The 74th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 9 September 2017.[2]
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | Downsizing |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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]
Juries
The following people formed the 2017 juries:[7][8]
Main Competition (Venezia 74)
- Annette Bening, American actress - Jury President[3]
- Ildikó Enyedi, Hungarian filmmaker
- Michel Franco, Mexican filmmaker and producer
- Rebecca Hall, English actress
- Anna Mouglalis, French actress
- David Stratton, Anglo-Australian film critic
- Jasmine Trinca, Italian actress
- Edgar Wright, English film director and screenwriter
- Yonfan, Taiwanese-Hong Kong filmmaker and producer
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Gianni Amelio, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
- Rakhshan Bani Etemad, Iranian director
- Ami Canaan Mann, American director
- Mark Cousins, Irish-Scottish director, screenwriter and curator
- Andrés Duprat, Argentinian screenwriter, architect and artistic curator
- Fien Troch, Belgian director and screenwriter
- Rebecca Zlotowski, French screenwriter and director
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film
- Benoît Jacquot, French filmmaker - Jury President
- Geoff Andrew, British writer and lecturer on film
- Albert Lee, Hong Kong producer
- Greta Scarano, Italian television, stage and film actress
- Yorgos Zois, Greek director
Venice Classics
- Giuseppe Piccioni, Italian director and screenwriter - Jury President
- 26 students of Cinema History
Venice Virtual Reality
- John Landis, American filmmaker, actor and producer - Jury President
- Céline Sciamma, French filmmaker
- Ricky Tognazzi, Italian actor and film director
Official Sections
In Competition
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[9][10]
- Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion winner.
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[10][11][12]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
Horizons (Orizzonti)
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[10][13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
- Highlighted titles indicate Horizons Prizes for Best Feature Film and Best Short Film respectively.
Venice Classics
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[14][15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
- Highlighted titles indicate the Best Restored Film and Best Documentary on Cinema official awards respectively.[15]
Biennale College - Cinema
The following films were selected for the Biennale College - Cinema section.[16]
| Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Things | Giorgio Ferrero | Italy |
| Martyr | Mazen Khaled | Lebanon |
| Strange Colours | Alena Lodkina | Australia |
Il Cinema nel Giardino
The following films were selected for the Il Cinema nel Giardino section:[17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Controfigura | Rä di Martino | Italy, France, Switzerland, Morocco | |
| Manuel | Dario Albertini | Italy | |
| Nato a Casal di Principe | Bruno Oliviero | Italy, Spain | |
| 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 | |
Special Screenings
The following films were presented as Special screening of the Official Selection:[18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Independent Sections
Venice International Critics' Week
The following films were selected for the 32nd Venice International Critics' Week:[19][20][21]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
Giornate degli Autori
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
- Highlighted title indicates the official Giornate degli Autori Award winner.
Official Awards
The following official awards were presented at the 74th edition:[24][5]
In Competition (Venezia 74)
- Golden Lion: The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
- Grand Jury Prize: Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz
- Silver Lion: Custody by Xavier Legrand
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Charlotte Rampling for Hannah
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Kamel El Basha for The Insult
- Golden Osella for Best Screenplay: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh
- Special Jury Prize: Sweet Country by Warwick Thornton
- Marcello Mastroianni Award: Charlie Plummer for Lean on Pete
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Best Film: Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli
- Best Director: No Date, No Signature by Vahid Jalilvand
- Special Jury Prize: Caniba by Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Best Actress: Lyna Khoudri for Les Bienheureux
- Best Actor: Navid Mohammadzadeh for No Date, No Signature
- Best Screenplay: Oblivion Verses by Alireza Khatami
- Horizons Prize for Best Short: Gros Chagrin by Céline Devaux
