66th Venice International Film Festival explained

66th Venice International Film Festival
Opening:	Baarìa
Closing:	Chengdu, I Love You
Location:	Venice, Italy
Founded:	1932
Awards:	Golden Lion – Lebanon
Date:	2–12 September 2009
Website:	Website
Chronology:	Venice Film Festival
Preceded By:	65th
Followed By:	67th

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 Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee, awarded the Golden Lion to Lebanon by Samuel Maoz.^[3]

Juries

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

Main competition (Venezia 66)

• Ang Lee, Taiwanese filmmaker and producer - Jury President^[7]
• Sergei Bodrov, Russian filmmaker and producer
• Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress and filmmaker
• Liliana Cavani, Italian filmmaker
• Joe Dante, American director, producer, editor and actor
• Anurag Kashyap, Indian director, writer, producer and actor
• Luciano Ligabue, Italian director, writer and singer-songwriter

Horizons (Orizzonti)

• Pere Portabella, Spanish politician, director, and producer - Jury President^[8]
• Bady Minck, Luxembourger filmmaker and artist
• Gina Kim, South Korean filmmaker and academic
• Garin Nugroho, Indonesian director
• Gianfranco Rosi, Italian director, cinematographer, producer and screenwriter

Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film)

• Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker - Jury President^[9]
• Ramin Bahrani, American director and screenwriter
• Gianni Di Gregorio, Italian director, screenwriter and actor
• Antoine Fuqua, American director and producer
• Sam Taylor-Wood, English filmmaker and photographer

Corto-Cortissimo (Short Film Competition)

• Stuart Gordon American filmmaker, theater director and playwright - Jury President^[10]
• Steve Ricci, Italian cinematographer, screenwriter and editor
• Sitora Alieva, Russian artistic director of the International Film Festival Kinotav

Controcampo Italiano

• Carlo Lizzani, Italian director, screenwriter and critic - Jury President^[11]
• Giulio Questi, Italian director and screenwriter
• Marina Sanna, Italian chief editor of cinema magazine

Official Sections

In Competition

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Accident	意外	data-sort-value="Pou-Soi"		China（Hong Kong）
Around a Small Mountain	36 vues du pic Saint-Loup	data-sort-value="Rivette"		France, Italy
Baarìa (opening film)		data-sort-value="Tornatore"		Italy, France
		data-sort-value="Herzog"		United States
Between Two Worlds	Ahasin Wetei	data-sort-value="Jayasundara"		Sri Lanka
data-sort-value="Big"	The Big Dream	data-sort-value="Grande"	Il grande sogno	data-sort-value="Placido"		Italy, France
		data-sort-value="Moore"		United States
data-sort-value="Double"	The Double Hour	data-sort-value="Doppia"	La doppia ora	data-sort-value="Capotondi"		Italy
Grandmother	Lola	data-sort-value="Mendoza"		France, Philippines
Lebanon		data-sort-value="Maoz"	Samuel Maoz	Israel, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Life During Wartime		data-sort-value="Solondz"		United States
Lourdes		data-sort-value="Hausner"		Austria
Mr Nobody		data-sort-value="Dormael"		Belgium, Canada, France, Germany
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done		data-sort-value="Herzog"		United States
Persécution		data-sort-value="Chereau"		France
Prince of Tears	淚王子		Taiwan
The Road	data-sort-value="Hillcoat"		United States
A Single Man	data-sort-value="Ford"
Soul Kitchen		data-sort-value="Akın"		Germany
Survival of the Dead		data-sort-value="Romero"		Canada, United States
	Tetsuo Project	data-sort-value="Tsukamoto"		Japan
data-sort-value="Traveller"	The Traveller	المسافر	data-sort-value="Maher"		Egypt, Italy
White Material		data-sort-value="Denis"		France
data-sort-value="White S"	The White Space	data-sort-value="Spazio"	Lo spazio bianco	data-sort-value="Comencini"		Italy
Women Without Men	Zanan-e bedun-e mardan	data-sort-value="Neshat"		Germany, 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 Finest		data-sort-value="Fuqua"		United States
Chengdu, I Love You (closing film)	成都我爱你	data-sort-value="Chan"		China
Delhi-6		data-sort-value="Mehra"		India
Dev.D		data-sort-value="Kashyap"
Great Directors		data-sort-value="Kashyap"		United States
Green Days	Ruzhaye Sabz		Iran
Gulaal	गुलाल	data-sort-value="Kashyap"		India
The Hole	data-sort-value="Dante"		United States
The Informant!	data-sort-value="Soderbergh"
The Men Who Stare at Goats	data-sort-value="Heslov"
Napoli, Napoli, Napoli		data-sort-value="Ferrara"		Italy
L'oro di Cuba		Giuliano Montaldo
Rambo (Director's Cut)			United States
REC 2		data-sort-value="Balagueró"		Spain
data-sort-value="Red"	The Red Shadows	data-sort-value="Ombre"	Le ombre rosse	data-sort-value="Maselli"		Italy
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy	Prove per una tragedia siciliana	data-sort-value="Paska"
Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story	إحكي يا شهرزاد	data-sort-value="Nasrallah"		Egypt
South of the Border		data-sort-value="Stone"		United States
Valhalla Rising		data-sort-value="Refn"		Denmark, United Kingdom
Yona Yona Penguin	よなよなペンギン		Japan, France

