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Opening film | Downsizing |
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Closing film | Outrage Coda |
Location | Venice, Italy |
Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: The Shape of Water |
Hosted by | Alessandro Borghi[1] |
Festival date | 30 August – 9 September 2017 |
Website | Website |
The 74th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 9 September 2017.[2]
The jury president of the main competition was announced as the American actress Annette Bening on 5 July 2017.[3] Downsizing, directed by Alexander Payne, was selected as the opening film of the festival. Takeshi Kitano's Outrage Coda was the festival's closing film.[4]
The Golden Lion was awarded to The Shape of Water, directed by Guillermo del Toro.[5]
A new section for virtual-reality (VR) films was introduced in this edition of the festival, as part of the Official Selection. 22 films were selected for the first-ever competition for films made in VR, while several more were presented in out-of-competition subsections.[6]
The following people formed the 2017 juries:[7][8]
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[9][10]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[10][11][12]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Fiction | |||
Brawl in Cell Block 99 | S. Craig Zahler | United States | |
Il colore nascosto delle cose | Silvio Soldini | Italy | |
Diva! | Francesco Patierno | ||
Loving Pablo | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spain, Bulgaria | |
Manhunt | 追捕 | John Woo | Hong Kong, China |
La mélodie | Rachid Hami | France | |
Mr Rotpeter | Il signor Rotpeter | Antonietta De Lillo | Italy |
Our Souls at Night | Ritesh Batra | United States | |
Outrage Coda (closing film) | アウトレイジ 最終章 | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
An Imperfect Murder | The Private Life of a Modern Woman | James Toback | United States |
Racer and the Jailbird | Le Fidèle | Michaël R. Roskam | Belgium, France, Netherlands |
Victoria & Abdul | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom | |
Wormwood | Errol Morris | United States | |
Zama | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina, Brazil | |
Non Fiction | |||
Cuba and the Cameraman | Jon Alpert | United States | |
The Devil and Father Amorth | William Friedkin | ||
Happy Winter | Buon inverno | Giovanni Totaro | Italy |
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – The story of Jim Carrey & Andy Kaufman featuring a very special, contractually obligated mention of Tony Clifton | Chris Smith | United States, Canada | |
My Generation | David Batty | United Kingdom | |
Piazza Vittorio | Abel Ferrara | Italy | |
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda | Stephen Nomura Schible | United States, Japan | |
This is Congo | Daniel McCabe | Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
Special Events | |||
Casa d’altri | Gianni Amelio | Italy | |
Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D | John Landis | United States | |
Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller | Jerry Kramer |
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[10][13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In Competition | |||
The Blessed | Les Bienheureux | Sofia Djama | France, Belgium |
Caniba | Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | France | |
Cinderella the Cat | Gatta Cenerentola | Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone | Italy |
The Cousin | Ha Ben Dod | Tzahi Grad | Israel |
Disappearance | Napadid shodan | Ali Asgari | Iran, Qatar |
Espèces menacées | Gilles Bourdos | France, Belgium | |
Invisible | Pablo Giorgelli | Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Germany, France | |
Krieg | Rick Ostermann | Germany | |
Nico, 1988 | Susanna Nicchiarelli | Italy, Belgium | |
The Night I Swam | La Nuit où j'ai nagé | Damien Manivel, Igarashi Kohei | France, Japan |
No Date, No Signature | بدون تاریخ، بدون امضاء | Vahid Jalilvand | Iran |
Oblivion Verses | Los Versos del Olvido | Alireza Khatami | France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile |
The Rape of Recy Taylor | Nancy Buirski | United States | |
Reinventing Marvin | Marvin ou la belle éducation | Anne Fontaine | France |
