66th Venice International Film Festival

The 66th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was held from 2 to 12 September 2009, with Maria Grazia Cucinotta serving as the festival's hostess.[1][2] The opening film of the festival was Baarìa by Giuseppe Tornatore and the closing film was Chengdu, I Love You by Fruit Chan and Cui Jian. The international competition jury, chaired by Ang Lee, awarded the Golden Lion to Lebanon by Samuel Maoz.[3]

66th Venice International Film Festival
Festival poster
LocationVenice, Italy
Founded1932
AwardsGolden LionLebanon
Silver LionWomen Without Men
Festival date2–12 September 2009
WebsiteWebsite
66th Venice International Film Festival

Juries

The international juries of the 66th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[4][5][6]

Main competition (Venezia 66)[7]

Horizons (Orizzonti)[8]

Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film)[9]

Corto-Cortissimo (Short Film Competition)[10]

  • Stuart Gordon American filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter and playwright (President)
  • Steve Ricci, Italian cinematographer, screenwriter and editor
  • Sitora Alieva, Russian artistic director of the International Film Festival Kinotav

Controcampo Italiano[11]

  • Carlo Lizzani, Italian director, screenwriter and critic (President)
  • Giulio Questi, Italian director and screenwriter
  • Marina Sanna, Italian chief editor of cinema magazine

Official selection

In competition

The following films competed for the Golden Lion:[12]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
AccidentYi ngoiCheang Pou-SoiHong Kong
Around a Small Mountain36 vues du pic Saint-LoupJacques RivetteFrance, Italy
BaarìaGiuseppe TornatoreItaly, France
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New OrleansWerner HerzogUnited States
Between Two WorldsAhasin WeteiVimukthi JayasundaraSri Lanka
The Big DreamIl grande sognoMichele PlacidoItaly, France
Capitalism: A Love StoryMichael MooreUnited States
The Double HourLa doppia oraGiuseppe CapotondiItaly
GrandmotherLolaBrillante MendozaFrance, Philippines
LebanonSamuel MaozIsrael, France, Germany, UK
Life During WartimeTodd SolondzUnited States
LourdesJessica HausnerAustria
Mr NobodyJaco van DormaelBelgium, Canada, France, Germany
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye DoneWerner HerzogUnited States
PersécutionPatrice ChéreauFrance
Prince of TearsLei wangziYonfanTaiwan
The RoadJohn HillcoatUnited States
A Single ManTom FordUnited States
Soul KitchenFatih AkınGermany, Turkey
Survival of the DeadGeorge A. RomeroUnited States
Tetsuo: The Bullet ManTetsuo ProjectShinya TsukamotoJapan
The TravellerAl-MusafirAhmad MaherEgypt, Italy
White MaterialClaire DenisFrance, Cameroon
The White SpaceLo spazio biancoFrancesca ComenciniItaly
Women Without MenZanan-e bedun-e mardanShirin NeshatGermany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco
Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion for best film.

Out of competition

The following films were screened as Out of competition:[13]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Brooklyn's FinestAntoine FuquaUnited States
Chengdu, I Love YouChengdu, wo ai niFruit Chan & Cui JianChina
Delhi-6Rakeysh Omprakash MehraIndia
Dev.DAnurag KashyapIndia
Great Directors (documentary)Angela IsmailosUnited States
Green DaysRuzhaye SabzHana MakhmalbafIran
Gulaal ( गुलाल )Anurag KashyapIndia
The Hole (3D)Joe DanteUnited States
The Informant!Steven SoderberghUnited States
The Men Who Stare at GoatsGrant HeslovUnited States
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (documentary)Abel FerraraItaly
N/AL'oro di Cuba (documentary)Giuliano MontaldoItaly
Rambo (Director's Cut)Sylvester StalloneUnited States
REC 2Jaume Balagueró & Paco PlazaSpain
The Red ShadowsLe ombre rosseFrancesco MaselliItaly
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy (documentary)Prove per una tragedia sicilianaRoman Paska & John TurturroItaly
Scheherazade, Tell Me a StoryEhki ya shahrazadeYousry NasrallahEgypt
South of the BorderOliver StoneUnited States
Valhalla RisingNicolas Winding RefnDenmark, United Kingdom
Yona Yona PenguinYonayona penginRintaroJapan, France

