| 79th Venice International Film Festival | |
| Opening: | White Noise |
| Closing: | The Hanging Sun |
| Location: | Venice, Italy |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Awards: | Golden Lion |
| Host: | Rocío Muñoz Morales |
| Date: | 31 August – 10 September 2022 |
| Chronology: | Venice Film Festival |
| Preceded By: | 78th |
| Artistic Director: | Alberto Barbera |
The 79th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 10 September 2022.[1] [2] [3] Noah Baumbach's White Noise was the festival's opening film, and Francesco Carrozzini's The Hanging Sun was the closing film.
American actress Julianne Moore was the Jury President of the Main competition. Laura Poitras' All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was the winner of the Golden Lion, making it the second documentary, following Gianfranco Rosi's Sacro GRA in 2013, to win the festival's top prize.
American filmmaker Paul Schrader and French actress Catherine Deneuve were awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[7]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras | United States | |||
| Argentina, 1985 | Argentina, United States | ||||
| Athena | France | ||||
| The Banshees of Inisherin | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States | ||||
| Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades | Mexico | |||
| Beyond the Wall | شب، داخلی، دیوار | Vahid Jalilvand | Iran | ||
| Blonde | United States | ||||
| Bones and All | Italy, United States | ||||
| Chiara | Belgium, Italy | ||||
| A Couple | Un Couple | France, United States | |||
| The Eternal Daughter | United Kingdom, United States | ||||
| L'immensità | France, Italy | ||||
| Lord of the Ants | Il signore delle formiche | Italy | |||
| Love Life | Japan, France | ||||
| Monica | Italy, United States | ||||
| No Bears | خرس نیست | Iran | |||
| Other People's Children | Les Enfants des Autres | France | |||
| Our Ties | Les Miens | ||||
| Saint Omer | |||||
| The Son | United Kingdom, United States | ||||
| Tár | Germany, United States | ||||
| The Whale | United States | ||||
| White Noise (opening film) | data-sort-value="Baumbach" | United Kingdom, United States | |||
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | |||
| Call of God | Kõne taevast | Kim Ki-duk | Estonia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan |
| Dead for a Dollar | Walter Hill | United States | |
| Don't Worry Darling | Olivia Wilde | ||
| Dreamin' Wild | Bill Pohlad | ||
| Dry | Siccità | Paolo Virzì | Italy |
| The Hanging Sun (closing film) | Francesco Carrozzini | ||
| Living | Oliver Hermanus | United Kingdom | |
| Master Gardener | Paul Schrader | United States | |
| Pearl | Ti West | ||
| When the Waves Are Gone | Kapag Wala Na Ang Mga Alon | Lav Diaz | Philippines, France, Portugal, Denmark |
| Non Fiction | |||
| Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo | Uganda, United Kingdom, United States | ||
| A Compassionate Spy | Steve James | United States | |
| Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom | Evgeny Afineevsky | Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States | |
| Gli ultimi giorni dell'umanità | Enrico Ghezzi, Alessandro Gagliardo | Italy | |
| In Viaggio | Gianfranco Rosi | ||
| The Kiev Trial | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherland, Ukraine | |
| The Matchmaker | Benedetta Argentieri | Italy | |
| Music for Black Pigeons | Jørgen Leth, Andreas Koefoed | Denmark | |
| Nuclear | Oliver Stone | United States | |
| Series | |||
| Copenhagen Cowboy | Nicolas Winding Refn | Denmark | |
| The Kingdom Exodus | Riget Exodus | Lars von Trier | |
The lineup of films selected for the Horizons section is as follows:[8]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Man | ある男 | Kei Ishikawa | Japan | |
| Autobiography | Indonesia, France, Singapore, The Philippines, Germany, Qatar | |||
| Blanquita | Chile, Mexico | |||
| Bread and Salt | Polish: Chleb i sól | Poland | ||
| The Bride | Sergio Trefaut | Portugal | ||
| Burning Hearts | Ti mangio il cuore | Italy | ||
| For My Country | French: Pour la France | France, Taiwan | ||
