68th Venice International Film Festival

68th Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	The Ides of March
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion - Faust Silver Lion - Cai Shangjun (People Mountain People Sea)
Festival date	31 August – 10 September 2011
Website	Website

The 68th annual Venice Film Festival was held in Venice, Italy between 31 August and 10 September 2011.^[1] American film director Darren Aronofsky was announced as the Head of the Jury.^[2] American actor and film director Al Pacino was presented with the Glory to the Film-maker award on 4 September, prior to the premiere of his upcoming film Wilde Salomé.^[3] Marco Bellocchio was awarded with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in September.^[4] The festival opened with the American film The Ides of March, directed by George Clooney.^[5]

Films in competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	N/A	Tomas Alfredson	United Kingdom, France
Wuthering Heights	N/A	Andrea Arnold	United Kingdom
People Mountain People Sea	人山人海, Ren shan ren hai	Cai Shangjun	China, Hong Kong
Texas Killing Fields	N/A	Ami Canaan Mann	United States
The Ides of March	N/A	George Clooney	United States
When the Night	Quando la notte	Cristina Comencini	Italy
Terraferma	N/A	Emanuele Crialese	Italy
A Dangerous Method	N/A	David Cronenberg	Germany, Canada
4:44 Last Day on Earth	N/A	Abel Ferrara	United States
Killer Joe	N/A	William Friedkin	United States
A Burning Hot Summer (That Summer)	Un été brûlant	Philippe Garrel	France
The Last Man on Earth	L'Ultimo Terrestre	Gipi	Italy
A Simple Life	桃姐, Taojie	Ann Hui	Hong Kong
The Exchange	Hahithalfut	Eran Kolirin	Israel, Germany
Alps	Άλπεις, Alpis	Yorgos Lanthimos	Greece
Shame	N/A	Steve McQueen	United Kingdom
Carnage	N/A	Roman Polanski	France, Germany, Spain, Poland
Faust	Фауст	Alexander Sokurov	Russia
Dark Horse	N/A	Todd Solondz	United States
Himizu	ヒミズ	Sion Sono	Japan
Chicken with Plums	Poulet aux prunes	Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud	France, Belgium, Germany
Life Without Principle	奪命金, Dyut ming gam	Johnnie To	Hong Kong
Seediq Bale	賽德克·巴萊, Sài dé kè ba lái (Taiwanese Mandarin)	Wei Te-Sheng	Taiwan

Films out of competition

Feature films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Almayer's Folly	La Folie Almayer	Chantal Akerman	Belgium and France
The Sorcerer and the White Snake	白蛇傳說之法海, Baish echuanshuo	Tony Ching Siu-Tung	China and Hong Kong
Summer Games	Giochi d'estate	Rolando Colla	Switzerland and Italy
Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Politician	تحرير 2011: الطيب والشرس والسياسي	Tamer Ezzat, Ahmad Abdalla, Ayten Amin and Amr Salama	Egypt
La Désintégration	N/A	Philippe Faucon	Belgium
The Moth Diaries	N/A	Mary Harron	Canada and Ireland
Vivan las Antipodas!	N/A	Victor Kossakovsky	Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, Chile and Russia
Alois Nebel	N/A	Tomáš Luňák	Czech Republic and Germany
W.E	N/A	Madonna	United Kingdom
Eva	N/A	Kike Maillo	Spain and France
Scossa	N/A	Francesco Maselli, Carlo Lizzani, Ugo Gregoretti and Nino Russo	Italy
La Clé des champs	N/A	Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou	France
Il Villaggio di Cartone	N/A	Ermanno Olmi	Italy
Wilde Salomé	N/A	Al Pacino	United States
Tormented	N/A	Takashi Shimizu	Japan
Contagion	N/A	Steven Soderbergh	United States
Violet Wister's Damsels in Distress	N/A	Whit Stillman	United States

