, 19 ordibehesht (Wednesday, May 9)	Vahid Jalilvand	Iran	Niki Karimi , Amir Aghaee , Shahrokh Forootanian , Vahid Jalilvand
A copy of my mind	Joko Anwar	Indonesia, South Korea	Tara Basro , Chicco Jerikho
Free in deed	Jake Mahaffy	United States, New Zealand	David Harewood , Edwina Findley
Interruption	Yorgos Zois	Greece, France, Croatia	David Harewood , Edwina Findley
Italian gangster	Renato de Maria	Italy	Andrea Di Casa , Paolo Mazzatelli , Luca Micheletti , Aldo Ottobrino , Sergio Romano , Francesco Sferrazza Papa
Krigen (A War)	Tobias Lindholm	Denmark	Pilou Asbæk , Tuva Novotny
Lama Azavtani (Why hast thou forsaken Me?)	Hadar Morag	Israel, France	Muhammad Daas , Yuval Gurevich
Madame Courage	Merzak Allouache	Algeria, France, United Arab Emirates	Adlane Djemil , Lamia Bezouaoui , Leïla Tilmatine , Abdellatif Benahmed , Mohamed Takerret
Man down	Ditto Montiel	United States	Shia LaBeouf , Kate Mara , Jai Courtney , Gary Oldman
Mate-Me por Favor	Anita Rocha da Silveira	Brazil, Argentina	Valentina Herszage , Mari Oliveira , Júlia Roliz , Dora Freind , Bernardo Marinho , Vitor Mayer
Un monstruo de mil cabezas (A Monster with a thousand Heads)	Rodrigo Plá	Mexico	Jana Raluy , Emilio Echevarría , Sebastián Aguirre , Hugo Albores
Mountain	Yaelle Kayam	Israel	Shani Klein , Avshalom Pollak , Haitham Ibrahem Omar
Pecore in erba	Alberto Caviglia	Italy	Davide Giordano , Anna Ferruzzo , Bianca Nappi , Mimosa Campironi , Lorenza Indovina , Omero Antonutti
Taj Mahal	Nicolas Saada	France, Belgium	Stacy Martin , Louis-Do de Lencquesaing , Gina McKee , Alba Rohrwacher
Tempete	Samuel Collardey	France	Dominique Leborne , Mailys Leborne , Mattéo Leborne
Tharlo	Tseden Pema	People's Republic of China	Shide Nyima , Yangshik Tso
Visaaranai (interrogation)	Vetri Maaran	India	Dinesh Ravi , Samuthira Kani , Murugadas Periyasamy

Short films

Movie title	Director	Country of production	running time	Actor (selection)
55 pastillas	Sebastian Muro	Argentina	13 '	Fidel Cuello Vitale , Valentina Britos , Camilo Cuello Vitale , Guillermo Tkach
Belladonna	Dubravka Turic	Croatia	18 '	Aleksandra Naumov , Nada Ðurevska , Lana Baric , Anita Matkovic
Champ des possibles	Cristina Picchi	Canada	13 '	documentary
Dvorišta (backyards)	Ivan Salatic	Montenegro	20 '	Marko Stibohar , Luka Petrone , Sara Kosovac
En defensa propia	Mariana Arriaga	Mexico	15 '	Mauricio Isaac , Emilio Echevarría
ETERNIT	Giovanni Aloi	France	11 '	Ali Salhi , Serena Grandi
Hou (monkey)	Shen Jie	China	5 '	Animation film
It seems to hang on	Kevin Jerome Everson	United States	20 '	Lynnette Freeman , Ricky Goldman
Jer gun muer rao jer gun (The young man who came from the Chee River)	Wichanon Somujarn	Thailand	16 '	Yingyong Wongtakee , Teerana Khareram
New eyes	Hiwot Admasu Done	France, Germany	11 '	Selam Fikadu , Berite Eshetu , Surafel Tsegaye , Feven Teshome
Oh Gallow Lay	Julian Wayser	United States	20 '	John Robinson , Jason Ritter , Kelsey Sanders , Andoni Anastasse
silk	Elnura Osmonalieva	Kyrgyzstan	15 '	Kaliman Kalybek Kyzy , Kanat Abdrakhmanov , Razha Alieva
Tarântula	Aly Muritiba Marja Calafange	Brazil	20 '	Malu Zanetti Domingues , Luma Domingues Zanetti , Giuly Biancato , Ana Clara Fischer
Violence en Réunion	Karim Boukercha	France	14 '	Vincent Cassel

Out of competition:

• Zero (United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico), 28 min - Director: David Victori (with Ryan Eggold , Felix Avitia , David Atkinson )

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 film director Francesco Patierno .

