70th Venice Film Festival Winners Announced
By Liza Foreman The 70th Venice Film Festival came to a close Saturday night with a raft of prizes awarded here on the Lido by a jury headed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The main prize, the Golden Lion, went to Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi, while Best Director went to one of the hottest titles from the festival, Miss Violence, and director Alexandros Avranas. The Grand Jury prize prize went to Tsai Ming-liang for Stray Dogs which had been tipped by critics to win prizes h...
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The closing Ceremony in pictures, Copa Volpi, Golden Lion. and any more preestigious awards were given. ...
History runs, cinema walks, and festivals mark time says Alberto Barbara from Venice
Speech by the Director of the 70th Venice International Film Festival Alberto Barbera Some people say that “history runs, cinema walks, and festivals mark time.” This cruel synthesis summarizes a certain widespread impatience with contemporary cinema and with what, until a short while ago, had been considered invaluable opportunities for promoting new movies and meeting new filmmakers. There are greater nuances in Paul Schrader’s comment, “It’s a changin...
Awards Ceremony of the 70th Venice Film Festival, Italian documentary wins best film
Official Awards of the 70th Venice Film Festival VENEZIA 70 The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, and Ryuichi Sakamotohaving viewed all 20 films in competition, has decided as follows: GOLDEN LION for Best Film to: SACRO GRA by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France) SILVER LION fo...
William Friedkin Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and speech
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to William Friedkin award ceremony. ...
Collateral awards of the 70th Venice Film Festival
FIPRESCI Award Best Film of Venezia 70 to Tom à la ferme by Xavier Dolan Best Film of Orizzonti and International Critics’ Week to The Reunion (Återträffen) by Anna Odell SIGNIS Award to Philomena by Stephen Frears Special Mention to Ana Arabia by Amos Gitai Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola per il Cinema Award to Sacro GRA by Gianfranco Rosi Cinema for UNICEF mention to Philomena by Stephen Fr...
• New feature films in the Official selection 54, of which 52 world premieres, and 2 international premieres Divided as follows: Venezia 70 20, 19 of which world premieres, and 1 international premiere Out of Competition 17, 16 of which world premieres, and 1 international premiere (+ 4 short/medium-length features) Orizzonti 17, all world premieres • Orizzonti – Short films 14, all world premieres • Ve...
International Critics prizes in Venice (FIPRESCI Jury)
At the Venice Film Festival Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica (August 28 – September 7, 2013) the Jury of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Jury) presented two prizes: Prize, international competition: "Tom at the Farm" (Tom a la ferme), directed by Xavier Dolan (Canada\France 2013) "for the energetic, tense and sensual filmmaking, and for the rare example of convi...
German film THE POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE receives special jury prize
70th Venice International Film Festival (28th August – 7th September 2013) The German film THE POLICE OFFICER'S WIFE by Philip Gröning (Philip Gröning Filmproduktion, Bavaria Pictures, 3L Filmproduktion) was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the International Film Festival in Venice. The film screened in the Venezia 70 competition. The German co-production WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe (IT/DE/TZ, Chromosom Filmproduktion, French Exit), which competed in ...
Venice 2013 Industry Market program and delegates
The Venice Film Market of the 70th Venice International Film Festival will be located at the first floor of the Excelsior Hotel of the Lido di Venezia and it will join and reinforce the Industry Office, which in turn will continue to function as it has in past years throughout the entire Venice Film Festival, offering many services to the guests (Booking for Industry Services no later than August 2nd, 2013 ). The Venice Film Market will offer a ...
Venezia: The members of the Juries
Venezia 70 (Competition) The members of the international Jury of Venezia 70 are: · Bernardo Bertolucci (president) is the most active Italian director in the world and one of the most influential in the history of cinema. At the Venice Film Festival, he has presented La commare secca (The Grim Reaper), Partner, Strategia del ragno (The Spider’s Stratagem), La luna (Luna), and The Dreamers. He won the Golden Lion of the 7...
Venice Classics 2013
A selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinema CHANTAL AKERMAN - LE 15/8 (1973) Belgium, 42' CHANTAL AKERMAN - HÔTEL MONTEREY (1972) Belgium, Usa, 65' RAY ASHLEY, MORRIS ENGEL, RUTH ORKIN - LITTLE FUGITIVE (1953) Usa, 75' Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams GIANNI BORGNA (CURATED BY) - PROFEZIA. L'AFRICA DI PASOLINI [DOCUMENTARIES] ...
Venezia 70 out of competition feature films
Important works by directors already established in previous editions of the Festival SHINJI ARAMAKI - SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK Japan, 115' ALFONSO CUARÓN - GRAVITY Usa, 90' George Clooney, Sandra Bullock SALVO CUCCIA - CUCCIA - SUMMER 82 WHEN ZAPPA CAME TO SICILY Italy, Usa, 80' Gail Zappa, Moon Zappa, Diva Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Mathild...
MOSTRA 2013 Orizzonti The new trends in world cinema
VALERIA ALLIEVI - QUELLO CHE RESTA Italy, 20' (documentary) SERIK APRYMOV - BAUYR (LITTLE BROTHER) Kazakhstan, 95' Almat Galym, Alisher Aprymov ENRICO MARIA ARTALE - IL TERZO TEMPO Italy, 96' Stefania Rocca, Stefano Cassetti, Lorenzo Richelmy, Edoardo Pesce, Margherita Laterza AGNÈS B. - JE M'APPELLE HMMM... ...
Venezia 70 International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres
MERZAK ALLOUACHE - ES-STOUH Algeria, France, 94' Adila Bendimerad, Nassima Belmihoub, Ahcene Benzerari, Aïssa Chouat, Mourad Khen, Myriam Ait El Hadj GIANNI AMELIO - L'INTREPIDO Italy, 104' Antonio Albanese, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata, Sandra Ceccarelli ALEXANDROS AVRANAS - MISS VIOLENCE Greece, 99' Themis Panou, Eleni Roussinou JOHN CURRAN ...