Venice International Film Festival 2017

The 74th  Venice International Film Festival ( Italian 74th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica ) took place from August 30th to September 9th 2017 at the Lido . Alongside the Berlinale and the Cannes Film Festival, they are among the three most important A festivals in the world and were directed by Alberto Barbera for the sixth time in a row . The American science fiction tragicomedy Downsizing by Alexander Payne was selected as the opening film. Takeshi Kitano's feature film Outrage Coda was chosen as the final film .

The jury president of the international competition Venezia 74 , in which the Golden Lion was awarded for the best film at the festival, was this year the American actress Annette Bening . The main prize of the competition went to Guillermo del Toro's film The Shape of Water . The Italian actor Alessandro Borghi was chosen to host the opening ceremony and the final award gala .

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford , who received the Golden Lion on September 1st as an honorary prize for a lifetime achievement , were already the winners . The award ceremony went hand in hand with the showing of their new film together, the Netflix production Our Souls at Night by Ritesh Batra , which was shown outside of the competition. Also included in the program was a performance of Sydney Pollack's feature film The Electric Rider , in which both were in front of the camera in 1979.

One day before the official opening of the film festival, the restored version of Ernst Lubitsch's Rosita was premiered . The silent film was restored by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) with support from The Film Foundation by Martin Scorsese . The premiere will be musically accompanied by the Mitteleuropa Orchestra , conducted by the musicologist Gillian Anderson .

In 2017, a competition for the best film projects in the field of virtual reality (Venice Virtual Reality Section) took place for the first time .

Official Sections

competition

jury

Annette Bening (2013)

The President of the Jury for the 2017 Venice Film Festival was Annette Bening . The American film and theater actress was the first female jury president since Catherine Deneuve ( 2006 ). Festival director Alberto Barbera praised the fact that her career was “always characterized by interesting, often daring decisions”. "As a cultivated and instinctive actress who can portray complex nuances in characters, Annette Bening gives her roles a deliberately softening, warm and natural elegance that makes for a wonderful and always enriching experience when watching her films," says Barbera.

The jury president was supported by several jury members who were named on July 23, 2017:

• Ildikó Enyedi , Hungarian film director and screenwriter (participant in the 1994 competition )
• Michel Franco , Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter
• Rebecca Hall , British actress
• Anna Mouglalis , French actress
• David Stratton , Anglo-Australian film critic and television producer, director of the Sydney Film Festival (1994 judge)
• Jasmine Trinca , Italian actress ( Marcello Mastroianni Prize 2009 )
• Edgar Wright , British film director and screenwriter
• Yonfan , Chinese film director, producer and screenwriter (participant in the 2009 competition )

Competitors for the Golden Lion

Statistics (as of 2017) * = former winner of the Golden Lion
Director	Invitations
Darren Aronofsky *	4th
George Clooney , Abdellatif Kechiche	3
Hirokazu Koreeda , Samuel Maoz *, Paolo Virzì	2
Ai Weiwei , Ziad Doueiri , Robert Guédiguian , Andrew Haigh , Xavier Legrand , Gebrüder Manetti , Martin McDonagh , Andrea Pallaoro , Alexander Payne , Vivian Qu , Sebastiano Riso , Paul Schrader , Warwick Thornton , Guillermo del Toro , Frederick Wiseman	1

The official program for the 74th edition was presented during a press conference in Rome on July 27, 2017. 21 feature films are competing in the competition for the Golden Lion, including Darren Aronofsky and Samuel Maoz, two previous grand prize winners:

Movie	Director	country	Actor (selection)
Ammore e Malavita	Manetti brothers	Italy	Giampaolo Morelli , Serena Rossi , Claudia Gerini , Carlo Buccirosso
Downsizing (opening film)	Alexander Payne	United States	Matt Damon , Christoph Waltz , Hong Chau , Kristen Wiig
Bookplate - The New York Public Library	Frederick Wiseman	United States	documentary
Una famiglia	Sebastiano Riso	Italy	Micaela Ramazzotti , Patrick Bruel
First Reformed	Paul Schrader	United States	Ethan Hawke , Amanda Seyfried , Cedric Kyles
Foxtrot	Samuel Maoz	Israel, Germany, France, Switzerland	Lior Ashkenazi , Sarah Adler , Yonatan Shira , Karin Ugowski , Shira Haas
Hannah	Andrea Pallaoro	Italy, Belgium, France	Charlotte Rampling , André Wilms
Human flow	Ai Weiwei	Germany	documentary
The Insult	Ziad Doueiri	France, Lebanon	Adel Karam , Kamel El Basha , Camille Salameh , Rita Hayek
Jia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White)	Vivian Qu	PR China, France	Wen Qi , Zhou Meijun , Shi Ke , Geng Le , Liu Weiwei , Peng Jing
Jusqu'à la garde	Xavier Legrand	France	Denis Ménochet , Léa Drucker , Thomas Gioria , Mathilde Auneveux , Saadia Bentaïeb
Lean on Pete	Andrew Haigh	United Kingdom	Charlie Plummer , Steve Buscemi , Chloë Sevigny
The glow of memory	Paolo Virzì	Italy	Helen Mirren , Donald Sutherland
Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno	Abdellatif Kechiche	France, Italy	Shaïn Boumedine , Ophélie Bau , Salim Kechiouche , Lou Luttiau , Alexia Chardard , Hafsia Herzi
Mother!	Darren Aronofsky	United States	Jennifer Lawrence , Javier Bardem , Michelle Pfeiffer , Domhnall Gleeson , Ed Harris
Sandome No Satsujin (The Third Murder)	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan	Fukuyama Masaharu , Yakusho Koji , Hirose Suzu
The Shape of Water	Guillermo del Toro	United States	Sally Hawkins , Michael Shannon , Richard Jenkins , Doug Jones , Michael Stuhlbarg , Octavia Spencer
Suburbicon	George Clooney	United States	Matt Damon , Julianne Moore , Noah Jupe , Oscar Isaac
Sweet Country	Warwick Thornton	Australia	Sam Neill , Bryan Brown , Hamilton Morris , Thomas M. Wright
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Martin McDonagh	United Kingdom	Frances McDormand , Woody Harrelson , Sam Rockwell , Abbie Cornish , John Hawkes , Peter Dinklage
La villa	Robert Guédiguian	France	Ariane Ascaride , Jean-Pierre Darroussin , Gérard Meylan , Jacques Boudet , Anaïs Demoustier , Robinson Stévenin

