69th Venice International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
|---|---|
| Closing film | The Man Who Laughs |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Pietà by Kim Ki-duk Silver Lion: Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master) |
| Hosted by | Kasia Smutniak |
| Festival date | 29 August – 8 September 2012 |
| Website | Website |
The 69th annual Venice International Film Festival, organized by Venice Biennale, took place at Venice Lido from 29 August to 8 September 2012.[1] The festival opened with the Indian director Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist,[2][3] and closed with the Out of Competition film The Man Who Laughs, directed by Jean-Pierre Ameris.[4]Terrence Malick's film To the Wonder was met with both boos and cheers from critics at its premiere.[5]
The Golden Lion for Best Film was won by Pietà, directed by South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk.[6] Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master won the Silver Lion for Best Director. Israeli actress Hadas Yaron for her performance in Fill the Void was selected as the Best Actress in the festival.[6]
Contents
1 Jury
2 Official selection
2.1 In Competition
2.2 Out of Competition
2.3 Horizons
2.4 Venice Classics
2.5 «80!»
2.6 Special Screenings
3 Autonomous sections
3.1 Venice International Film Critics' Week
3.2 Venice Days
4 Awards
4.1 Official selection
4.2 Autonomous sections
4.3 Other collateral awards
5 Controversy over Golden Lion
6 References
7 External links
Jury
The international juries of the 69th Venice International Film Festival included:[7][8]
Main competition (Venezia 69)
Michael Mann, American director (Jury President)
Marina Abramović, Serbian performance artist
Laetitia Casta, French actress
Peter Chan, Hong Kong director
Ari Folman, Israeli director
Matteo Garrone, Italian director
Ursula Meier, French-Swiss director
Samantha Morton, English actress and director
Pablo Trapero, Argentine director
Horizons (Orizzonti)
Pierfrancesco Favino, Italian actor (President)- Sandra den Hamer, Dutch director of the Rotterdam Festival
Runa Islam, Bangladeshi-born British visual artist and filmmaker
Jason Kliot, American independent film producer
Nadine Labaki, Lebanese actress and director
Milcho Manchevski, Macedonian film director
Amir Naderi, Iranian film director, screenwriter and photographer
Opera Prima (Venice Award for a Debut Film)
Shekhar Kapur, Indian film director, actor and producer (President)- Michel Demopoulos, Greek film critic
Isabella Ferrari, Italian television, theatre and cinema actress
Matt Reeves, American screenwriter, director and producer
Bob Sinclar, French record producer, DJ, and Yellow Productions owner
Official selection
In Competition
The following eighteen films were selected for the main competition:[9][10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| At Any Price | Ramin Bahrani | United States | |
| Betrayal | Izmena | Kirill Serebrennikov | Russia |
| Dormant Beauty | Bella addormentata | Marco Bellocchio | France, Italy |
| The Fifth Season | La cinquième saison | Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | Belgium, Netherlands, France |
| Fill the Void | Lemale et ha'halal | Rama Burshtein | Israel |
| It Was the Son | È stato il figlio | Daniele Ciprì | Italy |
| Lines of Wellington | Linhas de Wellington | Valeria Sarmiento | Portugal, France |
| The Master | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States | |
| Outrage Beyond | Autoreiji Biyondo ( アウトレイジ ビヨンド ) | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Paradise: Faith | Paradies: Glaube | Ulrich Seidl | Austria, France, Germany |
| Passion | Brian De Palma | France, Germany | |
| Pietà | Pieta ( 피에타 ) | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea |
| Something in the Air | Après mai | Olivier Assayas | France |
A Special Day (aka) | Un giorno speciale | Francesca Comencini | Italy |
| Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | United States | |
| Superstar | Xavier Giannoli | France, Belgium | |
| Thy Womb | Sinapupunan | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines |
| To the Wonder | Terrence Malick | United States | |
Out of Competition
