66th Venice International Film Festival
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{{Infobox Film festival
|name = 66th Venice International Film Festival
|image = VeniceFilmFestival66poster.jpg
|image_alt =
|caption = Festival poster
|opening =Baarìa
|closing =Chengdu, I Love You
|founded = 1932
|awards = Golden Lion:
Lebanon
|host =Maria Grazia Cucinotta
|number =
|date = 2–12 September 2009
|website = [http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/ Website]
| chronology = Venice Film Festival
| preceded_by = 65th
| followed_by = 67th
}}
File:66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra) Palais du Cinema.jpg
The 66th annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 2 to 12 September 2009, at Venice Lido in Italy.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7915196.stm |title=BBC News: Ang Lee to head Venice festival |access-date=12 March 2009|work=BBC News | date=27 February 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090302170333/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7915196.stm| archive-date= 2 March 2009 | url-status= live}}
Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee was the jury president for the main competition. Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta was the Host of the opening and closing ceremonies.{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/news/cucinotta.html |title=Maria Grazia Cucinotta hostess of the 66th Venice Film Festival |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903052105/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/news/cucinotta.html |archive-date=3 September 2009 }} The Golden Lion was awarded to Lebanon by Samuel Maoz.{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/premi/awards.html |title=66th Venice Film Festival Official Awards |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930213250/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/premi/awards.html |archive-date=30 September 2009 }}
The festival opened with Baarìa by Giuseppe Tornatore, and the closed with Chengdu, I Love You by Fruit Chan and Cui Jian.
Juries
= Main competition (''Venezia 66'') =
- Ang Lee, Taiwanese filmmaker and producer - Jury President{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/66.html |title=66th Venice Film Festival Juries Venezia 66 |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913094903/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/66.html |archive-date=13 September 2009 |access-date=22 April 2018 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.culturecompass.co.uk/2009/09/02/66th-venice-film-festival-the-jury/|title=66th Venice Film Festival – The Jury|work=culturecompass.co.uk|access-date=8 October 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131008210240/http://www.culturecompass.co.uk/2009/09/02/66th-venice-film-festival-the-jury/|archive-date=8 October 2013|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Anurag-Kashyap-on-Venice-Film-Festival-jury/articleshow/4837291.cms|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131008210254/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-30/india/28186313_1_venice-film-festival-anurag-kashyap-dev-d-and-gulaal|url-status=live|archive-date=8 October 2013|work=The Times of India|title=Anurag Kashyap on Venice Film Festival jury|access-date=8 October 2013 }}
- Sergei Bodrov, Russian filmmaker and producer
- Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress and filmmaker
- Liliana Cavani, Italian filmmaker
- Joe Dante, American director, producer, editor and actor
- Anurag Kashyap, Indian director, writer, producer and actor
- Luciano Ligabue, Italian director, writer and singer-songwriter
= ''[[Orizzonti]]'' =
- Pere Portabella, Spanish politician, director, and producer - Jury President{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/orizzonti.html |title=66th Venice Film Festival Juries Orizzonti |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905050306/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/orizzonti.html |archive-date=5 September 2009 |access-date=22 April 2018 }}
- Bady Minck, Luxembourger filmmaker and artist
- Gina Kim, South Korean filmmaker and academic
- Garin Nugroho, Indonesian director