Corto Cortissimo (Short Film Competition)

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
In competition
Felicità		data-sort-value="Aleksi"	Salome Aleksi	Georgia
data-sort-value="Kinema"	The Kinematograph	Kinematograf	data-sort-value="Baginski"		Poland
I Know There’s a Man	So Che C'è Un Uomo	data-sort-value="Cappai"	Gianclaudio Cappai	Italy
This Is Earth, My Brother	To je zemljia, brat moj	data-sort-value="Cvitkovič"		Slovenia, Italy
Still Birds	Alle Fugler	data-sort-value="Eliassen"	Sara Eliassen	Norway
Bliss	data-sort-value="Teu"	O Teu Sorriso	data-sort-value="Freire"	Pedro Freire	Brazil
data-sort-value="Game"	The Game	data-sort-value="Gioco"	Il Gioco	data-sort-value="Giannini"		Italy
Object #1		data-sort-value="Ibragimbekov"	Murad Ibragimbekov	Russia
Girllikeme		data-sort-value="Jobson"	Rowland Jobson	United Kingdom
Firstborn	Eersgeborene	data-sort-value="Kallos"	Etienne Kallos	South Africa, United States
Mom’S Vacation	Umma-E Huga	Kwang-Bok Kim	South Korea
Storage		data-sort-value="Lea"	David Lea	United Kingdom
Of Clouds and Hands	Nuvole, Mani	data-sort-value="Massi"	Simone Massi	France
Sinner		data-sort-value="Philip"	Meni Philip	Israel
Family Jewels		data-sort-value="Stitt"	Martin Stitt	United States, United Kingdom
For Two	Er Ren	data-sort-value="Tan"	Shijie Tan	Singapore
Bicycle	Jitensha	data-sort-value="Yamada"	Dean Yamada	Japan, United States
Kingyo		data-sort-value="Yeo"		Japan, Malaysia
Out of Competition
Plastic Bag (Opening film)		Ramin Bahrani	United States
The It.Aliens (Closing Film)		Clemens Klopfenstein, Lukas Klopfenstein	Italy, Switzerland
Special Events
Recordare		Leonardo Carrano, Alessandro Pierattini	Italy
The City in the Sky	La città nel cielo	Giacomo Cimini	United Kingdom, Italy
The Second Family	La seconda famiglia	Alberto Dall'Ara	Italy
Earth		Tzu Nyen Ho	Singapore
Radio		Riccardo Pugliese	United States, Italy
War	Uerra	Paolo Sassanelli	Italy
A la lune montante		Annarita Zambrano	France

Highlighted title indicates Corto Cortissimo Lion winner.

Horizons (Orizzonti)

