63rd Venice International Film Festival

The 63rd Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on August 30, 2006 with Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia" and was closed September 9, 2006. Host of the event was Italian actress Isabella Ferrari.During the festival, retrospectives were held on the one hundredth anniversary of the births of three major Italian directors: Roberto Rossellini, Mario Soldati and Luchino Visconti. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to American director David Lynch. All the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premiere in the festival history since the Second World War.

Jury

The international juries of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:

Official section jury

*Catherine Deneuve (actress, France) - President
*Michele Placido (actor and director Italy)
*Juan Josè Bigas Luna (director and writer, Spain)
*Paulo Branco (producer, Portugal)
*Cameron Crowe (director, screenwriter and producer, USA)
*Chulpan Khamatova (actress, Russia)
*Park Chan-wook (director and screenwriter, South Korea)

"Orizzonti" section jury

*Philip Gröning (director and screenwriter, Germany) - President
*Carlo Carlei (director, Italy)
*Giuseppe Genna (writer, Italy)
*Keiko Kusakabe (producer and distributor, Japan)
*Yousri Nasrallah (director, Egypt)

"Premio Venezia Opera Prima Luigi De Laurentiis" section jury

*Paula Wagner (producer, USA) - President
*Stefania Rocca (actress, Italy)
*Guillermo del Toro (director and screenwriter, Mexico)
*Mohsen Makhmalbaf (director and producer, Iran)
*Andrei Plakhov (critic, Russia)

"Corto Cortissimo" section jury

*Teboho Mahlatsi (director and producer, South Africa) - President
*Francesca Calvelli (editor, Italy)
*Aleksey Fedortchenko (director, Russia)

Main sections

Nominated films are in alphabetical order by the name of the director.

In competition

International competition of full-length films in 35mm and digital format running for Golden Lion for best picture.

*"Fallen" by Barbara Albert (Austria)
*"La stella che non c'è" by Gianni Amelio (Italy)
*"The Fountain" by Darren Aronofsky (USA)
*"Hollywoodland" by Allen Coulter (USA)
*"Nuovomondo" by Emanuele Crialese (Italy/France)
*"Children of Men" by Alfonso Cuarón (USA)
*"The Black Dahlia" by Brian De Palma (USA/Germany)
*"Bobby" by Emilio Estevez (USA)
*"The Queen" di Stephen Frears (Gran Bretagna)
*"Daratt" by Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad/France/Belgium/Austria)
*"L'intouchable" by Benoît Jacquot (France)
*"Paprika" by Kon Satoshi (Japan)
*"Nue Propriété" by Joachim LaFosse (Belgium/Luxembourg/France)
*"Mushishi" by Ôtomo Katsuhiro (Japan)
*"Private Fears in Public Places" by Alain Resnais (France/Italy)
*"Quei loro incontri" by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (Italy/France)
*"Exiled" by Johnny To (Hong Kong/China)
*"Hei yanquan" by Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan/France/Austria)
*"Zwartboek" by Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands/Germany/UK)
*"Ejforija" by Ivan Vyrypaev (Russia)
*"Sang sattawat" by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand/France)
*"Sanxia haoren" by Jia Zhangke (China)

Out of competition

Shown below are new works by authors who were honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.

* "Quelques jours en Septembre" by Santiago Amigorena (France/Italy)
* "The Magic Flute" by Kenneth Branagh (USA) - Special event, shown at Venice's Teatro La Fenice
* "Yeyan" by Feng Xiaogang (China)
* "Il diavolo veste Prada (The Devil Wears Prada)" by David Frankel (USA)
* "Ostrov" by Pavel Lounguine (Russia)
* "INLAND EMPIRE" by David Lynch (USA/Poland/France)
* "Gedo senki" by Goro Miyazaki (Japan)
* "Belle toujours - Bella sempre" by Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal/France)
* "World Trade Center" by Oliver Stone (USA)

Midnight out of competition

* "Para entrar a vivir" by Jaume Balagueró (Spain)
* "Rob-B-Hood" by Benny Chan (China)
* "Baaz ham sib daari?" by Bayram Fazli (Iran)
* "Sakebi" by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
* "The Wicker Man" by Neil LaBute (USA)
* "Jakpae" by Ryoo Seung-wan (South Korea)
* "Summer Love" by Piotr Uklansky (Poland)

Special events

* "Lettere dal Sahara" by Vittorio De Seta (Italy)

Orizzonti

New trends of cinema with full-length films in 35mm and digital format, and documentary-movies.

