63rd Venice International Film Festival
Italian film festival in 2006
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The 63rd annual Venice International Film Festival, was held from 30 August to 9 September 2006, at Venice Lido in Italy.
Festival poster | |
| Opening film | The Black Dahlia |
|---|---|
| Closing film | The Island |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Still Life |
| Hosted by | Isabella Ferrari |
| Artistic director | Marco Müller |
| Festival date | 30 August – 9 September 2006 |
| Website | Website |
French actress Catherine Deneuve was the jury president for the main competition. Italian actress Isabella Ferrari was the host of both ceremonies.[1] The Golden Lion was awarded to Still Life by Jia Zhangke.
The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to American filmmaker David Lynch who also presented Inland Empire out of competition, his last feature film.[2]
For the first time since the Second World War, all of the films entered into the main competition were shown as world premieres.[3][4]
The festival opened with The Black Dahlia by Brian De Palma, and closed with The Island by Pavel Lungin.
Juries
Main Competition (Venezia 63)
- Catherine Deneuve, French actress - Jury President[5][6]
- Paulo Branco, Portuguese producer
- Cameron Crowe, American filmmaker and producer
- Chulpan Khamatova, Russian actress
- Juan Josè Bigas Luna, Spanish director and writer
- Park Chan-wook, South Korean filmmaker
- Michele Placido, Italian actor and director
Orizzonti
- Philip Gröning, German fillmaker - Jury President
- Carlo Carlei, Italian director
- Giuseppe Genna, Italian writer
- Keiko Kusakabe, Japanese producer and distributor
- Yousry Nasrallah, Egyptian director
Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film)
- Paula Wagner, American producer - Jury President
- Guillermo del Toro, Mexican filmmaker
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian filmmaker and producer
- Andrei Plakhov, Russian critic
- Stefania Rocca, Italian actress
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)
- Teboho Mahlatsi, South African director and producer - Jury President
- Francesca Calvelli, Italian editor
- Aleksey Fedorchenko, Russian director
Official Sections
In Competition
The following films were selected for the main competition:[7]
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[8]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Banquet | 夜宴 | Feng Xiaogang | China |
| Belle Toujours | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France | |
| The Devil Wears Prada | David Frankel | United States | |
| A Few Days in September | Quelques jours en septembre | Santiago Amigorena | France, Italy |
| Inland Empire | David Lynch | United States, Poland, France | |
| The Island (closing film) | Остров | Pavel Lungin | Russia |
| The Magic Flute | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, France | |
| Tales from Earthsea | ゲド戦記 | Goro Miyazaki | Japan |
| World Trade Center | Oliver Stone | United States | |
| Out of Competition – Midnight | |||
| The City of Violence | 짝패 | Ryoo Seung-wan | South Korea |
| Have You Another Apple? | Baaz ham sib daari? | Bayram Fazli | Iran |
| Retribution | 叫 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| Rob-B-Hood | 寶貝計劃 | Benny Chan | China |
| Summer Love | Piotr Uklański | Poland | |
| To Let | Para entrar a vivir | Jaume Balagueró | Spain |
| The Wicker Man | Neil LaBute | United States | |
| Special event | |||
| Letters from the Sahara | Lettere dal Sahara | Vittorio De Seta | Italy |
Orizzonti
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[9]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | |||
| Crickets | こおろぎ | Shinji Aoyama | Japan |
| The Hottest State | Ethan Hawke | United States | |
| Tachiguishi retsuden | 立喰師列伝 | Mamoru Oshii | Japan |
| El cobrador: In God We Trust | Paul Leduc | Mexico, Argentina, Brasil | |
| Courthouse on the Horseback | 马背上的法庭 | Liu Jie | China |
| Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight | Non prendere impegni stasera | Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | Italy |
| Free Floating | Свободное плавание | Boris Khlebnikov | Russia |
| Heimat Fragments: The Women | Heimat-Fragmente: Die Frauen | Edgar Reitz | Germany |