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
1428		data-sort-value="Du"	Haibin Du	China
Adrift	data-sort-value="Chuyen"	Choi voi	Bui Thac Chuyen	Vietnam
Bets and Wedding Dresses	Tris di donne & abiti nuziali	data-sort-value="Terracciano"	Vincenzo Terracciano	Italy
Buried Secrets	Dowaha	data-sort-value="Amari"		Tunisia
Clash	Engkwentro	data-sort-value="Diokno"		Philippines
data-sort-value="Color"	The Color of Words	data-sort-value="Colore"	Il colore delle parole	data-sort-value="Puccioni"		Italy
Cow	斗牛	data-sort-value="Hu"		China
Crush	Korotkoe zamykanie	data-sort-value="Buslov"		Russia
Francesca (Opening film)		data-sort-value="Paunescu"	Bobby Paunescu	Romania
I Am Love	Io sono l'amore	data-sort-value="Guadagnino"		Italy
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You	Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo	data-sort-value="Gomes"		Brazil
Judge	透析	data-sort-value="Liu"	Jie Liu	China
data-sort-value="Mans"	The Man’s Woman and Other Stories	Aadmi ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya	data-sort-value="Dutta"		India
The Movie Orgy - Ultimate Version	data-sort-value="Dante"		United States
Once Upon a Time Proletarian	曾经的无产者	data-sort-value="Guo"		China
The One All Alone	data-sort-value="Scheffer"		Netherlands
One-Zero	Wahed-Sefr	data-sort-value="Abou Zekry"		Egypt
Paraiso		data-sort-value="Galvez"	Héctor Gálvez	Peru
Pepperminta		data-sort-value="Rist"		Switzerland
Repo Chick		data-sort-value="Cox"		United States
Sunstroke	Insolação	data-sort-value="Thomas"		Brazil
Tender Parasites	Zarte Parasiten	data-sort-value="Becker"	Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe	Germany
Totò		data-sort-value="Schreiner"		Austria
Villalobos		data-sort-value="Karmakar"		Germany
Woman on Fire Looks for Water		data-sort-value="Jin"		Malaysia, South Korea
Horizons Events
Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno		Pappi Corsicato	Italy
The Marriage		Peter Greenaway	Italy, Spain
Reading Book of Blockade	Chitaem 'Blokadnuju knigu	Alexander Sokurov	Russia
The Death of Pentheus		Philip Haas	United States
La Bohème		Werner Herzog	United Kingdom
Faces of Seoul	Seo-wool eui ul-gul	Gina Kim	United States, South Korea
Hugo en Afrique		Stefano Knuchel	Switzerland
Via della croce		Serena Nono	Italy
Mudanza (short)		Pere Portabella	Spain
Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri		Elisabetta Sgarbi	Italy
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet	La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris	Frederick Wiseman	France, United States
Cock-Crow		David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi	Italy
Daimon

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]

• The Incredibles by Brad Bird
• Up by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
• Toy Story 3-D by John Lasseter
• Toy Story 2 3-D by John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon
• Finding Nemo by Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich

Cortocampo Italiano

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)
Cosmonaut	Cosmonauta	data-sort-value="Nicchiarelli"
David's Birthday	data-sort-value="Compleanno"	Il Compleanno	data-sort-value="Filiberti"	Marco Filiberti
Giuseppe De Santis		data-sort-value="Lizzani"
Hollywood on the Tiber	Hollywood sul Tevere	data-sort-value="Spagnoli"	Marco Spagnoli
In the Eyes	Negli occhi	data-sort-value="Del Grosso"	Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti
data-sort-value="Little"	The Little	data-sort-value="Piccolo"	Il Piccolo	data-sort-value="Zaccaro"
Poets	Poeti	data-sort-value="D Angelo"	Toni D'Angelo
Sputnik 5		data-sort-value="Nicchiarelli"
Ten Winters	Dieci Inverni	data-sort-value="Mieli"

Italian Retrospective: 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]

