78th Venice International Film Festival Film festival
The 78th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 2021.[ 1]
South Korean director Bong Joon-ho was the Jury President of the main competition, marking the first time a South Korean director has been picked as the festival's top juror.[ 2] [ 3] Serena Rossi hosted the opening and closing nights.[ 4] The Golden Lion was awarded to Happening directed by Audrey Diwan .[ 5]
Juries
Main Competition (Venezia 78 )
Horizons
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film
Official Sections
In Competition
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[ 7]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
America Latina
Damiano D'Innocenzo and Fabio D'Innocenzo
Italy
Another World
Un autre monde
Stéphane Brizé
France
The Box
La caja
Lorenzo Vigas
Mexico, United States
Captain Volkonogov Escaped
Капитан Волконогов бежал
Aleksey Chupov and Natalya Merkulova
Russia
The Card Counter
Paul Schrader
United States
Freaks Out
Gabriele Mainetti
Italy, Belgium
The Hand of God
È stata la mano di Dio
Paolo Sorrentino
Italy
Happening
L'Événement
Audrey Diwan
France
Il buco
Michelangelo Frammartino
Italy, France, Germany
Leave No Traces
Żeby nie było śladów
Jan P. Matuszyński
Poland, France, Czech Republic
The Lost Daughter
Maggie Gyllenhaal
United States, Greece
Lost Illusions
Illusions perdues
Xavier Giannoli
France
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
Ana Lily Amirpour
United States
Official Competition
Competencia oficial
Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn
Spain
On the Job: The Missing 8
Erik Matti
Philippines
Parallel Mothers (opening film)
Madres paralelas
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion
United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada, New Zealand
The King of Laughter
Qui rido io
Mario Martone
Italy, Spain
Reflection
Відблиск
Valentyn Vasyanovych
Ukraine
Spencer
Pablo Larraín
United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Chile
Sundown
Michel Franco
Mexico, France, Sweden
Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion winner.
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Fiction
The Accusation
Les Choses Humaines
Yvan Attal
France
The Catholic School
La scuola cattolica
Stefano Mordini
Italy
Dune
Denis Villeneuve
United States
Halloween Kills
David Gordon Green
The Hidden Child
Il bambino nascosto (closing film)
Roberto Andò
Italy, France
The Inner Cage
Ariaferma
Leonardo Di Costanzo
Italy, Switzerland
The Last Duel
Ridley Scott
United Kingdom, United States
Last Night in Soho
Edgar Wright
United Kingdom
Old Henry
Potsy Ponciroli
United States
Non Fiction
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Bernard MacMahon
United States
Deandré#Deandré Storio di un Impiegato
Roberta Lena
Italy
Django & Django
Luca Rea
Ennio
Giuseppe Tornatore
Italy, Belgium, Japan, Holland
Ezio Bosso: Le cose che restano
Giorgio Verdelli
Italy
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song
Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine
United States
Life of Crime 1984-2020
Jon Alpert
Republic of Silence
Diana El Jeiroudi
France, Germany, Syria
Tranchées [uk ]
Loup Bureau
France
Viaggio Nel Crepuscolo
Augusto Contento
France, Italy
Series
Scenes from a Marriage (5 episodes)
Hagai Levi
United States
Short Films
The Night
良夜不能留
Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan
Plastic Semiotic
Radu Jude
Romania
Sad Film
Vasili
Myanmar, Netherlands
Horizons (Orizzonti )
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Italian : Orizzonti ) section:[ 13]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Atlantide
Yuri Ancarani
Italy, France, United States, Qatar
Miracle
Miracol
Bogdan George Apetri
Romania, Czech Republic, Latvia
Pilgrims
Piligrimai
Laurynas Bareiša
Lithuania
The Peacock's Paradise
Il Paradiso del Pavone
Laura Bispuri
Italy, Germany
The Falls
瀑布
Mong-hong Chung
Taiwan
The Hole in the Fence
El hoyo en la cerca
Joaquín del Paso
Mexico, Poland
Amira
أميرة
Mohamed Diab
Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia
Full Time
À Plein Temps
Éric Gravel
France
107 Mothers
Cenzorka
Peter Kerekes
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine
Vera Dreams of the Sea
Vera Andrron Detin
Kaltrina Krasniqi
Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia
Promises
Les Promesses
Thomas Kruithof
France
White Building
Bodeng Sar
Kavich Neang
Cambodia, France, China, Qatar
Anatomy of Time
Wela
Jakrawal Nilthamrong
Thailand, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Germany
The Other Tom
El otro Tom
Rodrigo Plá
Mexico, United States
The Great Movement
El Gran Movimiento
Kiro Russo
Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta
Aditya Vikram Sengupta
India, France, Norway
Rhino
Носоріг
Oleh Sentsov
Ukraine, Poland, Germany
True Things
Harry Wootliff
United Kingdom
Inu-Oh
犬王
Masaaki Yuasa
Japan
Highlighted title indicates Orizzonti award winner.
The following films were selected to the Orizzonti Extra section:[ 14]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
7 Prisoners
7 Prisioneiros
Alexandre Moratto
Brasil
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
Sokea mies, joka ei halunnut nähdä Titanicia
Teemu Nikki
Finland
Costa Brava, Lebanon
كوستا برافا، لبنان
Mounia Akl
Lebanon, France, Qatar, Spain, Sweden
The Girl Flew
La ragazza ha volato
Wilma Labate
Italy, Slovenia
Land Of Dreams
Shirin Neshat , Shoja Azari
United States, Germany, Qatar
La macchina delle immagini di Alfredo C.
