71st Venice International Film Festival
The 71st annual Venice Film Festival took place in Venice, Italy between 27 August to 6 September 2014.[1] The Swedish film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence won the Golden Lion award.
American filmmakers Thelma Schoonmaker and Frederick Wiseman were the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement award.[2] French composer Alexandre Desplat was the head of the jury for the main competition section.[3]
Alejandro González Iñárritu's film Birdman opened the festival.[4][5] Ann Hui's drama film The Golden Era served as the closing night film.[6] Italian actress Luisa Ranieri hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival.[7]
The festival poster paid tribute to François Truffaut, as it featured the character of Antoine Doinel portrayed by Jean-Pierre Léaud from Truffaut's 1959 drama film The 400 Blows.[8][9]
Juries
- Main Competition[3]
- Horizons (Orizzonti)[10]
- Ann Hui: Hong Kong director (President of Jury)
- Moran Atias: Israeli actress
- Pernilla August: Swedish actress and director
- David Chase: American writer and director
- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: Chadian director
- Roberto Minervini: Italian director
- Alin Taşçıyan: Turkish critic
- Luigi De Laurentiis[11]
- Alice Rohrwacher: Italian director (President of Jury)
- Lisandro Alonso: Argentine director
- Ron Mann: Canadian filmmaker
- Vivian Qu: Chinese filmmaker
- Razvan Radulescu: Romanian novelist and film director
Official selection
In Competition
The following films were selected for the main competition:[12][13]
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
99 Homes | N/A | Ramin Bahrani | United States |
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence | En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron | Roy Andersson | Sweden, Germany, Norway, France |
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)[14] | N/A | Alejandro González Iñárritu | United States |
Black Souls | Anime nere | Francesco Munzi | Italy, France |
Far from Men | Loin des hommes | David Oelhoffen | France |
Fires on the Plain | Nobi | Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan |
Good Kill | N/A | Andrew Niccol | United States |
Hungry Hearts | | Saverio Costanzo | Italy |
Leopardi | Il giovane favoloso | Mario Martone | Italy |
La Rançon de la gloire | La Rançon de la gloire | Xavier Beauvois | France, Belgium, Switzerland |
Le Dernier Coup de marteau | Le Dernier Coup de marteau | Alix Delaporte | France |
Manglehorn | N/A | David Gordon Green | United States |
Pasolini | Pasolini | Abel Ferrara | France, Belgium, Italy |
Red Amnesia | 闯入者 | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
Sivas | Sivas | Kaan Müjdeci | Turkey |
Tales | قصه ها (Ghesse-ha) | Rakhshan Bani-E'temad | Iran |
The Cut | The Cut | Fatih Akın | Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Poland, Turkey |
The Look of Silence | Senyap | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, UK |
The Postman's White Nights | Belye nochi pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna | Andrei Konchalovsky | Russia |
Three Hearts | 3 cœurs | Benoît Jacquot | France |
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[12][13]
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
Words with Gods | N/A | Guillermo Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco, Bahman Ghobadi, Hideo Nakata, Alex de la Iglesia | Mexico, United States |
She's Funny That Way | N/A | Peter Bogdanovich | United States |
Dearest | 親愛的 | Peter Ho-sun Chan | Hong Kong, China |
Olive Kitteridge | N/A | Lisa Cholodenko | United States |
Burying the Ex | N/A | Joe Dante | United States |
Perez. | Perez. | Edoardo De Angelis | Italy |
La zuppa del demonio | La zuppa del demonio | Davide Ferrario | Italy |
The Sound and the Fury | N/A | James Franco | United States |
Tsili | Tsili | Amos Gitai | Israel, Russia, Italy, France |
The State-Mafia Pact | La trattativa | Sabina Guzzanti | Italy |
The Golden Era | 黃金時代 | Ann Hui | China, Hong Kong |
Revivre | 화장 | Im Kwon-taek | South Korea |
The Humbling | N/A | Barry Levinson | United States |
The Old Man of Belem | O velho do restelo | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France |
Italy in a Day | Un giorno da italiani | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy, UK |
In the Basement | Im Keller | Ulrich Seidl | Austria |
The Boxtrolls | N/A | Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable | United States |
Nymphomaniac Volume II | Nymphomaniac Volume I (Long Version) Director's Cut | Lars Von Trier | Denmark, Germany, France, Belgium |
Horizons
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[3]
Feature films
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
Theeb | ذيب | Naji Abu Nowar | Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, United Kingdom |
Line of Credit | Kreditis Limiti | Salome Alexi | Georgia, Germany, France |
Cymbeline | N/A | Michael Almereyda | United States |
Without Pity | Senza nessuna pietà | Michele Alhaique | Italy |
Near Death Experience | NDE (Near Death Experience) | Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern | France |
La vita oscena | La vita oscena | Renato De Maria | Italy |
Reality | Réalité | Quentin Dupieux | France, Belgium |
Goodnight Mommy | Ich seh, Ich seh | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Austria |
Hill of Freedom | 자유의 언덕 | Hong Sangsoo | South Korea |
Bypass | N/A | Duane Hopkins | United Kingdom |