Restored films

• The 120 Days of Sodom ( Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma ) by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy, 1975) - restored by the Cineteca di Bologna and CSC - Cineteca Nazionale, in collaboration with Alberto Grimaldi
• Alexander Newski (Александр Невский) by Sergei Eisenstein (Soviet Union, 1938) - restored by Mosfilm
• Amarcord by Federico Fellini (Italy, 1973) - restored by the Cineteca di Bologna with the support of yoox.com and with the assistance of the Comune di Rimini . In collaboration with Cristaldifilm and Warner Bros.
• Demon Money ( Apenas un delincuente ) by Hugo Fregonese (Argentina, 1949) - restored by the Museo del Cine y Filmoteca Buenos Aires
• The Disappointed ( Le beau Serge ) by Claude Chabrol (France, 1958) - restored by Gaumont
• Eva and the Priest ( Léon Morin, prêtre ) by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1961) - restored by Studiocanal
• The distant days of my childhood ( Fenggui lai de ren , 風 櫃 來 的 人) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Taiwan, 1983) - restored by the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique in collaboration with the director and the World Cinema Project of The Film Foundation
• Heaven Can Wait ( Heaven Can Wait ) by Ernst Lubitsch (United States, 1943) - restored by The Film Foundation
• Hope ( Umut ) by Yılmaz Güney (Turkey, 1970) - restored by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism
• Errtum im Jenseits ( A Matter of Life and Death ) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (United Kingdom, 1946) - in collaboration with Park Circus Limited
• I mostri by Dino Risi (Italy, 1963) - restored by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Fondazione Maria Adriana Prolo and Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Rti-Mediaset, Lyon Film and Surf Film
• The Power and the Glory by William K. Howard (United States, 1933) - restored by 20th Century Fox
• Pyaasa (प्यासा) by Guru Dutt (India, 1957) - restored by Ultra Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
• Red Beard ( Akahige , 赤 ひ げ) by Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1965) - restored by Tōhō Co., Ltd.
• Sunbeam by Pál Fejös (Germany / Austria, 1933) - restored in cooperation with the Filmarchiv Austria
• Deadly Passion ( Pattes blanches ) by Jean Grémillon - restored by Gaumont
• The Trial of Vivienne Ware by William K. Howard (United States, 1932) - restored by the Museum of Modern Art
• Venise - Gaumont documentary (France, 1912) - restored by Gaumont
• Vogliamo i colonnelli by Mario Monicelli (Italy, 1973) - restored by CSC - Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Dean Film
• The she-wolf of Calabria ( La Lupa ) by Alberto Lattuada (Italy, 1953) - restored by CSC - Cineteca Nazionale in collaboration with Filmauro
• Angry sleeping ( To Sleep with Anger ) by Charles Burnett (United States, 1990) - restored by Sony Pictures

The winner of the Golden Lion for a Lifetime Achievement, Bertrand Tavernier, will personally introduce Error in the Hereafter , Sunbeam , Deadly Passion and The She-Wolf of Calabria .

Documentaries

• The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin - Director: Yves Montmayeur (France)
• Alfredo Bini, the unexpected Guest - Director: Simone Isola (Italy)
• Dietro gli occhiali bianchi - Director: Valerio Ruiz (Italy)
• A Flickering Truth - Director: Pietra Brettkelly (New Zealand, Afghanistan)
• For the Love of a Man - Director: Rinku Kalsy (India)
• Helmut Berger, Actor - Director: Andreas Horvath (Austria)
• Jacques Tourneur le médium (Filmer l'invisible) - Director: Alain Mazars (France)
• Mifune: The Last Samurai - Director: Steven Okazaki (Japan)

Independent film series

Two independent film series will take place parallel to the film festival:

Settimana Internazionale della Critica

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. This presented its program on July 23, 2015. To mark the 30th anniversary of the film series, a special prize (“SIC 30”) was awarded to the best debut film of all previous editions in a survey by the Film Critics Association. The winner was the tragic comedy Orphans by Peter Mullan , which was presented in the series in 1998 and will also open the International Critics' Week in 2015 .