Out of competition

The following films were shown outside of the competition:

Movie	Director	country	Actor (selection)
Brawl in Cell Block 99	S. Craig Payer	United States	Vince Vaughn , Jennifer Carpenter , Don Johnson , Udo Kier
Il color nascosto delle cose	Silvio Soldini	Italy, Switzerland	Valeria Golino , Adriano Giannini , Arianna Scommegna , Laura Adriani
Cuba and the Cameraman	John Alpert	United States	documentary
The Devil and Father Amorth	William Friedkin	United States	documentary
Diva!	Francesco Patierno	Italy	Barbora Bobuľová , Anita Caprioli , Carolina Crescentini , Silvia D'Amico , Isabella Ferrari , Carlotta Natoli , Greta Scarano , Anna Foglietta , Michele Riondino
La fidèle	Michaël R. Roskam	Belgium, France, the Netherlands	Matthias Schoenaerts , Adèle Exarchopoulos
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond. The Story of Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman and Tony Clifton	Chris Smith	USA, Canada	documentary
Happy winter	Giovanni Totaro	Italy	documentary
Loving Pablo	Fernando León de Aranoa	Spain, Bulgaria	Javier Bardem , Penélope Cruz , Peter Sarsgaard
La mélodie	Rachid Hami	France	Kad Merad , Samir Guesmi , Renély Alfred , Youssouf Gueye
My generation	David Batty	United Kingdom	Documentary (with Michael Caine )
Our Souls at Night	John Alpert	United States	Jane Fonda , Robert Redford
Outrage coda	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	Beat Takeshi , Nishida Toshiyuki
Piazza Vittorio	Abel Ferrara	Italy	documentary
The Private Life of a Modern Woman	James Toback	United States	Sienna Miller , Alec Baldwin , Charles Grodin , Colleen Camp , Carl Icahn
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda	Stephen Nomura Schible	USA, Japan	documentary
Il Signor Rotpeter	Antonietta De Lillo	Italy	Marina Confalone
This is Congo	Daniel McCabe	Congo	documentary
Victoria & Abdul	Stephen Frears	United Kingdom	Judi Dench , Ali Fazal , Eddie Izzard
Wormwood (TV series, 6 episodes)	Errol Morris	United States	Peter Sarsgaard , Molly Parker , Christian Camargo , Scott Shepherd , Tim Blake Nelson , Bob Balaban
Zama	Lucrecia Martel	Argentina, Brazil	Daniel Giménez Cacho , Lola Dueñas , Matheus Nachtergaele , Juan Minujín
Zhuibu (Manhunt)	John Woo	PR China, Hong Kong	Zhang Hanyu , Fukuyama Masaharu , Qi Wei , Ha Jiwon

Special performances

• Casa d'Altri - Director: Gianni Amelio (Italy)
• Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller - Director: Jerry Kramer (USA)
• Michael Jackson's Thriller 3D - Director: John Landis (USA), Actors: Michael Jackson , Ola Ray

Further special performances

• Barbiana '65 La Lezione di Don Milani - Director: Alessandro GA D'Alessandro (Italy)
• The Electric Horseman (The Electric Horseman) - Director: Sydney Pollack (USA, 1979) Starring: Robert Redford , Jane Fonda
• La lunga strada del ritorno - Director: Alessandro Blasetti (Italy, 1962)
• Lievito Madre - Le ragazze del secolo scorso - Director: Concita De Gregorio , Esmeralda Calabria (Italy)
• L 'Ordine delle cose - director: Andrea Segre (Italy, France), actors: Paolo Pierobon , Giuseppe Battiston , Valentina Carnelutti , Olivier Rabourdin

Orizzonti

Susanna Nicchiarelli's film Nico, the Orizzonti section opened in 1988 , in which it was recognized as best film

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 section was opened with the feature film Nico, made by Susanna Nicchiarelli in 1988 , which was awarded the main prize. The award for the best short film went to Gros chagrin by Celine Devaux .