Events

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
In the Name of the Father (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement)	Nel nome del padre	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
Mildred Pierce (Tribute to Todd Haynes)	N/A	Todd Haynes	United States
Duvidha (Mani Kaul: 25.12.1944-6.7.2011)	N/A	Mani Kaul	India
Questa storia qua	N/A	Alessandro Paris and Sibylle Righetti	Italy
We Can't Go Home Again (Nicholas Ray 1911-2011)	N/A	Nicholas Ray	United States
Don't Expect too Much (Nicholas Ray 1911-2011)	N/A	Susan Ray	United States
India: Matri Bhumi (Rossellini Ritrovato)	N/A	Roberto Rossellini	Italy
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel	N/A	Lisa Immordino Vreeland	United States

Short films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The End	N/A	Collectif Abounaddara	Syria
Vanguard	N/A	Collectif Abounaddara	Syria
Evolution (Megaplex)	N/A	Marco Brambilla	United States
Marco Bellocchio, Venezia	N/A	Pietro Marcello	Italy
La Meditazione Di Hayez	N/A	Mario Martone	Italy
Joule	N/A	David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi	Italy
Spell. The Hypnotist Dog	N/A	David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi	Italy
Suite	N/A	David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi	Italy

Orizzonti

Feature films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
L'Oiseau	N/A	Yves Caumon	France
Hail	N/A	Amiel Courtin-Wilson	Australia
Nocturnos	N/A	Edgardo Cozarinsky	Argentina
Amore Carne	N/A	Pippo Delbono	Italy and Switzerland
Sal	N/A	James Franco	United States
Whores' Glory	N/A	Michael Glawogger	Austria and Germany
P-047	N/A	Kongdej Jaturanrasmee	Thailand
Die Herde des Herrn	N/A	Romuald Karmakar	Germany
Stateless Things	Jultak dongshi	Kim Kyong-mook	South Korea
Swirl	Girimunho	Helvécio Marins, Jr. and Clarissa Campolina	Brazil, Spain and Germany
Photographic Memory	N/A	Ross McElwee	United States and France
Cut	N/A	Amir Naderi	Japan
Hollywood Talkies	N/A	Oscar Perez and Maria Del Mar De Ribot	Spain
The Invader	N/A	Nicolas Provost	Belgium
Shock Head Soul	N/A	Simon Pummel	Netherlands and United Kingdom
Two Years at Sea	N/A	Ben Rivers	United Kingdom
Alms of the Blind Horse	Anhe Ghore Da Daan	Gurvinder Singh	India
The Orator	O le tulafale	Tusi Tamasese	New Zealand and Samoa
Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours	N/A	Rirkrit Tiravanija	Thailand and Mexico
Verano	N/A	José Luis Torres Leiva	Chile
Kotoko	N/A	Shinya Tsukamoto	Japan
Le Petit poucet	N/A	Marina de Van	France
Swan	Cisne	Teresa Villaverde	Portugal
The Sword Identity	Wokou de zongji	Haofeng Xu	China
Would You Have Sex with an Arab?	N/A	Yolande Zauberman	France

Events

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Annunciation	N/A	Eija-Liisa Ahtila	Finland
Century of Birthing	Siglo ng pagluluwal	Lav Diaz	Philippines
Il silenzio di pelesjan	N/A	Pietro Marcello	Italy
Birmingham Ornament	N/A	Andrey Silvestrov and Yuri Leiderman	Russia
Monkey Sandwich	N/A	Wim Vandekeybus	Belgium

Medium-length and short films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Palaces of Pity	Palácios de pena	Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt	Portugal
The Sun's Incubator	Hadinat al shams	Ammar Al-Beik	Syria
Piattaforma Luna	N/A	Yuri Ancarini	Italy
Accidentes Gloriosos	N/A	Mauro Andrizzi and Marcus Lindeen	Sweden, Denmark and Argentina
Hypercrisis	N/A	Josef Dabernig	Austria
In attesa dell'avvento	N/A	Felice D'Agostino and Arturo Lavorato	Italy
Snow Canon	N/A	Mati Diop	France
The Golden Bird	Sonchidi	Amit Dutta	India
Parabeton. Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete	N/A	Heinz Emigholz	Germany
Movimenti di un tempo impossible	N/A	Flatform	Italy
From Tokyo	Iz Tokio	Aleksej German, Jr.	Russia
Notes sur nos voyages en Russie 1989-1990	N/A	Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci-Lucchi	Italy
Meteor	N/A	Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller	Germany
Start	N/A	Mattias Gustafsson	Sweden
663114	N/A	Isamu Hirabayashi	Japan
Late and Deep	N/A	Devin Horan	Norway
Louyre – This Our Still Life	N/A	Andrew Kötting	United Kingdom
Passing Through the Night	N/A	Wattanapume Laisuwanchai	Thailand
Black Mirror at the National Gallery	N/A	Mark Lewis	Canada
All the Lines Flow Out	N/A	Charles Lim Yi Yong	Singapore
Modern N° 2	N/A	Mirai Mizue	Japan
Dialogical Abrasion	Dialogischer Abrieb	Yves Netzhammer	Switzerland
The Tracks of My Tears 2	N/A	Axel Petersén	Sweden
Conference	N/A	Norbert Pfaffenbichler	Austria
Moving Stories	N/A	Nicolas Provost	Belgium
River Rites	N/A	Ben Russell	United States
Miss Candace Hilligoss' Flickering Halo	N/A	Fabio Scacchioloi and Vincenzo Core	Italy

