67th Venice International Film Festival

The 67th International Film Festival of Venice (Italian 67th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica ) took place until 11 September 2010 of 1. 4251 films (including 2395 movies) from 102 countries applied for participation in the Festival, one next to the Berlin International Film Festival and the International Film Festival of Cannes at the three most important film festivals in the world. In the main section, the Competition ( Venezia 67), 24 feature length films competed for the Golden Lion, the top prize of the festival. This went to the U.S. contribution Somewhere by Sofia Coppola.

The festival was opened with the American competition entry of Black Swan Darren Aronofsky, a psychological thriller which is located in the New York ballet milieu. This in turn was followed by the Hong Kong martial arts film shown out of competition Jingwufengyun - Chen Zhen Andrew Lau and Machete by Robert Rodriguez. As the closing film of the American film The Tempest was selected by Julie Taymor.

Since the Hotel des Bains was closed in 2010, disappeared a traditional element of the film festival in Venice. In it stayed numerous filmmakers, and interviews were conducted there. In addition, it had been the meeting place of the jury in the past. The festival director Marco Müller also stated that it was hard like this year to fill the competition. This was attributed in part to the ever-increasing competition from the big festivals. Even the organizers stood in comparison with the previous year 12 million euros less by 700,000 euro budget.

As part of the Film Festival, a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement for any film-makers will be awarded on a regular basis. Already prior to the festival the winner was announced: the Sino- American director John Woo, who is one of the most important representatives of Hong Kong cinema.

The Italian actress Isabella Ragonese hosted the opening and closing ceremony.

Official sections

In the three sections of the film festival a total of 86 films were shown. 82 of them celebrated their world premiere.

Competition

Jury

This year's jury president was the American film director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino.

He was assisted by six other members of the jury:

Guillermo Arriaga, the Mexican screenwriter and film director ( invitation to the 2008 competition for burning on earth)
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Lithuanian actress
Arnaud Desplechin, French film director ( invitation to the 2004 contest for pure Rois et )
Danny Elfman, American film composer
Luca Guadagnino, the Italian film director
Gabriele Salvatores, Italian film director and screenwriter ( invitation to the competition in 2000 for Denti )

Competitors for the Golden Lion

The other jury members as well as the official program were presented on July 29, 2010. Jerzy Skolimowski's film On August 8 Essential Killing was submitted for the contest.

24 productions from 17 countries (including a " surprise film ", which was presented during the course of the film festival ) competed for the Golden Lion, the top prize of the festival. As with the rest in 2009 were most directors invited from Europe ( 12 ), followed by their counterparts from North America (7 ), Asia ( 4) South America (1). Movies from Africa or Oceania received no invitation.

With six contributions American filmmakers were most frequent. Among them was Darren Aronofsky ( Black Swan ), who had two years earlier received the top prize in Venice for The Wrestler. Oscar winner Sofia Coppola Somewhere devoted himself in the " sad ( n ) life of the star cult " and put a famous actor (played by Stephen Dorff ) receives the focus, the visit from his 11- year-old daughter (Elle Fanning). The award-winning Autorenfilmerin Kelly Reichardt reported in her Western Meek 's Cutoff by the true story of an emigrant trek, the 1845 got lost on the way to the U.S. west coast. The award-winning artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, Miral, in turn, was followed by the path of a Palestinian orphan (played by Freida Pinto), which as a teacher gets to know the resistance of the Palestinian people later. Were supplemented by contributions from North America Vincent Gallo's Promises Written in Water, Monte Hellman's Road to Nowhere and the literary adaptation Barney's Version Richard J. Lewis Canadian director.

Twelve of the 23 directors ( Ascanio Celestini, Coppola, Anthony Cordier, Alexei Fedorchenko, Gallo, Hellmann, Álex de la Iglesia, Pablo Larraín, Lewis, Reichardt, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Tsui Hark ) debuted in competition at Venice, while Darren Aronofsky, Julian beak and Carlo Mazzacurati competed for the third time for the grand prize. The Italians presented with La passione a comedy in which a little busy director (played by Silvio Orlando ) was forced to stage a passion play in a Tuscan hill town in a few days. Mazzacuratis compatriot Mario Martone showed the costume drama Noi Credevamo, who reported the battle for the Italian national unity. Besides Ascanio Celestini (La pecora nora ) Saverio Costanzo also was represented by the La solitudine dei numeri Literaturverfilmung primi competition. This was the film adaptation of Paolo Giordano's award-winning novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers with Alba Rohrwacher and Luca Marinelli in the lead roles.

