The 63rd Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on 30 August 2006 with Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia and was closed on 9 September 2006. Host of the event was Italian actress Isabella Ferrari. 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 Award 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.
The international juries of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:
Catherine Deneuve (actress, France) – President
Michele Placido (actor and director Italy)
Juan Josè Bigas Luna (director and writer, Spain)
Paulo Branco (producer, Portugal)
Cameron Crowe (director, screenwriter and producer, USA)
Chulpan Khamatova (actress, Russia)
Park Chan-wook (director and screenwriter, South Korea)
Philip Gröning (director and screenwriter, Germany) – President
Carlo Carlei (director, Italy)
Giuseppe Genna (writer, Italy)
Keiko Kusakabe (producer and distributor, Japan)
Yousri Nasrallah (director, Egypt)
Paula Wagner (producer, USA) – President
Stefania Rocca (actress, Italy)
Guillermo del Toro (director and screenwriter, Mexico)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf (director and producer, Iran)
Andrei Plakhov (critic, Russia)
Teboho Mahlatsi (director and producer, South Africa) – President
Francesca Calvelli (editor, Italy)
Aleksey Fedortchenko (director, Russia)
Main sections
Nominated films are in alphabetical order by the name of the director.
International competition of full-length films in 35mm and digital format running for Golden Lion for best picture.
Fallen by Barbara Albert (Austria)
The Missing Star by Gianni Amelio (Italy)
The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky (USA)
Hollywoodland by Allen Coulter (USA)
Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese (Italy/France)
Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón (USA)
The Black Dahlia by Brian De Palma (USA/Germany)
Bobby by Emilio Estevez (USA)
The Queen di Stephen Frears (Great Britain)
Daratt by Mahamat Saleh Haroun (Chad/France/Belgium/Austria)
L'intouchable by Benoît Jacquot (France)
Paprika by Satoshi Kon (Japan)
Nue Propriété by Joachim Lafosse (Belgium/Luxembourg/France)
Mushishi by Katsuhiro Otomo (Japan)
Private Fears in Public Places by Alain Resnais (France/Italy)
Quei loro incontri by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (Italy/France)
Exiled by Johnnie To (Hong Kong/China)
Hei yanquan by Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan/France/Austria)
Zwartboek by Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands/Germany/UK)
Ejforija by Ivan Vyrypaev (Russia)
Sang sattawat by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand/France)
Sanxia haoren by Jia Zhangke (China)
Shown below are new works by authors who were honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.
Quelques jours en Septembre by Santiago Amigorena (France/Italy)
The Magic Flute by Kenneth Branagh (USA) – Special event, shown at Venice's Teatro La Fenice
Yeyan by Feng Xiaogang (China)
Il diavolo veste Prada (The Devil Wears Prada) by David Frankel (USA)
Ostrov by Pavel Lounguine (Russia)
INLAND EMPIRE by David Lynch (USA/Poland/France)
Tales from Earthsea by Goro Miyazaki (Japan)
Belle toujours – Bella sempre by Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal/France)
World Trade Center by Oliver Stone (USA)
Para entrar a vivir by Jaume Balagueró (Spain)
Rob-B-Hood by Benny Chan (China)
Baaz ham sib daari? by Bayram Fazli (Iran)
Sakebi by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
The Wicker Man by Neil LaBute (USA)
The City of Violence by Ryoo Seung-wan (South Korea)
Summer Love by Piotr Uklansky (Poland)
Lettere dal Sahara by Vittorio De Seta (Italy)
New trends of cinema with full-length films in 35mm and digital format, and documentary-movies.
Suely in the Sky by Karim Aïnouz (Brasil)
Ana alati tahmol azouhour ila qabriha by Hala Alabdalla Yakoub and Ammar Al Beik (Syria/France)
Koorogi by Shinji Aoyama (Japan)
Bellissime. Seconda parte. Dal 1960 a oggi dalla parte di "lei" by Giovanna Gagliardo (Italy)
The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke (USA)
Taiyang yu by Ho Yuhang (Malaysia/Hong Kong)
Dong by Jia Zhangke (China)
Svobodnoe plavanie by Boris Khlebnikov (Russia)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld (USA)
El cobrador, in God we trust by Paul Leduc (Mexico/Argentina/Brasil)
When the Leeves Broke. A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee (USA)
Mabei shang de fating by Liu Jie (China)
Infamous by Douglas McGrath (USA)
Opera Jawa by Garin Nugroho (Indonesia)
Tachiguishi retsuden by Mamoru Oshii (Japan)
Quijote by Mimmo Paladino (Italy)
Heimat – Fragmente by Edgar Reitz and Christian Reitz (Germany)
Non prendere impegni stasera by Gianluca Tavarelli (Italy)
Roma wa la n’touma by Tariq Teguia (Algeria/France)
Pasolini prossimo nostro by Giuseppe Bertolucci (Italy/France)
Akamas by Panicos Chrysanthou (Cyprus/Greece/Hungary/Turkey)
C’est Gradiva qui vous appelle by Alain Robbe-Grillet (France/Belgium)
Kill Gil 2 by Gil Rossellini (Italy/Switzerland)
Il mio paese by Daniele Vicari (Italy)
International competition of 35mm short films, in world premiere, not exceeding 30 minutes in length.