The following films were selected for the out of competition section:[11]
Fiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Bait 3D | Kimble Rendall | Australia, Singapore | |
| The Company You Keep | Robert Redford | United States | |
| Disconnect | Henry-Alex Rubin | United States | |
| Forgotten | Du hast es versprochen | Alex Schmidt | Germany |
| Gebo and the Shadow | O Gebo e a Sombra | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France |
| The Iceman | Ariel Vromen | United States | |
| Looking for Hortense | Cherchez Hortense | Pascal Bonitzer | France |
| Love Is All You Need | Den Skaldede Frisør | Susanne Bier | Denmark, Sweden |
| The Man Who Laughs | L’homme qui rit | Jean-Pierre Ameris | France, Czech Republic |
Penance (TV miniseries, 270') | Shokuzai | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mira Nair | India, Pakistan, USA | |
| Tai Chi 0 | Tai ji 1: Cong 0 kai shi | Stephen Fung | China |
Non-fiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Bad 25 | Spike Lee | United States | |
| Enzo Avitabile Music Life | Jonathan Demme | Italy, USA | |
| Lullaby to My Father | Amos Gitai | Israel, France, Switzerland | |
| Peter Brook: The Tightrope | Simon Brook | UK, France, Italy | |
Special Screenings | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Anton’s Right Here | Anton tut ryadom | Lyubov Arkus | Russia |
Clarisse (short) | Liliana Cavani | Italy | |
| N/A | Come voglio che sia il mio futuro | Maurizio Zaccaro | Italy |
| The Human Cargo | La nave dolce | Daniele Vicari | Italy, Albania |
| Impenetrable | El impenetrable | Daniele Incalcaterra, Fausta Quattrini | Argentina, France |
| It Was Better Tomorrow | Ya man aach | Hinde Boujemaa | Tunisia |
| N/A | Medici con l'Africa | Carlo Mazzacurati | Italy |
| N/A | Sfiorando Il Muro | Silvia Giralucci, Luca Ricciardi | Italy |
| Witness: Libya | Abdallah Omeish | United States | |
Horizons
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[12]
| Feature films | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Araf - Somewhere in Between | Araf | Yeşim Ustaoğlu | Turkey |
| Balancing Act | Gli equilibristi | Ivano De Matteo | Italy, France |
| Boxing Day | Bernard Rose | United Kingdom, United States | |
| The Cutoff Man | Menatek Ha-Maim | Idan Hubel | Israel |
| Fly with the Crane | Gaosu tamen, wo cheng baihe qu le | Li Ruijun | China |
| A Hijacking | Kapringen | Tobias Lindholm | Denmark |
| The Interval | L'intervallo | Leonardo Di Costanzo | Italy, Switzerland, Germany |
| Lions | Leones | Jazmin Lopez | Argentina, France, Netherlands |
| Low Tide | Roberto Minervini | USA, Italy, Belgium | |
| Me Too | Ja tozhe hochu | Aleksei Balabanov | Russia |
| The Paternal House | Khanéh Pedari | Kianoosh Ayari | Iran |
| Pretty Butterflies | Bellas mariposas | Salvatore Mereu | Italy |
| Tango libre | Frédéric Fonteyne | Belgium, France, Luxembourg | |
Three Sisters (documentary) | San zimei | Wang Bing | France, Hong Kong |
| Wadjda | Haifaa al-Mansour | Saudi Arabia, Germany | |
| Winter of Discontent | El sheita elli fat | Ibrahim El Batout | Egypt |
| Yema | Djamila Sahraoui | Algeria, France | |
| The Millennial Rapture | Sennen no yuraku | Koji Wakamatsu | Japan |
| Short films | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Cargo | Carlo Sironi | Italy | |
| Diamond Sutra | Jingang Jing | Ming-Liang Tsai | Chinese Taipei |
| The Flute | Bansulli | Min Bham | Nepal |
| N/A | Frank-Étienne vers la béatitude | Constance Meyer | France |
| I’m the One | Paola Morabito | Australia | |
| Invitation | Cho-De | Min-Young Yoo | South Korea |
| Living Still Life | Bertrand Mandico | France, Belgium, Germany | |
| N/A | Luisa no está en casa | Celia Rico Clavellino | Spain |
| Out Of Frame | Titloi telous | Yorgos Zois | Greece |
| N/A | Las manos limpias | Carlos Armella | Mexico |
| Marla | Nick King | Australia | |
| Miracle Boy | Jake Mahaffy | United States | |
| Resistance | Resistente | Renate Costa Perdomo, Salla Sorri | Denmark, Paraguay, Finland |
| N/A | La sala | Alessio Giannone | Italy |
| The Tuner | O Afinador | Fernando Camargo, Matheus Parizi | Brazil |
Highlighted title indicates the Orizzonti Award for Best Feature Film winner.
