73rd Venice International Film Festival

The 73rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 10 September 2016.[1]

73rd Venice International Film Festival
Festival poster
Opening filmLa La Land
Closing filmThe Magnificent Seven
LocationVenice, Italy
Founded1932
AwardsGolden Lion: The Woman Who Left
Hosted bySonia Bergamasco
Festival date31 August – 10 September 2016
WebsiteWebsite

English filmmaker Sam Mendes was the Jury President of the main competition.[2] The opening night film was Damien Chazelle's musical La La Land, and Antoine Fuqua's western The Magnificent Seven was the closing film.[3]

The Golden Lion was awarded to Lav Diaz's film The Woman Who Left.[4]

A new project named Venice Production Bridge was introduced in this edition of the festival. The new project is intended to attract industry professionals and focus on original projects for films, internet, series, virtual reality, and works in progress, in order to help their development and production. It is also meant to work in conjunction with the Venice Film Market which started in 2012. Such projects as Final Cut in Venice, meant to help finance original films from African countries, and the Venice Gap-Financing Market will come under its scope.[5]

Juries

The following people formed the 2016 juries:[6][7]

Main competition (Venezia 73)

Horizons (Orizzonti)

Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film

Official Sections

In competition (Venezia 73)

The following films were selected for the main competition:[8][9][10]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
ArrivalDenis VilleneuveUnited States
The Bad BatchAna Lily Amirpour
The Beautiful Days of AranjuezLes Beaux Jours d'AranjuezWim WendersFrance, Germany
The Blind ChristEl Cristo ciegoChristopher MurrayChile
BrimstoneMartin KoolhovenNetherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom
The Distinguished CitizenEl ciudadano ilustreMariano Cohn and Gastón DupratArgentina, Spain
FrantzFrançois OzonFrance, Germany
JackiePablo LarraínUnited States, Chile, France, Italy
La La LandDamien ChazelleUnited States
The Light Between OceansDerek CianfranceUnited Kingdom, United States, India, Canada
Nocturnal AnimalsTom FordUnited States
On the Milky RoadLungo la Via LatteaEmir KusturicaBosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico, Serbia, United Kingdom, United States
ParadiseРайAndrei KonchalovskyRussia
PiumaRoan JohnsonItaly
These DaysQuesti giorniGiuseppe Piccioni
Spira MirabilisMassimo D'Anolfi & Martina Parenti
The UntamedLa Region SalvajeAmat EscalanteMexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland
Voyage of TimeTerrence MalickUnited States
The Woman Who LeftAng Babaeng HumayoLav DiazPhilippines
A Woman's LifeUne VieStéphane BrizéFrance, Belgium
Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion winner.

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition[11][9][10]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
The Age of Shadows밀정Kim Jee-woonSouth Korea
Chuck The BleederPhilippe FalardeauUnited States
Gantz: OYasushi KawamuraJapan
Hacksaw RidgeMel GibsonUnited States, Australia
The JourneyNick HammUnited Kingdom
The Magnificent SevenAntoine FuquaUnited States
MonteAmir NaderiItaly, United States, France
Never EverÀ jamaisBenoît JacquotFrance, Portugal
PlanetariumRebecca ZlotowskiFrance, Belgium
Tommaso Kim Rossi Stuart Italy
The Young Pope (series) Paolo Sorrentino Italy, France, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Non Fiction
American AnarchistCharlie SiskelUnited States
Assault to the SkyAssalto al cieloFrancesco MunziItaly
AusterlitzSergei LoznitsaGermany
I Called Him MorganKasper CollinSweden, United States
One More Time With FeelingAndrew DominikUnited Kingdom
Our WarLa nostra guerraBruno Chiaravalloti, Claudio Jampaglia, Benedetta ArgentieriItaly, United States
SafariUlrich SeidlAustria, Denmark

Horizons (Orizzonti)