Levelek by Ferenc Cakò (Hungary
Comment on freine dans une descente? by Alix Delaporte (France)
The Making of Parts by Daniel Elliott (UK)
Detektive by Andreas Goldstein (Germany)
Treinta Años by Nicolás Lasnibat (France, Chile)
Um Ano Mais Longo by Marco Martins (Portugal)
Mum by Mads Matthiesen (Denmark)
"Faça sua Escolha" by Paula Miranda (Brazil)
Pharmakon by Ioakim Mylonas (Cyprus)
Rien ne va plus by Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hàmos (Germany)
Trillizas Propaganda by Fernando Salem (Argentina)
Simanei Derech by Shimon Shai (Israel)
Fib 1477 by Lorenzo Sportiello (Italy)
What Does Your Daddy Do? by Martin Stitt (UK)
Eva reste au placard les nuits de pleine lune by Alex Stockman (Belgium)
In the Eye Abides the Hear by Mary Sweeney (USA)
Adults only by Joon Han Yeo (Malaysia)
Sekalli sa Meokgo by Teboho Mahlatsi (South Africa)
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 annual Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia.
Anniversary of Rossellini, Soldati and Visconti
Quartieri alti di Mario Soldati (1942) – Restored Version by Cineteca Nazionale
Ossessione di Luchino Visconti (1943) – Restored Version by Cineteca Nazionale, Ripley's Film, in collaboration with SKY Italia
Roma, città aperta by Roberto Rossellini (1945) – Restored version by Cineteca Nazionale, in collaboration with the Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali del Comune di Roma and with the technical support of Cinecittà Digital
Fuga in Francia by Mario Soldati (1948) – Restored version byCineteca Nazionale
Anna Magnani, episode from Siamo donne, by Luchino Visconti (1953) – Restored version by Cineteca Nazionale and Ripley's Film
Ingrid Bergman, episode from Siamo donne, by Roberto Rossellini (1953) – Rstored version by Cineteca Nazionale and Ripley's Film
Il generale della Rovere by Roberto Rossellini (1959) – Digital restoration by Cineteca Nazionale, Gruppo Editoriale Minerva – Raro Video, in collaboraztion with the Museo nazionale del Cinema by Torino, Archivio Storico della Biennale di Venezia and LVR
The secret story of Italian cinema
The Ferocious Saladin (Il feroce Saladino) by Mario Bonnard (1937) – Restored version by Fondazione Cineteca Italiana, Museo nazionale del Cinema of Turin and Cineteca di Bologna – Laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata, in collaboration with Jaeger Le Coultre, the Biennale di Venezia, Provincia di Milano – Culture sector and Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Per qualche dollaro in più by Sergio Leone (1965) – Restored version by Cineteca di Bologna – Laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata, in collaboration with SKY Italia
Dalla nube alla resistenza by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (1979) – Only copy of this archive is at the Cineteca di Bologna
Special monografic section on the Secret story of Russian cinema from 1934 to 1974. Besides the original title, there is a translation in Italian and the year in brackets:
Garmon' (La fisarmonica, 1934) by Igor Savchenko and Evgenij Sneider
Vesiolye rebiata (La combriccola allegra, 1934) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
Cirk (Il circo, 1936) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
Bogataja nevesta (La fidanzata ricca, 1938) by Ivan Pyr'ev
Volga-Volga (Volga-Volga, 1938) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
Traktoristy (Trattoristy, 1939) by Ivan Pyr'ev
Muzykal'naja istoria (Una storia musicale, 1940) by Aleksandr Ivanovskij and Gerbert Rappaport
Svetlyj put' (La via luminosa, 1940) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
Svinarka i pastukh (La guardiana dei porci e il pastore, 1941) by Ivan Pyr'ev
V shest' chasov vechera posle vojny (Alle sei di sera dopo la guerra, 1944) by Ivan Pyr'ev
Vesna (La primavera, 1947) by Grigorij Aleksandrov
Kubanskie kazaki (I cosacchi di Kuban', 1950) by Ivan Pyr'ev
Scedroe leto (Un’estate generosa, 1950) by Boris Barnet
Karnaval'naja noc' (La notte di carnevale, 1956) by El'dar Rjazanov
Nas milyj doktor (Il nostro caro dottore, 1956) by Shaken Ajmanov
Cheriomushki (Rione Cheriomushki, 1963) by Gerbert Rappaport
Sparite utopajuscego (Salvate chi annega, 1969) by Pavel Arsenov
Romans o vlyoblionnykh (La romanza degli innamorati, 1974) by Andrei Konchalovskij
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
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.