| The Happiest Man in the World | Bosnia, Belgium, Denmark | |||
| Innocence | Guy Davidi | Denmark, Israel, Finland, Iceland | ||
| Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Ukraine | |||
| On the Fringe | Spanish; Castilian: En los márgenes | Spain | ||
| Princess | Roberto De Paolis | Italy | ||
| The Sitting Duck | La Syndicaliste | France | ||
| To the North | Mihai Mincan | Romania, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Czech Republic | ||
| Trenque Lauquen | Argentina, Germany | |||
| Vera | Austria | |||
| Victim | Michal Blasko | Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany | ||
| World War III | جنگ جهانی سوم | Houman Seyyedi | Iran | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda | Carolina Cavalli | Italy | ||
| Goliath | Adilkhan Yerzhanov | |||
| Hanging Gardens | Janain mualaqa | Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji | Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Kingdom | |
| Nezouh | Soudade Kaadan | United Kingdom, Syria, France | ||
| Notte fantasma | Fulvio Risuleo | Italy | ||
| The Origin of Evil | L'Origine du mal | France, Canada | ||
| Red Shoes | Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser | Mexico, Italy | ||
| Valeria Is Getting Married | Valeria Mithatenet | Israel | ||
| Without Her | بی رویا | Arian Vazirdaftari | Iran | |
The lineup of films selected for the Venice Immersive section is as follows:[9]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascenders | Jonathan Astruc and Jonathana Tamene | France | ||
| Stay Alive My Son | Tu Vivras, Mon Fils | Voctira Bousis | Greece, United States | |
| Reimagined Volume 1: Nyssa | Julie Cavaliere | United States | ||
| Rencontre(s) | Mathias Chelebourg | France | ||
| The Man Who Couldn't Leave | Chen Singing | Taipei | ||
| All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost | Mélanie Courtinat | France | ||
| Eurydice, A Descent into Infinity | Eurydice, Een Afdaling in Oneindigheid | Celine Daemen | Netherlands | |
| Okawari | Landia Egal and Amaury Burthie | France, Canada | ||
| Dazzle: A Re-Assembly of Bodies | Ruth Gibson, Bruno Martelli, Alexa Pollmann, and Bine Roth | United Kingdom | ||
| Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom | Russell Harding, Tim Jones, and Marcus Moresby | |||
| Treasure Heist | Luan Trinh | United States | ||
| From the Main Square | Pedro Harres | Germany | ||
| Sorella's Story | Peter Hegedus | Australia, Hungary, Sweden | ||
| Eggscape | German Heller, Jorge Tereso, and Federico Heller | Argentina | ||
| Typeman | Keisuke Itoh | Japan | ||
| Kindred | Bambou Kenneth | United Kingdom | ||
| Poet's Room | Shineui Bang | Bomsok Ku | South Korea | |
| Gumball Dreams | Deirdre V. Lyons and Christopher Davis | United States | ||
| Namuanki | Kevin Mack | |||
| Darkening | Tmání | Ondrej Moravec | Czech Republic, Germany | |
| Eternelle, Notre Dame | Bruno Seillier | France | ||
| All That Remains | Quintero Craig | Taipei | ||
| Rock Paper Scissors | Alex Ruhl | United Kingdom | ||
| Thank You for Sharing Your World | Yu Sakudo and Toshiaki Hanzaki | Japan | ||
| Framerate: Pulse of the Earth | Matthew Shaw and William Trossell | United Kingdom | ||
| Mrs. Benz: Voyage of Discovery | Eloise Singer | |||
| Uncanny Alley | Rick Treweek | South Africa | ||
| Fight Back | Celine Tricart | France, United States | ||
| Mandala: A Brief Moment in Time | Thomse Villepoux | China, France | ||
| Original Title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|
| Elele | Sjoerd van Acker | Netherlands |
| Mono | Chiara Troisi | Italy |
| Chroma 11 | Tsang Tsui-Shan | Hong Kong |
| Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|
| On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) | Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Pierre Zandrowicz, and Arnaud Colinart | France, United Kingdom, United States |
| (Hi)story of a Painting: The Light in the Shadow | Quentin Darras and Gaelle Mourre | United Kingdom |
| Area Man Lives | Amy Green and Ryan Green | United States |
| Lustration | Ryan Griffen | Australia, United States |
