| 67th Venice International Film Festival | |
| Opening: | Black Swan |
| Closing: | The Tempest |
| Location: | Venice, Italy |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Awards: | Golden Lion |
| Date: | 1 – 11 September 2010 |
| Website: | Website |
| Chronology: | Venice Film Festival |
| Preceded By: | 66th |
| Followed By: | 68th |
The 67th annual Venice International Film Festival held in Venice, Italy, took place from 1 to 11 September 2010.[1] American film director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino was the head of the Jury.[2] The opening film of the festival was Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan,[3] and the closing film was Julie Taymor's The Tempest. John Woo was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement prior to the start of the Festival.[4]
The Golden Lion was awarded to Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola.[5] The Silver Lion Award for Best Director was given to Álex de la Iglesia, for A Sad Trumpet Ballad.
In a break with tradition of limiting a film to receiving no more than one major award, the Special Jury Prize and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor (Vincent Gallo) went to the same film, Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing. In the past, no one film had been given two major awards. Representing the jury, American director Quentin Tarantino appealed to Festival head Marco Müller to alter the rules. This rule change continues to be upheld for future editions of the Festival.[6] [7]
Following the Festival, Italian film critic Paolo Mereghetti criticized the decisions that the jury made in awarding prizes, and singled out Tarantino, accusing him of favoritism. He denied the charge.[8] [9]
The international juries of the 67th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[10]
The Golden Lion was won by Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola, a film based in part on Coppola's childhood as the daughter of acclaimed American director Francis Ford Coppola.[16] Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury that awarded the prize, hailed the film saying, "it grew and grew in our hearts, in our minds, in our affections".[17] The jury's decision was unanimous. Upon receiving the award, Coppola paid credit to her father for "teaching me".[18] The Russian film Silent Souls and the Chilean film Post Mortem had been considered favorites for the award.[19]
The following films competed for the award:[20]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Assassins | 十三人の刺客 | data-sort-value="Miike" | Japan, United Kingdom | |||
| Attenberg | data-sort-value="Tsangari" | Greece | ||||
| Barney's Version | data-sort-value="Lewis" | Canada, Italy | ||||
| Black Swan (opening film) | data-sort-value="Aronofsky" | United States | ||||
| Black Venus | Vénus noire | data-sort-value="Kechiche" | France | |||
| Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame | 狄仁傑之通天帝國 | data-sort-value="Hark" | China | |||
| data-sort-value="Ditch" | The Ditch | 夹边沟 | data-sort-value="Bing" | |||
| Essential Killing | data-sort-value="Skolimowski" | Poland, Norway, Hungary, Ireland | ||||
| Happy Few | data-sort-value="Cordier" | Antony Cordier | France | |||
| Meek's Cutoff | data-sort-value="Reichardt" | United States | ||||
| Miral | data-sort-value="Schnabel" | United States, France, Italy, Israel | ||||
| Norwegian Wood | ノルウェイの森 | data-sort-value="Hung" | Tran Anh Hung | Japan | ||
| La passione | data-sort-value="Mazzacurati" | Carlo Mazzacurati | Italy | |||
| La pecora nera | data-sort-value="Celestini" | Ascanio Celestini | ||||
