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The world's oldest film festival was first held in 1932 as part of the Venice Biennale.
Rich Cline was on the Queer Lion jury at the festival in 2016, 2017 and 2022.

Venice Festival site
82nd Venice International
Film Festival

27 AUGUST - 6 SEPTEMBER 2025
in Venice, Italy

Opening Film: LA GRAZIA
Closing Film: DOG 51

2 0 2 5   A W A R D S
Life Achievement: Werner Herzog and Kim Novak
Glory to the Filmmaker: Julian Schnabel
Passion for Film: Gus Van Sant


2 0 2 5   F I L M S
100 NIGHTS OF HERO (Jackman, UK)
6:06 (Taidelli, It)
AFTER THE HUNT (Guadagnino, It)
AGON (Bertelli, It)
ANGELA'S DIARIES. TWO FILMMAKERS. CHAPTER THREE (Gianikian/Lucchi, It)
AT WORK (Donzelli, Fr)
BACK HOME (Tsai, Tai)
BARRIO TRISTE (Stillz, Col)
BE LOVED (Amoruso, It)
BEARCAVE (Dinopoulos/Papadakis, Gr)
BECOMING HUMAN (Ly, Cam)
BELOW THE CLOUDS (Rosi, It)
BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL (Kittredge, US)
BROKEN ENGLISH (Forsyth/Pollard, UK)
BUGONIA (Lanthimos, Ire)
CALLE MALAGA (Touzani, Mor)
CONFESSION: HOW I FOUND OUT I WOULDN'T MAKE THE REVOLUTION (Angius, It)
CORA (Kalogiropoulou, Greece, Fr)
COTTON QUEEN (Mirghani, Pal)
COVER-UP (Poitras/Obenhaus, US)
DAI NOSTRI INVIATI (Giannotti/Salvatori, It)
DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T (Di Gregorio, It)
DEAD MAN'S WIRE (Van Sant, US)
DIRECTOR'S DIARY (Sokurov, Russia, It)
DIVINE COMEDY (Asgari, Irn)
DO YOU LOVE ME (Daher, Fr)
DOG 51 (Jimenez, Fr)
DOM (Battistella, Bos)
DUSE (Marcello, It)
ELISA (Di Costanzo, It)
ELVIRA NOTARI: OLTRE IL SILENZIO (Ciriaci, It)
ETTY (Levi, Fr)
FATHER (Nvotova, Svk)
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jarmusch, US)
FERDINANDO SCIANNA - IL FOTOGRAFO DELL'OMBRA (Ando, It)
FRANCESCO DE GREGORI NEVERGREEN (Pistolini, It)
FRANKENSTEIN (del Toro, US)
FULL SPEED BACKWARD (Morabito, It)
FUNERAL CASINO BLUES (Warich, Ger)
GHOST ELEPHANTS (Herzog, US)
GIOIA (Gelormini, It)
GIRL (Shu, Tai)
LA GRAZIA (Sorrentino, It)
HIJRA (Ameen, Sau)
HOLOFICTION (Kosakowski, Ger)
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (Bigelow, US)
HUMAN RESOURCE (Thamrongrattanarit, Tha)
HUNGRY BIRD (di Andrea, Antonio Capuano It)
I WANT HER DEAD (Matarrese, It)
IN THE HAND OF DANTE (Schnabel, UK)
INSIDE AMIR (Azizi, Irn)
ISH (Perretta, UK)
IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS (Rondon/Ugas, Mex)
THE IVY (Barragan, Ecu)
JAY KELLY (Baumbach, UK)
KABUL, BETWEEN PRAYERS (Amini, Afg)
THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA (Cavalli, It)
KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO (Philippe, US)
LAGUNA (Bartas, Lit)
LAMB OF GOD (Camaiti, It)
LANDMARKS (Martel, Arg)
LAST NIGHT I CONQUERED THE CITY OF THEBES (Azorin, Sp)
THE LAST VIKING (Jensen, Den)
LATE FAME (Jones, US)