The Italian director Gianni Amelio (winner of the Golden Lion 1998 ) chaired the international jury . Other jury members were:

• Rakhshan Bani-Etemad , Iranian filmmaker (participant in the competition for the Golden Lion 2014 )
• Ami Canaan Mann , American director (participant in the competition for the Golden Lion 2014)
• Mark Cousins , Irish-Scottish director, screenwriter and curator
• Andrés Duprat , Argentine screenwriter, architect and artistic curator
• Fien Troch , Belgian director and screenwriter (participant and award-winning director of the Orizzonti section 2016)
• Rebecca Zlotowski , French director and screenwriter

Feature films

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza (No Date, No Signature)	Vahid Jalilvand	Iran	Amir Agha'ee , Navid Mohammadzadeh , Hediyeh Tehrani , Sa'eed Dakh
Ha Ben Dod (The Cousin)	Tzahi degree	Israel	Ala Dakka , Tzahi Grad, Osnat Fishman
Les Bienheureux	Sofia Djama	France, Belgium	Sami Bouajila , Nadia Kaci , Amine Lansari , Lyna Khoudri
Gross e cattivi	Cosimo Comez	Italy, France	Claudio Santamaria , Marco D'Amore , Sara Serraiocco
Caniba	Lucien Castaing-Taylor Verena Paravel	France
Disappearance	Ali Asgari	Iran, Qatar	Sadaf Asgari , Amir Reza Ranjbaran , Nafiseh Zare , Sahar Sotoodeh
Ha Etud (The Testament)	Amichai Greenberg	Israel, Austria	Ori Pfeffer , Rivka Gur , Hagit Dasberg Shamul , Ori Yaniv
Espèces menacées	Gilles Bourdos	France, Belgium	Alice Isaaz , Vincent Rottiers , Grégory Gadebois , Suzanne Clément
Gatta cenerentola	Alessandro Rak Ivan Cappiello Marino Guarnieri Dario Sansone	Italy	Animation film
Invisible	Pablo Giorgelli	Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Germany, France	Mora Arenillas , Mara Orderi , Diego Cremonesi
war	Rick Ostermann	Germany	Ulrich Matthes , Barbara Auer
Marvin	Anne Fontaine	France	Finnegan Oldfield , Isabelle Huppert , Grégory Gadebois , Vincent Macaigne
Nico, 1988 (opening film)	Susanna Nicchiareli	Italy, Belgium	Trine Dyrholm , John Gordon Sinclair , Anamaria Marinca , Sandor Funtek
La nuit où j'ai nagé (Oyogisugita yoru)	Damien Manivel Igarashi Kohei	France, Japan	Kogawa Takara , Kogawa Keiki , Kogawa Takashi , Kogawa Chisato
The Rape of Recy Taylor	Nancy Buirski	United States
Undir trénu (Under the Tree)	Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson	Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany	Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson , Edda Björgvinsdóttir , Sigurður Sigurjónsson , Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir
Los versos del olvido	Alireza Khatami	France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile	Juan Margallo , Tomas Del Estal , Manuel Moron , Itziar Aizpuru
La vita in comune	Edoardo Winspeare	Italy	Gustavo Caputo , Antonio Carluccio , Claudio Giangreco , Celeste Casciaro
West of Sunshine	Jason Raftopoulos	Australia	Damian Hill , Ty Perham , Kat Stewart , Tony Nikolakopoulos , Arthur Angel

Short films

Movie title	Director	Country of production	running time	Actor (selection)
Apia (Aria)	Myrsini Aristidou	Cyprus, France	13 '	Chryssa Platsatoura , Yannis Stankoglou , Audrey Giacomini , Takis Spyridakis
Astrometal	Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis	Greece	15 '	Mihalis Sarantis , Thalia Papacosta , Yiannis Niarros
Awasarn Sound Man (Death of the Sound Man)	Sorayos Prapapan	Thailand, Myanmar	16 '	Chalermrat Kaweewattana , Nattapong Pipattanasub
By the pool	Laurynas Bareisa	Lithuania	16 '	Karolina Kildaité , Danas Kavaliauskas , Karolina Maksvityte
Gros shagrin	Celine Devaux	France	15 '	Swann Arlaud , Victoire Du Bois
Himinn Opinn	Gabriel Sanson Clyde Gates	Belgium	19 '	Tristan Tessier , Judith Williquet , Jonathan Pryce
The Knife Salesman	Michael Leonard Jamie Helmer	Australia	10 '	Syd Brisbane , Dana Miltins
Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu (It's easier to Raise Cattle)	Amanda Nell Eu	Malaysia	18 '	Sharifah Aryana Binti Syed Zainal Rashid, Sofia Sabri
Meninas Formicida	João Paulo Miranda Maria	France, Brazil	12 '	Amanda Araújo , Tatiana Pinheiro Ribeiro , Bruna Andrade
Mon amour, mon ami	Adriano Valerio	Italy	15 '
L'ombra della sposa	Alessandra Pescetta	Italy	11 '	Fabrizio Buttiglieri , Marco Canzoneri , Giuseppe Lo Piccolo , Angela Ribaudo
Tierra Mojada	Juan Sebastian Mesa Bedoya	Colombia	17 '	Yeison García Tascon , Marco Tulio Vásquez Yagarí , Barbara Panchí Saigama

