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Shadows @ Venezia 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, 2017 and 2022.
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 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 Nave d'Argento: WOLFS 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
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	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, KJAERLIGHET (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)

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 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) Critics Week: MALQUERIDAS Critics Week - Audience Award: HOARD Critics Week - Director: Gabriele Biasi (LA LINEA DE TERMINATORE) Critics Week - Technical: MALQUERIDAS 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	Arca CinemaGiovani: GREEN BORDER Arca CinemaGiovani - Italian: EL PARAISO Authors Under 40: Luna Carmoon (HOARD) Authors Under 40 - writer: Mika Gustafson (PARADISE IS BURNING) Brian: TATAMI Ca' Foscari: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST Casa Wabi-Mantarraya: LOVE IS A GUN Cict-Unesco: IO CAPITANO Cinema & Arts: BACKSTAGE Cinema for Unicef: GREEN BORDER CinemaSara: GREEN BORDER Civitas: IO CAPITANO Edipo Re: IO CAPITANO Europa Cinemas Label: PHOTOPHOBIA Fai Persona: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST Fanheart3: DOGMAN Fedic: IO CAPITANO Final Cut: CARISSA Golden Musa: BACKSTAGE and MAKING OF Green Drop: GREEN BORDER ImpACT: IO CAPITANO Lanterna Magica: IO CAPITANO Leoncino d'Oro: IO CAPITANO Lizzani: NOWHERE Pasinetti: IO CAPITANO Pedicini: HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON Pellicola d'Oro - Production: IO CAPITANO Pellicola d'Oro - Camera: FINALLLY DAWN Pellicola d'Oro - Sets: COMANDANTE Serandrei: MALQUERIDAS Signis: IO CAPITANO Sorriso Diverso - Italian: THE PENITENT Sorriso Diverso - Foreign: GREEN BORDER Soundtrack Stars: IO CAPITANO Soundtrack Stars - Special Prize: ADAGIO Unimed: POOR THINGS Verona Film Club: HOARD
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	21 DAYS UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Mitevska, Mac) A CIELO ABIERTO (Arriaga/Arriaga, Mex) ABOUT LAST YEAR (Lavecchia/Surano/Terranova, It) ACROSS (Dorigotti, It) ADAGIO (Sollima, It) AGGRO DR1FT (Korine, US) AMOR (Serpieri, Lit) ANNA (Amenta, It) BACKSTAGE (Mahmoud/Benkirane, Mor) THE BEAST (Bonello, Fr) BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS (Attia, Tun) BYE BYE TIBERIA (Soualem, Pal) THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL (Friedkin, US) CASABLANCA (Valerio, Fr) CITY OF WIND (Purev-Ochir, Mon) COMANDANTE (De Angelis, It) EL CONDE (Larrain, Chl) COUP DE CHANCE (Allen, Fr) COUP! (Stark/Schuman, US) DAAAAAALI! (Dupieux, Fr) DAY OF THE FIGHT (Huston, US) DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM (Kroger, Ger) DOGMAN (Besson, Fr) EN ATTENDANT LA NUIT (Rouzet, Fr) ENEA (Castellitto, It) ENZO JANNACCI VENGO ANCH'IO (Verdelli, It) EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, Jpn) L'EXPERIENCE ZOLA (Matarrese, Fr) EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING (Reisz, Hun) EYE TWO TIMES MOUTH (Aviles, Mex) THE FEATHERWEIGHT (Kolodny, US) FELICITA (Ramazzotti, It) FERRARI (Mann, It) FINALMENTE L'ALBA (Costanzo, It) FLESH AND BRONZE (Mollo/Cataleta, It) FOLLOWING THE SOUND (Sugita, Jpn) FOREMOST BY NIGHT (Iriarte, Sp) FOREVER-FOREVER (Buryachkova, Ukr) FRAGMENTS OF A LIFE LOVED (Barreau, It) FRENTE A GUERNICA (Gianikian/Lucchi, It) GASOLINE RAINBOW (Ross/Ross, US) GOD IS A WOMAN (Peyrot, Pan) GREEN BORDER (Holland, Pol) HESITATION WOUND (Nacar, Tur) HIT MAN (Linklater, US) HOARD (Carmoon, UK) HOLLY (Troch, Bel) HOLLYWOODGATE (Nash'at, Ger) L'HOMME D'ARGILE (Tellenne, Fr) HORS-SAISON (Brize, Fr) HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS (Stolevski, Mac) HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON (Louis-Seize, Can) I KNOW YOUR SOUL (Drljevic, Bos) Il POPOLO DELLE DONNE: IL FILM (Ancarani, It) IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS (Lorenz, Ire) INFESTED (Vanicek, Fr)	INVELLE (Massi, It) THE INVENTION OF SNOW (Moroni, It) IO CAPITANO (Garrone, It) THE KILLER (Fincher, US) LIFE IS NOT A COMPETITION, BUT I'M WINNING (Mann, Ger) LOVE IS A GUN (Lee, Tai) LUBO (Diritti, It) MAESTRO (Cooper, US) MAKING OF (Kahn, Fr) MALQUERIDAS (Gilbert, Chl) MEMORY (Franco, US) MENUS PLAISIRS: LES TROISGROS (Wiseman, Fr) LE MIE POESIE NON CAMBIERANNO IL MONDO (Benini/Piccolo, It) MILK (Kolk, Ned) NINA OF THE WOLVES (Antonio Pisu, It) OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENT (Santambrogio, Cub) OF MONEY AND BLOOD (Giannoli, Fr) L'ORDINE DEL TEMPO (Cavani, It) ORIGIN (DuVernay, US) THE OUTPOST (Morabito, Br) THE PALACE (Polanski, It) PARADISE IS BURNING (Gustafson, Swe) EL PARAISO (Artale, It) PAROLA AI GIOVANI (Bozzolini, It) PASSIONE CRITICA (Isola/Montini/Pistagnesi, It) THE PENITENT: A RATIONAL MAN (Barbareschi, It) PET SHOP DAYS (Schnabel, US) PHANTOM YOUTH (Bajrami, Kos) PHOTOPHOBIA (Ostrochovsky/Pekarcik, Ukr) POOR THINGS (Lanthimos, UK) PRISCILLA (Coppola, US) THE PROMISED LAND (Arcel,Den ) EL RAPTO (Goggi, Arg) THE RED SUITCASE (Devkota, Nep) RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS (Sora, Jpn) SEM CORACAO (Normande/Tiao, Br) SHADOW OF FIRE (Tsukamoto, Jpn) SIDONIE IN JAPAN (Girard, Fr) SKY PEALS (Hussain, UK) SNOW IN MIDSUMMER (Aun, Mas) SNOW LEOPARD (Tseden,Chn ) SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (Bayona, Sp) STANE (Kusijanovic, US) UNA STERMINATA DOMENICA (Parroni, Ire) STOLEN (Tejpal, Ind) THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN (Mavroeidis, Gr) THE SUN WILL RISE (Najafi, Irn) TATAMI (Nattiv/Ebrahimi, Geo) THROUGH THE NIGHT (Girard, Bel) VIVANTS (Delaporte, Fr) THE VOURDALAK (Beau, Fr) WITH THE GRACE OF A GOD (Roja, It) WOMAN OF... (Szumowska/Englert, Pol) THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (Anderson, US) THE WRITER IN THE TREES (Chiarini, It) YURT (Tuna, Tur)