LIFE BEYOND THE PINE CURTAIN: AMERICA THE INVISIBLE (Troilo, It)
A LOOSE END (Hendler, Uru)
LOST LAND (Fujimoto, Jpn)
LOUIS MALLE, LE REVOLTE (Duguet, Fr)
MADE IN EU (Komandarev, Bul)
MARC BY SOFIA (Coppola, US)
MATA HARI (Beshenkovsky/Smith, US)
MEGADOC (Figgis, US)
MEMORY (Sandu, Fr)
MEMORY OF PRINCESS MUMBI (Hauser, Ken)
MEMORY OF THE FORGOTTEN (Espada, Sp)
MILK TEETH (Mincan, Rom)
THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE (Sollima, It)
MOTHER (Mitevska, Mac)
MOTOR CITY (Ponciroli, US)
MY FATHER AND QADDAFI (K, Libya, US)
MY TENNIS MAESTRO (Di Stefano, It)
A NEAR THING (Nese, It)
NEWPORT AND THE GREAT FOLK DREAM (Gordon, US)
NINO: A JOURNEY OF 18 DAYS (d'Angelo, It)
NO OTHER CHOICE (Park, Kor)
NOTES OF A TRUE CRIMINAL (Rodnyansky/Alferov, Ukr)
ON THE ROAD (Pablos, Mex)
ONE WOMAN ONE BRA (Nchogu, Ken)
ONE YEAR OF SCHOOL (Samani, It)
ORFEO (Viloresi, It)
ORPHAN (Nemes, Hun)
THE OZU DIARIES (Raim, US)
PAST FUTURE CONTINOUS (Khosrovani/Ahmadvand, Irn)
PIERO PELU (Fei, It)
PIN DE FARTIE (Moguillansky, Arg)
PORTOBELLO (Bellocchio, It)
A PROPHET (Artale, Fr)
REMAKE (McElwee, US)
ROQIA (Koussim, Alg)
ROSE OF NEVADA (Jenkin, UK)
A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD (Aris, Leb)
SANGRE DEL TORO (Montmayeur, Fr)
SCARLET (Hosoda, Jpn)
SECRET OF A MOUNTAIN SERPENT (Saxena, Ind)
SERMON TO THE VOID (Baydarov, Az)
SHORT SUMMER (Korkia, Ger)
SILENT FRIEND (Enyedi, Hun)
SILENT REBELLION (Sgualdo, Swi)
THE SITE (Hata, Fr)
THE SMASHING MACHINE (Safdie, US)
SONGS OF FORGOTTEN TREES (Roy, Ind)
THE SOUFFLEUR (Solnicki, Aut)
A STATE FILM (Sejko, It)
STEREO GIRLS (Peano, Fr)
STRAIGHT CIRCLE (Hudson, UK)
STRANGE RIVER (Muxart, Sp)
THE STRANGER (Ozon, Fr)
THE SUN RISES ON US ALL (Cai, Chn)
THE TALE OF SYLIAN (Kotevska, Mac)
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (Fastvold, US)
TIRED OF KILLING (Vicari, It)
TONI, MY FATHER (Negri, It)
VAINILLA (Hermosillo, Mex)
THE VALLEY OF SMILES (Strippoli, It)
THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (Hania, Tun)
WAKING HOURS (Cammarata/Foscarini, It)
WHO IS STILL ALIVE (Wadimoff, Swi)
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN (Assayas, Fr)
WRITING LIFE (Simon, Fr)