Short film competition

The following films were selected for the Short film competition (Corto Cortissimo) section:[14]

In competition
English title Original title Director(s) Production country
FelicitàSalome AleksiGeorgia
The KinematographKinematografTomek BaginskiPoland
I Know There’s a ManSo Che C'è Un UomoGianclaudio CappaiItaly
This Is Earth, My BrotherTo je zemljia, brat mojJan CvitkovičSlovenia, Italy
Still BirdsAlle FuglerSara EliassenNorway
BlissO Teu SorrisoPedro FreireBrazil
The GameIl GiocoAdriano GianniniItaly
Object #1Murad IbragimbekovRussia
GirllikemeRowland JobsonUnited Kingdom
FirstbornEersgeboreneEtienne KallosSouth Africa, United States
Mom’S VacationUmma-E HugaKwang-Bok KimSouth Korea
StorageDavid LeaUnited Kingdom
Of Clouds and HandsNuvole, ManiSimone MassiFrance
SinnerMeni PhilipIsrael
Family JewelsMartin StittUnited States, United Kingdom
For TwoEr RenShijie TanSingapore
BicycleJitenshaDean YamadaJapan, United States
KingyoEdmund YeoJapan, Malaysia
Out of Competition
Line-up Title Director(s) Production country
Opening filmPlastic BagRamin BahraniUnited States
Closing FilmThe It.AliensClemens Klopfenstein, Lukas KlopfensteinItaly, Switzerland
Special Events
English title Original title Director(s) Production country
RecordareLeonardo Carrano, Alessandro PierattiniItaly
The City in the SkyLa città nel cieloGiacomo CiminiUnited Kingdom, Italy
The Second FamilyLa seconda famigliaAlberto Dall'AraItaly
EarthTzu Nyen HoSingapore
RadioRiccardo PuglieseUnited States, Italy
WarUerraPaolo SassanelliItaly
A la lune montanteAnnarita ZambranoFrance
Highlighted title indicates Corto Cortissimo Lion winner.

Horizons

The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[15]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
1428 (documentary)Haibin DuChina
AdriftChoi voiBui Thac ChuyenVietnam
Bets and Wedding DressesTris di donne & abiti nuzialiVincenzo TerraccianoItaly
Buried SecretsDowahaRaja AmariTunisia
ClashEngkwentroPepe DioknoPhilippines
The Color of Words (documentary)Il colore delle paroleMarco Simon PuccioniItaly
CowDou niuGuan HuChina
Crush (5 segments)Korotkoe zamykaniePyotr Buslov, Alexei German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan VyrypaevRussia
Francesca (Opening film)Bobby PaunescuRomania
I Am LoveIo sono l'amoreLuca GuadagninoItaly
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love YouViajo porque preciso, volto porque te amoMarcelo Gomes, Karim AïnouzBrazil
JudgeTouxiJie LiuChina
The Man’s Woman and Other StoriesAadmi ki Aurat Aur Anya KahaniyaAmit DuttaIndia
The Movie Orgy - Ultimate VersionJoe DanteUnited States
Once upon a time Proletarian (documentary)Women ceng jing de wuchanzheXiaolu GuoChina
The One All Alone (documentary)Frank SchefferNetherlands
One-ZeroWahed-SefrKamla Abou ZekryEgypt
ParaisoHéctor GálvezPeru
PeppermintaPipilotti RistSwitzerland
Repo ChickAlex CoxUnited States
SunstrokeInsolaçãoFelipe Hirsch, Daniela ThomasBrazil
Tender ParasitesZarte ParasitenChristian Becker, Oliver SchwabeGermany
Totò (documentary)Peter SchreinerAustria
Villalobos (documentary)Romuald KarmakarGermany
Woman on Fire Looks for WaterWoo Ming JinMalaysia, South Korea
Horizons Events
Title Director(s) Production country
Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno (documentary)Pappi CorsicatoItaly
The Marriage (documentary, short)Peter GreenawayItaly, Spain
Reading Book of Blockade (Chitaem 'Blokadnuju knigu') (documentary)Alexander SokurovRussia
The Death of Pentheus (short)Philip HaasUnited States
La Bohème (short)Werner HerzogUnited Kingdom
Faces of Seoul (aka Seo-wool eui ul-gul) (documentary)Gina KimUnited States, South Korea
Hugo en Afrique (documentary)Stefano KnuchelSwitzerland
Via della croce (documentary)Serena NonoItaly
Mudanza (short)Pere PortabellaSpain
Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri (documentary)Elisabetta SgarbiItaly
La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (documentary)Frederick WisemanUnited States
Cock-Crow (55 min)David Zamagni, Nadia RanocchiItaly
Daimon (49 min)David Zamagni, Nadia RanocchiItaly
Highlighted title indicates the Lion of the Future winner

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

As part of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2009, which was conferred to John Lasseter and the Directors of Disney-Pixar, the following American animation films were presented:[16]

Cortocampo Italiano

The following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section:[17]

English title Original title Director(s) Type of film
CosmonautCosmonautaSusanna NicchiarelliComing-of-age
David's BirthdayIl CompleannoMarco FilibertiDrama
Giuseppe De SantisCarlo LizzaniDocumentary, TV-movie
Hollywood on the TiberHollywood sul TevereMarco SpagnoliDocumentary
In the EyesNegli occhiFrancesco Del Grosso, Daniele AnzellottiDocumentary
The LittleIl PiccoloMaurizio ZaccaroDocumentary
Poets (lit.)PoetiToni D'AngeloDocumentary
Sputnik 5Susanna NicchiarelliShort animation
Ten WintersDieci InverniValerio MieliRomance

These Phantoms 2

For this retrospective section on Italian cinema, 39 feature and 26 short films were screened, including documentaries. The films were mainly from the period 1946 - 1971, with a few only films going back to the 1930s and reaching up to 2009.[18]
This is a list of the fiction feature films screened:

English title Original title Director(s) Release year
N/AAccidenti alla guerra!...Giorgio Simonelli1948
Break UpL'uomo dei cinque palloniMarco Ferreri1965
N/ACarmen di TrastevereCarmine Gallone1963
Death of a FriendMorte di un amicoFranco Rossi1959
Dreams Die at DawnI sogni muoiono all'albaIndro Montanelli, Enrico Gras, Mario Craveri1961
Easy YearsAnni faciliLuigi Zampa1953
N/AUn eroe del nostro tempoSergio Capogna1960
The Flame That Will Not DieLa Fiamma che non si spegneVittorio Cottafavi1949
GalileoLiliana Cavani1969
Girl in the WindowLa ragazza in vetrinaLuciano Emmer1961
The Great WarLa grande guerraMario Monicelli1959
House of RicordiCasa RicordiCarmine Gallone1954
Hurricane RosyTemporale RosyMario Monicelli1979
The Invisible OnesGli InvisibiliPasquale Squitieri1988
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast ItUccidete il vitello grasso e arrostiteloSalvatore Samperi1970
Love in RomeUn amore a RomaDino Risi1960
The LovemakersLa viacciaMauro Bolognini1961
Margherita and Her Three UnclesMargherita fra i treIvo Perilli1942
The Naked HoursLe ore nudeMarco Vicario1964
N/ANerosubiancoTinto Brass1968
N/ANoi cannibaliAntonio Leonviola1953
One Between the Crowd (aka title)Uno tra la follaEnnio Cerlesi, Piero Tellini1946
Princess CinderellaCenerentola e il Signor BonaventuraSergio Tofano1941
A Quiet Place in the CountryUn tranquillo posto di campagnaElio Petri1969
The ReunionLa RimpatriataDamiano Damiani1963
The Ship of Condemned WomenLa nave delle donne maledetteRaffaello Matarazzo1954
Stories in the SandStorie sulla sabbiaRiccardo Fellini1963
The Stranger's HandLa mano dello stranieroMario Soldati1954
N/AIl tramontanaAdriano Barbano1965
N/ATre nel milleFranco Indovina1971
The WanderersI girovaghiHugo Fregonese1956
Women Without NamesDonne senza nomeGéza von Radványi1950

Autonomous sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following films were selected for the 24th International Film Critics' Week:[19]

In competition
English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Cafe NoirKa-pe-neu-wa-reuJung Sung-ilSouth Korea
A Rational SolutionDet enda rationellaJörgen Bergmark[20]Sweden
DomainDomainePatric Chiha[21]France, Austria
Kakraki (en. Crawfishlike)Ilya Demichev[22]Russia
Foxes (aka Little Foxes)LištičkyMira Fornay[23]Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland
TehrounTéhéranNader T. Homayoun[24]France, Iran
Special Events - Out of competition
Line-up Title Director(s) Production country
Opening filmMetropiaTarik SalehSweden
Closing filmThe Pothole (Chaleh)Ali KarimIran
Other *VideocracyErik GandiniSweden
* Special Event in collaboration with Venice Days

Venice Days

The following films were selected for the 6th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[25][26]

In competition
English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The ApeApanJesper GanslandtSweden
Barking WaterSterlin HarjoUnited States
Cell 211Celda 211Daniel MonzónSpain, France
The Last Days of Emma BlankDe laatste Dagen van Emma BlankAlex van WarmerdamNetherlands
Desert FlowerSherry HormannUK, Germany, Austria, France
What Do You Know About Me (documentary)Di me cosa ne saiValerio JalongoItaly
FranceFranciaIsrael Adrián CaetanoArgentina
Fat PeopleGordosDaniel Sánchez ArévaloSpain
HarragasMerzak AllouacheAlgeria, France
HoneymoonsGoran PaskaljevicSerbia, Albania
I'm Glad My Mother Is AliveJe suis heureux que ma mere soit vivanteClaude Miller, Nathan MillerFrance
Hymn to LoveL’amore e bastaStefano ConsiglioItaly
The HordeLa hordeYannick Dahan, Benjamin RocherFrance
Blood and RainLa sangre y la lluviaJorge NavasColombia, Argentina
N/AMille giorni di Vito (short)Elisabetta PandimiglioItaly
Poetry, You See Me (documentary)Poesia che mi guardiMarina SpadaItaly
Silent VoiceQu’un seul tienne et les autres suivrontLéa FehnerFrance
Out of competition
Occasion Title Director(s) Country
Films on RealityRagazze la vita trema (documentary)Paola SangiovanniItaly
Special Event w/ Critics' WeekVideocracyErik GandiniSweden
Special Event 100 + 1The Swindlers (I magliari) (1959)Francesco RosiItaly, France
Special Event 100 + 1Vittorio D. (documentary)Mario Canale, Annarosa MorriItaly
Tribute to Signe BaumaneTeat Beat of Sex (1 min. animation)Signe BaumaneUnited States

Awards

Official selection

The following Official Awards were conferred at the 66th edition of the festival:[3]

In competition (Venezia 66)

Horizons awards (Premi Orizzonti)

  • Best Film: Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno
  • Best Documentary: 1428 by Haibin Du
    • Special mention: The Man's Woman and Other Stories by Amit Dutta

Lion of the Future

  • Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film: Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno (Horizons)

Short Film awards (Corto Cortissimo Lion)

  • Best Short Film: Firstborn (Eersgeborene) by Etienne Kallos
  • Venice Nomination to the European Film Awards 2009: Sinner by Meni Philip
    • Special mention: Felicità by Salomé Aleksi

Controcampo Italiano

  • Best Feature Film: Cosmonaut by Susanna Nicchiarelli
    • Special Mention: In the Eyes (Negli occhi) by Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti

Special awards

Autonomous sections

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[27]

Venice International Film Critics' Week

  • "Region of Veneto for quality cinema" Award: Tehroun by Takmil Homayoun Nader
  • Future Film Festival Digital Award: Metropia by Tarik Saleh

Venice Days (Giornati degli Autori)

Other collateral awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[27]

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