Venice Classics
The following selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinema were screened for this section:[13]
| Restored Classics | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
The 10th Victim (1965) | La decima vittima | Elio Petri | Italy |
American Dreams (1984, documentary) | James Benning | United States | |
Carmen Comes Home (1951) | Karumen kokyo ni kaeru | Kinoshita Keisuke | Japan |
Chimes at Midnight (1965) | Campanadas a medianoche | Orson Welles | Spain |
Fanny and Alexander (1982) | Fanny och Alexander | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) | Howard Hawks | United States | |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States | |
Heaven’s Gate (1980) | Michael Cimino | United States | |
Himala ("Miracle") (1982) | Ishmael Bernal | Philippines | |
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto | Elio Petri | Italy |
| The Mattei Affair | Il caso Mattei | Francesco Rosi | Italy |
Pigsty (1969) | Porcile | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
Red Shirts (1952) | Camicie rosse | Goffredo Alessandrini, Francesco Rosi | Italy |
Stromboli (1950) | Stromboli, terra di Dio | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
Sunset Blvd. (1950) | Billy Wilder | United States | |
Tell Me Lies (1968) | Peter Brook | United Kingdom | |
To Be Twenty in the Aures (aka) | Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès (1972) | René Vautier | France |
| Documentaries on Cinema | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country | |
Las versiones de campanadas a medianoche de Orson Welles (short) | Luciano Berriatúa | Spain | |
| Monicelli: La versione di Mario | Mario Canale, Felice Farina, Mario Gianni, Wilma Labate, Annarosa Morri | Italy | |
| Gli anni delle immagini perdute | Adolfo Conti | Italy | |
Conteurs d'images (Dreamers) | Noelle Deschamps | France | |
| Dai nostri inviati alla Mostra di Venezia | Giuseppe Giannotti, Enrico Salvatori, Davide Savelli | Italy | |
| Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Sophie Huber | USA, Switzerland | |
| Miradas múltiples (La máquina loca) | Emilio Maillé | Mexico, France, Spain | |
| La guerra dei vulcani | Francesco Patierno | Italy | |
| Valentino's Ghost | Michael Singh | United States, India | |
| Sedia Elettrica: il making of del film Io e Te | Monica Strambini | Italy | |
«80!»
The following rare films from the Biennale’s Historical Archives were screened for this retrospective section:[14]
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|
Ahora te vamos a llamar hermano (1971, short) | Raoul Ruiz | Chile |
A Bagful of Fleas (1963) (Pytel blech) | Vera Chytilová | Czechoslovakia |
The Brigand (1961) (Il brigante) | Renato Castellani | Italy |
Dieu a besoin des hommes (God Needs Man) (1950) | Jean Delannoy | France |
Free at Last (1968) | Gregory Shuker, James Desmond, Nicholas Proferes | United States |
Gengis Khan (1950) | Manuel Conde, Salvador Lou | Philippines |
The Last Night (Poslednjaja noc’) (1936) | Julij Jakovlevic Rajzman | Soviet Union |
Mud-Covered City (Zablácené Mesto) (1963, short) | Václav Táborský | Czechoslovakia |
Pagine chiuse (1968) | Gianni Da Campo | Italy |
Stress Is Three (Stress-es tres-tres) (1968) | Carlos Saura | Spain |
Special Screenings
The following films of the Official Selection were presented as Special Screenings:[15]
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|
Carmel (2009) | Amos Gitai | Israel, France, Italy |
Convitto Falcone (Short) | Pasquale Scimeca | Italy |
Hommage to Simone Massi (17 short films - 76 min.) | Simone Massi | Italy |
Autonomous sections
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following films were selected for the Critics' Week:[16][17]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Eat Sleep Die | Äta sova dö | Gabriela Pichler | Sweden |
| The Ideal City | La città ideale | Luigi Lo Cascio | Italy |
| Mold | Küf | Ali Aydın | Turkey, Germany |
| A Month in Thailand | O luna in Thailandia | Paul Negoescu | Romania |
| She Doesn't Want to Sleep Alone | No quiero dormir sola | Natalia Beristain | Mexico |
| Welcome Home | Welcome Home | Tom Heene | Belgium |
| Lotus | Xiao he | Liu Shu | China |
| Special Events - Out of competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line-up | Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Opening film | Water | Nir Sa'ar, Maya Sarfaty, Mohammad Fuad, Yona Rozenkier, Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Bargouthi, Pini Tavger, Tal Haring | Israel, Palestinian Territories, France |
| Closing film | Kiss of the Damned | Xan Cassavetes | United States |
Venice Days
The following films were selected for the Venice Days section:[18][19][20]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Blondie | Jesper Ganslandt | Sweden | |
| Crawl | Hervé Lasgouttes | France | |
| Epilogue | Hayuta ve Berl | Amir Manor | Israel |
| N/A | Il Gemello | Vincenzo Marra | Italy |
