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Shadows Festival Shadows @ Venice
69th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica
29 AUGUST - 8 SEPTEMBER 2012
VFF site
Opening:
THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
Closing: L'HOMME QUI RIT
2 0 1 2   A W A R D S ...

Golden Lion: PIETA
Jury Prize: PARADISE: FAITH
Queer Lion: THE WEIGHT
Silver Lion: Paul Thomas Anderson (THE MASTER)
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix (THE MASTER)
Actress: Hadas Yaron
(LEMALE ET HA'CHALAL)
Mastroianni Prize: Fabrizio Falco (BELLA ADDORMENTATA and
E STATO IL FIGLIO)
Screenplay: Olivier Assayas (SOMETHING IN THE AIR)
Lion of the Future: MOLD
Horizons Prize: SAN ZIMEI
Fipresci Prize: THE MASTER
Fipresci Prize - Horizons: L'INTERVALLO
European Film Award:
TITLOI TELOUS
Glory to the Filmmaker:
Spike Lee
Persol Award: Michael Cimino
L'Oreal Prize: Ciulia Bevilacqua
Life Achievement: Francesco Rosi


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F I L M S   I N C L U D E
ANTON'S RIGHT HERE (Arkus, Rus)
ARAF: SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN (Ustaoglu, Tur)
AT ANY PRICE (Bahrani, US)
BAD 25 (Lee, US)
BAIT 3D (Rendall, Aus)
BELLA ADDORMENTATA (Bellocchio, It)
BELLAS MARIPOSAS (Mereu, It)
BETRAYAL (Serebrennikov, Rus)
BOXING DAY (Rose, UK)
CHERCHEZ HORTENSE (Bonitzer, Fr)
LA CINQUIEME SAISON (Brosens/Woodworth, Bel)
COME VOGLIO CHE SIA IL MIO FUTURO (Zaccaro, It)
* THE COMPANY YOU KEEP (Redford, US)
THE CUTOFF MAN (Hubel, Isr)
DISCONNECT (Rubin, US)
E STATO IL FIGLIO (Cipri, It)
EAT SLEEP DIE (Pichler, Swe)
GLI EQUILIBRISTI (De Matteo, It)
ENZO AVITABILE MUSIC LIFE (Demme, It)
FILL THE VOID (Burshtein, Isr)
FLY WITH THE CRANE (Li, Chn)
FORGOTTEN (Schmidt, Ger)
O GEBO E A SOMBRA (De Oliveira, Por)
UN GIORNO SPECIALE (Comencini, It)
A HIJACKING (Lindholm, Den)
L'HOMME QUI RIT (Ameris, Fr)
THE HUMAN CARGO (Vicari, It)
THE ICEMAN (Vromen, US)
THE IDEAL CITY (Lo Cascio, It)
EL IMPENETRABLE (Incalcaterra/Quattrini, Arg)
L'INTERVALLO (Di Costanzo, It)
IT WAS BETTER TOMORROW(Boujemaa, Tun)
KISS OF THE DAMNED (Cassavetes, US)
LEMAL ET HA'CHALAL (Bursthein, Isr)
LEONES (Lopez, Arg)
LINES OF WELLINGTON (Sarmiento, Por)
LOTUS (Shu, Chn)
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (Bier, Den)
LOW TIDE (Minervini, US)
LULLABY TO MY FATHER (Gitai, Isr)
THE MASTER (Anderson, US)
ME TOO (Balabanov, Rus)
MEDICI CON L'AFRICA (Mazzacurati, It)
THE MILLENNIAL RAPTURE (Wakamatsu, Jpn)
MOLD (Aydin, Tur)
A MONTH IN THAILAND (Negoescu, Rom)
OUTRAGE BEYOND (Kitano, Jpn)
PARADISE: FAITH (Seidl, Aut)
PASSION (De Palma, Fr)
THE PATERNAL HOUSE (Ayari, Irn)
PENANCE (Kurosawa, Jpn)
PIETA (Kim, Kor)
THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (Nair, US)
SHE DOESN'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE (Beristain, Mex)
SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Assayas, Fr)
SPRING BREAKERS (Korine, US)
SUPERSTAR (Giannoli, Fr)
TAI CHI 0 (Fung, Chn)
TANGO LIBRE (Fonteyne, Bel)
THREE SISTERS (Wang, Fr)
THY WOMB (Mendoza, Ph)
THE TIGHTROPE (Brook, Fr)
TO THE WONDER (Malick, US)
WADJDA (Al Mansour, SAr)
WATER (Sa'ar/Sarfaty/Fuad, Isr)
THE WEIGHT (Jeon, Kor)
WELCOME HOME (Heene, Bel)
WINTER OF DISCONTENT (El Batout, Egy)
YEMA (Sahraoui, Alg)

* review coming soon
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