The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[12]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
In Competition
Big Big WorldKoca DünyaReha ErdemTurkey
Bitter Money苦钱Wang BingHong Kong
BluebeardKékszakállúGastón SolnickiArgentina
Boys in the TreesNicholas VersoAustralia
Dark NightTim SuttonUnited States
Dawson City: Frozen TimeBill MorrisonFrance, United States
The EremitesDie EinsiedlerRonny TrockerAustria, Germany
The Fury of a Patient ManTarde para la iraRaúl ArévaloSpain
The Greatest DreamIl più grande sognoMichele VannucciItaly
Gukoroku - Traces of SinGukorokuKei IshikawaJapan
Heal the LivingRéparer les vivantsKatell QuillévéréBelgium, France
HomeFien TrochBelgium
King of the BelgiansPeter Brosens, Jessica WoodworthBelgium, Bulgaria, Netherlands
Libera NosLiberamiFederica Di GiacomoItaly, France
Malaria مالاریاParviz ShahbaziIran
Saint George São JorgeMarco MartinsFrance, Portugal
ShamblesMaudite poutineKarl LemieuxCanada
The Wedding Planלעבור את הקירRama BurshteinIsrael
White Sunसेतो सुर्यDeepak RauniyarNepal, Netherlands, Qatar, United States
Short films
500,000 Years 500,000 Pee Chai Siris Thailand
Amalimbo Juan Pablo Libossart Sweden, Estonia
Ce qui nous éloigne Wei Hu France
Colombi Luca Ferri Italy
Dadyaa Bibhusan Basnet, Pooja Gurung Bibhusan Basnet, Pooja Gurung Nepal, France
First Night Prima Noapte Andrei Tanase Romania, Germany
Good Luck, Orlo! Srecno, Orlo! Sara Kern Slovenia, Croatia, Austria
Good News Giovanni Fumu South Korea, Italy
Midwinter Jake Mahaffy United States, New Zealand
Molly Bloom Chiara Caselli Italy
On the Origin of Fear Bayu Prihantoro Filemon Indonesia
Le reste est l’oeuvre de l’homme Doria Achour France, Tunisia
Ruah Flurin Giger Switzerland
Samedi Cinema Mamadou Dia Senegal
Stanza 52 Maurizio Braucci Italy
La voz perdida Marcelo Martinessi Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba
Highlighted titles indicate Horizons Prize for Best Feature Film

Venice Classics

The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[13]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Restored classic films
1848 (1948)Dino RisiItaly
An American Werewolf In London (1981)John LandisUnited Kingdom
L'Argent (aka Money) (1983)L'argentRobert BressonFrance, Switzerland
The Battle of Algiers (1966)La battaglia di AlgeriGillo PontecorvoItaly, Algeria
The Brat (1931)John FordUnited States
Break Up (1965)L'uomo dei cinque palloniMarco FerreriItaly, France
The City Stands Trial (1952)Processo alla cittàLuigi ZampaItaly
Dark Eyes (1987)Oci ciornieNikita MikhalkovItaly, Soviet Union
Dawn of the Dead (1978)George A. RomeroUnited States, Italy
Everybody Go Home (1960)Tutti a casaLuigi ComenciniItaly, France
The Great Sacrifice (1943)OpfergangVeit HarlanGermany
Legend of the Mountain (1979)山中傳奇King HuTaiwan, Hong Kong
Manhattan (1979)Woody AllenUnited States
The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood (1990) (Opening film)شبهای زاینده رودMohsen MakhmalbafIran
The Ondekoza (1981)ざ・鬼太鼓座Tai KatoJapan
Pretty Poison (1968)Noel BlackUnited States
Scent of a Woman (1974)Profumo di donnaDino RisiItaly
Seven Samurai (1954)七人の侍Akira KurosawaJapan
Stalker (1979)СталкерAndrei TarkovskySoviet Union
The Thief of Paris (1967)Le VoleurLouis MalleFrance, Italy
Twentieth Century (1934)Howard HawksUnited States
Documentaries on cinema
Acqua e zucchero. Carlo Di Palma, i colori della vita Fariborz Kamkari Italy
Along for the Ride Nick Ebeling United States
Bozzetto non troppo Marco Bonfanti Italy
Cinema Futures Michael Palm Austria
David Lynch: The Art Life Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Rick Barnes United States, Denmark
E venne l’uomo – Un dialogo con Ermanno Olmi Alessandro Bignami Italy
Events in a Cloud Chamber Ashim Ahluwalia India
The Graduation Le Concours Claire Simon France
Perché sono un genio! Lorenza Mazzetti Stefano Della Casa, Francesco Frisari Italy
Viaggio nel cinema in 3D. Una storia Vintage Jesus Garcès Lambert
Highlighted titles indicate the Best Restored Film and Best Documentary on Cinema official awards respectively.