| Inheritance | Héritage | Hiam Abbass | France, Israel, Turkey |
| Keep Smiling | Gaigimet | Rusudan Chkonia | France, Georgia, Luxembourg |
| Kinshasa Kids | Marc-Henri Wajnberg | Belgium, France | |
| Pinocchio | Enzo D'Alò | France | |
| Queen of Montreuil | Sólveig Anspach | France | |
| Steel | Acciaio | Stefano Mordini | Italy |
| Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley | Canada | |
| The Weight | Muge | Jeon Kyu-hwan | South Korea |
| Special Events | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Country | |
| Terramatta | Costanza Quatriglio | Italy | |
| Non mi avete convinto | Filippo Vendemmiati | Italy | |
| Bob Wilson's Life and Death of Marina Abramović | Giada Colagrande | Italy | |
| L'uomo che amava il cinema | Marco Segato | Italy | |
| 6 sull'autobus | Simone Dante Antonelli, Giacomo Bisordi, Rita de Donato, Irene di Lelio, Antonio Ligas, Emiliano Russo | Italy | |
| Venice Nights | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Country | |
| Le cose belle | Agostino Ferrente, Giovanni Piperno | Italy | |
| Francesco De Gregori. Finestre rotte | Stefano Pistolini | Italy | |
| The Golden Temple | Enrico Masi | Italy, UK | |
| My Friend Johnny | Alessandra Cardone | Italy | |
| Nozze d'Agosto | Andrea Parena | Italy | |
| Il risveglio del fiume segreto | Alessandro Scillitani | Italy | |
| Tralala | Masbedo | Italy | |
| Miu Miu Women’s Tales | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Country | |
It’s Getting Late (8,3 min) | Massy Tadjedin | Italy, USA | |
Meshes of the Afternoon (14 min) | Maya Deren | United States | |
Muta (6,5 min) | Lucrecia Martel | Italy, Argentina, Paraguay | |
The Powder Room (2,5 min) | Zoe Cassavetes | Italy, UK | |
The Woman Dress (6,8 min) | Giada Colagrande | Italy, USA | |
| Special Projects (Cinema Corsaro) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Country | |
| Gli intrepidi | Giovanni Cioni | Italy | |
| Iolanda tra bimba e corsara | Tonino De Bernardi | Italy | |
| Games | Alessio Di Zio | United States | |
| Fame in California | Alessio Di Zio | United States | |
| Tacoma | Alessio Di Zio | United States | |
Vers Madrid: The Burning Bright (Work in progress) | Sylvain George | Spain, France | |
Le tigri di Mompracem (TV Mini-Series 1974- ) | Ugo Gregoretti | Italy | |
Carmela, salvata dai filibustieri (Carmela, Saved by the Buccaneers) | Giovanni Maderna, Mauro Santini | Italy | |
Materiali preparatori inediti per il film: "Altrove" (40 min) | Corso Salani | Italy | |
| Egh c'è e non c'è - Carta bianca a Enrico Ghezzi | Enrico Ghezzi | Italy | |
| Lux Prize | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Just the Wind | Csak a szél | Benedek Fliegauf | Hungary |
| Shun Li and the Poet | Io sono Li | Andrea Segre | Italy |
| Tabu | Miguel Gomes | Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France | |
Awards
Official selection
The following Official Awards were confered at the 69th edition:[21]
In Competition (Venezia 69)
Golden Lion: Pietà by Kim Ki-duk
Silver Lion for Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master
Special Jury Prize: Paradise: Faith by Ulrich Seidl
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Hadas Yaron for Fill the Void
Marcello Mastroianni Award (for the best emerging actor or actress): Fabrizio Falco for Dormant Beauty and It Was the Son
Award for Best Screenplay: Olivier Assayas for Something in the Air (Après mai)
Award for Best Cinematography: Daniele Cipri for It Was the Son (È stato il figlio)
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Best Film: Three Sisters (San zimei) by Wang Bing
- Special Jury Prize: Tango libre by Frédéric Fonteyne
- Horizons YouTube Award for Best Short Film: Invitation (Cho-De) by Min-Young Yoo
- European Film Awards (short film): Out Of Frame (Titloi telous) by Yorgos Zois
Special Awards
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Francesco Rosi
- Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award: Michael Cimino
- Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Spike Lee
- L’Oréal Paris per il Cinema Award: Giulia Bevilacqua
Autonomous sections
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
Venice International Film Critics' Week
- Lion of the Future
- "Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film: Mold (Küf) by Ali Aydın
- "RaroVideo" Audience Award: Eat Sleep Die (Äta sova dö) by Gabriela Pichler
- Arca CinemaGiovani Award for Best Italian film: The Ideal City (La città ideale) by Luigi Lo Cascio
Venice Days (Giornati degli Autori)
- Label Europa Cinemas Award: Crawl by Hervé Lasgouttes
- Lina Mangiacapre Award: Queen of Montreuil by Sólveig Anspach
- Premio Cinematografico “Civitas Vitae prossima” Award: Terramatta by Costanza Quatriglio
Other collateral awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[22]
FIPRESCI Awards[23]- Best Film (Main competition): The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Best Film (Horizons): The Interval (L'intervallo) by Leonardo Di Costanzo (Horizons)