English title	Original title	Director(s)
Accidenti alla guerra		... (1948)	data-sort-value="Simonelli"
Break Up (1965)	data-sort-value="Uomo"	L'uomo dei cinque palloni	data-sort-value="Ferreri"
Carmen di Trastevere (1963)		data-sort-value="Gallone"
Death of a Friend (1959)	Morte di un amico	data-sort-value="Rossi"
Dreams Die at Dawn (1961)	data-sort-value="Sogni"	I sogni muoiono all'alba	data-sort-value="Montanelli"
Easy Years (1953)	Anni facili	data-sort-value="Zampa"
Un eroe del nostro tempo (1960)		data-sort-value="Capogna"	Sergio Capogna
data-sort-value="Flame"	The Flame That Will Not Die (1949)	data-sort-value="Flamma"	La Fiamma che non si spegne	data-sort-value="Cottafavi"
Galileo (1968)		data-sort-value="Cavani"
Girl in the Window (1961)	data-sort-value="Ragazza"	La ragazza in vetrina	data-sort-value="Emmer"
data-sort-value="Great"	The Great War (1959)	data-sort-value="Grande"	La grande guerra	data-sort-value="Monicelli"
House of Ricordi (1954)	Casa Ricordi	data-sort-value="Gallone"
Hurricane Rosy (1979)	Temporale Rosy	data-sort-value="Monicelli"
data-sort-value="Invisible"	The Invisible Ones (1988)	data-sort-value="Invisibili"	Gli Invisibili	data-sort-value="Squitieri"
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970)	Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo	data-sort-value="Samperi"
Love in Rome (1960)	data-sort-value="Amore"	Un amore a Roma	data-sort-value="Risi"
data-sort-value="Lovemakers"	The Lovemakers (1961)	data-sort-value="Viaccia"	La viaccia	data-sort-value="Bolognini"
Margherita and Her Three Uncles (1942)	Margherita fra i tre	data-sort-value="Perilli"
data-sort-value="Naked"	The Naked Hours (1964)	data-sort-value="Ore"	Le ore nude	data-sort-value="Vicario"
Nerosubianco (1968)		data-sort-value="Brass"
Noi cannibali (1953)		data-sort-value="Leonviola"
One Between the Crowd (1946)	Uno tra la folla	data-sort-value="Cerlesi"
Princess Cinderella (1941)	Cenerentola e il Signor Bonaventura	data-sort-value="Tofano"
data-sort-value="Quiet"	A Quiet Place in the Country (1969)	data-sort-value="Tranquillo"	Un tranquillo posto di campagna	data-sort-value="Petri"
data-sort-value="Reunion"	The Reunion (1963)	data-sort-value="Rimpatriata"	La Rimpatriata	data-sort-value="Damiani"
data-sort-value="Ship"	The Ship of Condemned Women (1954)	data-sort-value="Nave"	La nave delle donne maledette	data-sort-value="Matarazzo"
Stories in the Sand (1963)	Storie sulla sabbia	data-sort-value="Fellini"
data-sort-value="Stranger"	The Stranger's Hand (1954)	data-sort-value="Mano"	La mano dello straniero	data-sort-value="Soldati"
Il tramontana (1965)		data-sort-value="Barbano"	Adriano Barbano
Tre nel mille (1971)		data-sort-value="Indovina"
data-sort-value="Wanderers"	The Wanderers (1956)	data-sort-value="Girovaghi"	I girovaghi	data-sort-value="Fregonese"
Women Without Names (1950)	Donne senza nome	data-sort-value="von Radványi"

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
In competition
Cafe Noir	Ka-pe-neu-wa-reu		South Korea
A Rational Solution	Det enda rationella	Jörgen Bergmark	Sweden
Domain	Domaine		France, Austria
Crawfishlike	Kakraki	Ilya Demichev	Russia
Foxes	Lištičky		Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland
Tehroun	Téhéran	Nader T. Homayoun	France, Iran
Out of competition
Metropia (opening film)		Tarik Saleh	Sweden
The Pothole (closing film)	Chaleh	Ali Karim	Iran
Videocracy		Erik Gandini	Sweden

Venice Days

The following films were selected for the 6th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:^{[20] [21]}

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
In competition
The Ape	Apan	Jesper Ganslandt	Sweden
Barking Water			United States
Blood and Rain	La sangre y la lluvia	Jorge Navas	Colombia, Argentina
Cell 211	Celda 211		Spain, France
Desert Flower			United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France
Fat People	Gordos		Spain
France	Francia		Argentina
Harragas			Algeria, France
Honeymoons			Serbia, Albania
The Horde	La horde	Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher	France
Hymn to Love	L’amore e basta	Stefano Consiglio	Italy
I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive	Je suis heureux que ma mere soit vivante	Claude Miller, Nathan Miller	France
The Last Days of Emma Blank	De laatste Dagen van Emma Blank	Alex van Warmerdam	Netherlands
Mille giorni di Vito		Elisabetta Pandimiglio	Italy
Poetry, You See Me	Poesia che mi guardi	Marina Spada
Silent Voice	Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront		France
What Do You Know About Me	Di me cosa ne sai		Italy
Out of competition
Ragazze la vita trema		Paola Sangiovanni	Italy
The Swindlers (1959)	I magliari	Francesco Rosi	Italy, France
Teat Beat of Sex		Signe Baumane	United States
Videocracy		Erik Gandini	Sweden
Vittorio D		Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri	Italy

Official Awards

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

In competition (Venezia 66)