| Post Mortem | data-sort-value="Larrain" | Chile, Mexico, Germany | ||||
| Potiche | data-sort-value="Ozon" | France | ||||
| Promises Written in Water | data-sort-value="Gallo" | United States | ||||
| Road to Nowhere | data-sort-value="Hellman" | |||||
| data-sort-value="Sad" | A Sad Trumpet Ballad | Balada triste de trompeta | data-sort-value="Iglesia" | Spain, France | ||
| Silent Souls | Овсянки | data-sort-value="Fedorchenko" | Aleksei Fedorchenko | Russia | ||
| data-sort-value="Solitude" | The Solitude of Prime Numbers | data-sort-value="Solitudine" | La solitudine dei numeri primi | data-sort-value="Costanzo" | Italy, Germany, France | |
| Somewhere | data-sort-value="Coppola" | Sofia Coppola | United States | |||
| Three | Drei | data-sort-value="Tykwer" | Germany | |||
| We Believed | Noi credevamo | data-sort-value="Martone" | Italy, France | |||
The following films were shown out of competition.[21]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | data-sort-value="Salvatores" | Italy | |||
| All Inclusive 3D | data-sort-value="Ranocchi" | Nadia Ranocchi, David Zamagni | |||
| Angel of Evil | Vallanzasca - Gli angeli del male | data-sort-value="Placido" | |||
| data-sort-value="Child" | The Child's Eye | 童眼 | data-sort-value="Pang" | China | |
| Dante Ferretti: production designer | data-sort-value="Giagni" | Gianfranco Giagni | Italy | ||
| Gorbaciof | Gorbaciof - Il cassiere col vizio del gioco | data-sort-value="Incerti" | |||
| I'm Still Here | data-sort-value="Affleck" | United States | |||
| 精武風雲－陳真 | data-sort-value="Lau" | China（Hong Kong） | |||
| A Letter to Elia | data-sort-value="Scorsese" | Martin Scorsese, Kent Jones | United States | ||
| Lope | Andrucha Waddington | Spain, Brazil | |||
| Machete | data-sort-value="Rodriguez" | United States | |||
| Niente paura | Piergiorgio Gay | Italy | |||
| News from the Excavations | Notizie degli scavi | Emidio Greco | |||
| Passione | John Turturro | ||||
| La prima volta a Venezia | Antonello Sarno | ||||
| Raavan | Mani Ratnam | India | |||
| Reign of Assassins | 劍雨 | data-sort-value="Woo" | John Woo, Su Chao-pin | China | |
| Sei Venezia | Carlo Mazzacurati | Italy | |||
| The Shock Labyrinth | 戦慄迷宮 | data-sort-value="Shimizu" | Japan | ||
| Showtime | Yongxin Tiao | data-sort-value="Kwan" | China | ||
| Sorelle mai | Marco Bellocchio | Italy | |||
| Space Guy | 太空侠3D | data-sort-value="Yuan" | China | ||
| Surviving Life | Přežít svůj život | data-sort-value="Svankmajer" | Czech Republic | ||
| The Tempest (closing film) | data-sort-value="Taymor" | United States | |||
| That Girl in Yellow Boots | data-sort-value="Kashyap" | India | |||
| The Town | data-sort-value="Affleck" | United States | |||
| Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy | ||||
| ゼブラーマン -ゼブラシティの逆襲 | data-sort-value="Miike" | Japan | |||
From 2010 on, this section, dedicated to new trends in world cinema, has opened itself to all "extra-format" works, while four new awards have been established for it.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||||
| Anti Gas Skin | 방독피 | data-sort-value="Kim" | Gok and Sun Kim | South Korea | |
| Better Life | data-sort-value="Julien" | United Kingdom, China | |||
| Caracremada | data-sort-value="Galter" | Spain | |||
| Cold Fish | 冷たい熱帯魚 | data-sort-value="Sono" | Japan | ||
| La succession Starkov | data-sort-value="Ossang" | France, Portugal | |||
| data-sort-value="House" | The House by the Medlar Tree | Malavoglia | data-sort-value="Scimeca" | Italy | |
| In the Future | En el futuro | data-sort-value="Andrizzi" | Mauro Andrizzi | Argentina | |