- Gianfranco Rosi, Italian director, cinematographer, producer and screenwriter
= ''Opera Prima'' ("''Luigi de Laurentiis''" Award for a Debut Film) =
- Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker - Jury President{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/jury_operaprima.html |title=66th Venice Film Festival Juries Opera Prima |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905025334/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/jury_operaprima.html |archive-date=5 September 2009 |access-date=22 April 2018 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.screendaily.com/venice-jurors-to-include-gina-kim-ramin-bahrani-stuart-gordon/5003878.article|title=Venice jurors to include Gina Kim, Ramin Bahrani, Stuart Gordon |work=screendaily.com |access-date=8 October 2013}}
- Ramin Bahrani, American director and screenwriter
- Gianni Di Gregorio, Italian director, screenwriter and actor
- Antoine Fuqua, American director and producer
- Sam Taylor-Wood, English filmmaker and photographer
= ''Corto-Cortissimo'' (Short Film Competition) =
- Stuart Gordon, American filmmaker, theater director and playwright - Jury President{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/cortocortissimo.html |title=66th Venice Film Festival Juries Corto-Cortissimo |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115101913/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/cortocortissimo.html |archive-date=15 November 2009 |access-date=22 April 2018 }}
- Steve Ricci, Italian cinematographer, screenwriter and editor
- Sitora Alieva, Russian artistic director of the International Film Festival Kinotav
= Controcampo Italiano =
- Carlo Lizzani, Italian director, screenwriter and critic - Jury President{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/controcampo.html |title=66th Venice Film Festival Juries Corto-Cortissimo |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905035900/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/juries/controcampo.html |archive-date=5 September 2009 |access-date=22 April 2018 }}
- Giulio Questi, Italian director and screenwriter
- Marina Sanna, Italian chief editor of cinema magazine
Official Sections
=In Competition=
The following films were selected for the main competition:{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/venezia66 |title=66th Venice Film Festival Venezia 66 |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130012203/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/venezia66 |archive-date=30 November 2009 |access-date=17 August 2009 }}
| class="wikitable" style="width:95%; margin-bottom:0px" | |||
| English title
! Original title ! Director(s) ! Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Accident | 意外 | data-sort-value="Pou-Soi" | Cheang Pou-Soi | China（Hong Kong） |
| Around a Small Mountain | 36 vues du pic Saint-Loup | data-sort-value="Rivette"| Jacques Rivette | France, Italy |
| colspan=2| Baarìa (opening film) | data-sort-value="Tornatore" | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy, France | |
| colspan=2| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | data-sort-value="Herzog"| Werner Herzog | United States | |
| Between Two Worlds | Ahasin Wetei | data-sort-value="Jayasundara" | Vimukthi Jayasundara | Sri Lanka, France |
| data-sort-value="Big"| The Big Dream | data-sort-value="Grande"| Il grande sogno | data-sort-value="Placido"| Michele Placido | Italy, France |
| colspan=2| Capitalism: A Love Story | data-sort-value="Moore"| Michael Moore | United States | |
| data-sort-value="Double"| The Double Hour | data-sort-value="Doppia"| La doppia ora | data-sort-value="Capotondi"| Giuseppe Capotondi | Italy |
| Grandmother | Lola | data-sort-value="Mendoza"| Brillante Mendoza | France, Philippines |
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| colspan=2| Lebanon | data-sort-value="Maoz"| Samuel Maoz | Israel, France, Germany, United Kingdom | |
| colspan=2| Life During Wartime | data-sort-value="Solondz"| Todd Solondz | United States | |
| colspan=2| Lourdes | data-sort-value="Hausner"| Jessica Hausner | Austria | |
| colspan=2| Mr Nobody | data-sort-value="Dormael"| Jaco Van Dormael | Belgium, Canada, France, Germany | |