Venice Festival site 81st Venice International
Film Festival

28 AUGUST -
7 SEPTEMBER 2024
in Venice, Italy





2 0 2 4   A W A R D S
Golden Lion: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
Silver Lion: VERMIGLIO
Special Jury Prize: APRIL
Director: Brady Corbet (THE BRUTALIST)
Actress: Nicole Kidman (BABYGIRL)
Actor: Vincent Lindon (THE QUIET SON)
Screenplay: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega (I'M STILL HERE)
Queer Lion: SOUL OF THE DESERT
Lion of the Future: Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Mastroianni Award: Paul Kircher
(AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM)
Life Achievement: Peter Weir and Sigourney Weaver
Glory to the Filmmaker: Claude Lelouch
Doc on Cinema: CHAIN REACTIONS
Restored Film: ECCE BOMBO
Horizons: THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME
Horizons - Jury Prize:
ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES
Horizons - Audience Award: THE WITNESS
Horizons - Director: Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Horizons - Screenplay: Scandar Copti (HAPPY HOLIDAYS)
Horizons - Actress: Kathleen Chalfant (FAMILIAR TOUCH)
Horizons - Actor: Francesco Gheghi (FAMILIA)
Venice Days - Audience Award: MANAS
Venice Days - Career Award: Alice Rohrwacher
Venice Days - Creative Talent: Federica Di Giacomo
Critics Week: DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY
Critics Week - Audience Award:
PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH
Critics Week - Independent Film: ANYWHERE ANYTIME
Critics Week - Technical: HOMEGROWN
Critics Week - Innovation: DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY
Fipresci: THE BRUTALIST
Fipresci - Parallel Sections:
THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME
Nuovoimaie: Tecia Insolia (FAMILIA) and
Martina Scrinzi (VERMIGLIO)
Leoncino d'Oro: THE QUIET SON
Graffetta d'Oro: BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
Nave d'Argento: WOLFS
Immersive Grand Prize: ITO MEIKYU
Immersive Jury Prize: OTO'S PLANET
Immersive Achievement: IMPULSE