Biennale College - Cinema

The following films were selected for the Biennale College - Cinema section.[14]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
EarsOrecchieAlessandro AronadioItaly
Hotel SalvationMukti BhawanShubhashish BhutianiIndia
La SoledadJorge Thielen ArmandVenezuela
One SisterUna HermanaSofia Brockenshire, Verena KuriArgentina

Final Cut in Venice

The following films were screened for the "Final Cut in Venice" section, a workshop to support the post-production of films from Africa:[15]

Original Title Director(s) Production country
FélicitéAlain GomisFrance, Senegal, Belgium
Ghost HuntingRaed AndoniPalestine, France, Switzerland
Obscure (Documentary)Soudade KaadanSyria, Lebanon
One of These DaysNadim TabetLebanon
Poisonous RosesFawzi SalehEgypt, France, Qatar
The WoundJohn TrengoveSouth Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France

Il Cinema nel Giardino

The following feature films were selected for the Il Cinema nel Giardino section:[16][17]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
Franca: Chaos and Creation (documentary)Francesco CarrozziniItaly, United States
In Dubious BattleJames FrancoUnited States
InseparablesMarcos CarnevaleArgentina
My ArtLaurie SimmonsUnited States
The Net그물Kim Ki-DukSouth Korea
Robinù (documentary)Michele SantoroItaly
The Secret Life of PetsChris Renaud, Yarrow CheneyUnited States
SummertimeL'estate addossoGabriele MuccinoItaly

Special screenings

The following film was presented as a Special Screening of the Official Selection:[18]

  • Spes contra Spem: Liberi Dentro (documentary) by Ambrogio Crespi

Independent Sections

International Critics Week

The following films were selected for the International Critics Week section:[19][20]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
In competition
Days of FranceJours de FranceJérôme ReybaudFrance
DrumTablKeywan KarimiFrance, Iran
The Last of UsAkher Wahed FinaAla Eddine SlimLebanon, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates
The Last ThingsLe Ultime CoseIrene DionisioFrance, Italy, Switzerland
The NobodiesLos NadieJuan Sebastián MesaColombia
PrankVincent BironCanada
Singing in the GraveyardsSinging sa mga Dakong LibinganBradley LiewMalaysia, Philippines
Special Events - Out of competition
Prevenge (Opening film) Alice Lowe United Kingdom
Are We Not Cats (Closing film) Xander Robin United States

Venice Days

The following films were selected for the 13th edition of the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section:[21][22]