| colspan=2| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | data-sort-value="Herzog"| Werner Herzog | United States | |
| colspan=2| Persécution | data-sort-value="Chereau"| Patrice Chéreau | France | |
| Prince of Tears | 淚王子 | Yonfan | Taiwan |
| colspan=2 data-sort-value="Road"| The Road | data-sort-value="Hillcoat"| John Hillcoat | rowspan="2" | United States | |
| colspan=2 data-sort-value="Single"| A Single Man | data-sort-value="Ford"| Tom Ford | ||
| colspan=2| Soul Kitchen | data-sort-value="Akın"| Fatih Akın | Germany | |
| colspan=2| Survival of the Dead | data-sort-value="Romero"| George A. Romero | Canada, United States | |
| Tetsuo: The Bullet Man | Tetsuo Project | data-sort-value="Tsukamoto"| Shinya Tsukamoto | Japan |
| data-sort-value="Traveller"| The Traveller | المسافر | data-sort-value="Maher" | Ahmad Maher | Egypt, Italy |
| colspan=2| White Material | data-sort-value="Denis"| Claire Denis | France | |
| data-sort-value="White S"| The White Space | data-sort-value="Spazio"| Lo spazio bianco | data-sort-value="Comencini"| Francesca Comencini | Italy |
| Women Without Men | Zanan-e bedun-e mardan | data-sort-value="Neshat"| Shirin Neshat | Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Ukraine, Morocco |
=Out of Competition=
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/out_of_competition |title=66th Venice Film Festival Out of Competition |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091129211320/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/out_of_competition |archive-date=29 November 2009 |access-date=22 April 2018 }}
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| English title
! Original title ! Director(s) ! Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| colspan=2| Brooklyn's Finest | data-sort-value="Fuqua"| Antoine Fuqua | United States | |
| Chengdu, I Love You (closing film) | 成都我爱你 | data-sort-value="Chan" | Fruit Chan and Cui Jian | China |
| colspan=2| Delhi-6 | data-sort-value="Mehra"| Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | rowspan="2" | India | |
| colspan=2| Dev.D | data-sort-value="Kashyap"| Anurag Kashyap | ||
| colspan=2| Great Directors | data-sort-value="Kashyap" | Angela Ismailos | United States | |
| Green Days | Ruzhaye Sabz | Hana Makhmalbaf | Iran |
| Gulaal
|गुलाल | data-sort-value="Kashyap" | Anurag Kashyap | India | |
| colspan=2 data-sort-value="Hole"| The Hole | data-sort-value="Dante" | Joe Dante | rowspan="3" | United States | |
| colspan=2 data-sort-value="Informant"| The Informant! | data-sort-value="Soderbergh"| Steven Soderbergh | ||
| colspan=2 data-sort-value="Men"| The Men Who Stare at Goats | data-sort-value="Heslov"| Grant Heslov | ||
| colspan=2| Napoli, Napoli, Napoli | data-sort-value="Ferrara" | Abel Ferrara | rowspan="2" | Italy | |
| colspan="2" |L'oro di Cuba | |||
| colspan=2| Rambo (director's cut) | Sylvester Stallone | United States | |
| colspan=2| REC 2 | data-sort-value="Balagueró"| Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Spain | |
| data-sort-value="Red"| The Red Shadows | data-sort-value="Ombre"|Le ombre rosse | data-sort-value="Maselli"| Francesco Maselli | rowspan="2" | Italy |
| Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy | Prove per una tragedia siciliana | data-sort-value="Paska"| Roman Paska, John Turturro | |
| Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story | إحكي يا شهرزاد | data-sort-value="Nasrallah" | Yousry Nasrallah | Egypt |
| colspan=2| South of the Border | data-sort-value="Stone"| Oliver Stone | United States | |
| colspan=2| Valhalla Rising | data-sort-value="Refn"| Nicolas Winding Refn | Denmark, United Kingdom | |
| Yona Yona Penguin | よなよなペンギン | Rintaro | Japan, France |
= ''Corto Cortissimo'' (Short Film Competition) =
The following films were selected for the Corto Cortissimo (Short film competition) section:{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/corto_cortissimo |title=66th Venice Film Festival Corto Cortissimo |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002210545/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/corto_cortissimo/ |archive-date=2 October 2009 |access-date=23 April 2018 }}
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| English title
! Original title ! Director(s) ! Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| colspan=4| In competition | |||