Films
Garrincha, Alegria do Povo (1963) – documentary
O Padre e a Moça (1966)
Macunaíma (1969)
Os Inconfidentes (1972)
Guerra Conjugal (1975)
O Homen do Pau-Brasil (1981)
Shorts
O Mestre de Apipucos (1959) – documentary
O Poeta do Castelo (1959) – documentary
Couro de Gato (1960)
Cinéma Nôvo (Short)|Cinéma Nôvo (1967) – documentary
Brasilia, Contradições de Uma Cidade Nova (1967) – documentary
Linguagem da Persuasão (1970) – documentary
Vereda Tropical (1977)
O Aleijadinho (1978) – documentary
El Amarillo by Sergio Mazza (Argentina)
Egyetleneim (Le mie uniche e sole) by Gyula Nemes (Hungary)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Una guida per riconoscere i tuoi santi) by Dito Montiel (USA)
Hiena (Iena) by Grzegorz Lewandowski (Poland)
Premonition (Le Pressentiment) by Jean-Pierre Darroussin (France)
Sur la trace d’Igor Rizzi (Sulle tracce di Igor Rizzi) by Noël Mitrani (Canada)
Yi Nian Zhi Chu – Do over (L’inizio di un anno) by Yu-Chieh Cheng (Taiwan)
La rieducazione by Davide Alfonsi, Alessandro Fusto and Denis Malagnino (Italy) – Special Event
Bunny Lake is Missing (Bunny Lake è scomparsa) (Great Britain/USA), 1965 – Homage to Otto Preminger (1906–1986) – In collaboration with and with the contribution with Museo Nazionale del Cinema and the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica
7 Ans by [ean-Pascal Hattu (France)
Azul oscuro casi negro by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (Spain)
Chicha tu madre by Gianfranco Quattrini (Argentina/Peru)
Come l'ombra by Marina Spada (Italy)
Falkenberg Farewell by Jesper Ganslandt (Denmark/Sweden)
Khadak by Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens (Belgium/Germany/Holland)
L’Etoile du soldat by Christophe de Ponfilly (France/Germany/Afghanistan)
Mientras tanto by Diego Lerman (Argentina/France)
Offscreen by Christoffer Boe (Denmark)
Rêves de poussière by Laurent Salgues (Burkina Faso/Canada/France)
WWW – What a Wonderful World by Faouzi Bensaidi (Morocco/France)
La noche de los girasoles (Angosto) by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo (Spain)
L'udienza è aperta by Vincenzo Marra (Italy)
These movies were given the following recognitions:
Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion)
Leone d'Oro for best film: Sanxia haoren by Jia Zhangke
Leone d'Oro for career: to David Lynch
Leone d'Argento(Silver Lion)
Grand Prize from the jury: Daratt by Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Special prize: Private Fears in Public Places by Alain Resnais
Leone d'Argento: Nuovomondo by Emanuele Crialese
Coppa Volpi(Volpi Cup)
Coppa Volpi for the best actor: Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
Coppa Volpi for the best actress: Helen Mirren for The Queen
Premio Osella(Osella prize)
Premio Osella for the best script: Peter Morgan for The Queen
Premio Osella for the best technical contribution: Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
Premio Marcello Mastroianni, for the best emerging actor or actress: Isild Le Besco for L'intouchable
Leone Speciale(special Lion) to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for their innovation in cinematographic languages
Premio Orizzonti (Orrizonti prize): Mabei shang de fating by Liu Jie
Premio Orizzonti Doc: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Spike Lee
Leone del futuro (Lion of the future) – Venetian prize for the first work "Luigi De Laurentiis": Khadak by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth
Special Mention: Adults Only by Yeo Joon Han
UIP prize for the best European short: The Making of Parts by Daniel Elliott
Lion for the best short: Comment on freine dans une descente? by Alix Delaporte
The numbers and the nations of the 63rd Show
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