Independent sections

International Critics' Week

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
El Campo	N/A	Hernán Belón	Argentina
La Terre Outragée	N/A	Michale Boganim	France, Germany, Poland and Ukraine
Marécages	N/A	Guy Édoin	Canada
Stockholm East	Stockholm Östra	Simon Kaijser da Silva	Sweden
Totem	N/A	Jessica Krummacher	Germany
Missione di Pace	N/A	Fancesco Lagi	Italy
Là-Bas	N/A	Guido Lombardi	Italy
Louise Wimmer	N/A	Cyril Mennegun	France
El Lenguaje de los Machetes	N/A	Kyzza Terraza	Mexico

Venice Days

The following films are set to be screened as part of the Venice Days section:^[6]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Another Silence	N/A	Santiago Amigorena	France, Canada, Brazil and Argentina
My Name Is Ki	N/A	Ladzek Dawid	Poland
Beyond the Glass	Di là del vetro	Andrea di Bari	Italy
Ruggine	N/A	Daniele Gaglianone	Italy
Guilty	Présumé coupable	Vincent Garenq	France
All Our Desires	Toutes nos envies	Philippe Lioret	France
Historias... Que So Existem Quando Lembradas	N/A	Julia Murat	Brazil and France
Twilight Portrait	Портрет в сумерках	Angelina Nikonova	Russia
Io Sono Li	N/A	Andrea Segre	Italy and France
Last Winter	Hiver dernier	John Shank	Belgium and France
Café de Flore	N/A	Jean-Marc Vallée	Canada and France
Love and Bruises	N/A	Lou Ye	France
Habibi	N/A	Susan Youssef	Palestine, United Arab Emirates and Netherlands

Special Events

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Testimony	Edut	Shlomi Elkabetz	Israel
Voi Siete Qui	N/A	Francesco Matero	Italy
Cuba in the Age of Obama	Cuba Nell'Epoca di Obama	Gianni Minà	Italy
The Kaiser of California	Der Kaiser von Kalifornien	Luis Trenker	Germany
Crazy Horse	N/A	Frederick Wiseman	France and United States

Open Space

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
La Penna di Hemingway	N/A	Renzo Carbonera	Italy
Hit the Road, Nonna	N/A	Duccio Chiarini	Italy
The Forgotten World Cup	Mundial olvidado	Lorenzo Garzella and Filippo Macelloni	Italy and Argentina
Radici	N/A	Carlo Luglio	Italy
Più Coma Un Artista	N/A	Elisabetta Pandimiglio	Italy
Dietro il Buio	N/A	Giorgio Pressburger	Italy
Valdagno, Arizona	N/A	Pyoor	Italy and United States

In addition, the three nominees for the European Parliament's 2011 Lux Prize will receive screenings as part of this section. The films are Attenberg by Athina Rachel Tsangari, The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Robert Guédiguian and Play by Ruben Östlund.

