The 64th Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, opened on August 29, 2007, with Joe Wright's Atonement and closed September 8, 2007. Host of the event was Italian actress Ambra Angiolini. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to American director Tim Burton. Once again all the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premieres in keeping with the festival tradition since the Second World War.
The international juries of the 64th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:
Zhang Yimou (China) - President
Catherine Breillat (France)
Jane Campion (New Zealand)
Emanuele Crialese (Italy)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico)
Ferzan Özpetek (Turkey-Italy)
Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands)
Gregg Araki (director, United States) - President
Frederick Wiseman (director, United States)
Hala Alabdalla Yakoub (director and producer, Syria)
Giorgia Fiorio (photographer, Italy)
Ulrich Gregor (critic, Germany)
Bill Mechanic (producer, United States) - President
Rupert Everett (actor, United Kingdom)
Randa Chahal (director, Lebanon)
Liu Jie (director, China)
Valeria Solarino (actress, Italy)
François-Jacques Ossang (director, France) - President
Yasmine Kassari (director, Morocco)
Roberto Perpignani (editor, Italy)
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.
The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson (USA)
Sleuth, Kenneth Branagh (United Kingdom/USA)
Le Chaos (Heya Fawda), Youssef Chahine (Egypt)
Redacted, Brian De Palma (USA)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Andrew Dominik (USA)
Nessuna qualità agli eroi, Paolo Franchi (Italy/Switzerland/France)
Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy (USA)
Nightwatching, Peter Greenaway (United Kingdom/Poland/Canada/Netherlands)
En la ciudad de Sylvia, José Luis Guerín (Spain)
In the Valley of Elah, Paul Haggis (USA)
I'm Not There, Todd Haynes (USA)
The Sun Also Rises (Taiyang zhaochang shenqi), Jiang Wen (China/Hong Kong)
Help Me Eros (Bangbang wo aishen), Lee Kang Sheng (Taiwan)
La graine et le mulet, Abdellatif Kechiche (France)
Lust, Caution (Chinese: 色，戒; pinyin: Sè, Jiè), Ang Lee (USA/China/Taiwan)
It's a Free World..., Ken Loach (United Kingdom/Italy/Germany/Spain)
L'ora di punta, Vincenzo Marra (Italy)
Sukiyaki Western Django, Takashi Miike (Japan)
12, Nikita Mihalkov (Russia)
Il dolce e l'amaro, Andrea Porporati (Italy)
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon, Eric Rohmer (France/Italy/Spain)
Mad Detective, Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai (Hong Kong)
Atonement, Joe Wright (United Kingdom)
Shown below are new works by authors who were honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.
Cassandra's Dream, Woody Allen (United Kingdom/USA)
Cleópatra, Júlio Bressane (Brazil)
La Fille coupée en deux, Claude Chabrol (France)
Disengagement, Amos Gitai (Germany/Italy/Israel/France)
Beyond the Years (Chun-nyun-hack), Im Kwon Taek (South Korea)
Glory to the Filmmaker! (Kantoku banzai!), Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
Cristovão Colombo - O enigma, Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal/France)
Per un pugno di dollari (1964), Sergio Leone (Italy/Spain/Germany) - Restored Version
Blood Brothers (Tiantang kou), Alexi Tan (China/Taiwan/Hong Kong)
REC:, Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró (Spain)
Far North, Asif Kapadia (United Kingdom/France)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Ridley Scott (USA)
The Hunting Party, Richard Shepard (USA/Croatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The Nanny Diaries, Shari Springer Berman e Robert Pulcini (USA)
Nocturna, Adrià Garcìa and Víctor Maldonado (Spain/France)
New trends of cinema with full-length films in 35mm and digital format, and documentary-movies.
