62nd Venice International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | Seven Swords by Tsui Hark |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Perhaps Love by Peter Chan |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Brokeback Mountain |
| Hosted by | Inés Sastre |
| Festival date | 31 August – 10 September 2005 |
| Website | Website |
The 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival opened on 31 August 2005 with Tsui Hark's Seven Swords[1] and closed on 10 September 2005 with a screening of Peter Ho-sun Chan's musical Perhaps Love.[2] The lineups were announced by the festival director Marco Müller on 28 July 2005 in Rome. The digital films competed in all categories for the first time of the festival history.
Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki[3] and Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli[4] were both awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.[5][6] The Golden Lion was won by Brokeback Mountain.[7]
During this edition of the festival, an International Design Competition of the new Palazzo del Cinema took place. The winner of the competition was 5+1 & Rudy Ricciotti. The purpose of the new building is to house the main headquarters of the Film Festival, as well as congresses and cultural events.[8]
Juries
[edit]The international juries of the 62nd Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[9][10]
Main Competition (Venezia 62)
[edit]- Dante Ferretti, Italian production designer, art director and costume designer - Jury President
- Ah Cheng, Chinese author and screenwriter
- Claire Denis, French filmmaker
- Amos Gitai, Israeli filmmaker
- Edgar Reitz, German filmmaker and Professor of Film
- Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress
- Christine Vachon, American producer active in independent film sector
Horizons (Orizzonti)
[edit]- Mimmo Rotella, Italian artist, closely related to cinema - Jury President
- Isabel Coixet, Spanish filmmaker
- Jean-Michel Frodon, French film critic
- Valerio Mastandrea, Italian actor
- Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese director and actor
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)
[edit]- Chema Prado, Spanish film critic - Jury President
- Giovanna Gagliardo, Italian filmmaker
- Clemens Klopfenstein, Swiss film director
Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film)
[edit]In a contest that examines all feature-length films that are first works present in the various sections of the Festival, this jury assigns the "Lion of the Future - Luigi De Laurentis award for best debut work" to one film, as well as a prize of Euro 100,000 put forward by Filmauro and of 20,000 metres of film stock offered by Kodak.
- Guy Maddin, Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer and editor - Jury President
- Peter Cowie, British film historian and author
- Isabella Ferrari, Italian actress
- Ismaël Ferroukhi, French-Moroccan film director
- Renata Litvinova, Russian actress, director and screenwriter
Official Sections
[edit]In competition
[edit]The competitive section of the official selection is an international competition of feature films in 35mm and digital HD format, running for the Golden Lion.[11]
- Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.
Out of Competition
[edit]Non-competitive section of highly spectacular films. Works by directors already established in past editions of the Festival, and films deemed appropriate for a midnight screening.[12]
Horizons
[edit]A section aiming to provide a picture of the new trends in cinema. Documentaries are now included in this section, in order to render the programme more legible and avoid any confusion between different rich and complex sections.[13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction films | |||
| Árido Movie | Lirio Ferreira | Brazil | |
| Carmen | Jean-Pierre Limosin | France | |
| Dam Street | 红颜 | Li Yu | China, France |
| Drawing Restraint 9 | Matthew Barney | United States | |
| Everything is Illuminated | Liev Schreiber | ||
| First on the Moon | Первые на Луне | Aleksei Fedorchenko | Russia |
| Musikanten | Franco Battiato | Italy | |
| On the Way | Yolda | Erden Kiral | Turkey, Bulgaria |
| Perpetual Motion | 無窮動 | Ning Ying | China |
| Texas | Fausto Paravidino | Italy | |
| The Wild Blue Yonder | Werner Herzog | Germany, United Kingdom, France | |
| Documentaries | |||
| The Dignity of the Nobodies | La Dignidad de los Nadies | Fernando E. Solanas | Argentina |
| East of Paradise | Lech Kowalski | France | |
| Into Great Silence | Die Große Stille | Philip Gröning | Germany |
| Parallel Voices | Вокальные параллели | Rustam Khamdamov | Kazakhstan |
| Veruschka: A Life for the Camera | Veruschka – (m)ein inszenierter Körper | Paul Morrissey, Bernd Böhm | France |
| Workingman's Death | Michael Glawogger | Austria, Germany | |
| Out of Competition | |||
| The Secret Life of Words | Isabel Coixet | Spain | |
| Special event | |||
| Kill Gil Volume 1 | Gil Rossellini | Italy | |
- Highlighted titles indicate the Horizons Awards for Best Film and Best Documentary respectively.