Juries

International competition^[7]

• Darren Aronofsky, American director, jury president
• Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Finnish visual artist and filmmaker
• David Byrne, British musician
• Todd Haynes, American director
• Mario Martone, Italian director
• Alba Rohrwacher, Italian actress
• André Téchiné, French director

Orizzonti

• Jia Zhangke, Chinese director, jury president
• Stuart Comer, British Curator of Film at Tate Modern
• Odile Decq, French architect
• Marianne Khoury, Egyptian director
• Jacopo Quadri, Italian film editor

Controcampo Italiano

• Stefano Incerti, Italian author, jury president
• Aureliano Amadei, Italian actor
• Cristiana Capotondi, Italian actress

"Luigi De Laurentiis" Venice Award for a Debut Film

• Carlo Mazzacurati, Italian director, jury president
• Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russian director
• Fred Roos, American producer
• Charles Tesson, French Artistic Director of the International Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival
• Serra Yilmaz, Turkish actress

Prizes

Venezia 68

• Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion) for the best film: Faust
• Leone d'Argento (Silver Lion) for the best director: Cai Shangjun, for People Mountain People Sea
• Special Jury Prize: Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese
• Coppa Volpi for the Best Actor: Michael Fassbender, for Shame
• Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress: Deanie Ip, for A Simple Life
• Premio Marcello Mastroianni, for the best emerging actor or actress: Shōta Sometani and Fumi Nikaidō for Himizu
• Osella for Best Cinematography: Robbie Ryan for Wuthering Heights
• Osella for Best Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou for Alps
• "Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film: Là-bas by Guido Lombardi
• Controcampo italiano prize (Feature film): to Scialla! by Francesco Bruni
• Controcampo italiano prize (Short film): to A Chjàna by Jonas Carpignano
• Controcampo italiano prize Doc: to Pugni chiusi by Fiorella Infascelli

Orizzonti

• Premio Orizzonti (Orizzonti prize): Kotoko by Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan)
• Special Orizzonti jury prize: Whores' Glory by Michael Glawogger (Austria, Germany)
• Premio Orizzonti awards for medium-length film: Accidentes Gloriosos by Mauro Andrizzi and Marcus Lindeen (Sweden, Denmark, Germany)
• Premio Orizzonti award for short film: In attesa dell'avvento by Felice D'Agostino and Arturo Lavorato (Italy)
• Special Mentions:
  • O Le Tulafale (The Orator) by Tusi Tamasese (New Zealand, Samoa)
  • All The Lines Flow Out by Charles LIM Yi Yong (Singapore)

Collateral Prizes

• Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola: Carnage by Roman Polanski;
• 32/a segnalazione Cinema for UNICEF: Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese;
• Premio del pubblico Kino della Settimana della critica: La-bas by Guido Lombardi;
• Premio Label by Europa Cinemas for best European film in Venice Days section: Présumé coupable by Vincent Garenq;
• Premio 'Francesco Pasinetti' by Sngci for best film: Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese;
• Premio Pasinetti for best debut: The Last Man on Earth by Gian Alfonso Pacinotti;
• Premio Fondazione Mimmo Rotella: The Last Man on Earth by Gian Alfonso Pacinotti and special mention for Pasta nera by Alessandro Piva;
• Premio del Dipartimento per le Pari Opportunita' a Tao jie by Ann Hui;
• Biografilm Lancia Award: Black Block by Carlo Augusto Bachschmidt;
• Future Film Festival Digital Award: Faust by Alexander Sokurov and special mention for Kotoko by Shinya Tsukamoto;
• Queer Lion for the best Movie with LGBT Themes & Queer Culture: Wilde Salomé by Al Pacino;
• Brian Prize by UAAR: The Ides of March by George Clooney.

References

1. "68th Venice International Film Festival". labiennale.org. 2011-04-17. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-17.
2. "Darren Aronofsky to head Venice film festival jury". BBC News. 2011-04-27. Archived from the original on 6 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
3. "Al Pacino to receive special award at Venice Festival". BBC News. 2011-05-06. Archived from the original on 6 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-06.
4. "Cannes Film Festival to honour jailed Iranian directors". BBC News. 2011-05-11. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
5. Vivarelli, Nick (2011-06-22). "Venice confirms 'Ides' as opener". Variety. Retrieved 2011-06-22.
6. Vivarelli, Nick (2011-07-26). "Wiseman strip club docu plays at Venice Days". Variety. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
7. "Juries for the 2000′s". Retrieved 8 October 2013.

External links

• Official website
• 68th Venice Film Festival 2011