| 41st Venice International Film Festival | |
| Location: | Venice, Italy |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Awards: | Golden Lion |
| Date: | 1 – 11 September 1984 |
| Website: | Website |
| Chronology: | Venice Film Festival |
| Preceded By: | 40th |
| Followed By: | 42nd |
| Artistic Director: | Gian Luigi Rondi |
The 41st annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 1984 under the direction of Gian Luigi Rondi.
Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was A Year of the Quiet Sun directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.
The main event of this edition was, out of competition, the premiere of Heimat, an almost 16 hours-long film directed by Edgar Reitz. Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder. The retrospective was dedicated to Luis Buñuel.[1] [2]
The following people comprised the 1984 jury:[3]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angela's War | Angelas Krig | data-sort-value="Bergholm" | Finland | |||
| data-sort-value="Annunciation" | The Annunciation | Angyali udvozlet | data-sort-value="Jeles" | Hungary | ||
| Claretta Petacci | Claretta | data-sort-value="Squitieri" | Italy | |||
| Dionysos | data-sort-value="Rouch" | France | ||||
| Favorites of the Moon | data-sort-value="Favoris" | Le favoris de la lune | data-sort-value="Ioseliani" | |||
| Full Moon in Paris | data-sort-value="Nuits" | Les nuits de la pleine lune | data-sort-value="Rohmer" | |||
| data-sort-value="Future" | The Future Is Woman | data-sort-value="Futuro" | Il futuro è donna | data-sort-value="Ferreri" | Italy | |
| data-sort-value="Hudson" | United Kingdom | |||||
| Love on the Ground | data-sort-value="Amour par" | L'amour par terre | data-sort-value="Rivette" | France | ||
| Love Unto Death | data-sort-value="Amour a" | L'amour à mort | data-sort-value="Resnais" | |||
| Maria's Lovers | data-sort-value="Konchalovsky" | United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Mirror" | The Mirror | data-sort-value="Spiegel" | Der Spiegel | data-sort-value="Kiral" | West Germany | |
| La neve nel bicchiere | data-sort-value="Vancini" | Italy | ||||
| No One Twice | Ninguem duas vezes | data-sort-value="Melo" | Portugal | |||
| Paar | data-sort-value="Ghose" | India | ||||
| data-sort-value="Proper" | A Proper Scandal | data-sort-value="Scandalo" | Uno scandalo perbene | data-sort-value="Campanile" | Italy | |
| Sister Stella L. | data-sort-value="De Leon" | Philippines | ||||
| data-sort-value="Shore" | The Shore | Bereg | data-sort-value="Alov" | Soviet Union | ||
| Sonatine | data-sort-value="Lanctot" | Canada | ||||
| data-sort-value="Stilts" | The Stilts | data-sort-value="Zancos" | Los zancos | data-sort-value="Saura" | Spain | |
| data-sort-value="Three" | The Three of Us | Noi tre | data-sort-value="Avati" | Italy | ||
| Tukuma | data-sort-value="Kjaerulff" | Denmark | ||||
| Under the Bridge | Da qiao xia mian | data-sort-value="Bai" | China | |||
| Ybris | data-sort-value="Ledda" | Italy | ||||
| data-sort-value="Year" | A Year of the Quiet Sun | Rok spokojnego słońca | data-sort-value="Zanussi" | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland | |
Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder.
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:[4]
A Year of the Quiet Sun by Krzysztof Zanussi
Favorites of the Moon by Otar Ioseliani