L'Aimèe, Arnaud Desplechin (France)
Anabazys, Joel Pizzini and Paloma Rocha (Brazil)
Andarilho, Cao Guimarães (Brazil)
Lou Reed's Berlin, Julian Schnabel (USA)
Cochochi, Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán (Mexico/United Kingdom/Canada)
The Silence Before Bach (Die stille vor Bach), Pere Portabella (Spain)
Exodus, Penny Woolcock (United Kingdom)
With a girl of Black Soil (Geomen tangyi sonyeo oi), Soo-il Jeon (South Korea/France)
L'Histoire de Richard O., Damien Odoul (France)
Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto, Lav Diaz (Philippines)
Madri, Barbara Cupisti (Italy)
Mal Nascida, João Canijo (Portugal)
Man from Plains, Jonathan Demme (USA)
Médée Miracle, Tonino De Bernardi (Italy/France)
The Obscure, Lü Yue (China)
Il passaggio della linea, Pietro Marcello (Italy)
Sad Vacation, Shinji Aoyama (Japan)
Umbrella (San), Du Haibin (China)
Searchers 2.0, Alex Cox (USA)
Dust (Staub), Hartmut Bitomsky (Germany)
Sügisball, Veiko Õunpuu (Estonia)
Wuyong, Jia Zhangke (China)
Evento Orizzonti
Dall’altra parte della luna, Dario Baldi and Davide Marengo (Italy)
Callas assoluta, Philippe Kohly (France/Greece)
Carlo Goldoni Venezian, Leonardo Autera and Alberto Caldana (Italy)
Empire II, Amos Poe (USA)
Special monographic sessions dedicated to the secret story of Italian cinema. This is the fourth part of the retrospective, initiated at the 61st edition of the festival; the patron of this edition, focused on Italian Spaghetti Western, was the director Quentin Tarantino.
I sette del Texas (Antes llega la muerte, 1964), Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent
100.000 dollari per Ringo (1965), Alberto De Martino
Il ritorno di Ringo (1965), Duccio Tessari
Ringo del Nebraska (1965), Mario Bava and Antonio Román
Un dollaro bucato (1965), Giorgio Ferroni
Django (1965), Sergio Corbucci
The Bounty Killer (1966), Eugenio Martín
La resa dei conti (1966), Sergio Sollima
Navajo Joe (1966), Sergio Corbucci
Sugar Colt (1966), Franco Giraldi
Un fiume di dollari (1966), Carlo Lizzani
Yankee (1966), Tinto Brass
10.000 dollari per un massacro (1967), Romolo Guerrieri
El Desperado (1967), Franco Rossetti
Il tempo degli avvoltoi (1967), Nando Cicero
La morte non conta i dollari (1967), Riccardo Freda
Se sei vivo spara (1967), Giulio Questi
Ognuno per sé (1967), Giorgio Capitani
Preparati la bara! (1967), Ferdinando Baldi
Tepepa (1968), Giulio Petroni
Una lunga fila di croci (1968), Sergio Garrone
La taglia è tua... l'uomo l'ammazzo io (1969), Edoardo Mulargia
Lo chiamavano Trinità (1970), Enzo Barboni
Matalo! (1970), Cesare Canevari
Vamos a matar compañeros (1970), Sergio Corbucci
La vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo (1971), Pasquale Squitieri
Il grande duello (1972), Giancarlo Santi
Il mio nome è Shangai Joe (1973), Mario Caiano
Una ragione per vivere e una per morire (1973), Tonino Valerii
I quattro dell'apocalisse (1975), Lucio Fulci
Keoma (1976), Enzo G. Castellari
Intolerance (1916), David Wark Griffith
These movies were given the following recognitions:
Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion)
Leone d'Oro for best film: Se, Jie (Lust, Caution) by Ang Lee
Leone d'Oro for career: to Tim Burton
Leone d'Argento (Silver Lion)
Grand Prize from the jury: La Graine et le Mulet by Abdellatif Kechiche, ex aequo I'm Not There by Todd Haynes
Special prize: Redacted by Brian De Palma
Coppa Volpi (Volpi Cup)
Coppa Volpi for the best actor: Brad Pitt for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Coppa Volpi for the best actress: Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There
Premio Osella (Osella prize)
Premio Osella for the best script: Paul Laverty for It's a Free World...
Premio Osella for the best technical contribution: Rodrigo Prieto for Se, Jie
Premio Marcello Mastroianni, for the best emerging actor or actress: Hafsia Herzi for La Graine et la Mulet
Leone Speciale (special Lion) to Nikita Mikhalkov
Premio Orizzonti (Orizzonti prize): Sügisball (Autumn Ball) by Veiko Õunpuu
Premio Orizzonti Doc: Wuyong (Useless) by Jia Zhangke
Leone del futuro (Lion of the future) - Venetian prize for the first work "Luigi De Laurentiis": La Zona by Rodrigo Plá