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)
[edit]The following films in 35mm, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition (Corto Cortissimo):[14]
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||
| 113 | Jason Brandenberg | Switzerland |
| La Apertura | Duska Zagorac | United Kingdom, Argentina |
| Au Petit Matin | Xavier Gens | France |
| Ballada | Marcell Iványi | Hungary, Belgium |
| Butterflies | Max Jaco | Luxembourg |
| A case of you | Jack Davies | United Kingdom |
| Come on Strange | Gabriela Gruber | Germany |
| Contracuerpo | Eduardo Chapero-Jackson | Spain |
| Da ikhos dghech chveni dghe dghegrdzeli (alt. title: Let Our Days Be Long) | Georgy Paradzanov | Russia |
| Flesh | Edouard Salier | France |
| Giorno 122 | Fulvio Ottaviano | Italy |
| The Glass Beads | Angeles Woo | United States |
| Happy Birthday | Jun-won Hong | Korea |
| Layla Afel | Leon Prudovsky | Israel |
| P.E.O.Z. | Christo Petrou | Greece |
| A rapariga da mão morta | Alberto Seixas Santos | Portugal |
| Rien d'insoluble | Xavier Seron | Belgium |
| Small Station (Xiaozhan) | Lin Chien Ping | Taiwan |
| Trevirgolaottantasette | Valerio Mastandrea | Italy |
| Tube Poker | Simon Levene | United Kingdom |
| Out of competition | ||
| De Glauber para Jirges | André Ristum | Brasil |
| Special events: Crossings (Incroci) | ||
| La Trama di Amleto | Salvatore Chiosi | Italy |
| Compleanno | Sandro Dionisio | |
| Five Minutes, Mr Welles | Vincent D'Onofrio | United States |
| Naufragi di Don Chisciotte | Dominick Tambasco | Italy |
| Special events: Between Europe and Middle East | ||
| Quelques miettes pour les oiseaux | Nassim Amaouche | Belgium, France, Jordan |
| De quelle couleur sont les murs de votre maison? | Timon Koulmasis | France |
| Diaspora | Ula Tabari | France, Belgium, Palestine |
| Schools of cinema: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Scuola Nazionale di Cinema: | ||
| Un posto libero | Eros Achiardi | Italy |
| Nature - Machini | Marco Danieli | |
| Nature - Al buio | Fabio Mollo | |
| Nature - Consuelo | Carlo Pisani | |
| Schools of cinema: London Film School | ||
| Vado a messa | Ginevra Elkann | United Kingdom |
- Highlighted title indicates Lion for Best Short Film
Retrospective - The Secret History of Asian Cinema
[edit]This is a retrospective section on Chinese cinema (1934 to 1990)[15] and Japanese cinema (1926 to 1978).[16] The films are listed here in chronological order.
| "The Secret History of Chinese Cinema" | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Year | Director(s) |
| The Big Road | 大路 | 1934 | Sun Yu |
| Plunder of Peach and Plum | 桃李劫 | 1934 | Ying Yunwei |
| New Women | 新女性 | 1935 | Cai Chusheng |
| Street Angel | 馬路天使 | 1937 | Yuan Muzhi |
| Crossroads | 十字街頭 | 1937 | Shen Xiling |
| Song at Midnight | 夜半歌聲 | 1937 | Ma-Xu Weibang |
| Princess Iron Fan | 铁扇公主 | 1941 | Wan Laiming, Wan Guchan |
| Spring in a Small Town | 李天濟 | 1947 | Fei Mu |
| Crows and Sparrows | 烏鴉與麻雀 | 1949 | Zheng Junli |
| The Adventures of Sanmao the Waif | 三毛流浪記 | 1949 | Zhao Ming, Yan Gong |
| This Life of Mine | 我這一輩子 | 1950 | Shi Hui |
| Two Stage Sisters | 舞臺姐妹 | 1965 | Xie Jin |
| The Valiant Ones | 忠烈圖 | 1975 | King Hu |
| One and Eight | 一個和八個 | 1983 | Zhang Junzhao |
| Mama | 媽媽 | 1990 | Zhang Yuan |
| "The Secret History of Japanese Cinema" | |||
| Chōkon | 長恨 | 1926 | Daisuke Itō |
| A Diary of Chuji's Travels | 忠次旅日記 | 1927 | |
| Oatsurae Jirokichi Koshi | 御誂治郎吉格子 | 1931 | |
| The Million Ryo Pot | 丹下左膳余話 百萬両の壺 | 1935 | Sadao Yamanaka |
| Priest of Darkness (aka) | 河内山宗俊 / Kōchiyama Sōshun | 1936 | |
| Humanity and Paper Balloons | 人情紙風船 | 1937 | |
| Rivals (aka) | エノケンの頑張り戦術 | 1939 | Nobuo Nakagawa |
| The 47 Ronin | 元禄 忠臣蔵 | 1941–1942 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| The Famous Sword Bijomaru | 名刀美女丸 | 1945 | |
| A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo | 三十三間堂通し矢物語 | 1945 | Mikio Naruse |
| Princess Yang Kwei Fei | 楊貴妃 | 1955 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| A Wicked Woman | 毒婦高橋お伝 | 1958 | Nobuo Nakagawa |
| The Ghost of Yotsuya | 東海道四谷怪談 | 1959 | |
| Go to Hell, Hoodlums! aka Fighting Delinquents | くたばれ愚連隊 | 1960 | Seijun Suzuki |
| Akumyō | 悪名 | 1961 | Tokuzō Tanaka |