| Jean Gentil | data-sort-value="Guzmán" | Dominican Rep., Mexico, Germany | |||
| Nainsukh | data-sort-value="Dutta" | Switzerland, India | |||
| News from Nowhere | data-sort-value="Morrissey" | United States | |||
| Oki's Movie (Closing Film) | 옥희의 영화 | data-sort-value="Sang-soo" | South Korea | ||
| Sleeping Beauty (Opening Film) | La belle endormie | data-sort-value="Breillat" | France | ||
| Summer of Goliath | Verano de Goliat | data-sort-value="Pereda" | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico, Canada | |
| data-sort-value="Sword" | The Sword and the Rose | A Espada e a Rosa | data-sort-value="Nicolau" | João Nicolau | Portugal, France |
| Documentaries | |||||
| Fading | Olivier Zabat | France | |||
| The Forgotten Space | Noel Burh, Allan Sekula | Netherlands, Austria | |||
| Guest | José Luis Guerin | Spain | |||
| The Nine Muses | John Akomfrah | United Kingdom, Ghana | |||
| Per questi stretti morire (Ovvero cartografia di una passione) | Giuseppe M. Gaudino, Isabella Sandri | Italy | |||
| Reconstructing Faith | 西方去此不远 | Wenhai Huang | China | ||
| Robinson in Ruins | Patrick Keiller | United Kingdom | |||
| El Sicario, Room 164 | Gianfranco Rosi | France, Italy | |||
| When We Were Communists | Sheoeyin kenna | Maher Abi Samra | Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates | ||
| Zelal | Marianne Khoury, Mustapha Hasnaoui | Egypt, France | |||
| Out of Competition | |||||
| K.364 a Journey by Train | Douglas Gordon | United Kingdom, France | |||
| Short Films - Competition | |||||
| 21 Grams | 21 克 | Xun Sun | China | ||
| 720 Degrees | Ishtiaque Zico | Bangladesh | |||
| The Agent | Vincent Gallo | United States | |||
| Casus Belli | Georgios Zois | Greece | |||
| Diamonds (Brilianty) | Rustam Khamdamov | Russia | |||
| The External World | David Oreilly | Germany | |||
| Four Seasons | Nok Ka Mhin | Chaisiri Jiwarangsan | Thailand | ||
| John's Gone | Josh & Benny Safdie | United States | |||
| The Life and Death of Henry Darger | Lif og Daudi Henry Darger | Bertrand Mandico | France, Iceland | ||
| Man In A Room | Rafael Palacio Illingworth | United States, Mexico, Switzerland | |||
| Mechanic of Spring | Haru No Shikumi | Atsushi Wada | Japan | ||
| Out | Tse | Roee Rosen | Israel | ||
| Painéis de São Vicente de Fora, visão poética | Manoel De Oliveira | Portugal | |||
| El Pozo | Guillermo Arriaga | Mexico | |||
| Red Earth | 赤地 | Clara Law | China（Hong Kong）, Australia | ||
| Woman I | Nuntanat Duangtisarn | Thailand | |||
| Short Experimental Films | |||||
| Atom | Markus Loeffler, Andrée Korpys | Germany | |||
| Les Barbares | Jean Gabriel Périot | France | |||
| Cold Clay, Emptiness… | Sj. Ramir | New Zealand | |||
| Coming Attractions | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | |||
| The Death of an Insect | Erään Hyönteisen Tuho | Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen | Finland | ||
| Diane Wellington | Arnaud Des Pallières | France | |||
| The Futurist | Emily Richardson | United Kingdom | |||
| House | Doug Aitken | United States | |||
| Inspiration | Voodhushevlenie | Galina Myznikova, Sergey Provorov | Russia | ||
| La linea generale | Oleg Tcherny | France | |||
| Mc Mclean, Magic For Beginners | Jesse Mclean | United States | |||
| Mouse Palace | Harald Hund, Paul Horn | Austria | |||
| O Mundo é Belo | Luiz Pretti | Brazil | |||
| Non si può nulla contro il vento | Flatform | Italy | |||
| Shadow Cuts | Martin Arnold | Austria | |||
| Stardust | Nicolas Provost | Belgium | |||
| Weak Rot Front | Slabyj Rot Front | Victor Alimpiev | Russia | ||