• Golden Lion

Lebanon by Samuel Maoz

• Silver Lion for Best Director

Shirin Neshat for Women Without Men

• Special Jury Prize

Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akın

• Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Colin Firth for A Single Man

• Volpi Cup for Best Actress

Kseniya Rappoport for The Double Hour

• Marcello Mastroianni Award

Jasmine Trinca for The Big Dream

• Golden Osella for Outstanding Technical Contribution

Sylvie Olivé for Mr. Nobody

• Golden Osella for Best Screenplay

Todd Solondz for Life During Wartime

Horizons (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

Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film

• Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno

Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)

• Best Short Film: Firstborn 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 by Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti

• John Lasseter

Special awards

• Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Sylvester Stallone
• Persol 3-D Award for Best Stereoscopic Film: The Hole by Joe Dante (Out of competition)

Independent Sections Awards

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

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 Special Mention: Up by Pete Docter

Venice Days (Giornati degli Autori)

• Label Europa Cinemas Award: The Last Days of Emma Blank by Alex van Warmerdam

Independent Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:^[22]

• Best Film (Main competition): Lourdes by Jessica Hausner^[23]
• Best Film (Horizons): Adrift by Bui Thac Chuyen

• A Single Man by Tom Ford

• Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
  • Special mention: Lebanon by Samuel Maoz

Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI)

• Best Film: The White Space by Francesca Comencini
• Best Director: Giuseppe Tornatore for Baarìa
• Best Actor: Filippo Timi for The Double Hour
• Best Actress: Margherita Buy for The White Space
  • Special award: Riccardo Scamarcio for The Big Dream
  • Special award: Armando Testa – Povero ma moderno by Pappi Corsicato

Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola Award

• by Michael Moore

La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award

• Lourdes by Jessica Hausner

C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award

• The Traveller by Ahmad Maher

UNICEF Award

• Women Without Men by Shirin Neshat^[24]

Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award

• by Werner Herzog

Biografilm Lancia Award

• Best Fiction Film: Mr. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael
• Best Documentary: In the Eyes by Francesco Del Grosso & Daniele Anzellotti

• Lourdes by Jessica Hausner

Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs)

• Cosmonauta by Susanna Nicchiarelli

FEDIC Award

• The White Space by Francesca Comencini
  • Special Mention: What Do You Know About Me by Valerio Jalongo

Arca Cinemagiovani Awards

• Best Film: Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin
• Best Italian Film: The Double Hour by Giuseppe Capotondi

Lina Mangiacapre Award

• Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story by Yousry Nasrallah

Air For Film Fest Award

• The White Space by Francesca Comencini

Open Award 2009

• Capitalism: A love story by Michael Moore

Gianni Astrei Award

• The White Space by Francesca Comencini

External links

• • Venice Film Festival 2009 Awards on IMDb

Notes and References

1. News: BBC News: Ang Lee to head Venice festival . 12 March 2009. BBC News . 27 February 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090302170333/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7915196.stm. 2 March 2009 . live.
2. Web site: Maria Grazia Cucinotta hostess of the 66th Venice Film Festival . labiennale.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090903052105/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/news/cucinotta.html . 3 September 2009 .
3. Web site: 66th Venice Film Festival Official Awards . labiennale.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090930213250/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/premi/awards.html . 30 September 2009 .
4. Web site: 66th Venice Film Festival – The Jury. culturecompass.co.uk. 8 October 2013. https://archive.today/20131008210240/http://www.culturecompass.co.uk/2009/09/02/66th-venice-film-festival-the-jury/. 8 October 2013. dead.
5. News: Anurag Kashyap on Venice Film Festival jury. https://archive.today/20131008210254/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-30/india/28186313_1_venice-film-festival-anurag-kashyap-dev-d-and-gulaal. dead. 8 October 2013. The Times of India. 8 October 2013 .
6. Web site: Venice jurors to include Gina Kim, Ramin Bahrani, Stuart Gordon . screendaily.com . 8 October 2013.
7. Web site: 66th Venice Film Festival Juries Venezia 66 . labiennale.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090913094903/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/66.html . 13 September 2009 . 22 April 2018 .
8. Web site: 66th Venice Film Festival Juries Orizzonti . labiennale.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090905050306/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/orizzonti.html . 5 September 2009 . 22 April 2018 .
9. Web site: 66th Venice Film Festival Juries Opera Prima . labiennale.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090905025334/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/jury_operaprima.html . 5 September 2009 . 22 April 2018 .
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