Ambassador of Hope: KING IVORY
Arca CinemaGiovani: THE BRUTALIST
Arca CinemaGiovani - Italian: VITTORIA
Authors Under 40: Jiang Xiaoxuan
(TO KILL A MONGOLIAN HORSE)
Authors Under 40 - Director:
Anne-Sophie Bailly (MON INSEPARABLE)
and Elizabeth Lo (MISTRESS DISPELLER)
Authors Under 40 - Cinematography: Bogdan Muresanu (THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME)
Brian: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
Ca' Foscari: SUGAR ISLAND
Casa Wabi-Mantarraya: FAMILIAR TOUCH
Cict-Unesco: THE FISHERMAN
Cinema for Unicef: FAMILIA
CinemaSara: THE BRUTALIST
Edipo Re: KILL THE JOCKEY
Europa Cinemas Label: ALPHA
Fai Persona: PEACOCK
Fedic: VITTORIA
Film Impresa: Anne-Sophie Bailly (MON INSEPARABLE)
Golden Musa: RIEFENSTAHL
Green Drop: VERMIGLIO
ImpACT: THE QUIET SON
Interfilm: QUIET LIFE
Lanterna Magica: THE STORY OF FRANK AND NINA
Lizzani: SICILIAN LETTERS
Netpac: MISTRESS DISPELLER
Pasinetti: SICILIAN LETTERS
Pasinetti - Actress: Romana Maggiora Vergano
(IL TEMPO CHE CI VUOLE)
Pellicola d'Oro - Costumes: Antonella Bachini (BATTLEFIELD)
Pellicola d'Oro - Electrician: Kristian De Martiis (VERMIGLIO)
Pellicola d'Oro - Props: Italo Maurizi (SICILIAN LETTERS)
RB Casting: Francesco Gheghi (FAMILIA)
Signis: I'M STILL HERE
Sorriso Diverso - Italian: VERMIGLIO
Sorriso Diverso - Foreign: MON INSEPERABLE
Soundtrack Stars: Hildur Gudnadottir (JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX) and Colapesce (SICILIAN LETTERS)
Unimed: THE BRUTALIST
XR Fan Experience: UNCANNY ALLEY: A NEW DAY
2 0 2 4   F I L M S
2073 (Kapadia, UK)
AFTER PARTY (Strakaty, Cz)
AICHA (Barsaoui, Tun)
ALPHA (Van Ewijk, Ned)
THE AMERICAN BACKYARD (Avati, It)
AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM (Boukherma/Boukherma, Fr)
ANYWHERE ANYTIME (Tangshir, It)
APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (Costa, Br)
APRIL (Kulumbegashvili, Geo)
BABY INVASION (Korine, US)
BABYGIRL (Reijn, US)
BASILEIA (Torre, It)
BATTLEFIELD (Battaglia/Amelio, It)
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (Burton, US)
BESTIARI, ERBARI, LAPIDARI (d'Anolfi/Parenti, It)
BOOMERANG (Fotouhi, Irn)
BOSCO GRANDE (Schillaci, Fr)
BROKEN RAGE (Kitano, Jpn)
THE ANTIQUE (Glurjidze, Geo)
THE BOOK OF JOY (Lugan, Fr)
THE BRUTALIST (Corbet, US)
CARISSA (Jacobs/Devon, SA)
CARLO MAZZACURAT: UNA CERTA IDEA DI CINEMA (Monteleone/Canale, It)
CHAIN REACTIONS (Philippe, US)
CLOUD (Kurosawa, pn)
CONSTEL LACIO PORTABELLA (Zulian, Sp)
DESERT SUITE (Ferraro, It)
DICIANNOVE (Tortorici, It)
DISCLAIMER (Cuaron, UK)
DIVA FUTURA (Steigerwalt, It)
DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY (Linh, Vie)
EDGE OF NIGHT (Suer, Ger)
THE EYE OF THE HEN (Gallina/De Lillo)
FAMILIA (Costabile, It)
FAMILIAR TOUCH (Friedland, US)
FAMILIES LIKE OURS (Vinterberg, Den)
FEELING BETTER (Mastandrea, It)
FINALEMENT (Lelouch, Fr)
THE FISHERMAN (Martinson, Gha)
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT (Lurie/ Friedler, US, Ger)
HAPPY HOLIDAYS (Copti, Pal)
HAPPYEND (Sora, Jpn, US)
HARVEST (Tsangari, UK)
HIGH STAKES: A NIGHT IN THE WARD (Dota)
HOLD ON MISS! ISABELLA DUCROT UNLIMITED (Stambrini)
HOMEGROWN (Premo, US)
HONEYMOON (Ozirna, Ukr)
* HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA – CHAPTER 2 (Costner, US)
I AM THE BEAUTY OF YOUR BEAUTY, I AM THE FEAR OF YOUR FEAR (Tan, Mys)
I WILL REVENGE THIS WORLD WITH LOVE: SERGEJ PARADJANOV (Jian, Arm)
I'M STILL HERE (Salles, Br)
ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989 (Olsson, Swe)
JANUAR 2 (Szilagyi, Hun)
JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (Phillips, US)
KILL THE JOCKEY (Ortega, Arg)
KING IVORY (Swab, US)
KORA (Varejao, Br)
L'ATTACHEMENT (Tardieu, Fr)
LE CINEMA DE JEAN-PIERRE LEAUD (Leuthy, Fr)
LITTLE JAFFNA (Valin, Fr)
LOVE (Haugerud, Nor)
M: SON OF THE CENTURY (Wright, It)
MALDOROR (Du Welz, Bel)