| colspan=2| Felicità | data-sort-value="Aleksi"| Salome Aleksi | Georgia | |
| data-sort-value="Kinema"| The Kinematograph | Kinematograf | data-sort-value="Baginski"| Tomek Baginski | Poland |
| I Know There’s a Man | So Che C'è Un Uomo | data-sort-value="Cappai"| Gianclaudio Cappai | Italy |
| This Is Earth, My Brother | To je zemljia, brat moj | data-sort-value="Cvitkovič"| Jan Cvitkovič | Slovenia, Italy |
| Still Birds | Alle Fugler | data-sort-value="Eliassen"| Sara Eliassen | Norway |
| Bliss | data-sort-value="Teu"| O Teu Sorriso | data-sort-value="Freire"| Pedro Freire | Brazil |
| data-sort-value="Game"| The Game | data-sort-value="Gioco"| Il Gioco | data-sort-value="Giannini"| Adriano Giannini | Italy |
| colspan=2| Object #1 | data-sort-value="Ibragimbekov"| Murad Ibragimbekov | Russia | |
| colspan=2| Girllikeme | data-sort-value="Jobson"| Rowland Jobson | United Kingdom | |
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| Firstborn | Eersgeborene | data-sort-value="Kallos"| Etienne Kallos | South Africa, United States |
| Mom’S Vacation | Umma-E Huga | Kwang-Bok Kim | South Korea |
| colspan=2| Storage | data-sort-value="Lea"| David Lea | United Kingdom | |
| Of Clouds and Hands | Nuvole, Mani | data-sort-value="Massi"| Simone Massi | France |
| colspan=2| Sinner | data-sort-value="Philip"| Meni Philip | Israel | |
| colspan=2| Family Jewels | data-sort-value="Stitt"| Martin Stitt | United States, United Kingdom | |
| For Two | Er Ren | data-sort-value="Tan"| Shijie Tan | Singapore |
| Bicycle | Jitensha | data-sort-value="Yamada"| Dean Yamada | Japan, United States |
| colspan=2| Kingyo | data-sort-value="Yeo"| Edmund Yeo | Japan, Malaysia | |
| colspan="4" |Out of Competition | |||
| colspan="2" |Plastic Bag (Opening film)
|United States | |||
| colspan="2" |The It.Aliens (Closing Film)
|Clemens Klopfenstein, Lukas Klopfenstein |Italy, Switzerland | |||
| colspan="4" |Special Events | |||
| colspan="2" |Recordare
|Leonardo Carrano, Alessandro Pierattini |Italy | |||
| The City in the Sky
|La città nel cielo |United Kingdom, Italy | |||
| The Second Family
|La seconda famiglia |Alberto Dall'Ara |Italy | |||
| colspan="2" |Earth
|Tzu Nyen Ho |Singapore | |||
| colspan="2" |Radio
|Riccardo Pugliese |United States, Italy | |||
| War
|Uerra |Italy | |||
| colspan="2" |A la lune montante
|Annarita Zambrano |France |
= ''[[Orizzonti]]'' =
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/orizzonti |title=66th Venice Film Festival Orizzonti |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091129211235/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/orizzonti |archive-date=29 November 2009 |access-date=22 April 2018 }}
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| English title
! Original title ! width="26%"|Director(s) ! Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| colspan=2| 1428 | data-sort-value="Du" | Haibin Du | China | |
| Adrift | data-sort-value="Chuyen"| Choi voi | Bui Thac Chuyen | Vietnam |
| Bets and Wedding Dresses | Tris di donne & abiti nuziali | data-sort-value="Terracciano"| Vincenzo Terracciano | Italy |
| Buried Secrets | Dowaha | data-sort-value="Amari"| Raja Amari | Tunisia |
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| Clash | Engkwentro | data-sort-value="Diokno"| Pepe Diokno | Philippines |
| data-sort-value="Color"| The Color of Words | data-sort-value="Colore" | Il colore delle parole | data-sort-value="Puccioni"| Marco Simon Puccioni | Italy |
| Cow | 斗牛 | data-sort-value="Hu" | Guan Hu | China |
| Crush | Korotkoe zamykanie | data-sort-value="Buslov"| Pyotr Buslov, Alexei German Jr., Boris Khlebnikov, Kirill Serebrennikov, Ivan Vyrypaev | Russia |
| colspan=2| Francesca (Opening film) | data-sort-value="Paunescu" | Bobby Paunescu | Romania | |
| I Am Love | Io sono l'amore | data-sort-value="Guadagnino"| Luca Guadagnino | Italy |
| I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You | Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo | data-sort-value="Gomes"| Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz | Brazil |
| Judge | 透析 | data-sort-value="Liu" | Jie Liu | China |
| data-sort-value="Mans"| The Man’s Woman and Other Stories | Aadmi ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya | data-sort-value="Dutta"| Amit Dutta | India |
| colspan=2 data-sort-value="Movie"| The Movie Orgy - Ultimate Version | data-sort-value="Dante"| Joe Dante | United States | |
| Once Upon a Time Proletarian | 曾经的无产者 | data-sort-value="Guo"| Xiaolu Guo | China |
| colspan=2 data-sort-value="One A"| The One All Alone | data-sort-value="Scheffer" | Frank Scheffer | Netherlands | |
| One-Zero | Wahed-Sefr | data-sort-value="Abou Zekry"| Kamla Abou Zekry | Egypt |
| colspan=2| Paraiso | data-sort-value="Galvez"| Héctor Gálvez | Peru | |
| colspan=2| Pepperminta | data-sort-value="Rist"| Pipilotti Rist | Switzerland | |
| colspan=2| Repo Chick | data-sort-value="Cox"| Alex Cox | United States | |
| Sunstroke | Insolação | data-sort-value="Thomas"| Felipe Hirsch, Daniela Thomas | Brazil |
| Tender Parasites | Zarte Parasiten | data-sort-value="Becker"| Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe | Germany |
| colspan=2| Totò | data-sort-value="Schreiner" | Peter Schreiner | Austria | |
| colspan=2| Villalobos | data-sort-value="Karmakar" | Romuald Karmakar | Germany | |
| colspan=2| Woman on Fire Looks for Water | data-sort-value="Jin"| Woo Ming Jin | Malaysia, South Korea | |
| colspan="4" |Horizons Events | |||
| colspan="2" |Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno
|Italy | |||
| colspan="2" |The Marriage
|Italy, Spain | |||
| Reading Book of Blockade
|Chitaem 'Blokadnuju knigu' |Russia | |||
| colspan="2" |The Death of Pentheus
|United States | |||
| colspan="2" |La Bohème
|United Kingdom | |||
| Faces of Seoul
|Seo-wool eui ul-gul |United States, South Korea | |||
| colspan="2" |Hugo en Afrique
|Switzerland | |||
| colspan="2" |Via della croce
|Serena Nono |Italy | |||
| colspan="2" |Mudanza (short)
|Spain | |||
| colspan="2" |Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri
|Italy | |||
| La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
|La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris |France, United States | |||
| colspan="2" |Cock-Crow
| rowspan="2" |David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi | rowspan="2" |Italy | |||
| colspan="2" |Daimon |
=[[Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement]]=
As part of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2009, which was conferred to John Lasseter and the Directors of Disney-Pixar, the following American animation films were presented:{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/lion |title=66th Venice Film Festival, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2009 |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915182953/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/lion |archive-date=15 September 2009 |access-date=23 April 2018 }}
=''Cortocampo Italiano''=
The following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section:{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/controcampo_italiano |title=66th Venice Film Festival Cortocampo Italiano |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905025339/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/controcampo_italiano |archive-date=5 September 2009 |access-date=23 April 2018 }}
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| English title
! Original title ! Director(s) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cosmonaut | Cosmonauta | data-sort-value="Nicchiarelli"| Susanna Nicchiarelli |
| David's Birthday | data-sort-value="Compleanno"| Il Compleanno | data-sort-value="Filiberti"| Marco Filiberti |
| colspan=2| Giuseppe De Santis | data-sort-value="Lizzani"| Carlo Lizzani | |
| Hollywood on the Tiber | Hollywood sul Tevere | data-sort-value="Spagnoli"| Marco Spagnoli |
| In the Eyes | Negli occhi | data-sort-value="Del Grosso"| Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti |
| data-sort-value="Little"| The Little | data-sort-value="Piccolo"| Il Piccolo | data-sort-value="Zaccaro"| Maurizio Zaccaro |
| Poets | Poeti | data-sort-value="D Angelo"| Toni D'Angelo |
| colspan=2| Sputnik 5 | data-sort-value="Nicchiarelli"| Susanna Nicchiarelli | |
| Ten Winters | Dieci Inverni | data-sort-value="Mieli"| Valerio Mieli |
=Italian Retrospective: These Phantoms 2=