Out of competition

• 8th Continent - Pavlos Iordanopoulos (Greece, 11 min), actor: Pavlos Iordanopoulos
• Futuro prossimo - Salvatore Mereu (Italy, 18 min), actors: Rachel Akimbi , Mojo Kuti , Francesco Vesta

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 film documentary, which was awarded by a jury of film students under the direction of the Italian director Giuseppe Piccioni . Awards went to the restored film Come and See and the documentary The Prince and the Dybbuk .

Restored films

Movie title	Director	Production country	appearance year	restorer
1900 (Novecento)	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy	1976	20th Century Fox , Paramount Pictures , Istituto Luce - Cinecittà and Cineteca di Bologna , in cooperation with Alberto Grimaldi and with the support of Massimo Sordella
The monkey woman (La donna scimmia)	Marco Ferreri	Italy, France	1964	Cineteca di Bologna and TF1 Studio, in cooperation with Surf Film
The Eye of Evil (L'Œil du Malin)	Claude Chabrol	France	1962	Studiocanal , with the support of the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Les baliseurs du désert / El-haimoune (Wanderers of the Desert)	Nacer Khemir	Tunisia, France	1984	Cinémathèque royale de Belgique
Batch '81	Mike De Leon	Philippines	1982	Asian Film Archive
Insufficient conduct (Zéro de conduite)	Jean Vigo	France	1933	Gaumont , with the support of the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée
Women's Bungalow (The Revolt of Mamie Stover)	Raoul Walsh	United States	1956	20th Century Fox
Cousin cousin	Jean Rouch	France	1985-87	Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), in collaboration with the Fondation Jean Rouch (for the filmmaker's 100th birthday)
Daïnah la métisse	Jean Grémillon	France	1932	Gaumont, with the support of the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
Come and see (Иди и смотри, Idi i smotri)	Elem Klimow	Soviet Union	1985	Mosfilm (Producer: Karen Schachnasarow )
Into the Night (Into the Night)	John Landis	United States	1985	Universal Pictures
The legend of the master of scroll paintings (近 松 物語, Chikamatsu monogatari)	Kenji Mizoguchi	Japan	1954	Kadokawa Corporation, The Film Foundation, in cooperation with The Japan Foundation
The taste of green tea over rice (お 茶 漬 け の 味, Ochazuke no aji)	Ozu Yasujirō	Japan	1952	Shochiku
The Old Dark House	James Whale	United States	1932	Cohen Film Collection / Cohen Media Group
Rosita (pre-opening film)	Ernst Lubitsch	United States	1923	MoMA , with support from The Film Foundation
The red desert (Il deserto rosso)	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy	1964 (winner of the Golden Lion)	CSC-Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà, in collaboration with RTI-Mediaset
Sansho Dayu - A life without freedom (山椒 大夫, Sanshō Dayū)	Kenji Mizoguchi	Japan	1954	Kadokawa Corporation and The Film Foundation, in cooperation with The Japan Foundation
Black Peter (Černý Petr)	Miloš Forman	Czechoslovakia	1964	Národní filmový archive
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Close Encounters of the Third Child)	Steven Spielberg	United States	1977	Sony Pictures Entertainment
Vendetta (Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi)	Giuseppe De Santis	Italy	1950	CSC-Cineteca Nazionale in cooperation with CristaldiFilm by Zeudi Araya and Massimo Cristaldi
Two or three things I know about her (Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle)	Jean-Luc Godard	France	1967	Argos Films, with the support of the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Documentaries

• Año luz (Light Years) - Director: Manuel Abramovich (Argentina, Brazil, Spain)
• L'Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Director: Marco di Castri , Paolo Favaro , Daniele Pianciola (Italy, France)
• Evviva Giuseppe - Director: Stefano Consiglio (Switzerland, Italy)
• La lucida follia di Marco Ferreri (Dangerous but Necessary) - Director: Selma Jean Dell'Olio
• The Prince and the Dybbuk (Książę i dybuk) - Director: Elwira Niewiera , Piotr Rosołowski (Poland, Germany)
• This is the War Room! - Director: Boris Hars-Tschachotin (Germany)
• L'utopie des images de la révolution russe (The Russian Revolution through its Films) - Director: Emmanuel Hamon (France)
• La voce die Fantozzi - Director: Mario Sesti (Italy)

Cinema in the Giardino

Under the motto “Film, Conversations and Visions”, six world premieres will be shown in this section (Eng. “Cinema in the Garden”) without awarding a prize. Members of the film crew face public discussions.