A MAN FELL (Lorusso, It)
MANAS (Brennand, Br)
MARCO, THE INVENTED TRUTH (Garano/Arregi, Sp)
MARIA (Larrain, It)
MAROUN RETURNS TO BEIRUT (Serhal, Qatar, Leb)
MISTRESS DISPELLER (Lo, Chn, US)
THE MIU MIU AFFAIRE (Citarella, Arg)
MIYAZALI, L'ESPRIT DE LA NATURE (Favier, Fr)
THE MOHICAN (Farrucci, Fr)
MON INSEPARABLE (Bailly, Fr)
MY BIRTHDAY (Filippi, It)
THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME (Muresanu, Romania, Ser)
THE NEW YEARS (Sorogoyen/Romero/Santos, Sp)
NO SLEEP TILL (Simpson, US)
OF DOGS AND MEN (Rosenberg, Isr)
ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES (Fıratoglu, Tur)
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (Macdonald, UK)
THE OPEN COUPLE (Di Giacomo, It)
THE ORDER (Kurzel, Can)
PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH (Massey, UK)
PAVEMENTS (Perry, US)
PEACHES GOES BANANAS (Losier, France, Bel)
PEACOCK (Wenger, Aut)
PERFUMED WITH MINT (Hamdy, Egy)
PHANTOSMIA (Diaz, Ph)
PLANET B (Rapin, Fr)
POOJA, SIR (Rauniyar, Nepal, US)
POSSIBILITY OF PARADISE (Kovacevic, Ser)
QUASI A CASA (Pavone)
QUEER (Guadagnino, It)
QUIET LIFE (Avranas, Fr)
THE QUIET SON (Coulin/Coulin, Fr)
RIEFENSTAHL (Veiel, Ger)
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Almodovar, Sp)
RUSSIANS AT WAR (Trofimova, Fr)
SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS (Quay/Quay, UK)
SEEKING HEAVEN FOR MR RAMBO (Mansour, Egy)
SEMPRE (Fina)
SEPARATED (Morris, US)
SEPTEMBER 5 (Fehlbaum, Ger)
SICILIAN LETTERS (Grassadonia/Piazza, It)
SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH (Zhurba, Ukr)
SOUL OF THE DESERT (Taboada-Tapia, Col)
THE STORY OF FRANK AND NINA (Randi, It)
STRANGER EYES (Yeo, Sin)
SUDAN, REMEMBER US (Meddeb, Fr)
SUGAR ISLAND (Terrero, DR)
SUPER HAPPY FOREVER (Igarashi, Jpn)
TAXI MONAMOUR (De Caro, It)
IL TEMPO CHE CI VUOLE (Comencini, It)
THREE FRIENDS (Mouret, Fr)
TO KILL A MONGOLIAN HORSE (Jiang , Mon)
TWST: THINGS WE SAID TODAY (Ujica, Fr)
VAKHIM (Pirani)
VERMIGLIO (Delpero, It)
VITTORIA (Cassigoli/Kauffman, It)
VOLONTE: L'UOMO DAI MILLE VOLTI (Zippel, It)
WHY WAR (Gitai, France, Swi)
WISHING ON A STAR (Kerekes, It)
THE WITNESS (Saeivar, Ger)
WOLFS (Watts, US)
YOUTH (HOMECOMING) (Wang, Fr)


Venice Festival site 80th Venice International
Film Festival

30 AUGUST -
9 SEPTEMBER 2023
in Venice, Italy

2 0 2 3   A W A R D S
Golden Lion: POOR THINGS
Silver Lion: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
Special Jury Prize: GREEN BORDER
Director: Matteo Garrone
(IO CAPITANO)
Actress: Cailee Spaeny (PRISCILLA)
Actor: Peter Sarsgaard (MEMORY)
Screenplay: Guillermo Calderon &
Pablo Larrain (EL CONDE)
Debut Performance: Seydou Sarr
(IO CAPITANO)
Queer Lion:
HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS
Lion of the Future: LOVE IS A GUN
Life Achievement: Liliana Cavani and
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Glory to the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Doc on Cinema: THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Restored Film: MOVING
Critics Week: MALQUERIDAS
Critics Week - Audience Award: HOARD
Critics Week - Director: Gabriele Biasi
(LA LINEA DE TERMINATORE)
Critics Week - Technical: MALQUERIDAS