The Testament | Haedut | Amichai Greenberg | Israel, Austria |
Ugly Nasty People | Brutti e cattivi | Cosimo Gomez | Italy, France |
Under the Tree | Undir trénu | Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany |
La Vita in Comune | Edoardo Winspeare | Italy | |
West of Sunshine | Jason Raftopoulos | Australia | |
Short Films Competition | |||
Aria | Myrsini Aristidou | Cyprus, France | |
Astrometal | Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis | Greece | |
By the Pool | Laurynas Bareiša | Lithuania | |
Death Of The Sound Man | Awasarn Sound Man | Sorayos Prapapan | Thailand, Myanmar |
Gros Chagrin | Céline Devaux | France | |
Himinn Opinn | Gabriel Sanson, Clyde Gates | Belgium | |
It’s Easier to Raise Cattle | Lagi senang jaga sekandang lembu | Amanda Nell Eu | Malaysia |
The Knife Salesman | Michael Leonard, Jamie Helmer | Australia | |
Meninas Formicida | João Paulo Miranda María | France, Brazil | |
Mon Amour, Mon Ami | Adriano Valerio | Italy | |
The Shadow of the Bride | L’ombra della sposa | Alessandra Pescetta | Italy |
Tierra Mojada | Juan Sebastián Mesa Bedoya | Colombia | |
Short films - Out of Competition | |||
8th Continent | Yorgos Zois | Greece | |
Futuro prossimo | Salvatore Mereu | Italy |
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[14][15]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Restored films | |||
1900 (1976) | Novecento | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
The Ape Woman (1964) | La donna scimmia | Marco Ferreri | Italy, France |
Batch '81 (1982) | Mike De Leon | Philippines | |
Black Peter (1963) | Černý Petr | Miloš Forman | Czechoslovakia |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | Steven Spielberg | United States | |
Come and See (1985) | Иди и смотри | Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
Cousin, Cousine (1987) | Jean Rouch | France | |
Daïnah la métisse (1931) | Jean Grémillon | ||
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) | お茶漬けの味 | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
Into the Night (1985) | John Landis | United States | |
The Old Dark House (1932) | James Whale | ||
Red Desert (1964) | Il deserto rosso | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) | Raoul Walsh | United States | |
Rosita (1923) | Ernst Lubitsch | ||
Sansho the Bailiff (1954) | 山椒大夫 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
The Crucified Lovers (1954) | 近松物語 | ||
The Third Lover (1962) | L’oeil du malin | Claude Chabrol | France |
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) | Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle | Jean-Luc Godard | |
Under the Olive Tree (1950) | Non c’è pace tra gli ulivi | Giuseppe De Santis | Italy |
El Haimoune (1984) | الهائمون | Nacer Khemir | Tunisia, France |
Zero for Conduct (1933) | Zéro de conduite | Jean Vigo | France |
Documentaries on cinema | |||
Dangerous But Necessary | La Lucida Follia Di Marco Ferreri | Anselma Dell’Olio | Italy, France |
Evviva Giuseppe | Stefano Consiglio | Switzerland, Italy | |
Light Years | Años Luz | Manuel Abramovich | Argentina, Brazil, Spain |
L’enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - Cronaca di un film raté | Marco Di Castri, Paolo Favaro, Daniele Pianciola | Italy, France | |
The Russian Revolution Through Its Films | L’utopie des images de la Révolution Russe | Emmanuel Hamon | France |
The Prince and the Dybbuk | Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski | Poland, Germany | |
La Voce Di Fantozzi | Mario Sesti | Italy | |
This Is The War Room! | Boris Hars-Tschachotin | Germany |
The following films were selected for the Biennale College - Cinema section.[16]
Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Beautiful Things | Giorgio Ferrero | Italy |
Martyr | Mazen Khaled | Lebanon |
Strange Colours | Alena Lodkina | Australia |
The following films were selected for the Il Cinema nel Giardino section:[17]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Controfigura | Rä di Martino | Italy, France, Switzerland, Morocco | |
Manuel | Dario Albertini | Italy | |
Nato a Casal di Principe | Bruno Oliviero | Italy, Spain | |
Suburra: Blood on Rome | Suburra - La serie | Michele Placido, Andrea Molaioli, Giuseppe Capotondi | Italy |
