23rd Venice International Film Festival

{{Infobox Film festival

|name = 23rd Venice International Film Festival

|location = Venice, Italy

|founded = 1932

|awards =Golden Lion: Family Diary and Ivan's Childhood

|date = 25 August – 8 September 1962

|website = [http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/ Website]

| chronology = Venice Film Festival

| preceded_by = 22nd

| followed_by = 24th

}}

The 23rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 25 August to 8 September 1962.{{cite web|url=http://www.carnivalofvenice.com/?page_id=497&lang=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924072141/http://www.carnivalofvenice.com/?page_id=497&lang=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 24, 2020|title=The 1960s|accessdate=October 7, 2013}}

Italian filmmaker Luigi Chiarini was the Jury President for the main competition. The Golden Lion winners were: Family Diary directed by Valerio Zurlini and Ivan's Childhood directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

A retrospective of the American Twenties is famously linked to this edition.{{cite magazine |date=Winter 1962–1963 |title=The Front Page/1962 |magazine=Sight & Sound |publisher=British Film Institute |volume=32 |issue=1 |page=3|url=https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_Sound_1963_01_BFI_GB/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater|access-date=3 December 2022|via=Archive.org}}

Jury

Luigi Chiarini, Italian filmmaker - Jury President{{cite web|url=http://www.carnivalofvenice.com/?page_id=522&lang=en|title=Juries for the 1960s|accessdate=October 7, 2013}}
Guglielmo Biraghi, Italian film critic
G. B. Cavallaro, Italian producer
Georges Charensol, French actor
John Houseman, American actor and producer
Iosif Kheifits, Soviet filmmaker
Arturo Lanocita, Italian writer and journalist
Ronald Neame, British filmmaker and cinematographer
Hans Schaarwächter, West German journalist

Official Sections

= Main Competition =

English title ! Original title ! Director(s) ! Production country
class="wikitable" width="95%"
colspan="2" \| Birdman of Alcatraz	John Frankenheimer	United States
style="background:#E7CD00;" \| *Family Diary*	*Cronaca familiare*	Valerio Zurlini	Italy
Homage at Siesta Time	Homenaje a la hora de la siesta	Leopoldo Torre Nilsson	Argentina
style="background:#E7CD00;" \| *Ivan's Childhood*	Ива́ново де́тство	Andrei Tarkovsky	Soviet Union
colspan="2" \| Lolita	Stanley Kubrick	United Kingdom
The Mad Fox	恋や恋なすな恋	Tomu Uchida	Japan
colspan="2" \| Mamma Roma	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy
Men and Beasts	Люди и звери	Sergei Gerasimov	Soviet Union
colspan="2" \| Smog	Franco Rossi	Italy
colspan="2" \| Term of Trial	Peter Glenville	United Kingdom
colspan="2" \| Thérèse Desqueyroux	Georges Franju	rowspan="2" \| France
colspan="2" \| Vivre sa vie	Jean-Luc Godard