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 NO BEARS THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN ATHENA BLONDE SKIN DEEP TAR ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED BLUE JEAN WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE 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
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	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)

78th Venice International Film Festival 1-11 SEP 2021 in Venice, Italy	2 0 2 1 A W A R D S
	Golden Lion: HAPPENING Silver Lion: THE HAND OF GOD Special Jury Prize: IL BUCO Director: Jane Campion (THE POWER OF THE DOG) Actress: Penelope Cruz (PARALLEL MOTHERS) Actor: John Arcilla (ON THE JOB: THE MISSING 8) Screenplay: Maggie Gyllenhaal (THE LOST DAUGHTER) Life Achievement: Jamie Lee Curtis Glory to the Filmmaker: Ridley Scott Queer Lion: LA DERNIERE SEANCE Lion of the Future: Monica Stan & George Chiper-Lillemark (IMACULAT) Leoncino d'Oro: FREAKS OUT Critics Week: ZALAVA Critics Week - Verona Award: ERASING FRANK	Horizons: PILGRIMS Horizons - Audience Award: THE BLIND MAN WHO DIDN'T WANT TO SEE TITANIC Horizons - Director: Eric Gravel (PILGRIMS) Horizons - Actress: Laure Calamy (PILGRIMS): Horizons - Actor: Piseth Chhun (WHITE BUILDING) Horizons - Screenplay: Peter Kerekes & Ivan Ostrochovsky (107 MOTHERS) Venice Days - People's Choice: PRIVATE DESERT Venice Days - Director: Monica Stan & George Chiper-Lillemark (IMACULAT) Fipresci: HAPPENING Fipresci - Parallel Sections: ZALAVA
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	AMERICAN NIGHT (Della Valle, It) IL BUCO (Frammartino, It) THE CARD COUNTER (Schrader, US) COSTA BRAVA, LEBANON (Akl, Leb) DUNE (Villeneuve, US) THE HAND OF GOD (Sorrentino, It) HAPPENING (Diwan, Fr) INU-OH (Yuasa, Jpn) THE LAST DUEL (Scott, UK) LAST NIGHT IN SOHO (Wright, UK)	THE LOST DAUGHTER (Gyllenhaal, US) OFFICIAL COMPETITION(Cohn/Duprat, Sp) PARALLEL MOTHERS (Almodovar, Sp) THE POWER OF THE DOG (Campion, NZ) PRIVATE DESERT (Muritiba, Br) SPENCER (Larrain, Ger) TRUE THINGS (Wootliff, UK) * reviews coming
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