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69th Venice International Film Festival

69th Venice International Film Festival

Film festival

The 69th annual Venice International Film Festival, organized by Venice Biennale, took place at Venice Lido from 29 August to 8 September 2012.[1] The festival opened with the Indian director Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist,[2][3] and closed with the Out of Competition film The Man Who Laughs, directed by Jean-Pierre Ameris.[4] Terrence Malick's film To the Wonder was met with both boos and cheers from critics at its premiere.[5]

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The Golden Lion for Best Film was won by Pietà, directed by South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk.[6] Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master won the Silver Lion for Best Director. Additionally, American actors Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman shared the prize for Best Actor for that film. Israeli actress Hadas Yaron for her performance in Fill the Void was selected as the Best Actress in the festival.[6]

Juries

The international juries of the 69th Venice International Film Festival included:[7][8]

Main competition (Venezia 69)

Horizons (Orizzonti)

Opera Prima (Venice Award for a Debut Film)

Official Sections

In Competition

The following eighteen films were selected for the main competition:[9][10]

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Out of Competition

The following films were selected for the out of competition section:[11]

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Horizons

The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[12]

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Highlighted title indicates the Orizzonti Award for Best Feature Film winner.

Venice Classics

The following selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinema were screened for this section:[13]

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«80!»

The following rare films from the Biennale's Historical Archives were screened for this retrospective section:[14]

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Special Screenings

The following films of the Official Selection were presented as Special Screenings:[15]

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Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following films were selected for the Critics' Week:[16][17]

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Venice Days

The following films were selected for the Venice Days section:[18][19][20]

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Official Awards

The following Official Awards were conferred at the 69th edition:[21]

In Competition (Venezia 69)

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

Horizons (Orizzonti)

"Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film

  • Mold by Ali Aydın

Special Awards

Independent Sections Awards

The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:

Venice International Film Critics' Week

Venice Days (Giornati degli Autori)

Independent Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[22]

FIPRESCI Awards

Queer Lion

SIGNIS Award

Francesco Pasinetti (SNGCI) Award

Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award

Cinema for UNICEF mention

Brian Award

Arca CinemaGiovani Award - Venezia 69

Biografilm Lancia Award

  • The Human Cargo by Daniele Vicari
  • Bad25 by Spike Lee

Bisato d'Oro Award

  • Best Film: Bellas Mariposas by Salvatore Mereu
  • Best Director: Jazmín López for Lions
  • Best Actress: Nora Aunor for Thy Womb

CICT - UNESCO "Enrico Fulchignoni" Award

  • The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo

CICAE - Cinema d’Arte e d’Essai Award

  • Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour

CinemAvvenire Award

  • Best film - Venezia 69: Paradies: Glaube by Ulrich Seidl
  • Best film - Il cerchio non è rotondo: Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour

FEDIC Award

  • The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo
    • Special mention: Bellas Mariposas by Salvatore Mereu

Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award

Future Film Festival Digital Award

P. Nazareno Taddei Award

Lanterna Magica (CGS) Award

  • The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo

Open Award

  • The Company You Keep by Robert Redford

La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award

  • Thy Womb by Brillante Mendoza

AIF - FORFILMFEST Award

  • The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo

Golden Mouse

  • Pieta by Kim Ki-duk
  • Silver Mouse: Anton's Right Here by Lyubov Arkus

UK - Italy Creative Industries Award – Best Innovative Budget Award

  • The Interval by Leonardo Di Costanzo

Gillo Pontecorvo - Arcobaleno Latino Award

  • Laura Delli Colli

Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Award

  • Low Tide by Roberto Minervini

Interfilm Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue

  • Wadjda by Haifaa Al Mansour

Giovani Giurati del Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award

Green Drop Award

  • The Fifth Season by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth

Controversy over Golden Lion

The jury led by filmmaker Michael Mann originally was to award the top Golden Lion prize to Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master, along with the Silver Lion Best Director award and the Best Actor award.[24][25][26] However, because of festival's new rule prohibiting pairing the Golden Lion with any other prizes, the jury was asked "to re-deliberate to remove" one of the awards for The Master, and the Golden Lion was awarded to Kim Ki-duk's Pietà instead.[24][26] On the other hand, the jury was planned to award the Coppa Volpi for the Best Actress prize to Jo Min-su, who acted Jang Mi-sun in Pietà. However, because of the festival's new rule, the jury couldn't award a prize to Jo Min-su.[27] In the official reception which was held after the festival was over, many juries, such as Samantha Morton and Peter Chan met Jo, saying that "Jo's acting was touching that changed my life. I shed tears of Jo's play."[28][29]

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