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Shadows Festival Shadows @ Venice
68th Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica
31 AUGUST - 10 SEPTEMBER 2011
VFF site
Opening: THE IDES OF MARCH
Closing: DAMSELS IN DISTRESS
2 0 1 1   A W A R D S ...

Golden Lion: FAUST
Jury Prize: TERRAFIRMA
Silver Lion: Cai Shangjun
(PEOPLE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE SEA)
Actor: Michael Fassbender (SHAME)
Actress: Deanie Yip (A SIMPLE LIFE)
Mastroianni Prize: Shota Sometani
& Fumi Nikaido (HIMIZU)
Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos
& Efthimis Filippou (ALPS)
Lion of the Future: LA-BAS
Horizons Prize: KOTOKO
Fipresci Prize: SHAME
Fipresci Prize - Horizons:
TWO YEARS AT SEA
Controcampo Prize: SCIALLA!
Controcampo Doc: PUGNI CHIUSI
Jaeger-Lecoultre Award: Al Pacino
L'Oreal Prize: Nicole Grimaudo
3D Award:
Zapruder Filmmakers Group
Life Achievement: Marco Bellocchio


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F I L M S   I N C L U D E
4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH (Ferrara, US)
ALMS OF THE BLIND HORSE (Singh, Ind)
ALOIS NEBEL (Lunak, Cz)
ALPS (Lanthimos, Gr)
AMORE CARNE (Delbono, It)
L'ARRIVO DI WANG (Manetti/Manetti, It)
BIRMINGHAM ORNAMENT (Silvestrov/Leiderman, US)
BLACK BLOCK (Bachschmidt, It)
CALDO GRIGIO, CALDO NERO (DENTICI, It)
CARNAGE (Polanski, Fr)
CAVALLI (Rho, It)
CENTURY OF BIRTHING (Diaz, Ph)
LA CLE DES CHAMPS (Nuridsany/Perennou, Fr)
CONTAGION (Soderbergh, US)
COSE DELL'ALTRO MONDO (Patierno, It)
CUT (Naderi, Jpn)
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (Stillman, US)
A DANGEROUS METHOD (Cronenberg, Ger)
DARK HORSE (Solondz, US)
LA DESINTEGRATION (Faucon, Fr)
DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL (Vreeland/Tcheng/Perlmutt, US)
DIE HERDE DES HERRN (Karmakar, Ger)
DON'T EXPECT TOO MUCH (Ray, US)
DUVIDHA (Kaul, Ind)
UN ETE BRULANT (Garrel, Fr)
EVA (Maillo, Sp)
THE EXCHANGE (Kolirin, Isr)
FAUST (Sokurov, US)
UN FOGLIO BIANCO (Zaccaro, It)
LA FOLIE ALMAYER (Akerman, Bel)
HAIL (Courtin-Wilson, US)
HIMIZU (Sono, Jpn)
HOLLYWOOD INVASION (Spagnoli, It)
THE IDES OF MARCH (Clooney, US)
I'M CAROLYN PARKER (Demme, US)
THE INVADER (Provost, Bel)
IO SONO (Cupisti, It)
JOULE (Zamagni/Ranocchi, It)
KILLER JOE (Friedkin, US)
KOTOKO (Tsukamoto, Jpn)
LIFE WITHOUT PRINCIPLE (To, Chn)
LUNG NEAW VISITS HIS NEIGHBOURS (Tiravanjia, Tha)
MATERNITY BLUES (Cattani, It)
* MILDRED PIERCE (Haynes, US)
MONKEY SANDWICH (Vandekeybus, Bel)
THE MOTH DIARIES (HARRON, Can)
NOCTURNOS (COZARINSKY, Arg)
L'OISEAU (Caumon, Fr)
THE ORATOR (Tamasese, NZ)
OUT OF TEHRAN (Maggioni, It)
P-047 (Jaturanrasmee, Tha)
PASTA NERA (Piva, It)
LE PETIT POUCET (De Van, Fr)
PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY (McElwee, US)
PIAZZA GARIBALDI (Ferrario, It)
PIVANO BLUES (Marchesi, It)
POULET AUX PRUNES (Satrapi/Paronnaud, Fr)
PUGNI CHIUSI (Infascelli, It)
QUALCHE NUVOLA (Di Biagio, It)
QUANDO LA NOTTE (Comencini, It)
QUESTA STORIA QUA (Paris/Righetti, It)
QUIPROQUO (Sgarbi, It)
RUDOLF JACOBS: L'UOMO CHE NACQUE MORENDO (Faccini, It)
SAL (Franco, US)
SCIALLA! (Bruni, It)
SCOSSA (Maselli/Lizzani/et al, It)
SEEDIQ BALE (Wei, Tai)
SHAME (McQueen, UK)
SHOCK HEAD SOUL (Pummel, Ned)
THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE SNAKE (Ching, Chn)
STATELESS THINGS (Kim, Kor)
SUMMER GAMES (COLLA, Swi)
SWAN (Villaverde, Por)
SWIRL (Marins/Campolina, Br)
THE SWORD IDENTITY (Xu, Chn)
TAHRIR 2011 (Ezzat/Amin/Salama, Egy)
* TERRAFERMA (Crialese, It)
TEXAS KILLING FIELDS (Mann, US)
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (Alfredson, UK)
TORMENTED (Shimizu, Jpn)
TUTTA COLPA DELLA MUSICA (Tognazzi, It)
TWO YEARS AT SEA (Rivers, UK)
L'ULTIMO TERRESTRE (Pacinotti, It)
VERANO (Torres, Chl)
IL VILLAGGIO DI CARTONE (Olmi, It)
VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! (Kossakovsky, Arg)
W.E. (Madonna, UK)
WHORES' GLORY (Glawogger, Aut)
WILDE SALOME (Pacino, US)
WOULD YOU HAVE SEX WITH AN ARAB? (Zauberman, Fr)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Arnold, UK)

* review coming soon
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