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Ana Yurdu (Motherland)	Senem Tüzen	Turkey, Greece	Esra Bezen Bilgin , Nihal Koldas , Semih Aydin , Fatma Kisa
Banat (The Journey)	Adrian Valerio	Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia	Edoardo Gabbriellini , Elena Radonicich , Piera Degli Esposti , Stefan Velniciuc , Ovanes Torosyan
Kalo Pothi (The Black Hen)	Min Bahadur Bham	Nepal, France, Germany	Khadka Raj Nepali , Sukra Raj Rokaya , Jit Bahadur Malla , Hansha Khadka
Light Years	Esther May Campbell	United Kingdom	Beth Orton , Muhammet Uzuner , Zamiera Fuller , Sophie Burton , James Stucky
Montanha (Mountain)	João Salaviza	Portugal, France	David Mourato , Rodrigo Perdigão , Cheyenne Domingues , Maria João Pinho
The return	Green Zeng	Singapore	Chen Tianxiang , Vincent Tee , Tan Beng Chiak , Gary Tang , Evelyn Wang , Wong Kai Tow , Isaiah Lee , Eugene Tan , Shan Rievan
Tanna	Martin Butler Bentley Dean	Australia, Vanuatu	Mungau Dain , Marie Wawa , Marceline Rofit , Chief Charlie Kahla , Albi Nangia , Lingai Kowia , Dadwa Mungau , Linette Yowayin , Kapan Cook , Chief Mikum Tainakou

Out of competition

• Bagnoli Jungle (Italy) - Director: Antonio Capuano (graduation film; with Antonio Casagrande , Luigi Attrice , Marco Grieco )
• Jia ( The Family , People's Republic of China / Australia) - Director: Liu Shumin (pre-opening film - "Special Event", with Deng Shoufang , Liu Lijie , Liu Xiaomin , Jiang Jiangsheng , Chen Erya , Huang Liqin , Liao Zepeng , Liu Xujun )
• Orphans (United Kingdom) - Director: Peter Mullan (opening film; with Gary Lewis , Douglas Henshall , Rosemarie Stevenson , Stephen McCole , Frank Gallagher , Alex Norton )

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. The program was presented on July 24, 2015 in Rome.

Feature films

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Arianna	Carlo Lavagna	Italy	Ondina Quadri , Massimo Popolizio , Valentina Carnelutti
Australia (graduation film)	Simon Stone	Australia	Geoffrey Rush , Miranda Otto , Sam Neill , Paul Schneider
Early winter	Michael Rowe	Australia, Canada	Paul Doucet , Suzanne Clément
El desconocido (opening film)	Dani de la Torre	Spain	Luis Tosar , Javier Gutiérrez , Elvira Minguez
Island City	Ruchika Oberoi	India	Vinay Pathak , Amruta Subhash , Tannishtha Chatterjee
Klezmer	Piotr Chrzan	Poland	Leslaw Zurek , Dorota Kuduk , Weronika Lewon , Szymon Nowak
Lolo - three is one too many (Lolo)	Julie Delpy	France	Julie Delpy , Dany Boon , Vincent Lacoste , Karin Viard
La memoria del agua	Matías Bize	Chile	Elena Anaya , Benjamin Vicuña
As soon as I open my eyes (À peine j'ouvre les yeux)	Leyla Bouzid	France, Tunisia, Belgium, United Arab Emirates	Baya Medhaffer , Ghalia Benali , Montassar Ayari , Aymen Omrani , Lassaad Jamoussi , Deena Abdelwahed , Youssef Soltana , Marwen Soltana
La prima luce	Vincenzo Marra	Italy, Chile	Riccardo Scamarcio , Daniela Ramirez , Luis Gnecco , Alejandro Goic
Underground fragrance	Song Pengfei	France, People's Republic of China	Ying Ze , Luo Wenjie , Zhao Fuyu , Li Xiaohul , Lin Xiaochu
Viva la sposa	Ascanio Celestini	Italy, France, Belgium	Ascanio Celestini, Alba Rohrwacher , Salvatore Striano , Francesco De Miranda

Short films

Movie title	Director	Country of production	running time	Actor (selection)
# 9 de djess (Miu Miu Women's Tales)	Alice Rohrwacher	Italy	15 '	Yanet Mojica , Alba Rohrwacher
# 10 Les 3 boutons (Miu Miu Women's Tales)	Agnes Varda	France, Italy	15 '	Jasmine Thire , Michel Jeannès , Jacky Godmother

Special performances and projects:

• AA.VV. - Milano 2015 (Italy) - Directors: Elio , Roberto Bolle , Silvio Soldini , Walter Veltroni , Cristiana Capotondi , Giorgio Diritti
• Bangland (Italy) - Director: Lorenzo Berghella (animation film)
• Harry's Bar (Italy) - Director: Carlotta Cerquetti
• Il paese dove gli alberi volano - Eugenio Barba ei giorni dell'Odin (Italy) - directed by Davide Barlett and Jacopo Quadri
• Innocence of Memories - Orhan Pamuk's Museum and Istanbul (United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy) - Director: Grant Gee
• Ma (United States) - Director: Celia Rowlson Hall
• I sogni del lago salato (Italy) - Director: Andrea Segre
• Viva Ingrid! (Italy) - Director: Alessandro Rossellini (short film, 19 min)
• Zonda, folclore argentino (Argentina, Spain, France) - Director: Carlos Saura

LUX film award :

• Mediterranea (Italy, United States, Germany, France, Qatar) - Director: Jonas Carpignan
• Mustang (France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar) - Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
• Urok (Bulgaria, Greece) - directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

Awards

Overview of the prizes awarded during the festival:

International competition for the Golden Lion:

• Golden Lion : Desde allá - Director: Lorenzo Vigas
• Silver Lion - Best Director: Pablo Trapero ( El Clan )
• Jury Grand Prix: Anomalisa - Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
• Special prize of the jury: Abluka - Everyone mistrusts everyone - Director: Emin Alper
• Coppa Volpi - Best Actor: Fabrice Luchini ( L'Hermine )
• Coppa Volpi - Best Actress: Valeria Golino ( Per amor vostro )
• Marcello Mastroianni Prize : Abraham Attah ( Beasts of No Nation )
• Best Screenplay: Christian Vincent ( L'Hermine )

Orizzonti:

• Premio Orizzonti - Best Film: Free in Deed - Director: Jake Mahaffy
• Special price: Boi Neon - Director: Gabriel Mascaro
• Best Actor: Dominique Leborne ( Tempête )
• Best short film: Belladonna - Director: Dubravka Turic
• Short film nomination for the European Film Award : ETERNIT - Director: Giovanni Aloi

Venezia Classici:

• Best cinema documentary: The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin - Director: Yves Montmayeur
• Best film restoration: The 120 Days of Sodom - Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Other awards:

• Golden lion for his life's work : Bertrand Tavernier

• Premio Luigi De Laurentiis - Best Debut Film: The Childhood of a Leader - Director: Brady Corbet

• Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Brian De Palma

• Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award: Jonathan Demme

• L'Oréal Paris Prize for Cinema: Valeria Bilello

• FIPRESCI Prize : Sangue del mio sangue - Director: Marco Bellocchio

• SIGNIS Prize: Beixi moshuo - Director: Zhao Liang
• SIGNIS Prize - Special Mention: L'attesa - Director: Piero Messina

• Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola per il Cinema Award: L'attesa - Director: Piero Messina

• Francesco Pasinetti Prize: Non essere cattivo - Director: Claudio Caligari
• Francesco Pasinetti Prize - Best Actor: Luca Marinelli ( Non essere cattivo )
• Francesco Pasinetti Prize - Best Actress: Valeria Golino ( Per amor vostro )
• Francesco Pasinetti Prize - Special Prize: La prima luce - Director: Vincenzo Marra

• Brian Award: Spotlight - Director: Tom McCarthy

• Queer Lion Award : The Danish Girl - Director: Tom Hooper
• Queer Lion Award - Special Mention: Baby Bump - Director: Kuba Czekaj

• Arca CinemaGiovani Award - Best film in the competition for the Golden Lion: Abluka - Everyone mistrusts everyone - Director: Emin Alper
• Arca CinemaGiovani Award - Best Italian Film: Pecore in erba - Director: Alberto Caviglia

• FEDIC Prize: Non essere cattivo - Director: Claudio Caligari
• FEDIC Prize - Special Mention: L'attesa - Director: Piero Messina

• Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Prize: Francofonia - Director: Alexander Sokurow
• Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Special Prize: Johnny Depp and Terry Gilliam ( Black Mass )

• Future Film Festival Digital Award: Anomalisa - Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson

• P. Nazareno Taddei Prize: Marguerite - Director: Xavier Giannoli

• Lanterna Magica Prize: Blanka - Director: Kohki Hasei

• Open Award: Harry's Bar - Director: Carlotta Cerquetti

• Lina Mangiacapre Prize: Heart of a Dog - Director: Laurie Anderson

• Golden Mouse: Rabin, the last day - Director: Amos Gitai
• Silver Mouse: Spotlight - Director: Tom McCarthy