Above the Law | Tueurs | François Troukens, Jean-François Hensgens | Belgium, France |
Woodshock | Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy | United States |
The following films were presented as Special screening of the Official Selection:[18]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Barbiana '65: La lezione di Don Milani | Alessandro G.A. D’Alessandro | Italy | |
The Electric Horseman (1979) | Sydney Pollack | United States | |
Lievito madre: Le ragazze del secolo scorso | Concita De Gregorio, Esmeralda Calabria | Italy | |
La lunga strada del ritorno (1962) | Alessandro Blasetti | ||
The Order of Things | L’ordine delle cose | Andrea Segre | Italy, France |
The following films were selected for the 32nd Venice International Critics' Week:[19][20][21]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In competition | |||
Crater | Il Cratere | Luca Bellino, Silvia Luzi | Italy |
Drift | Helena Wittmann | Germany | |
The Gulf | Körfez | Emre Yeksan | Turkey, Germany, Greece |
Hunting Season | Temporada de caza | Natalia Garagiola | Argentina, United States, Germany, France, Qatar |
Sarah Plays a Werewolf | Sarah joue un loup garou | Katharina Wyss | Switzerland, Germany |
Team Hurricane | Team Hurricane | Annika Berg | Denmark |
The Wild Boys | Les garçons sauvages | Bertrand Mandico | France |
Special Events - Out of competition | |||
Pin Cushion (Opening film) | Deborah Haywood | United Kingdom | |
Poison (Closing film) | Veleno | Diego Olivares | Italy |
SIC@SIC 2017 (Short Italian Cinema @ Settimana Internazionale della Critica) | |||
Adavede | Alain Parroni | Italy | |
Two | Due | Riccardo Giacconi | |
Ghosts of Yesterday | Les fantômes de la veille | Manuel Billi | |
The Legionnaire | Il legionario | Hleb Papou | |
MeanMinds | MalaMènti | Francesco Di Leva | |
Little Italian Girls | Piccole italiane | Letizia Lamartire | |
Visiting Day | Le visite | Elio Di Pace | |
SIC@SIC 2017 (Short Italian Cinema @ Settimana Internazionale della Critica) - Special Events | |||
Nausicaa - The Other Odyssey (Opening Short Film) | Nausicaa L'altra odissea | Bepi Vigna | Italy |
The Last Miracle (Closing Short Film) | L’ultimo miracolo' | Enrico Pau |
The following films were selected for the 14th edition of the Giornate degli Autori section:[22][23]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In Competition | |||
Candelaria | Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza | Colombia, Germany, Norway, Argentina, Cuba | |
Equilibrium | L'equilibrio | Vincenzo Marra | Italy |
Eye on Juliet | Kim Nguyen | Canada | |
Life Guidance | Ruth Mader | Austria | |
Longing | Ga'agua | Savi Gabizon | Israel |
Looking for Oum Kulthum | Shirin Neshat | Germany, Austria, Italy, Lebanon, Qatar | |
M | Sara Forestier | France | |
Samui Song | Pen-ek Ratanaruang | Thailand, Germany, Norway | |
Tainted Souls | Il contagio | Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini | Italy |
The Taste of Rice Flower | 米花之味 | Pengfei | China |
Volubilis | Faouzi Bensaïdi | Morocco, France, Qatar | |
Where the Shadows Fall | Dove cadono le ombre | Valentina Pedicini | Italy |
Special events | |||
Agnelli | Nick Hooker | United States | |
Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story | James Lester | ||
La legge del numero uno | Alessandro D'Alatri | Italy | |
The Resolute | Il risoluto | Giovanni Donfrancesco | Italy, France |
Il tentato suicidio nell'adolescenza (T.S. Giovanile) | Ermanno Olmi | Italy | |
Thirst Street | Nathan Silver | France, United States | |
Miu Miu Women's Tales | |||
Carmen | Chloë Sevigny | United States | |
(The [end) of history illusion] | Celia Rowlson-Hall | ||
Special Screenings | |||
Aquagranda in crescendo | Giovanni Pellegrini | Italy | |
Buried Seeds | Andrei Severny | United States | |
I'm (Endless Like the Space) | Anne-Riitta Ciccone | Italy | |
The Millionairs | Claudio Santamaria | ||
Raccontare Venezia | Wilma Labate | Italy, France | |
Lux Award | |||
BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo | France |
Sami Blood | Sameblod | Amanda Kernell | Sweden |
Western | Valeska Grisebach | Germany, Austria, Bulgaria |
The following official awards were presented at the 74th edition:[24][5]
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[25]
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[25]