Roland Sejko
Italy
Mama, I'm Home
Мама, я дома
Vladimir Bitokov
Russia
My Night
Ma Nuit
Antoinette Boulat
France, Belgium
Highlighted title indicates Orizzonti Extra award winner.
Biennale College - Cinema
The following films were selected for the Biennale College - Cinema section.[ 15] [ 16]
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
Al Oriente
José María Avilés
Ecuador
Blessed Boys
La Santa Piccola
Silvia Brunelli
The Cathedral
Ricky D'Ambrose
United States
Lavrynthos (VR)
Fabito Rychter and Amir Admoni
Brazil, Peru
Our Father, the Devil
Ellie Foumbi
United States, France
Our Happiest Days
Nuestros Días Más Felices
Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière
Argentine Italy
La Tana
Beatrice Baldacci
Italy
Independent Sections
Venice International Critics' Week
The lineup of films selected for the 36th Venice International Critics' Week is as follows:[ 17]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
In Competition
They Carry Death
Eles transportan a morte
Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón
Spain, Colombia
Erasing Frank
Eltörölni Frankot
Gábor Fabricius
Hungary
Mondocane
Alessandro Celli
Italy
Mother Lode
Matteo Tortone
France, Italy, Switzerland
Detours
Obchodnye puti
Ekaterina Selenkina
Russia
The Salamander
A salamandra
Alex Carvalho
Brazil, France, Germany
Zalava
Arsalan Amiri
Iran
Out of Competition
Karmalink (opening film)
Jake Wachtel
Cambodia, United States
The Last Chapter (closing film)
La Dernière Séance
Gianluca Matarrese
Italy, France
Giornate degli Autori
The following films were selected for the Giornate degli Autori (aka Venice Days) section:[ 18]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
In Competition
Anatomy
Anatomia
Ola Jankowska
Poland, France
Californie
Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
Italy
Private Desert
Deserto Particular
Aly Muritiba
Brazil, Portugal
Madeleine Collins
Antoine Barraud
France, Belgium, Switzerland
The Stranger
Al-Ḡarīb
Ameer Fakher Eldin
Syria, Germany, Palestine, Qatar
Immaculate
Imaculat
Monica Stan, George Chiper-Lillemark
Romania
Dusk Stone
Piedra noche
Iván Fund
Argentina, Chile, Spain
Shen Kong
Chen Guan
China
Out of Sync
Tres
Juanjo Giménez
Spain, Lithuania, Germany
You Resemble Me
Tu me ressembles
Dina Amer
Egypt, France, United States
Out of competition
Lovely Boy
Francesco Lettieri
Italy
Special events
The Forgotten Ones
Mizrahim, les oubliés de la terre promise
Michale Boganim
France, Israel
Il Palazzo
Federica Di Giacomo
Italy, Czech Republic
Senza fine
Elisa Fuksas
Italy
The Great Silence
Il silenzio grande
Alessandro Gassmann
Italy, Poland
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
Bianca Stigter
Netherlands
Venice Nights
Caveman
Tommaso Landucci
Italy, Switzerland
Cùntami
Giovanna Taviani
Italy
Sons of Cain
Les Enfants de Caïn
Keti Stamo
France, Albania, Italy
Fellini and the Shadow
Fellini e l'ombra
Catherine McGilvray
Italy, Switzerland
Giulia
Ciro De Caro
Italy
Hugo in Argentina
Stefano Knuchel
Switzerland
Isolation
Michele Placido , Julia von Heinz , Olivier Guerpillon, Jaco Van Dormael , Michael Winterbottom
Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, United Kingdom
The World in Shots
Il mondo a scatti
Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli
Italy
Our Ghosts
I nostri fantasmi
Alessandro Capitani
Italy
Princesa
Stefania Muresu
Italy
With or Without You
Una relazione
Stefano Sardo
Italy
Spin Time
Sabina Guzzanti
Italy
Tonino de Bernardi - Un tempo, un incontro
Daniele Segre
Italy
Welcome Venice
Andrea Segre
Italy
Women's Tales Project
#21. Shangri-La
Isabel Sandoval
Italy, United States
#22. I and the Stupid Boy
Kaouther Ben Hania
Italy, France
Official Awards
The following official awards were presented at the 78th Edition:[ 19]
In Competition
Horizons (Orizzonti )
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film (Lion of the Future)
Immaculate by George Chiper-Lillemark and Monica Stan
Independent Sections Awards
The following awards were presented by independent juries:[ 22]
Venice International Critics' Week
Grand Prize : Zalava by Arsalan Amiri
Mario Serandrei : They Carry Death by Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón
Best Short Film : Inchei by Federico Demattè
Best Director : Inchei by Federico Demattè
Best Technical Contribution : L'Incanto by Chiara Caterina
GdA Director's Award : Immaculate by George Chiper-Lillemark and Monica Stan
Europa Cinemas Label Award : Californie by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman
Independent Awards
Arca CinemaGiovani Award
Authors under 40 Award
BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas People's Choice Award
Brian Award
Casa Wabi – Mantarraya Award
Immaculate by George Chiper-Lillemark and Monica Stan
CICT - UNESCO "Enrico Fulchignoni" Award
Edipo Re Award
Fanheart3 Award
FEDIC Award
Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award
Francesco Pasinetti Award
Green Drop Award
Leoncino d'Oro Award
Lizzani Award
Premio Fondazione Fai Persona Lavoro Ambiente
Nuovoimaie Talent Award
La Pellicola d'Oro Award
Premio Soundtrack Stars Award
Premio UNIMED
Premio Fair Play al Cinema - Vivere da Sportivi
RB Casting Award
Sfera 1932 Award
SIGNIS Award
Smithers Foundation Award "Ambassador of Hope"
“Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award” XI edition
Verona Film Club Award
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