• Gillo Pontecorvo - Arcobaleno Latino Prize: Non essere cattivo - Director: Claudio Caligari

• INTERFILM Prize: Wednesday, May 9 - Director: Vahid Jalilvand

• Prize of the youth jury of the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival: Remember - Director: Atom Egoyan
• Prize of the youth jury of the Vittorio Veneto Film Festival - Special mention: 11 minut - Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

• “Civitas Vitae prossima” Prize: Pecore in erba - Director: Alberto Caviglia

• Green Drop Award: Beixi moshuo - Director: Zhao Liang

• Soundtrack Stars Award: A Bigger Splash (Director: Luca Guadagnino ) and Equals (Director: Drake Doremus )
• Soundtrack Stars Award - Prize for a Lifetime Achievement: Nicola Piovani

• Schermi di Qualità - Carlo Mazzacurati Award: Non essere cattivo - Director: Claudio Caligari

• Europa Cinemas Label Award (Best European Film in the Giornate degli Autori section ): As soon as I open my eyes (À peine j'ouvre les yeux) - Director: Leyla Bouzid

• Fedeora Prize - Best Film (Section Giornate degli Autori ): Underground Fragrance - Director: Song Pengfei
• Fedeora Prize - Best Director (Section Giornate degli Autori ): Ruchika Oberoi ( Island City )
• Fedeora Prize - Best Actress (Section Giornate degli Autori ): Ondina Quadri ( Arianna )
• Fedeora Prize - Best Film ( Settimana Internazionale della Critica Section ): Kalo Pothi - Director: Bahadur Bham Min
• Fedeora Prize - Best Cinematography ( Settimana Internazionale della Critica Section ): Bentley Dean ( Tanna )
• Fedeora Prize - Best European Film (International Competition for the Golden Lion): Francofonia - Director: Alexander Sokurow

• Human Rights Nights Award: Rabin, the last day - Director: Amos Gitai

• AssoMusica “Ho visto una Canzone” Award: Song A cuor leggero by Riccardo Sinigallia from the film Non essere cattivo

• “Sorriso diverso Venezia 2015” Award - Best Italian Film: Non essere cattivo - Director: Claudio Caligari
• “Sorriso diverso Venezia 2015” Award - Best Foreign Language Film: Blanka - Director: Kohki Hasei

• Amnesty International Italia “Il cinema per i diritti umani” Award: Visaaranai - Director: Vetri Maaran

• CITC - UNESCO 2015 Award: Beasts of No Nation - Director: Cary Fukunaga

• NuovoImaie Talent Award - Best Actress in a Debut Film: Ondina Quadri ( Arianna )
• NuovoImaie Talent Award - Best Italian Actor in a Debut Film: Alessandro Borghi ( Non better cattivo )

• Best Innovative Budget Award: A Bigger Splash - Director: Luca Guadagnino

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} message at labiennale.org (accessed July 8, 2015).
2. ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from July 9, 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 8, 2015 (accessed July 8, 2015).  
3. ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original of July 21, 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, March 10, 2015 (accessed July 17, 2015).  
4. ↑ Official press release ( 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, August 13, 2015 (accessed August 21, 2015).  
5. ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from July 7, 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 6, 2015 (accessed July 8, 2015).  
6. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from August 3, 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 28, 2015 (accessed August 3, 2015).  
7. ↑ Official press release ( 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, 2015 (accessed July 26, 2015).  
8. ↑ Alfonso Cuarón . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/2013 from December 10, 2013, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 10/2014 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
9. ↑ Official press release ( 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, 2015 (accessed July 28, 2015).  
10. ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from July 31, 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 29, 2015 (accessed July 29, 2015).  
11. ↑ Martin Scorsese Short 'The Audition' Won't Be Ready For Venice Film Festival at deadline.com, August 29, 2015 (accessed September 2, 2015).
12. ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from September 10, 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, August 28, 2015 (accessed August 28, 2015).  
13. ↑ ^{a b} Official press release ( 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 20, 2015 (accessed July 21, 2015).  
14. ↑ Official announcement at sicvenezia.it (accessed on July 8, 2015).
15. ↑ Official press release at sicvenezia.it (accessed on July 8, 2015).
16. ↑ Official press release at venice-days.com, July 6, 2015 (accessed July 8, 2015).
17. ↑ Official winners of the 2015 Film Festival ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 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 12, 2015 (accessed September 13, 2015)  
18. ↑ List of winners 2015 ( 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, September 12, 2015 (accessed September 13, 2015)