For this retrospective section on Italian cinema, 39 feature and 26 short films were screened, including documentaries. The films were mainly from the period 1946 - 1971, with a few only films going back to the 1930s and reaching up to 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/these_phantoms/ |title=66th Venice Film Festival These Phantoms 2 |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004010807/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/these_phantoms/ |archive-date=4 October 2009 |access-date=23 April 2018 }}
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| English title
! Original title ! Director(s) | ||
|---|---|---|
| colspan="2" |Accidenti alla guerra!... (1948) | data-sort-value="Simonelli" | Giorgio Simonelli | |
| Break Up (1965) | data-sort-value="Uomo" | L'uomo dei cinque palloni | data-sort-value="Ferreri" | Marco Ferreri |
| colspan="2" |Carmen di Trastevere (1963) | data-sort-value="Gallone" | Carmine Gallone | |
| Death of a Friend (1959) | Morte di un amico | data-sort-value="Rossi" | Franco Rossi |
| Dreams Die at Dawn (1961) | data-sort-value="Sogni" | I sogni muoiono all'alba | data-sort-value="Montanelli" | Indro Montanelli, Enrico Gras, Mario Craveri |
| Easy Years (1953) | Anni facili | data-sort-value="Zampa" | Luigi Zampa |
| colspan="2" |Un eroe del nostro tempo (1960) | data-sort-value="Capogna" | Sergio Capogna | |
| data-sort-value="Flame" | The Flame That Will Not Die (1949) | data-sort-value="Flamma" | La Fiamma che non si spegne | data-sort-value="Cottafavi" | Vittorio Cottafavi |
| colspan="2" | Galileo (1968) | data-sort-value="Cavani" | Liliana Cavani | |
| Girl in the Window (1961) | data-sort-value="Ragazza" | La ragazza in vetrina | data-sort-value="Emmer" | Luciano Emmer |
| data-sort-value="Great" | The Great War (1959) | data-sort-value="Grande" | La grande guerra | data-sort-value="Monicelli" | Mario Monicelli |
| House of Ricordi (1954) | Casa Ricordi | data-sort-value="Gallone" | Carmine Gallone |
| Hurricane Rosy (1979) | Temporale Rosy | data-sort-value="Monicelli" | Mario Monicelli |
| data-sort-value="Invisible" | The Invisible Ones (1988) | data-sort-value="Invisibili" | Gli Invisibili | data-sort-value="Squitieri" | Pasquale Squitieri |
| Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It (1970) | Uccidete il vitello grasso e arrostitelo | data-sort-value="Samperi" | Salvatore Samperi |
| Love in Rome (1960) | data-sort-value="Amore" | Un amore a Roma | data-sort-value="Risi" | Dino Risi |
| data-sort-value="Lovemakers" | The Lovemakers (1961) | data-sort-value="Viaccia" | La viaccia | data-sort-value="Bolognini" | Mauro Bolognini |
| Margherita and Her Three Uncles (1942) | Margherita fra i tre | data-sort-value="Perilli" | Ivo Perilli |
| data-sort-value="Naked" | The Naked Hours (1964) | data-sort-value="Ore" | Le ore nude | data-sort-value="Vicario" | Marco Vicario |
| colspan="2" |Nerosubianco (1968) | data-sort-value="Brass" | Tinto Brass | |
| colspan="2" |Noi cannibali (1953) | data-sort-value="Leonviola" | Antonio Leonviola | |
| One Between the Crowd (1946) | Uno tra la folla | data-sort-value="Cerlesi" | Ennio Cerlesi, Piero Tellini |
| Princess Cinderella (1941) | Cenerentola e il Signor Bonaventura | data-sort-value="Tofano" | Sergio Tofano |
| data-sort-value="Quiet" | A Quiet Place in the Country (1969) | data-sort-value="Tranquillo" | Un tranquillo posto di campagna | data-sort-value="Petri" | Elio Petri |
| data-sort-value="Reunion" | The Reunion (1963) | data-sort-value="Rimpatriata" | La Rimpatriata | data-sort-value="Damiani" | Damiano Damiani |
| data-sort-value="Ship" | The Ship of Condemned Women (1954) | data-sort-value="Nave" | La nave delle donne maledette | data-sort-value="Matarazzo" | Raffaello Matarazzo |
| Stories in the Sand (1963) | Storie sulla sabbia | data-sort-value="Fellini" | Riccardo Fellini |
| data-sort-value="Stranger" | The Stranger's Hand (1954) | data-sort-value="Mano" | La mano dello straniero | data-sort-value="Soldati" | Mario Soldati |
| colspan="2" |Il tramontana (1965) | data-sort-value="Barbano" | Adriano Barbano | |
| colspan="2" |Tre nel mille (1971) | data-sort-value="Indovina" | Franco Indovina | |
| data-sort-value="Wanderers" | The Wanderers (1956) | data-sort-value="Girovaghi" | I girovaghi | data-sort-value="Fregonese" | Hugo Fregonese |