| I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave | Ana alati tahmol azouhour ila qabriha | Hala Alabdalla Yakoub, Ammar Al Beik | Syria, France |
| Infamous | Douglas McGrath | United States | |
| Quijote | Mimmo Paladino | Italy | |
| Rain Dogs | Taiyang yu | Ho Yuhang | Malaysia, Hong Kong |
| Requiem from Java | Opera Jawa | Garin Nugroho | Indonesia |
| Rome Rather Than You | Roma wa la n’touma | Tariq Teguia | Algeria, France |
| Suely in the Sky | O Céu de Suely | Karim Aïnouz | Brasil |
| Documentaries | |||
| Bellissime 2 – Dagli anni Sessanta ad oggi | Giovanna Gagliardo | Italy | |
| Dong | 东 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| The U.S. vs. John Lennon | David Leaf, John Scheinfeld | United States | |
| When the Leeves Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | Spike Lee | United States | |
| Special events | |||
| Akamas | Panicos Chrysanthou | Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Turkey | |
| C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle | Alain Robbe-Grillet | France, Belgium | |
| Kill Gil 2 | Gil Rossellini | Italy, Switzerland | |
| Il mio paese | Daniele Vicari | Italy | |
| Pasolini prossimo nostro | Giuseppe Bertolucci | Italy, France | |
Corto Cortissimo
The following films were selected for the Short Films Competition (Corto Cortissimo):[10]
| Original Title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|
| Levelek | Ferenc Cakó | Hungary |
| Comment on freine dans une descente? | Alix Delaporte | France |
| The Making of Parts | Daniel Elliott | United Kingdom |
| Detektive | Andreas Goldstein | Germany |
| Treinta Años | Nicolás Lasnibat | France, Chile |
| Um Ano Mais Longo | Marco Martins | Portugal |
| Mum | Mads Matthiesen | Denmark |
| "Faça sua Escolha" | Paula Miranda | Brazil |
| Pharmakon | Ioakim Mylonas | Cyprus |
| Rien ne va plus | Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hàmos | Germany |
| Trillizas Propaganda | Fernando Salem | Argentina |
| Simanei Derech | Shimon Shai | Israel |
| Fib 1477 | Lorenzo Sportiello | Italy |
| What Does Your Daddy Do? | Martin Stitt | United Kingdom |
| Eva reste au placard les nuits de pleine lune | Alex Stockman | Belgium |
| In the Eye Abides the Hear | Mary Sweeney | United States |
| Adults only | Joon Han Yeo | Malaysia |
| Out of competition | ||
| Sekalli sa Meokgo | Teboho Mahlatsi | South Africa |
- Highlighted title indicates Lion for Best Short Film winner.
Retrospective - The Secret Story of Russian cinema
Special retrospective section of the Russian cinema, from 1934 to 1974:[11]
| Original title | English title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Гармонь (1934) | Accordion | Igor Savchenko | Soviet Union |
| Весёлые ребята (1934) | Jolly Fellows | Grigori Aleksandrov | |
| Цирк (1936) | Circus | Grigori Aleksandrov | |
| Богатая невеста (1938) | The Country Bride | Ivan Pyryev | |
| Волга-Волга (1938) | Volga-Volga | Grigori Aleksandrov | |
| Трактористы (1939) | Tractor Drivers | Ivan Pyryev | |
| Музыкальная история (1940) | Musical Story | Aleksandr Ivanovsky, Herbert Rappaport | |
| Светлый путь (1940) | Tanya | Grigori Aleksandrov | |
| Свинарка и пастух (1941) | They Met in Moscow | Ivan Pyryev | |
| В 6 часов вечера после войны (1944) | Six P.M. | Ivan Pyryev | |
| Весна (1947) | Springtime | Grigori Aleksandrov | |
| Кубанские казаки (1950) | Cossacks of the Kuban | Ivan Pyryev | |
| Щедрое лето (1950) | Bountiful Summer | Boris Barnet | |
| Карнавальная ночь (1956) | Carnival Night | Eldar Ryazanov | |
| Наш милый доктор (1957) | Our Dear Doctor | Shaken Aimanov | |
| Черёмушки (1962) | Cherry Town | Herbert Rappaport | |
| Спасите утопающего (1967) | Save the Drowning Man | Pavel Arsenov | |
| Романс о влюблённых (1974) | A Lover's Romance | Andrei Konchalovsky |
Retrospective - Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
This is a special section dedicated to the Brazilian filmmaker Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, one of the fathers of Cinema Novo. His daughter, Alice de Andrade, also a producer, restored the fourteen works that constitute all of her father's filmography.[12]
| English title | Original title | Director | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature films | |||
| Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (1963) | Garrincha, Alegria do Povo | Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Brazil |
| The Priest and the Girl (1966) | O Padre e a Moça | ||
| Macunaíma (1969) | |||
| The Conspirators (1972) | Os Inconfidentes | ||
| Conjugal Warfare (1975) | Guerra Conjugal | ||
| O Homen do Pau-Brasil (1981) | |||
| Short Films | |||
| O Mestre de Apipucos (1959) | Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Brazil | |
| O Poeta do Castelo (1959) | |||
| Couro de Gato (1960) | |||
| Cinéma Nôvo (1967) | |||
| Brasilia, Contradições de Uma Cidade Nova (1967) | |||
| Linguagem da Persuasão (1970) | |||
| Vereda Tropical (1977) | |||
| O Aleijadinho (1978) | |||
Retrospective - Secret History of Italian Cinema 3
Special retrospective section to the Italian cinema, from 1937 to 1979. This is the third part of the retrospective of Italian Film, initiated at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.[13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Restoration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centennial of Rossellini, Soldati and Visconti | |||
| In High Places (1942) | Quartieri alti | Mario Soldati | Cineteca Nazionale |
| Obsession (1943) | Ossessione | Luchino Visconti | Cineteca Nazionale, Ripley's Film, SKY Italia |
| Rome, Open City (1945) | Roma, città aperta | Roberto Rossellini | Cineteca Nazionale, Department of Cultural Policies of the City of Rome, Cinecittà Digital |
| Escape to France (1948) | Fuga in Francia | Mario Soldati | Cineteca Nazionale |
| Anna Magnani, episode from We, the Women (1953) | Luchino Visconti | Cineteca Nazionale, Ripley's Film | |
| Ingrid Bergman, episode from We, the Women (1953) | Roberto Rossellini | ||
| General Della Rovere (1959) | Il generale della Rovere | Cineteca Nazionale, Gruppo Editoriale Minerva – Raro Video, National Museum of Cinema of Torino, Historical Archive of the Biennale, LVR | |
| The secret story of Italian cinema | |||
| The Ferocious Saladin (1937) | Il feroce Saladino | Mario Bonnard | Cineteca Italiana, National Museum of Cinema of Torino, Cineteca of Bologna – Laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata |
| For a Few Dollars More (1965) | Per qualche dollaro in più | Sergio Leone | Cineteca di Bologna – Laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata, SKY Italia |
| From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) | Dalla nube alla resistenza | Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Only copy of this archive is at the Cineteca of Bologna |
Independent Sections
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for the 21st Venice International Film Critics' Week:[14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| El Amarillo | Sergio Mazza | Argentina | |
| My One and Onlies | Egyetleneim | Gyula Nemes | Hungary |
| A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | Dito Montiel | United States | |
| Hyena | Hiena | Grzegorz Lewandowski | Poland |
| Premonition | Le Pressentiment | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | France |
| On the Trail of Igor Rizzi | Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi | Noël Mitrani | Canada |
| Do over | Yi Nian Zhichu | Yu-Chieh Cheng | Taiwan |
| Special Event | |||
| The Rieducation | La rieducazione | Davide Alfonsi, Alessandro Fusto, Denis Malagnino | Italy |
| Homage to Otto Preminger | |||
| Bunny Lake is Missing | Otto Preminger | United Kingdom, United States | |
Venice Days
The following films were selected for the 3rd edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Years | 7 Ans | Jean-Pascal Hattu | France |
| Chicha tu madre | Gianfranco Quattrini | Argentina, Peru | |
| Come l'ombra | Marina Spada | Italy | |
| Dark Blue Almost Black | Azuloscurocasinegro | Daniel Sánchez Arévalo | Spain |
| Dreams of Dust | Rêves de poussière | Laurent Salgues | Burkina Faso, Canada, France |
| L'étoile du soldat | Christophe de Ponfilly | France, Germany, Afghanistan | |
| Falkenberg Farewell | Farväl Falkenberg | Jesper Ganslandt | Denmark, Sweden |
| Khadak | Jessica Woodworth, Peter Brosens | Belgium, Germany, Holland | |
| Meanwhile | Mientras tanto | Diego Lerman | Argentina, France |