| Short Documentaries Films | |||||
| Il Capo | Yuri Ancarani | Italy | |||
| Crust | 壳 | Wenhai Huang | China | ||
| Future Archaeology | Armin Linke, Francesco Mattuzzi | Italy, Germany | |||
| On Rubik's Road | Pa Rubika Celu | Laila Pakalnina | Latvia | ||
| Indefatigable | Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt | Ecuador, United Kingdom | |||
| How To Pick Berries | Miten Marjoja Poimitaan | Elina Talvensaari | Finland | ||
| The Future Will Not Be Capitalism | Sasha Pirker | Austria | |||
| Short Films - Out of Competition | |||||
| The Leopard | Isaac Julien | United Kingdom, Italy | |||
| A Loft | Ken Jacobs | United States | |||
| Un Anno Dopo – Progetto Memory Hunters | Carlo Liberatore, a.o. | Italy | |||
The following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section:[22]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feature films | ||||
| 20 Cigarettes | 20 Sigarette | data-sort-value="Amadei" | Aureliano Amadei | |
| data-sort-value="First" | The First Assignment | Il Primo Incarico | data-sort-value="Cecere" | Giorgia Cecere |
| Into Paradiso | Paola Randi | |||
| Lost Kisses (Opening Film) | data-sort-value="Baci" | I baci mai dati | data-sort-value="Torre" | Roberta Torre |
| Ma che storia... | Gianfranco Pannone | |||
| Tajabone | data-sort-value="Mereu" | Salvatore Mereu | ||
| A Woman | data-sort-value="Colagrande" | Giada Colagrande | ||
| Short films | ||||
| Achille | Giorgia Farina | |||
| Bassa Marea | Roberto De Paolis | |||
| Come Un Soffio | Michela Cescon | |||
| Niente Orchidee | Simone Godano, Leonardo Godano | |||
| Sposerò Nichi Vendola | Andrea Costantino | |||
| Out of competition | ||||
| Flaiano: Il meglio è passato | Giancarlo Rolandi, Steve Della Casa | |||
| Fughe e approdi | Giovanna Taviani | |||
| Late Summer | Tarda estate | Antonio Di Trapani, Marco De Angelis | ||
| Il Loro Natale | Gaetano Di Vaio | |||
| Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra | Elisabetta Sgarbi, Eugenio Lio | |||
| Ward 54 | Monica Maggioni | |||
The following films were shown as part of a retrospective section on Italian comedy, titled The State of Things, spanning the years 1937 to 1988.[23]
| English title | Italian title | Director(s) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Fables of Love (1962) | data-sort-value="Quattro" | Le quattro verità | data-sort-value="Blasetti" | ||
| Non ti pago! (1942) | Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | ||||
| I cuori infranti (1963) | Vittorio Caprioli | ||||
| Beach House (1977) | Casotto | data-sort-value="Citti" | |||
| Io non spezzo... rompo (1971) | Bruno Corbucci | ||||
| Il domestico (1974) | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | ||||
| data-sort-value="Make" | The Make Believe Pirates (1937) | Allegri masnadieri | data-sort-value="Elter" | Marco Elter | |
| Tutta la città canta (1945) | Riccardo Freda | ||||
| Catch as Catch Can (1967) | data-sort-value="Scatenato" | Lo scatenato | data-sort-value="Indovina" | ||
| Imputato alzatevi! (1939) | Mario Mattoli | ||||
| The Knight Has Arrived! (1950) | È arrivato il cavaliere! | Mario Monicelli, Steno | |||
| Cops and Robbers (1951) | Guardie e ladri | ||||
| Fracchia la belva umana (1981) | Neri Parenti | ||||
| L'onorata società (1961) | Riccardo Pazzaglia | ||||
| data-sort-value="Bachelor" | The Bachelor (1955) | data-sort-value="Scapolo" | Lo scapolo | data-sort-value="Pietrangeli" | |
| Il ragazzo di campagna (1984) | Castellano & Pipolo | ||||
| Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986) | Dino Risi | ||||
