63rd Venice International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	The Black Dahlia by Brian De Palma
Closing film	The Island by Pavel Lungin
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: Still Life
Hosted by	Isabella Ferrari
Festival date	30 August – 9 September 2006
Website	Website
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The 63rd annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, from 30 August to 9 September 2006.

Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia was the opening film of the festival, and Pavel Lungin's The Island was the closing film. Italian actress Isabella Ferrari was the host of both ceremonies.^[1]

During the festival, retrospectives were held on the one hundredth anniversary of the births of three major Italian directors: Roberto Rossellini, Mario Soldati and Luchino Visconti. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was presented to American director David Lynch. All the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premiere in the festival history since the Second World War.^[2][3]

Jia Zhangke's Still Life won the Golden Lion, the festival top prize, following main competition prizes to Alain Resnais, Emanuele Crialese, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Isild Le Besco, Emmanuel Lubezki, Peter Morgan, and a Special Lion to French filmmakers duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for their innovation in cinematographic languages.

The international juries of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:^[4][5]

• Catherine Deneuve, French actress — Jury President
• 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

• Philip Gröning, German fillmaker — Jury President
• Carlo Carlei, Italian director
• Giuseppe Genna, Italian writer
• Keiko Kusakabe, Japanese producer and distributor
• Yousry Nasrallah, Egyptian director

• 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

• Teboho Mahlatsi, South African director and producer — Jury President
• Francesca Calvelli, Italian editor
• Aleksey Fedorchenko, Russian director

The competitive section of the official selection is an international competition of feature films in 35mm and digital HD format, running for the Golden Lion.^[6]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Black Book	Zwartboek	Paul Verhoeven	Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom
The Black Dahlia (opening film)		Brian De Palma	United States, Germany
Bobby		Emilio Estevez	United States
Children of Men		Alfonso Cuarón	United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Dry Season	Daratt	Mahamat Saleh Haroun	Chad, France, Belgium, Austria
Euphoria	Эйфория	Ivan Vyrypaev	Russia
Exiled	放‧逐	Johnnie To	Hong Kong, China
Falling	Fallen	Barbara Albert	Austria
The Fountain		Darren Aronofsky	United States
Golden Door	Nuovomondo	Emanuele Crialese	Italy, France
Hollywoodland		Allen Coulter	United States
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone	黑眼圈	Tsai Ming-liang	Malaysia, Taiwan
The Missing Star	La stella che non c'è	Gianni Amelio	Italy
Mushishi	蟲師	Katsuhiro Otomo	Japan
Paprika	パプリカ	Satoshi Kon	Japan
Private Fears in Public Places	Cœurs	Alain Resnais	France, Italy
Private Property	Nue Propriété	Joachim Lafosse	Belgium, Luxembourg, France
The Queen		Stephen Frears	United Kingdom
Still Life	三峡好人	Jia Zhangke	China
Syndromes and a Century	Sang sattawat	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand, France
These Encounters of Theirs	Quei loro incontri	Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet	Italy, France
The Untouchable	L'intouchable	Benoît Jacquot	France

Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.

Works by directors already established in past editions of the Festival, and films deemed appropriate for a midnight screening.^[7]

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

A section aiming to provide a picture of the new trends in cinema.^[8]

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	Mabei shang de fating	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

Highlighted title indicate the Horizons Awards for Best Film and Best Documentary respectively.

International competition of 35mm short films, in world premiere, not exceeding 30 minutes in length.^[9]

Original Title	Director(s)	Production country
In competition
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.

Special monografic section on the Secret story of Russian cinema from 1934 to 1974.^[10]

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

This is a special section dedicated to the Brazilian movie-maker, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, one of the fathers of new cinema and a famous renewal of Brazilian cinema. His daughter, Alice de Andrade, also a producer, restored the fourteen works that constitute all of her father's filmography.^[11]

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)

Special monographic sessions dedicated to the secret story of Italian film from 1937 to 1979. This is the third part of the retrospective of Italian Film, initiated at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.^[12]

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

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for the 21st Venice International Film Critics' Week:^[13]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
In Competition
El Amarillo		Sergio Mazza	Argentina
My One and Onlies	Egyetleneim	Gyula Nemes[14]	Hungary
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints		Dito Montiel	United States
Hyena	Hiena	Grzegorz Lewandowski[15]	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

The following films were selected for the 3rd edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:^[16]

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’etoile 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

The following Official Awards were conferred at the 63rd edition:^[17]

• Golden Lion: Still Life by Jia Zhangke
• Silver Lion for Best Director: Alain Resnais for Private Fears in Public Places
• Silver Lion Revelationr: Emanuele Crialese for Nuovomondo
• Special Jury Prize: Daratt by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Helen Mirren for The Queen
• Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Isild Le Besco for The Untouchable
• Award for Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
• Award for Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan for The Queen
• Special Lion: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for their innovation in cinematographic languages

• David Lynch

• Best Film: Courthouse on the Horseback by Liu Jie
• Best Documentary: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee

• 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

• Khadak by Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth
  • Special mention: 7 Years by Jean-Pascal Hattu

The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:^[17][18][19]

• Best Film: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel
• Isvema Award: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints by Dito Montiel

• 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

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:^[18]

• Best Film (Main competition): The Queen by Stephen Frears^[20]
• Best Film (Horizons): When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee

• Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese
  • Special mention: Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
  • Special mention: Private Property by Joachim Lafosse

• Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese

• Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

• Best Actor: Sergio Castellitto for The Missing Star
• Best Actress: Laura Morante for Private Fears in Public Places
• Best Film: Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese

• Marco Bellocchio

• Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese

• Euphoria by Ivan Vyrypaev

• Black Book by Paul Verhoeven

• Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli

• Dong by Jia Zhangke

• Dong by Jia Zhangke
• I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave by Hala Alabdalla Yakoub and Ammar Al Beik

• Inland Empire by David Lynch
  • Special mention: The Banquet by Feng Xiaogang

• Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón

• Bobby by Emilio Estevez

• Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese

• I Don't Want to Sleep Alone by Tsai Ming-liang

• Lettere dal Sahara by Vittorio De Seta

• When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  • Special mention: Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

• Dry Season by Mahamat Saleh Haroun

• The Missing Star by Gianni Amelio

• Nick Cave (screenplay) for The Proposition by John Hillcoat^[21]

• 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

• Official website
• Venice Film Festival 2006 Awards on IMDb