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film (Lion of the Future)
Venice Classics (Venezia Classici)
- Best Documentary on Cinema: The Prince and the Dybbuk by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr Rosolowski[15]
- Best Restored Film: Come and See by Elem Klimov
Independent Sections Awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:[25]
Venice International Critics' Week
- SIAE Audience Award: Hunting Season by Natalia Garagiola[26]
- Verona Film Club Award: Team Hurricane by Annika Berg
- Mario Serandrei – Hotel Saturnia Award for the Best Technical Contribution: The Wild Boys by Bertrand Mandico
- SIAE Award: Saverio Costanzo
- Mention FEDIC - Il giornale del cibo: Visiting Day by Elio Di Pace
- GdA Director's Award: Candelaria by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza[27][28]
- BNL People's Choice Award: Longing by Savi Gabizon
- Label Europa Cinema Award: M by Sara Forestier
- Fedeora Awards
- Best Film: Eye on Juliet by Kim Nguyen
- Best Director of a Debut Film: Sara Forestier for M
- Best Actor: Redouanne Harjane for M
- Nuovo Imaie Talent Award
- Federica Rosellini for her role in Where the Shadows Fall
- Mimmo Borrelli for his role in Equilibrium
- Edipo Re Award: Valentina Pedicini for Where the Shadows Fall
- Lanterna Magica Award: Equilibrium by Vincenzo Marra
Independent Awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[25]
Arca CinemaGiovani Award
- Venezia 74 Best Film: Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz
- Best Italian Film: Beautiful Things by Giorgio Ferrero
Brian Award
"Civitas Vitae prossima" Award
Fair Play Cinema Award
- Ex Libris: The New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman
- Special mention: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
FEDIC (Federazione Italiana dei Cineclub) Award
- La Vita in Comune by Edoardo Winspeare
- Special mention: Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli
- Best Film (Main competition): Ex Libris: The New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman[29]
- Best Film (Horizons): Oblivion Verses by Alireza Khatami
Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award
Enrico Fulchignoni – CICT-UNESCO Award
Future Film Festival Digital Award
- The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
- Special mention: Cinderella the Cat by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone
Green Drop Award
HRNs Award – Special Prize for Human Rights
- The Rape of Recy Taylor by Nancy Buirski
- Special mention: L'ordine delle cose by Andrea Segre
- Special mention: Human Flow by Ai Weiwei
Interfilm Award
- Oblivion Verses by Alireza Khatami
Lanterna Magica Award (CGS)
- Equilibrium by Vincenzo Marra
La Pellicola d’Oro Award
- Best Production Manager in an Italian Film: Daniele Spinozzi for Love and Bullets
- Best Production Manager in an International Film: Riccardo Marchegiani for Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno
- Best Stagehand: Roberto Di Pietro for Hannah
Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola per il Cinema Award
Cinema for UNICEF Award
Lizzani Award
- Il colore nascosto delle cose by Silvio Soldini
Lina Mangiacapre Award
- Les Bienheureux by Sofia Djama
Golden Mouse
- Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno by Abdellatif Kechiche
- Silver Mouse: Gatta Cenerentola by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone
NuovoImaie Talent Award
- Best Actress: Federica Rosellini for Where the Shadows Fall
- Best Actor: Mimmo Borrelli for Equilibrium
Open Award
- Gatta Cenerentola by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone
Francesco Pasinetti Awards
- Best film: Love and Bullets by Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti
- Best Cast: Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Claudia Gerini, Carlo Buccirosso, Raiz , Franco Ricciardi, Antonio Buonomo for Love and Bullets
- Special award: Cinderella the Cat by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone
- Special award: Nico, 1988 by Susanna Nicchiarelli
Sfera 1932 Award
- La mélodie by Rachid Hami
SIGNIS Award
- The House by the Sea by Robert Guédiguian
- Special mention: Foxtrot by Samuel Maoz
C. Smithers Foundation Award – CICT-UNESCO
- The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
Sorriso Diverso Venezia 2017 Award - Ass Ucl
- Il colore nascosto delle cose by Silvio Soldini
Soundtrack Stars Award
- Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water
- Special award: Love and Bullets
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Andrea Guerra
UNIMED Award
- The House by the Sea by Robert Guédiguian
- Special mention: Ugly Nasty People by Cosimo Gomez
Fragiacomo Award
- George Clooney for Suburbicon
- Ai Weiwei for Human Flow
- Michael Caine for My Generation
Robert Bresson Award
Franca Sozzani Award
- Julianne Moore for Suburbicon[32]
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