| Alex Honnold: The Soloist VR | Jonathan Griffith | France, United States |
| Space Explorers: The ISS Experience: Episode 3, Unite | Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael | Canada |
| Space Explorers: The ISS Experience: Spacewalkers | Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael | |
| Kingdom of Plants with David Attenborough | Iona McEwan | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Miracle Basket | Abner Preis | Netherlands |
| Shores of Loci | Ellen Utrecht, James Sundra, Dani Bittman, and Daisy Berns | United States |
The lineup of films selected for the 37th Venice International Critics' Week is as follows:[10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||||
| Anhell69 | data-sort-value="Montoya" | Theo Montoya | Colombia | |
| Beating Sun | Tant que le soleil frappe | data-sort-value="Petit" | Philippe Petit | France |
| Dogborn | data-sort-value="Carbonell" | Isabella Carbonell | Sweden | |
| Eismayer | data-sort-value="Wagner" | David Wagner | Austria | |
| Have You Seen This Woman? | Да ли сте видели ову жену? | data-sort-value="Zoric" | Dušan Zorić, Matija Gluščević | Serbia, Croatia |
| Margins | Margini | data-sort-value="Falsetti" | Niccolò Falsetti | Italy |
| Skin Deep | Aus meiner Haut | data-sort-value="Schaad" | Alex Schaad | Germany |
| Out of competition | ||||
| Three Nights a Week (opening film) | Florent Gouelou | France | ||
| Blood | Pedro Costa | Portugal | ||
| Queens (closing film) | Yasmine Benkiran | Morocco | ||
| SIC@SIC Short Italian Cinema | ||||
| Albertine Where Are You? | Maria Guidone | Italy | ||
| Like Snails | Come le lumache | Margherita Panizon | ||
| Nostos | Mauro Zingarelli | |||
| Sapling | Puiet | Lorenzo Fabbro, Bronte Stahl | Italy, United States, Romania | |
| Reginetta | Federico Russotto | Italy | ||
| Remains | Resti | Federico Fadiga | ||
| Lucid Room | La stanza lucida | Chiara Caterina | ||
| English title[11] | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||||
| Bentu | Bentu | Salvatore Mereu | Italy | |
| Ordinary Failures | Běžná selhání | Cristina Groșan | Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia | |
| Blue Jean | Georgia Oakley | United Kingdom | ||
| Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous (opening film) | Wissam Charaf | France, Italy, Lebanon | ||
| The Last Queen | Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri | Algeria, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Taiwan | ||
| The Damned Don’t Cry | Fyzal Boulifa | France, Belgium, Morocco | ||
| Wolf and Dog | Cláudia Varejão | Portugal, France | ||
| Padre Pio | data-sort-value="Montoya" | Italy, Germany, United Kingdom | ||
| Stonewalling | Huang Ji, Otsuka Ryuji | Japan | ||
| The Maiden | Graham Foy | Canada, United States | ||
| Special events – Out of competition | ||||
| Olimpia’s Way | Corrado Ceron | Italy | ||
| Alone | تنها | Jafar Najafi | Iran | |
| We’re Here to Try | Greta De Lazzaris, Jacopo Quadri | Italy | ||
| Casa Susanna | Sebastien Lifshitz | |||
| March on Rome | Mark Cousins | |||
| La fornace | Daniele Ciprì | |||
| The Listener (closing film) | Steve Buscemi | United States | ||
| Venice Nights | ||||
| Land of Upright People | Christian Carmosino Mereu | Italy | ||
| Kristos, the Last Child | Giulia Amati | |||
| The Crown Shyness | Valentina Bertani | |||
| Las leonas | Isabel Achával, Chiara Biondi | |||
| Le favolose | Roberta Torre | |||
| Pablo from Neanderthal | Antonello Matarazzo | |||
| Se fate i bravi | Stefano Collizzoli, Daniele Gaglianone | |||
| The Bone Breakers | Vincenzo Pirrotta | |||
| An Invisible Enemy | Riccardo Campagna, Federico Savonitto | |||
| Women's Tales Project | ||||
| Carta a mi madre para mi hijo | Carla Simón | Italy | ||
| House Comes with a Bird | Janicza Bravo | |||
The following official awards were presented at the 79th Edition:[12]
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras
Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino
Cate Blanchett for Tár
Colin Farrell for The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh
Taylor Russell for Bones and All
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[15]