* "Suely in the Sky" by Karim Ainouz (Brasil)
* "Ana alati tahmol azouhour ila qabriha" by Hala Alabdalla Yakoub and Ammar Al Beik (Syria/France)
* "Koorogi" by Shinji Aoyama (Japan)
* "Bellissime. Seconda parte. Dal 1960 a oggi dalla parte di "lei" by Giovanna Gagliardo (Italy)
* "The Hottest State" by Ethan Hawke (USA)
* "Taiyang yu" by Ho Yuhang (Malaysia/Hong Kong)
* "Dong" by Jia Zhangke (China)
* "Svobodnoe plavanie" by Boris Khlebnikov (Russia)
* "The U.S. vs. John Lennon" by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld (USA)
* "El cobrador, in God we trust" by Paul Leduc (Mexico/Argentina/Brasil)
* "When the Leeves Broke. A Requiem in Four Acts" by Spike Lee (USA)
* "Mabei shang de fating" by Liu Jie (China)
* "Infamous" by Douglas McGrath (USA)
* "Opera Jawa" by Garin Nugroho (Indonesia)
* "Tachiguishi retsuden" by Mamoru Oshii (Japan)
* "Quijote" by Mimmo Paladino (Italy)
* "Heimat - Fragmente" by Edgar Reitz and Christian Reitz (Germany)
* "Non prendere impegni stasera" by Gianluca Tavarelli (Italy)
* "Roma wa la n’touma" by Hala Alabdalla Yakoub (Algeria/France/Germany)

pecial events

* "Pasolini prossimo nostro" by Giuseppe Bertolucci (Italy/France)
* "Akamas" by Panicos Chrysanthou (Cyprus/Greece/Hungary/Turkey)
* "C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle" by Alain Robbe-Grillet (France/Belgium)
* "Kill Gil 2" by Gil Rossellini (Italy/Switzerland)
* "Il mio paese" by Daniele Vicari (Italy)

Corto Cortissimo

International competition of 35mm short films, in world premiere, not exceeding 30 minutes in length.
*"Levelek" by Ferenc Cakò (Hungary
*"Comment on freine dans une descente?" by Alix Delaporte (France)
*"The Making of Parts" by Daniel Elliott (UK)
*"Detektive" by Andreas Goldstein (Germany)
*"Treinta Años" by Nicolás Lasnibat (France, Chile)
*"Um Ano Mais Longo" by Marco Martins (Portugal)
*"Mum" by Mads Matthiesen (Denmark)
*"Faça sua Escolha" by Paula Miranda (Brazil)
*"Pharmakon" by Ioakim Mylonas (Cyprus)
*"Rien ne va plus" by Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hàmos (Germany)
*"Trillizas Propaganda" by Fernando Salem (Argentina)
*"Simanei Derech" by Shimon Shai (Israel)
*"Fib 1477" by Lorenzo Sportiello (Italy)
*"What Does Your Daddy Do?" by Martin Stitt (UK)
*"Eva reste au placard les nuits de pleine lune" by Alex Stockman (Belgium)
*"In the Eye Abides the Hear" by Mary Sweeney (USA)
*"Adults only" by Joon Han Yeo (Malaysia)

Out of competition

*"Sekalli sa Meokgo" by Teboho Mahlatsi (South Africa)

Retrospective and restoration

Italian film's secret story

Special monographic sessions dedicated to the secret story of Italian film from 1937 to 1979. This is the third part of the retrospective of Italian Film, initiated at the 61st annual Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia.