Three film productions were in competition invited from France. In addition to Anthony Cordier's Happy Few Beziehungstragikomödie and François Ozon's Potiche turbulent Boulevarkomödie presented Abdellatif Kechiche before his period film Black Venus. After the French had won in 2007 for Couscous Silver Lion, acted his latest film by fate Baartmans Sarah (played by Yahima Torres). The black African came in the decade from 1810 as the " Hottentot Venus" on British fairgrounds. They attracted the attention of French scientists, which she served as a research object for a miserable, early death.

The only German -language entry in the Competition was three by Tom Tykwer. After the German director had at the 1998 Film Festival presented his hit movie Run Lola Run and spent the last years increasingly in international cinema, he presented a relationship drama that played in the Berlin of today. It tells the story of a couple (played by Sophie Rois and Sebastian Schipper ) located in the same man ( Devid STRIESOW ) was in love.

From Asia, the filmmakers Takashi Miike, Tsui Hark, Trần Anh Hùng and Wang Bing were represented. The Japanese Takashi Miike created with JUSAN - nin no shikaku ( International Title: 13 Assassins ), a remake of the samurai film of the same name from the 1963 Tsui Hark presented with Di Renjie zhi Togntian Diguo ( Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame ) a mystery strips. Di Renjie order, an official from the Tang Dynasty. The Vietnamese Trần Anh Hùng, who won in 1995 for cyclo the main prize of Venice, filmed with Noruwei no mori the novel by Haruki Murakami. Wang Bing's directorial Le fossé ( The Ditch ) was introduced on 6 September as a " surprise film " (film sorpresa ). This was kept open the possibility to present films whose completion was uncertain even before the announcement of the program or where it was feared the intervention of official authorities. Le fossé played in 1960 in the Chinese re-education camp Jiabiangou in the Gobi desert, where prisoners were sentenced for trifles as counterrevolutionaries for forced labor.

As the only South American entry in the Competition Pablo Larrain Postmortem was performed, which was located at the time of the military regime of Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s in Chile.

Movies

In the competition 24 feature films were shown in all it was world premieres. Six of the posts had been produced in the United States, four films come from Italy.

* = Surprise film, which was presented during the competition.

Award winners

Golden Lion: Somewhere - Directed by Sofia Coppola
Silver Lion - Best Director: Álex de la Iglesia ( Balada triste de trompeta )
Special Jury Prize: Jerzy Skolimowski ( Essential Killing )
Coppa Volpi - Best Actor: Vincent Gallo ( Essential Killing )
Coppa Volpi - Best Actress: Ariane Labed ( Attenberg )
Marcello Mastroianni - Price: Mila Kunis ( Black Swan )
Osella - Best technical performance: Mikhail Kritschman ( Owsjanki )
Osella - Best Screenplay: Álex de la Iglesia ( Balada triste de trompeta )
Special Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Monte Hellman
FIPRESCI Prize: Owsjanki - Director: Alexei Fedorchenko

Orizzonti

The section Orizzonti, the " new ways and means " dedicated to the worldwide film and want to advertise, especially for unconventional films, has been extended by the inclusion of short films in 2010. For this accounted for the previous short film series Corto Cortissimo.

In the international jury of the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat was for the Presidency, who won the Silver Lion for her film Women Without Men the year before. The other jury members were:

Raja Amari, Tunisian director
Lav Diaz, Filipino director
Alexander Horwath, Austrian film critic and director of the Austrian Film Museum
Pietro Marcello, an Italian documentary filmmaker

As the opening film Catherine Breillat's film La Belle Endormie was selected. Graduation film is South Korea's contribution Ok- hui -ui yeonghwa.

The main prize for the best feature film won the Mexican contribution Verano de Goliat, while The Forgotten Space (Netherlands, Austria ) won the Special Prize of the Jury Orizzonti. The main prize for the best short film won the Austrian contribution Coming Attractions. Has also won awards Tse (Israel; Best medium -length film), while Jean Gentil received a Special Mention.

Movies

Short Films

* = Film, which is shown outside of the competition.

Documentary

* = Film, which is shown outside of the competition.

