| 74th Venice International Film Festival | |
| Opening: | Downsizing |
| Closing: | Outrage Coda |
| Location: | Venice, Italy |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Awards: | Golden Lion |
| Host: | Alessandro Borghi[1] |
| Date: | 30 August – 9 September 2017 |
| Website: | Website |
| Chronology: | Venice Film Festival |
| Preceded By: | 73rd |
| Followed By: | 75th |
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]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love and Bullets | Ammore e malavita | data-sort-value="Manetti" | Italy | |||
| Angels Wear White | 嘉年华 | data-sort-value="Qu" | China, France | |||
| Custody | Jusqu'à la Garde | data-sort-value="Legrand" | France | |||
| Downsizing (opening film) | data-sort-value="Payne" | United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Wiseman" | ||||||
| data-sort-value="Family" | A Family | data-sort-value="Famiglia" | Una famiglia | data-sort-value="Riso" | Sebastiano Riso | Italy |
| First Reformed | data-sort-value="Schrader" | United States | ||||
| Foxtrot | פוֹקְסטְרוֹט | data-sort-value="Maoz" | Israel, Germany, France, Switzerland | |||
| Hannah | data-sort-value="Pallaoro" | Italy, Belgium, France | ||||
| data-sort-value="House" | The House by the Sea | data-sort-value="Villa" | La villa | data-sort-value="Guediguian" | France | |
| Human Flow | data-sort-value="Weiwei" | Germany | ||||
| data-sort-value="Insult" | The Insult | data-sort-value="Insulte" | L'insulte | data-sort-value="Doueiri" | France, Lebanon | |
| