| 75th Venice International Film Festival | |
| Opening: | First Man |
| Closing: | Driven |
| Location: | Venice, Italy |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Awards: | Golden Lion |
| Host: | Michele Riondino |
| Date: | 29 August – 8 September 2018 |
| Website: | Website |
| Chronology: | Venice Film Festival |
| Preceded By: | 74th |
| Followed By: | 76th |
The 75th Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 8 September 2018.
Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro was the Jury President of the main competition.[1] [2] First Man, directed by Damien Chazelle, was the festival's opening film.[3] Michele Riondino was the host of the festival.[4]
The festival poster was made by Italian artist Lorenzo Mattotti, who designed it in the way "that attracts the eye, that attracts thought, but without revealing too much."[5]
The Golden Lion was awarded to Roma, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.[6]
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[8] [9]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Accused | Acusada | data-sort-value="Tobal" | Gonzalo Tobal | Argentina, Mexico | |
| At Eternity's Gate | data-sort-value="Schnabel" | United States, France | |||
| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | data-sort-value="Coen" | United States | |||
| Capri-Revolution | data-sort-value="Martone" | Italy, France | |||
| Close Enemies | Frères ennemis | data-sort-value="Oelhoffen" | France, Belgium | ||
| The Favourite | data-sort-value="Lanthimos" | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | |||
| First Man (opening film) | data-sort-value="Chazelle" | United States | |||
| Killing | 斬 | data-sort-value="Tsukamoto" | Japan | ||
| The Mountain | data-sort-value="Alverson" | United States | |||
| Our Time | data-sort-value="Reygadas" | Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden | |||
| Never Look Away | Werk ohne Autor | data-sort-value="Donnersmarck" | Germany | ||
| The Nightingale | data-sort-value="Kent" | Australia | |||
| Non-Fiction | Doubles vies | data-sort-value="Assayas" | France | ||
| Peterloo | data-sort-value="Leigh" | United Kingdom, United States | |||
| Roma | data-sort-value="Cuaron" | Alfonso Cuarón | Mexico | ||
| The Sisters Brothers | data-sort-value="Audiard" | France, Belgium, Romania, Spain | |||
| Sunset | Napszállta | data-sort-value="Nemes" | Hungary, France | ||
| Suspiria | data-sort-value="Guadagnino" | Italy | |||
| 22 July | data-sort-value="Greengrass" | United States | |||
| Vox Lux | data-sort-value="Corbet" | ||||
| What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? | data-sort-value="Minervini" | Italy, United States, France | |||
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | ||||
| A Star Is Born | data-sort-value="Cooper]" | United States | ||
| A Story With No Name | Una Storia Senza Nome | data-sort-value="Andò]" | Italy, France | |
| Dragged Across Concrete | data-sort-value="Zahler]" | Canada, United States | ||
| Driven (closing film) | data-sort-value="Hamm]" | United Kingdom, United States, Puerto Rico | ||
| The Summer House | Les Estivants | data-sort-value="Bruni Tedeschi]" | France, Italy | |
| L’amica geniale | data-sort-value="Costanzo]" | Italy, Belgium | ||
| My Masterpiece | Mi Obra Maestra | data-sort-value="Duprat]" | Argentina, Spain | |
| A Tramway in Jerusalem | data-sort-value="Gitai]" | Israel, France | ||
| A People and His King | Un Peuple et Son Roi | data-sort-value="Schoeller]" | Pierre Schoeller | France, Belgium |
| The Quietude | La Quietud | data-sort-value="Trapero]" | Argentina | |
| Shadow | Ying | data-sort-value="Zhang]" | China | |
| Non Fiction | ||||
| 1938 Different | 1938 Diversi | Giorgio Treves | Italy | |
| A Letter to a Friend in Gaza | Amos Gitai | Israel | ||
| American Dharma | Errol Morris | United States, United Kingdom | ||
| Aquarela | Victor Kossakovsky | United Kingdom, Germany | ||
| Carmine Street Guitars | Ron Mann | Canada | ||
| El Pepe: Una Vida Suprema | Emir Kusturica | Argentina, Uruguay, Serbia | ||
| Introduction to the Dark | Introduzione All'Oscuro | Gastón Solnicki | Argentina, Austria | |
| ISIS, Tomorrow. The Lost Souls of Mosul | Francesca Mannocchi Alessio Romenzi | Italy, Germany | ||
| Monrovia, Indiana | Frederick Wiseman | United States | ||
| Process | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands | ||
| Your Face | Ni De Lian | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan | |
| Special Events | ||||
| I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti | Yervant Gianikian | Italy | ||
| The Other Side of the Wind | Orson Welles | United States, Iran, France | ||
| They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Morgan Neville | United States | ||
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[8] [9]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | ||||
| On My Skin | Sulla mia pelle | data-sort-value="Cremonini" | Alessio Cremonini | Italy |
| Manta Ray | Kraben Rahu | data-sort-value="Aroonpheng" | Phuttiphong Aroonpheng | Thailand, France, China |
| Soni | data-sort-value="Ayr" | India | ||
| The River | Ózen | data-sort-value="Baigazin" | Kazakhstan, Poland, Norway | |
| A Twelve-Year Night | La noche de 12 años | data-sort-value="Brechner" | Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, France | |
| Deslembro | data-sort-value="Castro" | Flavia Castro | Brazil, France, Qatar | |
| The Announcement | Anons | data-sort-value="Coşkun" | Mahmut Fazil Coşkun | Turkey, Bulgaria |
| If life gives you lemons | Un giorno all'improvviso | data-sort-value="D'Emilio" | Ciro D'Emilio | Italy |
| Charlie Says | data-sort-value="Harron" | United States | ||
| Amanda | data-sort-value="Hers" | France | ||
| The Day I Lost My Shadow | Yom Adaatou Zouli | data-sort-value="Kaadan" | Soudade Kaadan | Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar |
| L'Enkas | data-sort-value="Marx" | Sarah Marx | France | |
| The Man Who Surprised Everyone | Человек, который удивил всех | data-sort-value="Merkulova" | Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov | Russia, Estonia, France |
| Memories of My Body | Kucumbu Tubuh Indahku | data-sort-value="Nugroho" | Indonesia, Australia | |
| As I Lay Dying | Hamchenan ke mimordam | data-sort-value="Sayari" | Mostafa Sayari | Iran |
| La profezia dell'armadillo | data-sort-value="Scaringi" | Emanuele Scaringi | Italy | |
| Stripped | Erom (The Love Trilogy: Stripped) | data-sort-value="Shani" | Yaron Shani | Israel, Germany |
| Jinpa | 撞死了一只羊 | data-sort-value="Tseden" | China | |
| Tel Aviv On Fire | תל אביב על האש | data-sort-value="Zoabi" | Same Zoabi | Luxembourg, France, Israel, Belgium |
| Short Films Competition | ||||
| A Gift | Kado | Aditya Ahmad | Indonesia | |
| Staircase | Mohsen Banihashemi | Iran | ||
| L'été et tout le reste | Sven Bresser | Netherlands | ||
| Gli anni | Sara Fgaier | Italy, France | ||
| Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy | Andrew Stephen Lee | Philippines, United States | ||
| Patision Avenue | Leoforos Patision | Thanasis Neofotistos | Greece | |
| Los bastardos | Tomas Posse | Argentina | ||
| All Inclusive | Corina Schwingruber Ilić | Switzerland | ||
| Sex, Fear, and Hamburgers | Sex, strakh i gamburgery | Eldar Shibanov | Kazakhstan | |
| Ninfe | Isabella Torre | Italy | ||
| Down There | Na li | Yang Zhengfan | China, France | |
| Foreign Body | Strano telo | Dušan Zorić | Serbia | |
| Short Films – Out of Competition | ||||
| Blu | Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti | Italy | ||
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restored films | ||||||
| Adieu Philippine (1962) | Jacques Rozier | France, Italy | ||||
| data-sort-value="Ascent" | The Ascent (1976) | data-sort-value="" | Восхождение | data-sort-value="Shepitko" | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
| data-sort-value="Brick" | Brick and Mirror (1964) | data-sort-value="" | خشت و آینه | data-sort-value="Golestan" | Iran | |
| Death in Venice (1971) | Morte a Venezia | data-sort-value="Visconti" | Italy, France, United States | |||
| (1920) | Der Golem – Wie er in die Welt kam | data-sort-value="Wegener" | Germany | |||
| Il posto (1962) | Ermanno Olmi | Italy | ||||
| data-sort-value="Killers 46" colspan=2 | The Killers (1946) | data-sort-value="Siodmak" | United States | |||
| data-sort-value="Killers 64" colspan=2 | The Killers (1964) | data-sort-value="Siegel" | ||||
| Last Year at Marienbad (1961) | L'année dernière à marienbad | data-sort-value="Resnais" | France, Italy | |||
| data-sort-value="Mad" | Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow aka The Mad Fox (1962) | 恋や恋なすな恋 | data-sort-value="Uchida" | Japan | ||
| data-sort-value="Naked" colspan=2 | The Naked City (1948) | data-sort-value="Dassin" | United States | |||
| data-sort-value="Night of the Shooting Stars" | The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) | La notte di San Lorenzo | data-sort-value="Taviani" | Italy | ||
| data-sort-value="Night Porter" | The Night Porter (1974) | Il portiere di notte | data-sort-value="Cavani" | Italy | ||
| Nothing Sacred (1937) | data-sort-value="Wellman" | United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Place" | The Place Without Limits (1977) | El lugar sin límites | data-sort-value="Ripstein" | Mexico | ||
| Some Like It Hot (1959) | data-sort-value="Wilder" | United States | ||||
| Street of Shame (1956) | 赤線地帯 | data-sort-value="Mizoguchi" | Japan | |||
| They Live (1988) | data-sort-value="Carpenter" | United States | ||||
| Documentaries about Cinema | ||||||
| Peter Bogdanovich | United States | |||||
| Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | Mark Cousins | United Kingdom | ||||
| Humberto Mauro | André Di Mauro | Brazil | ||||
| Living the Light – Robby Müller | Claire Pijman | Netherlands, Germany | ||||
| 24/25 Il fotogramma in più | Giancarlo Rolandi, Federico Pontiggia | Italy | ||||
| Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast | Bruce Weber | United States | ||||
| Friedkin Uncut | Francesco Zippel | Italy | ||||
The following films were selected for the Sconfini section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Kin | data-sort-value="Bahrani" | United States | |||
| Il banchiere anarchico | data-sort-value="Base" | Italy | |||
| Il ragazzo più felice del mondo | data-sort-value="Gipi" | ||||
| Arrivederci Saigon | data-sort-value="Labate" | ||||
| The Tree of Life | data-sort-value="Malick" | United States | |||
| School's Out | data-sort-value="Heure" | L'heure de la sortie | data-sort-value="Marnier" | France | |
| Magic Lantern | data-sort-value="Naderi" | United States | |||
| Camorra | data-sort-value="Patierno" | Francesco Patierno | Italy | ||
The following films were selected for the 33th Venice International Critics' Week (Italian: Settimana Internazionale della Critica):[12]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||||
| Adam & Evelyn | Adam und Evelyn | Andreas Goldstein | Germany | |
| Akasha | Sudan, South Africa, Qatar, Germany | |||
| Blonde Animals | Bêtes blondes | Alexia Walther, Maxime Matray | France | |
| M | Finland | |||
| Still Recording | Saaed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub | Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, France | ||
| We'll Be Young And Beautiful | Saremo giovani e bellissimi | Letizia Lamartire | Italy | |
| You Have the Night | Ti imas noc | Ivan Salatic | Montenegro, Serbia | |
| Special events – Out of competition | ||||
| Dachra | Tunisia | |||
| Tumbbad | Rahi Anil Barve, Adesh Prasad | India, Sweden | ||
The following films were selected for the 15th edition of the Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days) section:[13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| Domingo | Clara Linhart, Fellipe Barbosa | Brazil, France | |
| Graves Without a Name (opening film) | Les tombeaux sans noms | Cambodia, France | |
| José | Li Cheng | Guatemala, United States | |
| Joy | Austria | ||
| Keep Going | Continuer | Belgium, France | |
| Pearl | Elsa Amiel | France, Switzerland | |
| Real Love | C'est ça l'amour | France | |
| Remember? | Ricordi? | Italy, France | |
| Screwdriver | Mafax | Bassam Jarbawi | Palestine, United States, Qatar |
| Three Adventures of Brooke | 星溪的三次奇遇 | Yuan Qing | China, Malaysia |
| Ville Neuve | Canada | ||
| Out of competition | |||
| Emma Peeters (closing film) | Nicole Palo | Belgium, Canada | |
| Special events | |||
| As We Were Tunas | Francesco Zizola | United States, Italy | |
| Dead Women Walking | Hagar Ben-Asher | United States | |
| Goodbye Marilyn | Maria Di Razza | Italy | |
| Happy Lamento | Alexander Kluge | Germany | |
| My Own Good | Il bene mio | Pippo Mezzapesa | Italy |
| The Ghost of Peter Sellers | Cyprus | ||
| Why Are We Creative? | Hermann Vaske | Germany | |
| Miu Miu Women's Tales | |||
| Dakota Fanning | Italy, United States | |
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The following official awards were presented at the 75th edition:
The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos
The Sisters Brothers by Jacques Audiard
Olivia Colman for The Favourite
Willem Dafoe for At Eternity's Gate
The Nightingale by Jennifer Kent
Baykali Ganambarr for The Nightingale
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[22]