• Conrofigura - directed by Rä di Martino (Italy, France, Switzerland, Morocco), actors: Valeria Golino , Filippo Timi , Corrado Sassi , Nadia Kounda , Younes Bouab
• Manuel - directed by Dario Albertini (Italy), actors: Andrea Lattanzi , Giulia Elettra Gorietti , Francesca Antonelli , Raffaella Rea
• Nato a Casal di Principe - Director: Bruno Oliviero (Italy, Spain), actors: Alessio Lapice , Massimiliano Gallo , Donatella Finocchiaro , Lucia Sardo , Antonio Pennarella
• Suburra - La Serie - directed by Michele Placido , Andrea Molaioli , Giuseppe Capotondi (Italy), actors: Alessandro Borghi , Giacomo Ferrara , Eduardo Valdarnini , Francesco Acquaroli , Filippo Nigro , Claudia Gerini
• Tueurs - directed by François Troukens , Jean-François Hensgens (Belgium, France), actors: Olivier Gourmet , Lubna Azabal , Kevin Janssens , Bouli Lanners
• Woodshock - directed by Kate Mulleavy , Laura Mulleavy (USA), actors: Kirsten Dunst , Pilou Asbaek , Joe Cole , Stephan Duvall

Venice Virtual Reality Section

After the Venice Film Festival had invited contributions that deal with virtual reality in the past , a competition for VR films will take place for the first time in 2017. The jury is headed by the American director John Landis and is complemented by the French screenwriter and director Céline Sciamma and the Italian actor and director Ricky Tognazzi .

22 contributions were invited:

• Alice, The Reality Play - Director: Marie Jourdren , Mathias Chelebourg (France), installation (20 min)
• Arden's Wake (Expanded) - Director: Eugene Yk Chung (USA), animated film (16 min), Oculus Stand Up
• The Argos File - Director: Josema Roig (USA), VR Theater (4 min)
• Bloodless - Director: Gina Kim (South Korea, USA), VR Theater (12 min)
• Chuang (In the Pictures) - Director: Qing Shao (PR China), animated film (5 min), VR Theater
• La camera insabbiata - Director: Laurie Anderson , Hsin-Chien Huang (USA, Taiwan), installation (20 min)
• Dispatch - Director: Edward Robles (USA, UK), animated film (6 min), Oculus Stand Up
• Draw Me Close: A Memoir - Director: Jordan Tannahill (Canada, United Kingdom), installation (15 min)
• Free Whale - Director: Zhang Peibin (PR China), animated film (7 min), Oculus Stand Up
• Gomorra VR - We Own the Streets - Director: Enrico Rosati (Italy), VR Theater (14 min)
• Greenland Melting - Director: Catherine Upin , Julia Cort , Nonny de la Peña , Raney Aronson-Rath (USA), Vive Stand Up (11 min)
• Hver sin stilhed (Separate Silences) - Director: David Wedel (Denmark), installation (17 min)
• I Saw the Future - Director: François Vautier (France), VR Theater (5 min)
• Jia Zai Lanre Si (The Deserted) - Director: Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan), VR Theater (55 min)
• The Last Goodbye - Director: Gabo Arora , Ari Palitz (USA), installation (20 min)
• Melita - Director: Nicolás Alcalá (USA), animated film (24 min), Oculus Stand Up
• My Name is Peter Stillman - Director: Lysander Ashton (United Kingdom), animated film (6 min), Oculus Stand Up
• Nothing Happens - Directors: Uri Kranot , Michelle Kranot (Denmark, France), animated film (14 min), Vive Stand Up
• Proxima - Director: Mathieu Pradat (France), VR Theater (9 min)
• Rebel Queen - directed by Richard Mills, Kim-Leigh Pontin (United Kingdom), animated film (15 min), Vive Stand Up
• Shi Meng Lao Ren (The Dream Collector) - Director: Mi Li (PR China), animated film (11 min), Oculus Stand Up
• Snatch VR Heist Experience - Director: Rafael Pavón , Nicolás Alcalá (USA), installation (5 min)

The following VR films were shown out of competition:

• Dear Angelica - Director: Saschka Unselt (USA), animated film (13 min), Oculus Stand Up
• Miyubi - Director: Félix Lajeunesse , Paul Raphaël (Canada), VR Theater (40 min)

Independent film series

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

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Il cratere (crater)	Luca Bellino Silvia Luzi	Italy	Sharon Caroccia , Rosario Caroccia
DRIFT	Helena Wittmann	Germany	Theresa George , Josefina Gill
The Wild Boys (Les garçons sauvages)	Bertrand Mandico	France	Vimala Pons , Diane Rouxel , Mathilde Warnier , Anael Snoek , Pauline Lorillard , Elina Löwenson , Sam Louwyck , Nathalie Richard
Korfez (The Gulf)	Emre Yeksan	Turkey, Germany, Greece	Ulaş Tuna Astepe , Ahmet Melih Yılmaz , Serpil Gül , Müfit Kayacan , Merve Dizdar , Damla Ardal , Cem Zeynel Kılıç
Sarah joue un loup garou (Sarah Plays a Werewolf)	Katharina Wyss	Switzerland, Germany	Loane Balthasar , Michel Voïta , Annina Walt , Sabine Timoteo , Manuela Biedermann
Team Hurricane	Annika Berg	Denmark	Eja Penelope Roepstorff , Ida Glitre , Ira Rønnenfelt , Maja Leth Bang , Mathilde Linnea Daugaard , Elise Pedersen , Sara Morling , Zara Munch Bjarnum
Temporada de caza (Hunting Season)	Natalia Garagiola	Argentina, USA, Germany, France, Qatar	Lautaro Bettoni , Germán Palacios , Boy Olmi , Rita Pauls