Controcampo Italiano

The festival section Controcampo Italiano intended to reflect their movies with the latest developments of Italian cinema. The Italian jury was faced with the actor Valerio Mastandrea, who was supported by the director Susanna Nicchiarelli and Dario Edoardo Viganò film scholars. As Eventi retrospective and three other films were shown, but not participate in the competition. As the opening film of the movie I baci mai dati was selected.

Excellent, the contribution was 20 sigarette while Vinicio Marchioni protagonist received a Special Mention.

Retrospective

The Retrospective La situazione comica led 31 Italian film comedies again, which had emerged 1934-1988.

Il domestico by Luigi Filippo D' Amico (1974 )
È il cavaliere arrivato! by Mario Monicelli and Stefano Vanzina (1950 )
Botta e risposta by Mario Soldati (1950 )
Il commissario Lo Gatto by Dino Risi ( 1987)
The Thursday ( Il giovedì ) by Dino Risi ( 1963)
The double Hero ( Fracchia la belva umana ) Nero Parenti (1981 )
Three Sinners ( Il giorno in pretura ) by Stefano Vanzina (1954 )
Scent of a Woman ( Profumo di donna ) by Dino Risi ( 1974)
Eccezzziunale ... veramente by Carlo Vanzina (1982 )
The honorable family (L' Onorata societÃ ) by Riccardo Pazzaglia (1961 )
L' eroe sono io! by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1951 )
Febbre da cavallo by Stefano Vanzina (1976 )
Gli allegri masnadieri by Marco Elter (1937 )
Guardie e ladri by Mario Monicelli and Stefano Vanzina (1951 )
The Cruel (I Crudeli ) by Sergio Corbucci (1967 )
Imputato alzatevi! Mario Mattoli (1939 )
Io non Spezzo ... rompo by Bruno Corbucci (1971 )
The country boy ( Il ragazzo di campagna ) by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia (1984 )
La Lepre e la Tartaruga by Alessandro Blasetti ( episode from The Four Truths, 1962)
La Manina the Fatma Vittorio Caprioli ( episode from I cuori infranti, 1963)
Next please! ( Febbre because cavallo ) by Ugo Tognazzi (1976 )
Non ti pago! by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1942 )
Le pillole di Ercole by Luciano Salce (1962 )
Lo Scapolo by Antonio Pietrangeli (1955 )
Lo scatenato by Franco Indovina (1967 )
Beautiful widows are dangerous ( Five Golden Hours ) by Mario Zampi (1961 )
Classmates ( Compagni di scuola ) by Carlo Verdone (1988 )
Beach Whispers ( Casotto ) by Sergio Citti (1977 )
Tempo massimo Mario Mattoli (1934 )
Tutta la città canta by Riccardo Freda (1945 )
Vacanze di Natale by Carlo Vanzina (1983 )

More Awards

As part of the Venice Film Festival more awards were presented.

The Premio Luigi De Laurentiis missed a jury headed by German director Fatih Akın ( Special Jury Prize in 2009 for Soul Kitchen). The award honors the best debut film of a director (Lion of the Future ), all sections had to be considered. The price awarded Akın, together with the Indian Nina Lath Gupta (Managing Director of the Indian National Film Development Corporation), the director Stanley Kwan and Samuel Maoz ( Golden Lion 2009) and the Italian actress Jasmine Trinca ( Marcello Mastroianni Award - 2009) to the Turkish Post Cogunluk of sera Yüce.

The Persol 3- D Award, named after a sponsor of the film festival, was assigned to a 3D movie for the second time after 2009. From the artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, the Japanese producer Takashi Shimizu Filmregisseurund, the U.S. film critic Jim Hoberman were ( The Village Voice ) and the Italian filmmaker David Zamagni. The awards were James Cameron's Avatar - Pandora and How to Train Your Dragon by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders.

Regardless of the Film Festival hosted the Sindacato Nazionale critici Cinematografici Italiani with the International Critics' Week (SIC ) and the Associazione Nazionale authoritarianism Cinematografici ( ANAC ) in collaboration with the Associazione authoritarianism e Produttori Indipendenti ( API) two separate film series.

Films out of competition

Outside the competition lines 29 feature films were shown, 26 of which were world premieres. Besides Jingwufengyun - Chen Zhen, Machete and The Tempest, the U.S. actor and director Ben Affleck presented his new film, The Town. With A Letter to Elia, Martin Scorsese presented a documentary about the U.S. director Elia Kazan ( 1909-2003 ).

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