| The Night of the Sunflowers | La noche de los girasoles | Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo | Spain, Portugal, France |
| Offscreen | Christoffer Boe | Denmark | |
| L'udienza è aperta | Vincenzo Marra | Italy | |
| WWW - What a Wonderful World | Faouzi Bensaïdi | Morocco, France | |
Official Awards
In Competition (Venezia 63)
- Golden Lion: Still Life by Jia Zhangke[16]
- Grand Special Jury Prize: Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Alain Resnais for Private Fears in Public Places
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Helen Mirren for The Queen
- Silver Lion Revelation: Emanuele Crialese for Golden Door
- Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Isild Le Besco for The Untouchable
- Golden Osella for Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
- Golden Osella for Best ScreenPlay: Peter Morgan for The Queen
- Special Lion: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for their innovation in cinematographic languages
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Orizzonti
- Best Film: Courthouse on the Horseback by Liu Jie
- Best Documentary: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee
Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)
- Silver Lion for Best Short Film: Comment on freine dans une descente? by Alix Delaporte
- UIP Award for the Best European Short Film: The Making of Parts by Daniel Elliott
- Special Mention: Adults Only by Yeo Joon Han
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film
Independent Sections Awards
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[16][17][18]
Venice International Film Critics' Week
- Best Film: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel
- Isvema Award: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel
Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori)
- Label Europa Cinemas: Dark Blue Almost Black by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
- Prize Arca Cinemagiovani (Young Cinema Award) – Best Movie "Other Visions": Offscreen by Christoffer Boe
- UAAR Award: Dark Blue Almost Black by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
- Venice Authors Prize: Chicha tu madre by Gianfranco Quattrini & Mientras tanto by Diego Lerman
Independent Awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[17]
FIPRESCI Award
- Best Film (Main competition): The Queen by Stephen Frears[19]
- Best Film (Horizons): When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee
SIGNIS Award
- Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese
- Special mention: Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
- Special mention: Private Property by Joachim Lafosse
UNICEF Award
UNESCO Award
Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI)
- Best Actor: Sergio Castellitto for The Missing Star
- Best Actress: Laura Morante for Private Fears in Public Places
- Best Film: Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese
Pietro Bianchi Award
FEDIC Award
Little Golden Lion
Young Cinema Award – Best International Film
Wella Prize
Open Prize
- Dong by Jia Zhangke
Doc/It Award
- Dong by Jia Zhangke
- I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave by Hala Alabdalla Yakoub and Ammar Al Beik
Future Film Festival Digital Award
- Inland Empire by David Lynch
- Special mention: The Banquet by Feng Xiaogang
Laterna Magica Prize
Biografilm Award
CinemAvvenire Award
Cinema for Peace Award
Award of the City of Rome
- Lettere dal Sahara by Vittorio De Seta
Human Rights Film Network Award
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
- Special mention: Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
EIUC Award
Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award
Gucci Award
- Nick Cave (screenplay) for The Proposition by John Hillcoat[20]
The numbers and the nations of the 63rd Show
- Number of countries with a film in one of the official sections: 31
- Countries making their first appearance at the film festival Chad, Cyprus and Indonesia
- Number of films displayed: 2,589, including 1,429 full-length feature films
- Number of full-length feature film officially presented: 62
- During the contest: 21
- Out of the contest: 9 + 7 midnights + 1 special event
- Venice Horizons: 19 + 5 special events