Horizons:
EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING
Horizons - Jury Prize:
AN ENDLESS SUNDAY
Horizons - Audience Award: FELICITA
Horizons - Director: Mika Gustafson
(PARADISE IS BURNING)
Horizons - Actress: Margarita Rosa de Francisco (EL PARAISO)
Horizons - Actor: Tergel Bold-Erdene (CITY OF WIND)
Horizons - Screenplay: Enrico Maria Artale (EL PARAISO)
Venice Days - Audience Award: THROUGH THE NIGHT
Venice Days - Director: Ariane Louis-Seize (HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON)
Fipresci: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
Fipresci - Parallel Sections: AN ENDLESS SUNDAY
Nuovoimaie - Young Actor: Gianmarco Franchini (ADAGIO)
Nuovoimaie - Young Actress: Sara Ciocca
(NINA OF THE WOLVES)
Immersive Grand Prize: SONGS FOR A PASSERBY
Immersive Jury Prize: FLOW
Immersive Achievement: EMPEROR

2 0 2 3   F I L M S
AGGRO DR1FT (Korine, US)
THE BEAST (Bonello, Fr)
BYE BYE TIBERIAS (Soualem, Pal)
THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL (Friedkin, US)
EL CONDE (Larrain, Chl)
COUP DE CHANCE (Allen, Fr)
DAAAAAALI! (Dupieux, Fr)
DAY OF THE FIGHT (Huston, US)
DOGMAN (Besson, Fr)
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, Jpn)
FERRARI (Mann, It)
GREEN BORDER (Holland, Pol)
HIT MAN (Linklater, US)
HOARD (Carmoon, UK)
HOLLYWOODGATE (Nash'at, Ger)
HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS (Stolevski, Mac)
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON (Louis-Seize, Can)
IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS (Lorenz, Ire)
INFESTED (Vanicek, Fr)
IO CAPITANO (Garrone, It)

THE KILLER (Fincher, US)
LOVE IS A GUN (Lee, Tai)
MAESTRO (Cooper, US)
MALQUERIDAS (Gilbert, Chl)
MEMORY (Franco, US)
MENUS PLAISIRS: LES TROISGROS (Wiseman, Fr)
ORIGIN (DuVernay, US)
THE PALACE (Polanski, It)
PARADISE IS BURNING (Gustafson, Swe)
PET SHOP DAYS (Schnabel, US)
POOR THINGS (Lanthimos, UK)
PRISCILLA (Coppola, US)
THE PROMISED LAND (Arcel, Den)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS (Sora, Jpn)
SHADOW OF FIRE (Tsukamoto, Jpn)
SKY PEALS (Hussain, UK)
SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (Bayona, Sp)
THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN (Mavroeidis, Gr)
THE SUN WILL RISE (Najafi, Irn)
TATAMI (Nattiv/Ebrahimi, Geo)
WOMAN OF... (Szumowska/Englert, Pol)
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (Anderson, US)


Venice Festival site 79th Venice International
Film Festival

31 AUGUST -
10 SEPTEMBER 2022
in Venice, Italy




R I C H ’ S   B E S T   O F   F E S T
  1. NO BEARS
  2. THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
  3. ATHENA
  4. BLONDE
  5. SKIN DEEP
  6. TAR
  7. ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
  8. BLUE JEAN
  9. WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE
  10. ARGENTINA, 1985
Honourable mention: THE DAMNED DON'T CRY CALL OF GOD. ANHELL69. BONES AND ALL. DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY. ORDINARY FAILURES. L'IMMENSITA. WOLF AND DOG. DREAMIN' WILD. ON THE FRINGE.
See also:
Venice Immersive VR