Special performances (out of competition)

• Opening film: Pin Cushion by Deborah Haywood (United Kingdom), Starring: Joanna Scanlan , Lily Newmark , Chanel Cresswell , Bruce Jones , Isy Suttle , Nadine Coyle
• Graduation film: Veleno (Poison - The Land Of The Fires) by Diego Olivares (Italy), actors: Luisa Ranieri , Massimiliano Gallo , Salvatore Esposito , Nado Paone , Gennaro Di Colandrea , Miriam Candurro , Marianna Robustelli

Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days

The Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici (ANAC), together with the 100 Autori association , is preparing the Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days , which shows Italian and foreign feature and documentary films. The selection for the 11th edition was announced on July 25, 2017 during a press conference in Rome. The Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf was selected as the jury president .

Official selection

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Candelaria	Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza	Colombia, Germany, Norway, Argentina	Alden Knight , Veronica Lynn , Manuel Viveros , Philipp Hochmair
Il contagio - The Contagion	Matteo Botrugno Daniele Coluccini	Italy	Vinicio Marchioni , Maurizio Tesei , Anna Foglietta , Vincenzo Salemme
Dove cadono le ombre - Where the Shadows Fall	Valentina Pedicini	Italy	Elena Cotta , Federica Rossellini
L'equilibrio	Vincenzo Marra	Italy	Mimmo Borrelli , Roberto Del Gaudio
Eye on Juliet	Kim Nguyen	Canada	Joe Cole , Lina El Arabi
Ga'agua - Longing	Savi Gabizon	Israel	Shai Avivi , Asi Levi
Life guidance	Ruth Mader	Austria	Fritz Karl , Katharina Lorenz , Florian Teichtmeister , Petra Morzé
Looking for Oum Kulthum	Shirin Neshat	Germany, Austria, Italy	Neda Rahmanian , Yasmin Raeis , Mehdi Moinzadeh
M.	Sara Forestier	France	Sara Forestier, Redouanne Harjane
Mai Mee Samui Samrab Ter - Samui Song	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang	Thailand, Germany, Norway	Cherman Boonyasak , David Asavanond
Mi Hua Zhi Wei - The Taste of Rice Flower	Pengfei	People's Republic of China	Ying Ze , Ye Bule
Volubilis	Faouzi Bensaïdi	Morocco, France	Mouhcine Malzi , Nadia Kounda

Special program

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Agnelli	Nick Hooker	United States	documentary
Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story	James Lester	United States	documentary
La legge del numero uno (short film)	Alessandro D'Alatri	Italy	Marco Palvetti , Andrea Sartoretti
Il risoluto - The Resolute	Giovanni Donfrancesco	Italy France	documentary
Il tentato suicidio nell'adolescenza (TS Giovanile) (1968)	Ermanno Olmi	Italy	Short documentary

Miu Miu Women's Tales

• # 13 Carmen - Director: Chloë Sevigny (Italy, USA), Actor: Carmen Lynch
• # 14 (The [End) of History Illusion] - Director: Celia Rowlson-Hall (Italy, USA), Cast: Caroline Polachek , Sean Scott, John Scott, Leal Zielinska , Mina Nishimura , Katlyn Addison , Christina Jones

Special performances

• I'm (Endless Like the Space) - Director: Anne-Riitta Ciccone (Italy), Actors: Barbora Bobuľová , Mathilde Bundschuh
• The Millionairs - Director: Claudio Santamaria (Italy), Actors: Peppe Servillo , Sabrina Impacciatore (short film)
• Raccontare Venezia - Director: Wilma Labate (Italy, France), Actor: Silvia D'Amico

LUX film award

As part of the award of the LUX film prize, the following films were shown:

• 120 battements par minute - Director: Robin Campillo (France)
• Sameblod - Sami Blood - Director: Amanda Kernell (Sweden, Denmark, Norway)
• Western - Director: Valeska Grisebach (Germany)

Awards

An overview of the prizes awarded in the official sections of the festival:

International competition for the Golden Lion

Guillermo del Toro

• Golden Lion : The Shape of Water - Director: Guillermo del Toro
• Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize: Foxtrot - Director: Samuel Maoz
• Silver Lion - Best Director: Xavier Legrand ( Jusqu'à la garde )
• Coppa Volpi - Best Actor: Kamel El Basha ( The Insult )
• Coppa Volpi - Best Actress: Charlotte Rampling ( Hannah )
• Best Screenplay: Martin McDonagh ( Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri )
• Special Jury Prize: Sweet Country - Directed by Warwick Thornton
• Marcello Mastroianni Prize : Charlie Plummer ( Lean on Pete )