| data-sort-value="Thursday" | The Thursday (1963) | data-sort-value="Giovedì" | Il giovedì | ||
| Le pillole di Ercole (1960) | Luciano Salce | ||||
| I'm in the Revue (1950) | Botta e risposta | data-sort-value="Soldati" | |||
| A Day in Court (1953) | Un giorno in pretura | ||||
| Febbre da cavallo (1976) | |||||
| His Women (1961) | data-sort-value="Mantenuto" | Il mantenuto | data-sort-value="Tognazzi" | ||
| Eccezzziunale... veramente (1982) | Carlo Vanzina | ||||
| Vacanze di Natale (1983) | |||||
| Compagni di scuola (1988) | Carlo Verdone | ||||
The following films were selected for the 25th International Film Critics' Week:[24] [25]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||||
| Afraid of the Dark | Hai paura del buio | data-sort-value="Coppola" | Massimo Coppola | Italy |
| Angel & Tony | Angèle et Tony | data-sort-value="Delaporte" | France | |
| Beyond | Svinalängorna | data-sort-value="August" | Pernilla August | Sweden |
| Dad | Oca | data-sort-value="Skafar" | Vlado Škafar | Slovenia |
| Homeland | Hora Proelefsis | data-sort-value="Tzoumerkas" | Greece | |
| Martha | data-sort-value="Hernández" | Marcelino Islas Hernández | Mexico | |
| Naomi | Hitparzut X | data-sort-value="Zur" | Eitan Zur | Israel |
| Out of competition | ||||
| Italian Night (Opening film) | Notte Italiana | Carlo Mazzacurati | Italy | |
| The Bridal Quarter (Closing film) | Limbunan | Gutierrez Mangansakan II | Philippines | |
The following films were selected for the 7th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[26] [27]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||||
| Heaven Without Earth | Cielo Senza Terra | Giovanni Maderna & Sara Pozzoli | Italy | |
| Circus Columbia | Cirkus Columbia | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Majority | Cogunluk | Seren Yüce | Turkey | |
| And Peace on Earth | Et in terra pax | Matteo Botrugno & Daniele Coluccini | Italy | |
| The Green Blood | Il sangue verde | Italy, France | ||
| Incendies | Canada, France | |||
| Dark Love | L’amore buio | Italy | ||
| The Life of Fish | La vida de los peces | Chile, France | ||
| Life in the Time of Death | La vita al tempo della morte | Andrea Caccia | Italy | |
| The Clink of Ice | Le bruit des glaçons | Bertrand Blier | France | |
| Lisetta Carmi, a Soul on the Road | Lisetta Carmi, un'anima in cammino | Daniele Segre | Italy | |
| Ocean Black | Noir océan | Belgium, Germany, France | ||
| The Place in Between | Notre étrangère | France, Burkina Faso | ||
| Little Voices | Pequeñas voces | Jairo Eduardo Carrillo & Oscar Andrade | Colombia | |
| Scena del crimine | Walter Stokman | Netherlands, Italy | ||
| The Accordion | Italy, Brazil, France, Switzerland | |||
| The Happy Poet | Paul Gordon | United States | ||
| Lux Prize | ||||
| Plato‘s Academy | Akadimia Platonos | Filippos Tsitos | Greece, Germany | |
| When We Leave | Die Fremde | Feo Aladag | Germany | |
| Illegal | Illégal | Olivier Masset-Depasse | Belgium, Luxembourg, France | |
Starting with the 67th edition of the festival, four new awards were established for the Orizzonti section: the Orizzonti Award (for feature films), the Special Jury Orizzonti Prize (for feature films), the Orizzonti Award for Short Experimental Films and the Orizzonti Award for Short/Medium-length Films.[28] The following Official selection awards were conferred at the festival:
Essential Killing by Jerzy Skolimowski
Vincent Gallo for Essential Killing
Mila Kunis for Black Swan
Mikhail Krichman for Silent Souls
Álex de la Iglesia for The Last Circus
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[29]