Anniversary of Rossellini, Soldati and Visconti
*"Quartieri alti" di Mario Soldati (1942) - Restored Version by Cineteca Nazionale
*"Ossessione" di Luchino Visconti (1943) - Restored Version by Cineteca Nazionale, Ripley's Film, in collaboration with SKY Italia
*"Roma, città aperta" by Roberto Rossellini (1945) - Restored version by Cineteca Nazionale, in collaboration with the Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali del Comune di Roma and with the technical support of Cinecittà Digital
*"Fuga in Francia" by Mario Soldati (1948) - Restored version byCineteca Nazionale
*"Anna Magnani", episode from "Siamo donne", by Luchino Visconti (1953) - Restored version by Cineteca Nazionale and Ripley's Film
*"Ingrid Bergman", episode from "Siamo donne", by Roberto Rossellini (1953) - Rstored version by Cineteca Nazionale and Ripley's Film
*"Il generale della Rovere" by Roberto Rossellini (1959) – Digital restoration by Cineteca Nazionale, Gruppo Editoriale Minerva – Raro Video, in collaboraztion with the Museo nazionale del Cinema by Torino, Archivio Storico della Biennale di Venezia and LVR

The secret story of Italian cinema
*"Il feroce Saladino" by Mario Bonnard (1937) - Restored version by Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Museo nazionale del Cinema of Turin and Cineteca di Bologna - Laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata, in collaboration withJaeger Le Coultre, the Biennale di Venezia, Provincia di Milano – Culture sector and Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
*"Per qualche dollaro in più" by Sergio Leone (1965) - Restored version by Cineteca di Bologna - Laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata, in collaboration with SKY Italia
*"Dalla nube alla resistenza" by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (1979) - Only copy of this archive is at the Cineteca di Bologna

The secret story of Russian cinema

Special monografic section on the Secret story of Russian cinema from 1934 to 1974. Besides the original title, there is a translation in Italian and the year in brackets:

*"Garmon'" (La fisarmonica, 1934) by Igor Savchenko and Evgenij Sneider
*"Vesiolye rebiata" (La combriccola allegra, 1934) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
*"Cirk" (Il circo, 1936) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
*"Bogataja nevesta] " (La fidanzata ricca, 1938) by Ivan Pyr'ev
*"Volga-Volga" (Volga-Volga, 1938) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
*"Traktoristy] " (Trattoristy, 1939) by Ivan Pyr'ev
*"Muzykal'naja istoria" (Una storia musicale, 1940) by Aleksandr Ivanovskij and Gerbert Rappaport
*"Svetlyj put"' (La via luminosa, 1940) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
*"Svinarka i pastukh" (La guardiana dei porci e il pastore, 1941) by Ivan Pyr'ev
*"V shest' chasov vechera posle vojny" (Alle sei di sera dopo la guerra, 1944) by Ivan Pyr'ev
*"Vesna" (La primavera, 1947) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
*"Kubanskie kazaki" (I cosacchi di Kuban', 1950) by Ivan Pyr'ev
*"Scedroe leto" (Un’estate generosa, 1950) by Boris Barnet
*"Karnaval'naja noc"' (La notte di carnevale, 1956) by El'dar Rjazanov
*"Nas milyj doktor" (Il nostro caro dottore, 1956) by Shaken Ajmanov
*"Cheriomushki" (Rione Cheriomushki, 1963) by Gerbert Rappaport
*"Sparite utopajuscego" (Salvate chi annega, 1969) by Pavel Arsenov
*"Romans o vlyoblionnykh" (La romanza degli innamorati, 1974) by Andrei Konchalovskij

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

This is a special section dedicated to the Brazilian movie-maker, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, one of the fathers of new cinema and a famous renewal of Brazilian cinema. His daughter, Alice de Andrade, also a producer, restored the fourteen works that constitute all of her father's filmography.

Films
*"Garrincha, Alegria do Povo" (1963) - documentary
*"O Padre e a Moça" (1965)
*"Macunaíma" (1969)
*"Os Inconfidentes" (1972)
*"Guerra Conjugal" (1975)
*"O Homen do Pau-Brasil" (1981)

Shorts
*"O Mestre de Apipucos" (1959) - documentary
*"O Poeta do Castelo" (1959) - documentary
*"Couro de Gato" (1960)
*"Cinéma Nôvo (Short)|Cinéma Nôvo" (1967) - documentary
*"Brasilia, Contradições de Uma Cidade Nova" (1967) - documentary
*"Linguagem da Persuasão" (1970) - documentary
*"Vereda Tropical" (1977)
*"O Aleijadinho" (1978) - documentary