2017 Honorary Prize Winners: Jane Fonda and Robert Redford

• Golden Lion as an honorary award for a lifetime achievement : Jane Fonda and Robert Redford

Orizzonti

• Best film: Nico, 1988 - Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli
• Best Director: Vahid Jalilvand ( Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza )
• Special Jury Prize: Caniba - Directed by Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
• Best actress: Lyna Khoudri (Les Bienheureux)
• Best Actor: Navid Mohammadzadeh ( Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza )
• Best Screenplay: Alireza Khatami (Los versos del olvido)
• Best short film: Gros chagrin - Director: Celine Devaux
• Short film nomination for the European Film Award 2017 : Gros chagrin - Director: Céline Devaux

Award for the best debut film The French director and screenwriter Benoît Jacquot (four-time participant in the competition for the Golden Lion) presented the “Luigi De Laurentiis Venice Award” (“Lion of the Future”) for the festival's best debut film as jury president. Other jury members were British author and professor Geoff Andrew , Hong Kong film producer Albert Lee , Italian actress Greta Scarano and Greek director Yorgos Zois . The award went to Jusqu'à la garde by Xavier Legrand .

Venezia Classici

• Best documentary: The Prince and the Dybbuk (Książę i dybuk) - Directors: Elwira Niewiera , Piotr Rosołowski
• Best restored film: Come and see (Иди и смотри, Idi i smotri) - Director: Elem Klimow

Venice Virtual Reality

• Best VR Film: Arden's Wake (Expanded) - Director: Eugene Yk Chung
• Best VR Experience Award (for interactive content): La camera insabbiata - Director: Laurie Anderson , Hsin-Chien Huang
• Best VR Story Award (for linear content): Bloodless - Director: Gina Kim

Further prices

• The “Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker” award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to the innovation of contemporary cinema goes to British filmmaker Stephen Frears . The award ceremony, which is scheduled for September 3, 2017, will go hand in hand with the world premiere of his latest feature film Victoria & Abdul .

• Arca CinemaGiovani Award:

• Best film in the competition for the Golden Lion: Foxtrot - Director: Samuel Maoz
• Best Italian Film: Beautiful Things - Director: Giorgio Ferrero

• BNL People's Choice Award - Giornate degli Autori: Ga'agua (Longing) - Director: Savi Gabizon
• Brian Award: Les Bienheureux - Director: Sofia Djama
• Circolo del Cinema di Verona Award - 32nd Venice International Film Critics' Week: Team Hurricane - Director: Annika Berg
• Civitas Vitae Award: Il colore nascosto delle cose - Director: Silvio Soldini
• Fair Play Cinema Award: Ex Libris - The New York Public Library - Director: Frederick Wiseman (Honorable Mention: Human Flow - Director: Ai Weiwei )
• Fedeora Award (Federazione dei Critici Europei e dei Paesi Mediterranei):

• Best Film: Eye on Juliet - Directed by Kim Nguyen
• Best director of a debut film: Sara Forestier (M)
• Best Actor: Redouanne Harjane (M)

• FEDIC Award: La vita in comune - Director: Edoardo Winspeare (Honorable Mention: Nico, 1988 - Director: Susanna Nicchiarelli , FEDIC Mention - Il giornale del cibo: Le Visite - Director: Elio Di Pace )

• FIPRESCI award

• Best film in the competition for the Golden Lion: Ex Libris - The New York Public Library - Director: Frederick Wiseman
• Best debut film: Los versos del olvido - Director: Alireza Khatami

• Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award: George Clooney , Michael Caine and Ai Weiwei

• Enrico Fulchignoni - CICT-UNESCO Award: Human Flow - Director: Ai Weiwei

• Future Film Festival Digital Award: The Shape of Water - Director: Guillermo del Toro (Special Mention: Gatta cenerentola - Director: Alessandro Rak , Ivan Cappiello , Marino Guarnieri , Dario Sansone )

• GdA Director's Award - Giornate degli Autori: Candelaria - Director: Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza

• Green Drop Award: First Reformed - Director: Paul Schrader

• HRNs Award - Special Prize for Human Rights: The Rape of Recy Taylor - Director: Nancy Buirski (Honorable Mention: L 'Ordine delle cose - Director: Andrea Segre, Human Flow - Director: Ai Weiwei)

• Interfilm Award: Los versos del olvido - Director: Alireza Khatami

• Label Europa Cinemas Award: M - Director: Sara Forestier

• Lanterna Magica Award (CGS): L'equilibrio - Director: Vincenzo Marra

• La Pellicola d'Oro Award:

• Best Production Designer in an Italian Film: Daniele Spinozzi (Ammore e Malavita)
• Best production designer in an international film: Riccardo Marchegiani ( Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno )
• Best stage technician: Roberto Di Pietro ( Hannah )

• Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award: The glow of memory - Director: Paolo Virzì

• Cinema for UNICEF Award: Human Flow - Director: Ai Weiwei

• Lizzani Award: Gérôme Bourdezeau and Dominique Battesti (Il colore nascosto delle cose)