| Women Without Names (1950) | Donne senza nome | data-sort-value="von Radványi" | Géza von Radványi |
Independent Sections
=Venice International Film Critics' Week=
The following films were selected for the 24th International Film Critics' Week:{{cite web |url=http://www.sicvenezia.it/edizione/24-settimana-internazionale-della-critica/?lang=en |title=24th International Film Critics' Week |work=sicvenezia.it |access-date=6 April 2018 |archive-date=8 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408081043/http://www.sicvenezia.it/edizione/24-settimana-internazionale-della-critica/?lang=en |url-status=dead }}
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| English title
! Original title ! Director(s) ! Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| colspan=4| In competition | |||
| Cafe Noir | Ka-pe-neu-wa-reu | Jung Sung-il | South Korea |
| A Rational Solution | Det enda rationella | Jörgen Bergmark | Sweden |
| Domain | Domaine | Patric Chiha | France, Austria |
| Crawfishlike
|Kakraki | Ilya Demichev | Russia | |
| Foxes | Lištičky | Mira Fornay | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland |
| Tehroun | Téhéran | Nader T. Homayoun | France, Iran |
| colspan="4" |Out of competition | |||
| colspan="2" |Metropia (opening film)
|Sweden | |||
| The Pothole (closing film)
|Chaleh |Iran | |||
| colspan="2" |Videocracy
|Sweden |
=Venice Days=
The following films were selected for the 6th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:{{cite web|url=http://www.venice-days.it/archivioedizioni/2009/filmENG.asp |title=Venice Days 2009: 6th edition |work=venice-days.it |access-date=23 April 2018}}{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/aut-sect/venice-days/ |title=Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905035213/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/autonomous_sections/venice_days |archive-date=5 September 2009 |access-date=24 April 2018 }}
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| English title
! Original title ! Director(s) ! Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| colspan=4| In competition | |||
| The Ape | Apan | Jesper Ganslandt | Sweden |
| colspan=2| Barking Water | Sterlin Harjo | United States | |
| Blood and Rain
|La sangre y la lluvia |Jorge Navas |Colombia, Argentina | |||
| Cell 211 | Celda 211 | Daniel Monzón | Spain, France |
| colspan=2| Desert Flower | Sherry Hormann | United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France | |
| Fat People | Gordos | Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | Spain |
| France | Francia | Israel Adrián Caetano | Argentina |
| colspan="2" | Harragas | Merzak Allouache | Algeria, France | |
| colspan="2" | Honeymoons | Goran Paskaljevic | Serbia, Albania | |
| The Horde | La horde | Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher | France |
| Hymn to Love | L’amore e basta | Stefano Consiglio | Italy |
| I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive | Je suis heureux que ma mere soit vivante | Claude Miller, Nathan Miller | France |
| The Last Days of Emma Blank | De laatste Dagen van Emma Blank | Alex van Warmerdam | Netherlands |
| colspan="2" |Mille giorni di Vito
|Elisabetta Pandimiglio | rowspan="2" |Italy | |||
| Poetry, You See Me | Poesia che mi guardi | Marina Spada | |
| Silent Voice | Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront | Léa Fehner | France |
| What Do You Know About Me | Di me cosa ne sai | Valerio Jalongo | Italy |
| colspan="4" |Out of competition | |||
| colspan="2" |Ragazze la vita trema
|Paola Sangiovanni |Italy | |||
| The Magliari (1959)
|I magliari |Italy, France | |||
| colspan="2" |Teat Beat of Sex
|United States | |||
| colspan="2" |Videocracy
|Sweden | |||
| colspan="2" |Vittorio D
|Mario Canale, Annarosa Morri |Italy |
Official Awards
= In competition (''Venezia 66'') =
- Golden Lion: Lebanon by Samuel Maoz
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Shirin Neshat for Women Without Men
- Special Jury Prize: Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Colin Firth for A Single Man
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Kseniya Rappoport for The Double Hour
- Marcello Mastroianni Award: Jasmine Trinca for The Big Dream
