71st Venice International Film Festival

71st Venice International Film Festival

Festival Poster
Opening film	Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Closing film	The Golden Era
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Silver Lion – The Postman's White Nights
Hosted by	Luisa Ranieri
Festival date	27 August – 6 September 2014
Website	Website

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 G. 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]

• Alexandre Desplat: French composer (President of Jury)
• Joan Chen: Chinese actress and director
• Philip Groning: German director
• Jessica Hausner: Austrian director
• Jhumpa Lahiri: Indian novelist
• Sandy Powell: English costume designer
• Tim Roth: British actor
• Elia Suleiman: Palestinian director
• Carlo Verdone: Italian actor and director

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 G. 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
The Price of Fame	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: A Sicilian Story	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	Ничије дете (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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
El Cinco	El 5 de talleres	Adrián Biniez	Argentina, Uruguay
Return to Ithaca	Retour à Ithaque	Laurent Cantet	France
Before I Disappear	N/A	Shawn Christensen	United States
The Smell of Us	The Smell of Us	Larry Clark	France
Messi	Messi	Álex de la Iglesia	Spain
The Dinner	I nostri ragazzi	Ivano De Matteo	Italy
Summer Nights	Les nuits d'été	Mario Fanfani	France
Patria	Patria	Felice Farina	Italy
The Farewell Party	Mita Tova	Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon	Israel, Germany
Métamorphoses	Métamorphoses	Christophe Honoré	France
Between 10 and 12	Tussen 10 en 12	Peter Hoogendoorn	Netherlands
One on One	일대일	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea
The Goob	N/A	Guy Myhill	United Kingdom
Labour of Love	Asha jaoar majhe	Aditya Vikram Sengupta	India
They Have Escaped	He ovat paenneet	JP Valkepää	Finland, Netherlands

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

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Class Enemy	Razredni sovražnik	Rok Biček	Slovenia
Ida	Ida	Paweł Pawlikowski	Poland, Denmark
Girlhood	Bande de filles	Céline Sciamma	France

Venice Classics

The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:^[22]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Bride	Gelin	Lutfi Akad	Turkey
Red Chairs, Parma and the Cinema	Poltrone rosse, parma e il cinema	Francesco Barilli	Italy
China is Near	La Cina è vicina	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
Mouchette		Robert Bresson	France
The Innocents		Jack Clayton	United Kingdom
Walking the Streets of Moscow	Ya shagayu po Moskve	Georgiy Daneliya	Soviet Union
Umberto D.		Vittorio De Sica	Italy
The Iron Mask		Allan Dwan	United States
L'udienza		Marco Ferreri	Italy
No End	Bez końca	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Poland
Without Pity	Senza pietà	Alberto Lattuada	Italy
The Warrior	Maciste alpino	Luigi Maggi, Luigi Romano Borgnetto	Italy
L'avventura di un soldato		Nino Manfredi	Italy
Guys and Dolls		Joseph L. Mankiewicz	United States
Altman		Ron Mann	Canada
The Man from Laramie		Anthony Mann	United States
Todo modo		Elio Petri	Italy
L'Amour existe		Maurice Pialat	France
The Tragedy of Macbeth		Roman Polanski	United Kingdom, United States
The Tales of Hoffmann		Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	United Kingdom
A Special Day	Una giornata particolare	Ettore Scola	Italy
Only She Knows	Kanojo dake ga shitte iru	Osamu Takahashi	Japan
Stolen Kisses	Baisers volés	François Truffaut	France
Flowers of Taipei – New Taiwan Cinema	光陰的故事 －台灣新電影	Hsieh Chin Lin	Taiwan

Awards

The following awards were presented at the 71st edition:^[23][24]

Official selection

In Competition

• Golden Lion – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence by Roy Andersson
• Silver Lion – The Postman's White Nights by Andrei Konchalovsky
• Grand Jury Prize – The Look of Silence by Joshua Oppenheimer
• Volpi Cup:
  • Best Actor – Adam Driver for Hungry Hearts
  • Best Actress – Alba Rohrwacher for Hungry Hearts
• Marcello Mastroianni Award – Romain Paul for Le Dernier Coup de marteau
• Best Screenplay Award – Tales by Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
• Special Jury Prize – Sivas by Kaan Mujdeci
• Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film - Court by Chaitanya Tamhane

Special Awards

• Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement – Thelma Schoonmaker and Frederick Wiseman
• Visionary Talent Award: Frances McDormand^[25]
• Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award: James Franco;^[26]

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^[27][28]

• 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)^{[29][30][31][32]}

• 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^[33]

• Pasinetti Award for Best Film - Black Souls by Francesco Munzi
• Pasinetti Award for Best Actor - Elio Germano for Leopardi
• Pasinetti Award for Best Actress - Alba Rohrwacher for Hungry Hearts
• Pasinetti Special Award - The Dinner by Ivano De Matteo

1st Akai International Film Festival^[34]

• 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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External links

• Official website
• 71st Venice Film Festival 2014