| High Noon for Gangsters aka Villains in Broad Daylight | 白昼の無頼漢 | 1961 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| The Tale of Zatoichi | 座頭市物語 | 1962 | Kenji Misumi |
| Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! | 探偵事務所２３くたばれ悪党ども | 1963 | Seijun Suzuki |
| The Great Killing | 大殺陣 | 1964 | Eiichi Kudo |
| The Flower and the Angry Waves | 花と怒濤 | 1964 | Seijun Suzuki |
| On the Road Forever aka Homeless Drifter | 無宿者 | 1964 | Kenji Misumi |
| Tales of Chivalry in Japan | 日本侠客伝 | 1964 | Masahiro Makino |
| Wolves, Pigs and Men aka Wolves, Pigs and People | 狼と豚と人間 | 1964 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Our Blood Will Not Forgive aka Our Blood Will Not Allow It | 俺たちの血が許さない | 1964 | Seijun Suzuki |
| Fight, Zatoichi, Fight | 座頭市血笑旅 | 1964 | Kenji Misumi |
| Blood of Revenge | 明治俠客伝 三代目襲名 | 1965 | Tai Kato |
| A Solitary Knight | 沓掛時次郎・遊侠一匹 | 1966 | |
| Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Match | 緋牡丹博徒 花札勝負 | 1969 | |
| Japan Organized Crime Boss aka Japan's Violent Gangs - The Boss and the Killers | 日本暴力団 組長 | 1969 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return | 緋牡丹博徒・お竜参上 | 1970 | Tai Kato |
| Sympathy for the Underdog | 博徒外人部隊 | 1971 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Street Mobster | 現代やくざ 人斬り与太 | 1972 | |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity | 仁義なき戦い | 1973 | |
| Graveyard of Honor | 仁義の墓場 | 1975 | |
| Cops vs. Thugs | 県警対組織暴力 | 1975 | |
| Yakuza Graveyard | やくざの墓場 くちなしの花 | 1976 | |
| Shogun's Samurai | 柳生一族の陰謀 | 1978 | |
Retrospective - The Secret History of Italian Cinema 2
[edit]A retrospective section on Italian film (1946 to 1976). This section is part of a planned 4-year retrospective on some lesser known sides of Italian Cinema that started on the 61st edition of the festival.[17]
| English title | Original title | Year | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casanova on the screen | |||
| The Mysterious Rider | Il cavaliere misterioso | 1948 | Riccardo Freda |
| The Sins of Casanova | Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova | 1955 | Steno |
| Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence | Infanzia, vocazioni, prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano | 1969 | Luigi Comencini |
| Fellini's Casanova | Il Casanova di Federico Fellini | 1976 | Federico Fellini |
| Homage to Fulvio Lucisano | |||
| Planet of the Vampires | Terrore nello spazio | 1965 | Mario Bava |
| Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs | Le spie vengono dal semifreddo | 1966 | |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Cosa avete fatto a Solange? | 1972 | Massimo Dallamano |
| The Cursed Medallion | Il medaglione insanguinato | 1975 | |
| — | Un mondo perfetto | 1946–1957 | Nino Pagot, Gibba |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) | |||
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | 1975 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Bandits of Orgosolo | Banditi a Orgosolo | 1961 | Vittorio De Seta |
Independent Sections
[edit]Venice International Film Critics' Week
[edit]The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for the 20th Venice International Film Critics’ Week:[18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| Así | Jesús-Mario Lozano | Mexico | |
| Brick | Rian Johnson | United States | |
| Mother Nature | Mater Natura | Massimo Andrei | Italy |
| The Passenger | Le Passager | Éric Caravaca | France |
| Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl | Perry Ogden | Ireland | |
| The Sunflowers | Kuihua Duoduo | Wang Baomin | China |
| Writing on the Earth | Yadasht bar zamin | Ali Mohammad Ghasemi | Iran |
| Special event | |||
| Belzec | Guillaume Moscovitz | France | |
| Homage to Alberto Lattuada | |||
| Giacomo the Idealist | Giacomo l'idealista (1943) | Alberto Lattuada | Italy |
Venice Days
[edit]The following films were selected for the 2nd edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[19]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Tzameti | Gela Babluani | France | |
| Allegro | Christoffer Boe | Denmark | |
| Waiting | Attente | Rashid Masharawi | Palestine, France |
| Before It Had a Name | Giada Colagrande | United States | |
| C.R.A.Z.Y. | Jean-Marc Vallée | Canada | |
| Craj - Domani | Davide Marengo | Italy | |
| The Wind | El Viento | Eduardo Mignogna | Argentina, Spain |
