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Shadows @ Venice Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica 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 and 2017.
75th Venice International Film Festival 29 AUGUST - 8 SEPTEMBER 2018 in Venice, Italy Opening: FIRST MAN Closing: DRIVEN	2 0 1 8 A W A R D S
	Golden Lion: ROMA Grand Jury Prize: THE FAVOURITE Special Jury Prize: THE NIGHTINGALE Director: Jacques Audiard (THE SISTERS BROTHERS) Actress: Olivia Colman (THE FAVOURITE) Actor: Willem Dafoe (AT ETERNITY'S GATE) Screenplay: Joel & Ethan Coen (THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS) Mastroianni Award: Baykali Ganambarr (THE NIGHTINGALE) Lion of the Future: Soudade Kaadan (THE DAY I LOST MY SHADOW) Queer Lion: JOSE Leoncino d'Oro: NEVER LOOK AWAY Life Achievement: Vanessa Redgrave & David Cronenberg Glory to the Filmmaker: Zhang Yimou Passion for the Cinema: Bob Murawski (THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND) Fipresci - Competition: SUNSET Fipresci - Other Sections: STILL RECORDING Critics Week - Audience Award: STILL RECORDING Critics Week - Tech: STILL RECORDING Orizzonti Prize: MANTA RAY Orizzonti - Dir: Emir Baigazin (THE RIVER) Orizzonti - Actress: Natalya Kudryashova (THE MAN WHO SURPRISED EVERYONE) Orizzonti - Actor: Kais Nashif (TEL AVIV ON FIRE) Orizzonti - Scr: Pema Tseden (JINPA) Venice Days - Audience Award: RICORDI Venice Days - Dir: Claire Burger (REAL LOVE) Verona Film Club: BLONDE ANIMALS Europa Cinemas Label: JOY Doc on Cinema: THE GREAT BUSTER Restoration: THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS	Interfilm Award: TEL AVIV ON FIRE Human Rights Award: A LETTER TO A FRIEND IN GAZA CICT Unesco Award: EL PEPE, UNA VIDA SUPREMA Brian Award: ON MY SKIN Green Drop Award: AT ETERNITY'S GATE Mimmo Rotella Award: Julian Schnabel & Willem Dafoe (AT ETERNITY'S GATE) Pellicola d'Oro - Effects: SUSPIRIA Pellicola d'Oro - Costumes: CAPRI-REVOLUTION Arca Award: NEVER LOOK AWAY Arca Award - Italian: CAPRI-REVOLUTION Fedic Award: ON MY SKIN Bresson Award: Liliana Cavani Pasinetti Award: CAPRI-REVOLUTION Sozzani Award: Salma Hayek Bianchi Award: Carlo Verdone Pontecorvo Award: THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Lizzani Award: CAPRI-REVOLUTION Smithers Award: A STAR IS BORN SIAE Award: Mario Martone Signis Award: ROMA Hearst Film Award: JOY Sfera Award: CAPRI-REVOLUTION Lanterna Magica: AMANDA Sorriso Diverso Award: UN GIORNO ALL'IMPROVVISO Nuovolmaie Award: Linda Caridi & Giampiero De Concilio Unimed Award: A TRAMWAY IN JERUSALEM Vivere da Sportivi Award: WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE Edipo Re Award: STILL RECORDING Soundtrack Stars: Apparat & Philipp Thimm (CAPRI-REVOLUTION) Soundtrack Stars - Song: Thom York, A Suspirium (SUSPIRIA)
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	1938 DIVERSI (Treves, It) 22 JULY (Greengrass, Nor) ACUSADA (Tobal, Arg) AMANDA (Hers, Fr) AMERICAN DHARMA (Morris, US) L'AMICA GENIALE (Costanzo, It) THE ANNOUNCEMENT (Coskun, Tur) AQUARELA (Kossakovsky, UK) AS I LAY DYING (Sayyari, Irn) AS WE WERE TUNAS (Zizola, It) AT ETERNITY'S GATE (Schnabel, US) THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Coen/Coen, US) CAPRI-REVOLUTION (Martone, It) CARMINE STREET GUITARS (Mann, Can) CHARLIE SAYS (Harron, US) THE DAY I LOST MY SHADOW (Kaadan, Syr) DEAD WOMEN WALKING (Ben-Asher, US) DESLEMBRO (Castro, Br) DOMINGO (Linhart/Barbosa, Br) DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE (Zahler, Can) DRIVEN (Hamm, US) EL PEPE, UNA VIDA SUPREMA (Kusturica, Arg) EMMA PEETERS (Palo, Bel) L'ENKAS (Marx, Fr) LES ESTIVANTS (Tedeschi, Fr) THE FAVOURITE (Lanthimos, UK) FIRST MAN (Chazelle, US) FRERES ENNEMIS (Oelhoffen, Fr) THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS (Medak, Cyp) UN GIORNO ALL'IMPROVVISO (D'Emilio, It) GOODBYE MARILYN (Di Razza, It) GRAVES WITHOUT A NAME (Panh, Cam) HAPPY LAMENTO (Kluge, Ger) I VILLANI (Michele, It) IL DIARIO DI ANGELA - NOI DUE CINEASTI (Gianikian, It) INTRODUZIONE ALL'OSCURO (Solnicki, Arg) ISIS, TOMORROW. THE LOST SOULS OF MOSUL (Mannocchi/Romenzi, It) JINPA (Tseden, Chn) JOSE (Cheng, Gua) JOY (Mortezai, Aut) KEEP GOING (Lafosse, Bel) KILLING (Tsukamoto, Jpn) THE MAN WHO SURPRISED EVERYONE (Merkulova/Chupov, Rus) MANTA RAY (Aroonpheng, Thailand, Fr)	MEMORIES OF MY BODY (Nugroho, Ina) MI OBRA MAESTRA (Duprat, Arg) MONROVIA, INDIANA (Wiseman, US) THE MOUNTAIN (Alverson, US) MY OWN GOOD (Mezzapesa, It) NEVER LOOK AWAY (von Donnersmarck, Ger) THE NIGHTINGALE (Kent, Aus) LA NOCHE DE 12 ANOS (Brechner, Sp) NON-FICTION (Assayas, Fr) NUESTRO TIEMPO (Reygadas, Mex) ONE OCEAN (Carbuccia, It) * THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (Welles, US) PEARL (Amiel, Fr) PETERLOO (Leigh, UK) UN PEUPLE ET SON ROI (Schoeller, Fr) PROCESS (Loznitsa, Ned) LA PROFEZIA DELL'ARMADILLO (Scaringi, It) LA QUIETUD (Trapero, Arg) RACCONTARE VENEZIA (Labate, It) REAL LOVE (Burger, Fr) RICORDI (Mieli, It) THE RIVER (Baigazin, Rus) ROMA (Cuaron, Mex) SCREWDRIVER (Jarbawi, Pal) SHADOW (Zhang, Chn) THE SISTERS BROTHERS (Audiard, Fr) SONI (Ayr, Ind) A STAR IS BORN (Cooper, US) SUNSET (Nemes, Hun) UNA STORIA SENZA NOME (Ando, It) STRIPPED (Shani, Isr) SULLA MIA PELLE (Cremonini, It) SUSPIRIA (Guadagnino, It) TEL AVIV ON FIRE (Zoabi, Lux) THEATRE AT WORK (Pascifico, It) THEY'LL LOVE ME WHEN I'M DEAD (Neville, US) THREE ADVENTURES OF BROOKE, Qing (Chn) A TRAMWAY IN JERUSALEM (Gitai, Isr) L'UNICA LEZIONE (Marcias, It) VILLE NEUVE (Dufour-Laperriere, Can) VOX LUX (Corbet, US) WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE (Minervini, It) WHY ARE WE CREATIVE (Vaske, Ger) YOUR FACE (Tsai, Tai)

74th Venice International Film Festival 30 AUGUST - 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 in Venice, Italy Opening: DOWNSIZING Closing: OUTRAGE CODA Golden Lion: THE SHAPE OF WATER Queer Lion: REINVENTING MARVIN Director: Xavier Legrand (CUSTODY) Actress: Charlotte Rampling (HANNAH) Actor: Kamel El Basha (THE INSULT) Screenplay: Martin McDonagh (THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI)	R E V I E W E D 2 0 1 7 F I L M S
	120 BEATS PER MINUTE (Campillo, Fr) ANGELS WEAR WHITE (Qu, Chn) BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 (Zahler, US) CUSTODY (Legrand, Fr) THE DEVIL AND FATHER AMORTH (Friedkin, US) DOWNSIZING (Payne, US) A FAMILY (Riso, It) FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, US) FOXTROT (Maoz, Isr) HANNAH (Pallaoro, Bel) THE HOUSE BY THE SEA (Guediguian, Fr) HUMAN FLOW (Ai, Ger) THE INSULT (Zoueiri, Leb) JIM & ANDY: THE GREAT BEYOND (Smith, US) LEAN ON PETE (Haigh, US) THE LEISURE SEEKER (Virzi, US) LOVE AND BULLETS (Manetti/Manetti, It) LOVING PABLO (de Aranoa, Sp) M (Forestier, Fr) MAN HUNT (Woo, Jpn) MARTYR (Khaled, Leb) MEKTOUB, MY LOVE: CANTO UNO (Kechiche, Fr)	MOTHER! (Aronofsky, US) MY GENERATION (Batty, UK) NICO, 1988 (Nicchiarelli, It) OUR SOULS AT NIGHT (Batra, US) PIN CUSHION (Haywood, UK) THE PRINCE AND THE RACER AND THE JAILBIRD (Roskam, Bel) REINVENTING MARVIN (Fontaine, Fr) THE SHAPE OF WATER (del Toro, US) SUBURBICON (Clooney, US) SWEET COUNTRY (Thornton, Aus) TAINTED SOULS (Botrugno/Coluccini, It) TEAM HURRICANE (Berg, Den) THE THIRD MURDER (Koreeda, Jpn) THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (McDonagh, US) UNDER THE TREE (Sigurdsson, Ice) VICTORIA & ABDUL (Frears, UK) WESTERN (Grisebach, Ger) THE WILD BOYS (Mandico, Fr) ZAMA (Martel, Arg) * reviews coming
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