English title Original title Director(s) Production country
In Competition
Guilty MenParienteIvan D. GaonaColombia
HeartstoneHjartasteinnGuðmundur Arnar GuðmundssonIceland
Hounds of LoveBen YoungAustralia
IndivisibleIndivisibiliEdoardo De AngelisItaly
Ordinary PeoplePamilya OrdinaryoEduardo Roy Jr.Philippines
PolinaPolina, danser sa vieAngelin Preljocaj, Valérie MüllerFrance
Quit Staring at My PlateNe gledaj mi u pijatHana JušićCroatia, Denmark
The Road to MandalayMidi ZTaiwan, Myanmar, France, Germany
Sami BloodSameblodAmanda KernellSweden
The War ShowAndreas Dalsgaard and Obadiah ZytoonSyria
The War WithinOmbre dal fondoPaola PiacenzaItaly
Worldly GirlLa ragazza del mondoMarco Danieli
Special Events
Always Shine Sophia Takal United States
Coffee Caffè Cristiano Bortone Belgium, China, Italy
Il profumo del tempo delle favole Mauro Caputo Italy
Rocco Thierry Demaiziere & Alban Teurlai France
L'uomo che non cambiò la storia Enrico Caria Italy
Vangelo Pippo Delbono Italy, Belgium, Switzerland
You Never Had It. An Evening with Bukowski Matteo Borgardt United States, Italy, Mexico
Miu Miu Women's Tales
Seed Naomi Kawase Japan
That One Day Crystal Moselle United States
Lux Award
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade Germany, Austria, Monaco, Romania, France
My Life as a Courgette Ma vie de Courgette Claude Barras Switzerland, France
As I Open My Eyes À peine j'ouvre les yeux Leyla Bouzid Tunisia, France, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Highlighted title indicates the official Venice Days Award winner.

Official Awards

The following official awards were presented at the 73rd edition:[23][24]

In Competition (Venezia 73)

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

Horizons (Orizzonti)

Venice Classics Awards

Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film (Lion of the Future)

Special Awards

Independent Sections Awards

The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[25]

Venice International Critics' Week

  • Audience Award - Circolo del Cinema di Verona: The Nobodies by Juan Sebastián Mesa
  • SIAE Award: Paolo Sorrentino
  • Mario Serandrei - Hotel Saturnia Award: The Last of Us by Ala Eddine Slim

Venice Days

  • Venice Days Award: The War Show by Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon[26]
  • BNL Award: Pamilya ordinaryo by Eduardo Roy Jr.
  • Brian Award: Worldly Girl by Marco Danieli
  • Fedeora Awards:
  • Gianni Astrei Award: Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis
  • Label Europa Cinema Award: Sami Blood by Amanda Kernell
  • Lizzani Award: Worldly Girl by Marco Danieli
  • Lina Mangiacapre Award: Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis
  • MigrArti Award: No Borders by Haider Rashid

Independent Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[25]

Open Award

  • Open Prize: Vangelo by Pippo Delbono

Francesco Pasinetti – SNGCI Award

  • Best Film: Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis
  • Best Actor: Michele Riondino for Worldly Girl
  • Best Actress: Sara Serraiocco for Worldly Girl
    • Special mention: Angela and Marianna Fontana for their roles in Indivisibili

Queer Lion

Arca CinemaGiovani Award

  • Best Film (Main competition): Arrival by Denis Villeneuve
  • Best Italian Film (Biennale College - Cinema): Ears by Alessandro Aronadio
  • Civitas Vitae Award: Piuma by Roan Johnson

FEDIC Award

  • Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis
    • Special mentions:
      • The Greatest Dream by Michele Vannucci
      • Ears by Alessandro Aronadio

FIPRESCI Awards

Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award

Enrico Fulchignoni – CICT-UNESCO Award

Future Film Festival Digital Award

Giovani Giurati del Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award

Green Drop Award

  • Spira Mirabilis by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti
  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey by Terrence Malick

Human Rights Nights Special Award

Interfilm Award

Lanterna Magica Award (CGS)

Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award

Cinema for UNICEF mention

Golden Mouse

NuovoImaie Talent Award

  • Best Young Actor: Daniele Parisi for his role in Ears
  • Best Young Actress: Camilla Diana for Tommaso by Kim Rossi Stuart

Francesco Pasinetti Special Prize

  • the cast of Piuma by Roan Johnson

Sfera 1932 Award

  • Spira Mirabilis by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti

SIGNIS Award

  • Piuma by Roan Johnson
    • Special mention: On the Milky Road by Emir Kusturica

C. Smithers Foundation – CICT-UNESCO Award

Soundtrack Stars Award

Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award - Best Italian Film

Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award - Best Foreign Film

Padre Nazareno Taddei Award

  • Paradise by Andrei Konchalovsky

Kinèo Awards

3rd Starlight Cinema Awards

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