- Golden Osella for Outstanding Technical Contribution: Sylvie Olivé for Mr. Nobody
- Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Todd Solondz for Life During Wartime
= Horizons (''Orizzonti'') =
- Best Film: Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno
- Best Documentary: 1428 by Haibin Du
- Special mention: The Man's Woman and Other Stories by Amit Dutta
= Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film =
- Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno
= Short Film Competition (''Corto Cortissimo'') =
- Best Short Film: Firstborn by Etienne Kallos
- Venice Nomination to the European Film Awards 2009: Sinner by Meni Philip
- Special mention: Felicità by Salomé Aleksi
= Controcampo Italiano =
- Best Feature Film: Cosmonaut by Susanna Nicchiarelli
- Special Mention: In the Eyes by Francesco Del Grosso, Daniele Anzellotti
= [[Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement]] =
= Special awards =
- Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: Sylvester Stallone
- Persol 3-D Award for Best Stereoscopic Film: The Hole by Joe Dante (Out of competition)
Independent Sections Awards
= Venice International Film Critics' Week =
- "Region of Veneto for quality cinema" Award: Tehroun by Takmil Homayoun Nader
- Future Film Festival Digital Award: Metropia by Tarik Saleh
- Special Mention: Up by Pete Docter
= Venice Days (''[[Giornate degli Autori|Giornati degli Autori]]'') =
- Label Europa Cinemas Award: The Last Days of Emma Blank by Alex van Warmerdam
Independent Awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/news/collateral.html |title=Collateral Awards of the 66th Venice Film Festival |work=labiennale.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090915172833/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/news/collateral.html |archive-date=15 September 2009 |access-date=24 April 2018 }}
= [[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Award]] =
- Best Film (Main competition): Lourdes by Jessica Hausner{{cite web|url=http://www.fipresci.org/awards/2009 |title=FIPRESCI Awards 2009 |work=fipresci.org |access-date=24 April 2018}}
- Best Film (Horizons): Adrift by Bui Thac Chuyen
= [[Queer Lion]] =
= [[SIGNIS|SIGNIS Award]] =
- Lourdes by Jessica Hausner
- Special mention: Lebanon by Samuel Maoz
= Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI) =
- Best Film: The White Space by Francesca Comencini
- Best Director: Giuseppe Tornatore for Baarìa
- Best Actor: Filippo Timi for The Double Hour
- Best Actress: Margherita Buy for The White Space
- Special award: Riccardo Scamarcio for The Big Dream
- Special award: Armando Testa – Povero ma moderno by Pappi Corsicato
= Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola Award =
= La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award =
= C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award =
= UNICEF Award =
= Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award =
= Biografilm Lancia Award =
- Best Fiction Film: Mr. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael
- Best Documentary: In the Eyes by Francesco Del Grosso & Daniele Anzellotti
= Brian Prize by [[Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics|UAAR]] =
= Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs) =
- Cosmonauta by Susanna Nicchiarelli
= FEDIC Award =
- The White Space by Francesca Comencini
- Special Mention: What Do You Know About Me by Valerio Jalongo
= Arca Cinemagiovani Awards =
- Best Film: Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin
- Best Italian Film: The Double Hour by Giuseppe Capotondi
= Lina Mangiacapre Award =
- Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story by Yousry Nasrallah
= Air For Film Fest Award =
- The White Space by Francesca Comencini
= Open Award 2009 =
- Capitalism: A love story by Michael Moore
= Gianni Astrei Award =
- The White Space by Francesca Comencini
References
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External links
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- {{official website|http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/}}
- [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/2009/1/ Venice Film Festival 2009 Awards] on IMDb
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