| Elio Petri. Notes On A Filmmaker | Elio Petri... appunti su un autore | Federico Bacci, Stefano Leone, Nicola Guarneri | Italy |
| Falling... In Love | Lian ren | Wang Ming-Tai | Taiwan |
| Giacomo the Idealist | Giacomo l'idealista (1943) | Alberto Lattuada | Italy |
| La passione di Giosuè l'Ebreo | Pasquale Scimeca | Italy, Spain | |
| The Young Lieutenant | Le petit lieutenant | Xavier Beauvois | France |
| Love | Vladan Nikolic | United States, Serbia and Montenegro | |
| Man Push Cart | Ramin Bahrani | United States | |
| Next Door | Naboer | Pål Sletaune | Norway, Sweden, Denmark |
| Parabola | Karim Ouelhaj | Belgium | |
Official Awards
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The following Official Awards were conferred at the 62nd edition:[20]
In Competition
[edit]- Golden Lion: Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Regular Lovers by Philippe Garrel
- Grand Special Jury Prize: Mary by Abel Ferrara
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Giovanna Mezzogiorno for The Beast in the Heart
- Marcello Mastroianni Award: Ménothy Cesar for Heading South
- Golden Osella for Best Cinematography: William Lubtchansky for Regular Lovers
- Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: George Clooney and Grant Heslov for Good Night, and Good Luck
Special Awards
[edit]- Special Lion: Isabelle Huppert
Horizons (Orizzonti)
[edit]- Best Film: First on the Moon by Aleksei Fedorchenko
- Best Documentary: East of Paradise by Lech Kowalski
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo Lion)
[edit]- Citroen Short Super-Short Lion for Best Short Film: Small Station by Lin Chien-ping
- Special Mention: Layla Afel by Leon Prudovsky
- UIP Prize for Best European Short Film: Butterflies by Max Jacoby
Lion of the Future - "Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film
[edit]Independent Sections Awards
[edit]The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[20][21]
Venice International Film Critics' Week
[edit]- Audience Award: Mother Nature by Massimo Andrei
- Isvema Award: Mother Nature by Massimo Andrei
- FEDIC Award: Mother Nature by Massimo Andrei
Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori)
[edit]- Netpac Award: 13 Tzameti by Gela Babluani
- UNESCO Award: La passione di Giosué l'Ebreo by Pasquale Scimeca
- Pasinetti Awards (Venice Days): Elio Petri. Notes on a Filmmaker by Federico Bacci, Stefano Leone, Nicola Guarneri
- Label Europa Cinemas: The Young Lieutenant by Xavier Beauvois
- "Lino Miccichè" First Feature Award: Craj - Domani by Davide Marengo
- Venice Authors Prize: Love by Vladan Nikolic
Independent Awards
[edit]The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[21]
- Best Film (Main competition): Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney[22]
- Best Film (Horizons): The Wild Blue Yonder by Werner Herzog
- Mary by Abel Ferrara
C.I.C.A.E. Award
[edit]- Dam Street by Li Yu (Horizons)
UNICEF Award
[edit]Pasinetti Awards
[edit]- Best Film (Main competition): Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney
- Best Film (Horizons): Texas by Fausto Paravidino
Little Golden Lion
[edit]Jameson Short Film Award
[edit]- Aria by Claudio Noce
Young Cinema Award
[edit]- Alternatives: Lady Vengeance by Park Chan-wook
- Best International Film: The Constant Gardener by Fernando Meirelles
- Best Italian Film: The Beast in the Heart by Cristina Comencini
Wella Prize
[edit]Open Prize
[edit]Doc/It Award
[edit]- East of Paradise by Lech Kowalski
- The Dignity of the Nobodies by Fernando Solanas
Lina Mangiacapre Award
[edit]Future Film Festival Digital Award
[edit]- Corpse Bride by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
Laterna Magica Prize
[edit]Sergio Trasatti Award
[edit]- Mary by Abel Ferrara
Biografilm Award
[edit]'CinemAvvenire' Award
[edit]- Best Film in Competition: Lady Vengeance by Park Chan-wook
- Cinema for Peace: Heading South by Laurent Cantet
Award of the City of Rome
[edit]- The Beast in the Heart by Cristina Comencini
- The Dignity of the Nobodies by Fernando Solanas (Horizons)
Human Rights Film Network Award
[edit]- The Dignity of the Nobodies by Fernando Solanas
- Special mention: Good Night, and Good Luck by George Clooney
EIUC Award
[edit]Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award
[edit]- Mary by Abel Ferrara
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