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The 71st annual Venice International Film Festival took place in Venice, Italy between 27 August to 6 September 2014.[1] The festival opened with Alejandro G. Iñárritu's film Birdman,[2][3] and closed with Ann Hui's drama film The Golden Era.[4] Italian actress Luisa Ranieri hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival.[5] The Swedish film A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, directed by Roy Andersson, won the Golden Lion,[6] and Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence won the Grand Jury Prize.
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 |
| Hosted by | Luisa Ranieri |
| Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 2014 |
| Website | Website |
American filmmakers Thelma Schoonmaker and Frederick Wiseman were the recipients of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.[7] French composer Alexandre Desplat was the head of the jury for the main competition section.[8]
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.[9][10]
The following films were selected for the main competition:[14][15][16]
Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[17][15]
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[18][8]
Highlighted titles indicate the Orizzonti Awards for Best Feature Film and Best Short Film respectively.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| Belluscone: A Sicilian Story | Belluscone, una storia siciliana | Franco Maresco | Italy |
| Bypass | Duane Hopkins | United Kingdom | |
| Court | Chaitanya Tamhane | India | |
| Cymbeline | Michael Almereyda | United States | |
| Goodnight Mommy | Ich seh, Ich seh | Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala | Austria |
| Heaven Knows What | Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie | United States, France | |
| Hill of Freedom | 자유의 언덕 | Hong Sangsoo | South Korea |
| Jackie & Ryan | Ami Canaan Mann | United States | |
| Line of Credit | Kreditis Limiti | Salome Alexi | Georgia, Germany, France |
| Nabat | Elchin Musaoglu | Azerbaijan | |
| Near Death Experience | Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern | France | |
| The President | پرزیدنت | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Georgia, France, United Kingdom, Germany |
| Reality | Réalité | Quentin Dupieux | France, Belgium |
| Theeb | ذيب | Naji Abu Nowar | Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, United Kingdom |
| These Are the Rules | Takva Su Pravila | Ognjen Svilicic | Croatia, France, Serbia, Macedonia |
| La vita oscena | Renato De Maria | Italy | |
| Without Pity | Senza nessuna pietà | Michele Alhaique | |
| Short Films - Competition | |||
| 3/105 | Avelina Prat, Diego Opazo | Spain | |
| Art | Arta | Adrian Sitaru | Romania |
| The Baby | Bacheh | Ali Asgari | Italy, Iran |
| Cams | Carl-Johan Westregård | Sweden | |
| Castillo y el Armado | Pedro Harres | Brazil | |
| Daily Bread | Pat-Lehem | Idan Hubel | Israel |
| Era Apocrypha | Brendan Sweeny | United States | |
| Ferdinand Knapp | Andrea Baldini | France | |
| Great Heat | 大暑 | Chen Tao | China |
| In Overtime | Fi Al Waqt Al Dae'a | Rami Yasin | Jordan, Palestine |
| Mademoiselle | Guillaume Gouix | France | |
| Maryam | Sidi Saleh | Indonesia | |
| Out of competition | |||
| L'attesa del maggio | Simone Massi | Italy | |
| Lift You Up | Ramin Bahrani | United States | |
| On the Bride's Side | Io sto con la sposa | Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry | Italy, Palestine |
The following selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinema were screened for this section:[19]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restored Films | |||
| The Audience (aka Papal Audience) | L'udienza (1971) | Marco Ferreri | Italy |
| The Bride (1973) | Gelin | Ömer Lütfi Akad | Turkey |
| China is Near (1967) | La Cina è vicina | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| Guys and Dolls (1955) | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States | |
| The Innocents (1961) | Jack Clayton | United Kingdom | |
| The Iron Mask (1929) | Allan Dwan | United States | |
| Love Exists | L'Amour existe (1960) | Maurice Pialat | France |
| Macbeth (The Tragedy of Macbeth) (1971) | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom, United States | |
| The Man from Laramie (1955) | Anthony Mann | United States | |
| Mouchette (1967) | Robert Bresson | France | |
| No End (1985) | Bez końca | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
| Of Wayward Love (Sex Can Be Difficult) (1962) | L'amore difficile (L'avventura di un soldato) | Nino Manfredi | Italy |
| One Way or Another | Todo modo (1976) | Elio Petri | |
| Only She Knows (1960) | 彼女だけが知っている | Osamu Takahashi | Japan |
| A Special Day (1977) | Una giornata particolare | Ettore Scola | Italy |