International Critics Week

*"El Amarillo" by Sergio Mazza (Argentina)
*"Egyetleneim (Le mie uniche e sole)" by Gyula Nemes (Hungary)
*"A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Una guida per riconoscere i tuoi santi)" by Dito Montiel (USA)
*"Hiena (Iena)" by Grzegorz Lewandowski (Poland)
*"Le pressentiment (Il presentimento)" by Jean-Pierre Darroussin (France)
*"Sur la trace d’Igor Rizzi (Sulle tracce di Igor Rizzi)" by Noël Mitrani (Canada)
*"Yi Nian Zhi Chu - Do over (L’inizio di un anno)" by Yu-Chieh Cheng (Taiwan)
*"La rieducazione" by Davide Alfonsi, Alessandro Fusto and Denis Malagnino (Italy) - Special Event
*"Bunny Lake is Missing (Bunny Lake è scomparsa)" (Great Britain/USA), 1965 - Homage to Otto Preminger (1906-1986) - In collaboration with and with the contribution with Museo Nazionale del Cinema and the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica

Author's days

* "7 Ans" by [ean-Pascal Hattu (France)
* "Azul oscuro casi negro" by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (Spain)
* "Chicha tu madre" by Gianfranco Quattrini (Argentina/Peru)
* "Come l'ombra" by Marina Spada (Italy)
* "Falkenberg Farewell" by Jesper Ganslandt (Denmark/Sweden)
* "Khadak" by Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens (Belgium/Germany/Holland)
* "L’Etoile du soldat" by Christophe de Ponfilly (France/Germany/Afghanistan)
* "Mientras tanto" by Diego Lerman (Argentina/France)
* "Offscreen" by Christoffer Boe (Denmark)
* "Rêves de poussière" by Laurent Salgues (Burkina Faso/Canada/France)
* "WWW - What a Wonderful World" by Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco/France)
* "La noche de los girasoles (Angosto)" by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo (Spain)
* "L'udienza è aperta" by Vincenzo Marra (Italy)

Prizes

These movies were given the following recognitions:
*Leone d'Oro(Golden Lion)
**Leone d'Oro for best film: "Sanxia Haoren" by Jia Zhangke
**Leone d'Oro for career: to David Lynch
*Leone d'Argento(Silver Lion)
**Grand Prize from the jury: "Daratt" by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
**Special prize: "Private Fears in Public Places" by Alain Resnais
**Leone d'Argento: "Nuovomondo" by Emanuele Crialese
*Coppa Volpi(Volpi Cup)
**Coppa Volpi for the best actor: Ben Affleck for "Hollywoodland"
**Coppa Volpi for the best actress: Helen Mirren for "The Queen"
*Premio Osella(Osella prize)
**Premio Osella for the best script: Peter Morgan for "The Queen"
**Premio Osella for the best technical contribution: Emmanuel Lubezki for "Children of Men"
*Premio Marcello Mastroianni, for the best emerging actor or actress: Isild Le Besco for "L'intouchable"
*"Leone Speciale"(special Lion) to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for their innovation in cinematographic languages

Horizons - 'Premio orrizonti'

*Premio Orizzonti (Orrizonti prize): "Mabei shang de fating" by Liu Jie
*Premio Orizzonti Doc: "" by Spike Lee

Venetian prize for the first work "Luigi De Laurentiis"

*Leone del futuro (Lion of the future) - Venetian prize for the first work "Luigi De Laurentiis": "Khadak" by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth

hort films: Corto cortissimo prize

*Special Mention: "Adults Only" by Yeo Joon Han
*UIP prize for the best European short: "The Making of Parts" by Daniel Elliott
*Lion for the best short: "Comment on freine dans une descente?" by Alix Delaporte

The numbers and the nations of the 63rd Show

*Number of countries with a film in one of the official sections: 31
*Countries making their first appearance at the film festival Chad, Cyprus and Indonesia
*Number of films displayed: 2,589, including 1,429 full-length feature films
*Number of full-length feature film officially presented: 62
**During the contest: 21
**Out of the contest: 9 + 7 midnights + 1 special event
**Venice Horizons: 19 + 5 special events

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