2 0 2 2   A W A R D S
Golden Lion:
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Silver Lion: SAINT OMER
Special Jury Prize: NO BEARS
Director: Luca Guadagnino
(BONES AND ALL)
Actress: Cate Blanchett (TAR)
Actor: Colin Farrell
(THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN)
Screenplay: Michael McDonagh
(THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN)
Debut Performance: Taylor Russell (BONES AND ALL)
Queer Lion: SKIN DEEP
Lion of the Future: Alice Diop (SAINT OMER)
Life Achievement: Catherine Deneuve and Paul Schrader
Glory to the Filmmaker: Walter Hill
Doc on Cinema: FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE
Restored Film: BRANDED TO KILL
Passion for Film: Arianne Phillips
Venice Days - People's Choice: BLUE JEAN
Venice Days - Director: Claudia Varejao (WOLF AND DOG)
Venice Days - Cinema of the Future: THE MAIDEN

Horizons: WORLD WAR III
Horizons - Jury Prize: BREAD AND SALT
Horizons - Audience Award: NEZOUH
Horizons - Director: Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel (VERA)
Horizons - Actress: Vera Gemma (VERA)
Horizons - Actor: Mohsen Tanabandeh (WORLD WAR III)
Horizons - Screenplay: Fernando Guzzoni (BLANQUITA)
Horizons - Short Film: SNOW IN SEPTEMBER
Critics Week: EISMAYER
Critics Week - Audience Award: MARGINI
Critics Week - Film Club Award: ANHELL69
Critics Week - Technical Award: ANHELL69
Immersive Experience: THE MAN WHO COULDN'T LEAVE
Immersive Grand Prize: FROM THE MAIN SQUARE
Immersive Jury Prize: EGGSCAPE
Fipresci: ARGENTINA, 1985
Fipresci - Parallel Sections: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

2 0 2 2   F I L M S
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (Poitras, US)
AMANDA (Cavalli, It)
ANHELL69 (Montoya, Col)
ARGENTINA, 1985 (Mitre, Arg)
ATHENA (Gavras, Fr)
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (McDonagh, Ire)
BARDO (Inarritu, Mex)
BEYOND THE WALL (Jalilvand, Irn)
BLONDE (Dominik, US)
BLUE JEAN (Oakley, UK)
BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT (Sharp/Bwayo, Ug)
BONES AND ALL (Guadagnino, US)
BREAD AND SALT (Kocur, Pol)
CALL OF GOD (Kim, Est)
CASA SUSANNA (Lifshitz, Fr)
A COUPLE (Wiseman, Fr)
THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (Boulifa, Mor)
DEAD FOR A DOLLAR (Hill, US)
DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Buirski, US)
DON'T WORRY DARLING (Wilde, US)
DREAMIN' WILD (Polhad, US)
EISMAYER (Wagner, Aut)
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER (Hogg, UK)
THE FABULOUS ONES (Torre, It)
FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE (Davison, US)

THE HANGING SUN (Carrozzini, It)
L'IMMENSITA (Crialese, It)
IN VIAGGIO (Rosi, It)
THE LISTENER (Buscemi, US)
LIVING (Hermanus, UK)
THE LORD OF THE ANTS (Amelio, It)
LOVE LIFE (Fukada, Jpn)
MASTER GARDENER (Schrader, US)
MONICA (Pallaoro, US)
NO BEARS (Panahi, Irn)
ON THE FRINGE (Botto, Sp)
ORDINARY FAILURES (Grosan, Cz)
OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN (Zlotowski, Fr)
PADRE PIO (Ferrara, It)
PEARL (West, US)
SAINT OMER (Diop, Fr)
THE SITTING DUCK (Salome, Fr)
SKIN DEEP (Ger) (Schaad, Ger)
THE SON (Zeller, UK)
TAR (Field, US)
THREE NIGHTS A WEEK (Gouelou, Fr)
VALERIA IS GETTING MARRIED (Vinik, Isr)
WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY (Hunting, US)
THE WHALE (Aronofsky, US)
WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE (Diaz, Ph)
WHITE NOISE (Baumbach, US)
WOLF AND DOG (Varejao, Por)

* reviews coming


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