| Stolen Kisses (1968) | Baisers volés | François Truffaut | France |
| The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom | |
| Umberto D. (1952) | Vittorio De Sica | Italy | |
| Walking the Streets of Moscow (1963) | Ya shagayu po Moskve | Georgiy Daneliya | Soviet Union |
| The Warrior (1916) | Maciste alpino | Luigi Maggi, Luigi Romano Borgnetto | Italy |
| Without Pity (1948) | Senza pietà | Alberto Lattuada | |
| Documentaries about Cinema | |||
| Animata resistenza | Francesco Montagner & Alberto Girotto | Italy | |
| Flowers of Taipei – Taiwan New Cinema | Guangyin de gushi – Taiwan Xin Dianying | Chinlin Hsieh | Taiwan |
| Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema | Poltrone Rosse - Parma e il Cinema | Francesco Barilli | Italy |
| Altman | Ron Mann | Canada | |
| Red Chairs, Parma and the Cinema | Poltrone rosse, parma e il cinema | Francesco Barilli | Italy |
The following films were screened for the "Biennale College - Cinema" section, a higher education training workshop for micro-budget feature films:[20]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| H. | Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia | United States, Argentina | |
| Blood Cells | Joseph Bull and Luke Seomore | United Kingdom | |
| Short Skin | Short Skin - I dolori del giovane Edo | Duccio Chiarini[21] | Italy, Iran, United Kingdom |
The following films were screened for the "Final Cut in Venice" section, a workshop to support the post-production of films from Africa:[22]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Council | Al majlis | Yahya Alabdallah[23] | Jordan, United Arab Emirates |
| I Have a Picture | Mohamed Zedan[24] | Egypt | |
| A Maid For Each | Makhdoumin | Maher Abi Samra[25] | Lebanon, France |
| Possessed by Djinn | Dalia Al Kury[26] | Jordan, Germany | |
| Rollaball | Eddie Edwards | South Africa, Ghana | |
| Tee Shirt Man | Tovoniaina Rasoanaivo | Madagascar | |
The following films were the Special Screenings of the Official Selection:[27]
The following films were selected for the 29th Venice International Film Critics' Week:[30][31]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | |||
| 40-Love | Terre battue | Stéphane Demoustier | France |
| The Coffin in the Mountain | 殡棺 | Xin Yukun | China |
| The Council of Birds | Zerrumpelt Herz | Timm Kröger | Germany |
| Dancing with Maria | Ivan Gergolet | Italy, Argentina, Slovenia | |
| Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere | Đập cánh giữa không trung | Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp | Vietnam, France, Norway, Germany |
| No One's Child | Ничије дете | Vuk Ršumović | Serbia |
| Villa Touma | Suha Arraf | Israel, Germany[32][33][34] | |
| Out of competition | |||
| Melbourne (Opening Film) | Nima Javidi | Iran | |
| The Market (Closing Film) | Arance e Martello | Diego Bianchi | Italy |
The following films were selected for the 11th edition of the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section:[35]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| Before I Disappear | Shawn Christensen | United States | |
| Between 10 and 12 | Tussen 10 en 12 | Peter Hoogendoorn | Netherlands |
| El Cinco | El 5 de Talleres | Adrián Biniez | Argentina, Uruguay |
| The Dinner | I nostri ragazzi | Ivano De Matteo | Italy |
| The Farewell Party | Mita Tova | Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon | Israel, Germany |
| The Goob | Guy Myhill | United Kingdom | |
| Labour of Love | Asha jaoar majhe | Aditya Vikram Sengupta | India |
| Messi | Álex de la Iglesia | Spain | |
| Métamorphoses | Christophe Honoré | France | |
| One on One | 일대일 | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea |
| Patria | Felice Farina | Italy | |
| Return to Ithaca | Retour à Ithaque | Laurent Cantet | France |
| The Smell of Us | Larry Clark | France | |
| Summer Nights | Les nuits d'été | Mario Fanfani | |
| They Have Escaped | He ovat paenneet | JP Valkepää | Finland, Netherlands |
| Special events | |||
| 9x10 novanta | Marco Bonfanti, Sara Fgaier, Claudio Giovannesi, Alina Marazzi, Pietro Marcello, Giovanni Piperno, Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Randi, Alice Rohrwacher, Roland Sejko | Italy | |
| Five Star | Keith Miller | United States | |
| The Lack | Masbedo | Italy | |
| The Show MAS Go On | Rä di Martino | ||
| Miu Miu Women's Tales | |||
| Somebody | Nanimono | Miranda July | Italy, United States |
| Spark and Light | So Yong Kim | ||
| Premio Lux | |||
| Class Enemy | Razredni sovražnik | Rok Biček | Slovenia |
| Ida | Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland, Denmark | |
| Girlhood | Bande de filles | Céline Sciamma | France |
The following official awards were presented at the 71st edition:[36][37]
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