The President | N/A | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Georgia, France, United Kingdom, Germany |
Jackie & Ryan | N/A | Ami Canaan Mann | United States |
Belluscone, una storia siciliana | Belluscone, una storia siciliana | Franco Maresco | Italy |
Nabat | Nabat | Elchin Musaoglu | Azerbaijan |
Heaven Knows What | N/A | Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie | United States, France |
These Are the Rules | Takva Su Pravila | Ognjen Svilicic | Croatia, France, Serbia, Macedonia |
Court | Court | Chaitanya Tamhane | India |
Short films
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
Bache | La bambina | Ali Asgari | Italy, Iran |
Ferdinand Knapp | Ferdinand Knapp | Andrea Baldini | France |
Mademoiselle | Mademoiselle | Guillaume Gouix | France |
Castillo y el Armado | Castillo y el Armado | Pedro Harres | Brazil |
Daily Bread | Pat-Lehem | Idan Hubel | Israel |
3/105 | 3/105 | Avelina Prat, Diego Opazo | Spain |
Maryam | Maryam | Sidi Saleh | Indonesia |
Art | Arta | Adrian Sitaru | Romania |
Era Apocrypha | N/A | Brendan Sweeny | United States |
Great Heat | 大暑 | Chen Tao | China |
Cams | Cams | Carl-Johan Westregård | Sweden |
In Overtime | Fi Al Waqt Al Dae'a | Rami Yasin | Jordan, Palestine |
Out of Competition
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
On the Bride's Side | Io sto con la sposa | Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry | Italy, Palestine |
Lift You Up | N/A | Ramin Bahrani | United States |
L'attesa del maggio | L'attesa del maggio | Simone Massi | Italy |
Autonomous sections
International Critics’ Week
The following films were selected for the 29th Venice International Film Critics' Week:[15]
Feature films
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
Dancing With Maria | Dancing with Maria | Ivan Gergolet | Italy, Argentina, Slovenia |
40-Love | Terre battue | Stéphane Demoustier | France |
The Council of Birds | Zerrumpelt Herz | Timm Kroger | Germany |
No One’s Child | Ničije dete | Vuk Ršumović | Serbia |
The Coffin in the Mountain | 殡棺 | Xin Yukun | China |
Flapping in The Middle of Nowhere | Đập cánh giữa không trung | Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp | Vietnam, France, Norway, Germany |
Villa Touma | Villa Touma | Suha Arraf | Israel, Germany[16][17][18][19][20] |
Out of Competition (Special screening)
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
Melbourne | Melbourne | Nima Javidi | Iran |
The Market | Arance e Martello | Diego Bianchi | Italy |
Venice Days
The following films were selected for the 11th edition of the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section:[21]
Official selection
Special events
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
9x10 novanta | 9x10 novanta | Marco Bonfanti, Sara Fgaier, Claudio Giovannesi, Alina Marazzi, Pietro Marcello, Giovanni Piperno, Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Randi, Alice Rohrwacher, Roland Sejko | Italy |
The Show MAS Go On | The Show MAS Go On | Rä di Martino | Italy |
The Lack | The Lack | Masbedo | Italy |
Five Star | N/A | Keith Miller | United States |
Miu Miu Women’s Tales
English title |
Original title |
Director(s) |
Production country |
Spark and Light | #7 Spark and Light | So Yong Kim | Italy, United States |
Somebody | #8 Somebody | Miranda July | Italy, United States |
Premio Lux
Venice Classics
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[22]
Awards
The following awards were presented at the 71st edition:[23][24]
Official selection
- In Competition
- Special Awards
- Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Best Film - Court by Chaitanya Tamhane
- Best Director - Theeb by Naji Abu Nowar
- Special Jury Prize – Belluscone. Una storia siciliana by Franco Maresco
- Special Prize For Best Actor or Actress - Emir Hadžihafizbegović for These Are the Rules
- Horizons Prize for Best Short - Maryam by Sidi Saleh
Autonomous sections
- 29th Venice International Critics' Week[26][27]
- RaroVideo Audience Award for Best Film - No One's Child by Vuk Ršumović
- FEDEORA (Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean) Best Screenplay - No One's Child by Vuk Ršumović
- FEDEORA Best Film - Flapping in The Middle of Nowhere by Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp
- Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori)[28][29][30][31]
- Venice Days Award - Return to Ithaca by Laurent Cantet
- BNL People's Choice Award - The Farewell Party by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon
- Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film - The Dinner by Ivano De Matteo
- FEDEORA Best Film - One on One by Kim Ki-duk
- FEDEORA Best director of a debut film - Aditya Vikram Sengupta for Labour of Love
- Queer Lion Award 2014 - Summer Nights by Mario Fanfani
- Premio Brian - UAAR - The Farewell Party by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon
- Premio Gillo Pontecorvo Arcobaleno Latino - The Show MAS Go On by Rä di Martino
- Premio Cinecibo - The Dinner by Ivano De Matteo
- Francesco Pasinetti Awards[32]
- 1st Akai International Film Festival[33]
- Akai International Film Festival Prize for Best Rivelation - Xin Yucun for The Coffin in the Mountain
- Akai International Film Festival Prize for Best Direction - Francesco Munzi for Black Souls
- Akai International Film Festival Prize for Best Actor - Jacopo Olmo Antinori for The Dinner
- Akai International Film Festival Prize for Best Actress - Iaia Forte for Leopardi, The Show MAS Go On and La vita oscena
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