• Lina Mangiacapre Award: Les Bienheureux - Director: Sofia Djama

• Mouse d'Oro Award: Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno - Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
• Mouse d'Argento Award: Gatta cenerentola - Directors: Alessandro Rak , Ivan Cappiello , Marino Guarnieri , Dario Sansone

• NuovoImaie Talent Award: Federica Rosellini (Dove cadono le ombre) and Mimmo Borrelli (L'equilibrio)

• Open Award: Gatta cenerentola - Directors: Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone

• Francesco Pasinetti Award - SNGCI: Ammore e Malavita - Director: Gebrüder Manetti (Special prizes : Gatta cenerentola and Nico, 1988 )

• Gillo Pontecorvo Award - Arcobaleno Latino: Miao Xiaotian (CEO of China Film Coproduction Corporation )

• Queer Lion Award: Marvin - Director: Anne Fontaine

• Mario Serandrei - Hotel Saturnia Award for the Best Technical Contribution - 32nd Venice International Film Critics' Week: The Wild Boys (Les garçons sauvages) - Director: Bertrand Mandico

• Sfera 1932 Award: La mélodie - Director: Rachid Hami

• SIAE Audience Award - 32nd Venice International Film Critics' Week: Temporada de Caza - Director: Natalia Garagiola

• SIGNIS Award: La Villa - Director: Robert Guédiguian (Special Mention: Foxtrot - Director: Samuel Maoz)

• C. Smithers Foundation Award - CICT-UNESCO: The Shape of Water - Director: Guillermo del Toro

• Sorriso Diverso Venezia 2017 Award - Ass Ucl: Il colore nascosto delle cose - Director: Silvio Soldini

• Soundtrack Award:

• Alexandre Desplat (The Shape of Water)
• Special prize: Ammore e Malavita - Director: Gebrüder Manetti
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Andrea Guerra

• UNIMED Award: La Villa - Director: Robert Guédiguian (Special Mention: Brutti e Cattivi - Director: Cosimo Gomez )

Web links

Commons : 2017 Venice Film Festival  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 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. ↑ Downsizing by Alexander Payne is the opening film of the 74th Venice Film Festival at labiennale.org, July 15, 2017 (accessed July 16, 2017).
2. ↑ Takeshi Kitano to close the 74th Venice Film Festival at labiennale.org, September 6, 2017 (accessed September 14, 2017).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Annette Bening to head the Venezia 74 International Jury at labiennale.org, July 5, 2017 (accessed July 7, 2017).
4. ↑ Alessandro Borghi to host the opening and closing nights at labiennale.org, June 9, 2017 (accessed July 7, 2017).
5. ↑ Jane Fonda and Robert Redford Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Festival at labiennale.org, July 17, 2017 (accessed July 20, 2017).
6. ^ The Electric Horseman at labiennale.org, August 11, 2017 (accessed August 16, 2017).
7. ↑ An exceptional restored film for the Pre-opening Evening of Venezia 74 at labiennale.org, July 21, 2017 (accessed July 27, 2017).
8. ↑ Venice Film Festival Annette Bening becomes jury president at Spiegel Online , July 5, 2017 (accessed on July 7, 2017).
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} The International Juries of Venezia 74 at labiennale.org, July 23, 2017 (accessed July 24, 2017).
10. ↑ Venezia 74, films in Competition at labiennale.org (accessed on July 27, 2017).
11. ↑ ^{a b} The films Out of Competition at labiennale.org, July 28, 2017 (accessed July 27, 2017).
12. ↑ 3 new films round out the Festival's program at labiennale.org, August 7, 2017 (accessed August 14, 2017).
13. ↑ Venezia 74, the Special Screenings at labiennale.org, July 27, 2017 (accessed August 16, 2017).
14. ↑ Nico, 1988 to inaugurate the Orizzonti competition at labiennale.org, July 19, 2017 (accessed July 26, 2017).
15. ↑ Venezia Classici: the films and the President of the Jury at labiennale.org, July 18, 2017 (accessed July 26, 2017).
16. ↑ An unreleased short by Jean Rouch in Venice Classics at labiennale.org, August 16, 2017 (accessed August 27, 2017).
17. ↑ Cinema nel Giardino labiennale.org, July 27, 2017 (accessed August 2, 2017).
18. ↑ The films of Venice Virtual Reality Section at labiennale.org, July 27, 2017 (accessed September 4, 2017).
19. ↑ Il 25 luglio conferenza stampa alla Casa del Cinema at venice-days.com, July 5, 2017 (accessed on July 7, 2017).
20. ↑ Samira Makhmalbaf to head up the jury for the Giornate at venice-days.com, July 20, 2017 (accessed July 25, 2017).
21. ↑ Official Awards of the 74th Venice Film Festival at labiennale.org (accessed September 9, 2017).
22. ↑ Collateral Awards of the 74th Venice Film Festival at labiennale.org, September 8, 2017 (accessed September 11, 2017).
23. ↑ Stephen Frears to receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre award at labiennale.org, August 17, 2017 (accessed August 27, 2017).