- Best Film (Main competition): The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
SIGNIS Award: To the Wonder by Terrence Malick
- Special mention: Fill the Void (Lemale et ha'halal) by Rama Burshtein
- Special mention: Fill the Void (Lemale et ha'halal) by Rama Burshtein
- Francesco Pasinetti (SNGCI) Award
- Best Film: The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo (Horizons)
- Best Documentary: The Human Cargo (La nave dolce) by Daniele Vicari (Out of Competition)
- Best Actor: Valerio Mastandrea for Balancing Act (Gli equilibristi) (Horizons)
- Pasinetti Speciale: Clarisse by Liliana Cavani (Out of Competition)
- Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award: Pieta (È stato il figlio) by Kim Ki-duk
- Cinema for UNICEF mention: It Was the Son (È stato il figlio) by Daniele Ciprì
- Cinema for UNICEF mention: It Was the Son (È stato il figlio) by Daniele Ciprì
- Brian Award: Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata) by Marco Bellocchio
- Queer Lion Award (Associazione Cinemarte): The Weight (Muge) by Jeon Kyu-hwan
- Arca CinemaGiovani Award - Venezia 69: The Fifth Season (La Cinquième saison) by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
- Biografilm Lancia Award (ex-aequo): The Human Cargo (La nave dolce) by Daniele Vicari & Bad25 by Spike Lee (Out of competition)
- Bisato d'Oro Award:
- Best Film: Bellas Mariposas by Salvatore Mereu
- Best Director: Jazmín López for Lions (Leones)
- Best Actress: Nora Aunor for Thy Womb
- CICT - UNESCO "Enrico Fulchignoni" Award: The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo (Horizons)
- CICAE - Cinema d’Arte e d’Essai Award: Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour (Horizons)
- CinemAvvenire Award:
- Best film - Venezia 69: Paradies: Glaube by Ulrich Seidl
- Best film - Il cerchio non è rotondo: Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour (Horizons)
- FEDIC Award: The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo (Horizons)
- Special mention: Bellas Mariposas by Salvatore Mereu
- Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award: Something in the Air (Après ai) by Olivier Assayas
- Future Film Festival Digital Award: Bad25 by Spike Lee (Out of competition)
- Special mention: Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine
- Special mention: Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine
- P. Nazareno Taddei Award: Pieta by Kim Ki-duk
- Special mention: Thy Womb (Sinapupunan) by Brillante Mendoza
- Special mention: Thy Womb (Sinapupunan) by Brillante Mendoza
- Lanterna Magica (CGS) Award: The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo (Horizons)
- Open Award: The Company You Keep by Robert Redford (Out of competition)
- La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award: Thy Womb by Brillante Mendoza
- AIF - FORFILMFEST Award: The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo (Horizons)
- Golden Mouse: Pieta by Kim Ki-duk
- Silver Mouse: Anton's Right Here (Anton tut ryadom) by Lyubov Arkus (Out of competition)
- UK - Italy Creative Industries Award – Best Innovative Budget Award: The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo (Horizons)
- Gillo Pontecorvo - Arcobaleno Latino Award: Laura Delli Colli
- Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Award: Low Tide by Roberto Minervini (Horizons)
- Interfilm Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue: Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour (Horizons)
- Giovani Giurati del Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award: The Company You Keep by Robert Redford (Out of competition)
- Special mention: Toni Servillo for his role in It Was the Son
- Special mention: Toni Servillo for his role in It Was the Son
- Green Drop Award: The Fifth Season by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
Controversy over Golden Lion
The jury led by filmmaker Michael Mann originally was to award the top Golden Lion prize to Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, along with the Silver Lion Best Director award and the Best Actor award.[24][25][26] However, because of festival's new rule prohibiting pairing the Golden Lion with any other prizes, the jury was asked "to re-deliberate to remove" one of the awards for The Master, and the Golden Lion was awarded to Kim Ki-duk's Pietà instead.[24][26] On the other hand, the jury was planned to award the Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress prize to Jo Min-su, who acted Jang Mi-sun at the Kim Ki-duk's Pietà. However, because of the festival's new rule, the jury couldn't award a prize to Jo Min-su.[27] In the official reception which was held after the festival was over, many juries, such as Samantha Morton and Peter Chan met Jo, saying that "Jo's acting was touching that changed my life. I shed tears of Jo's play."[28][29]
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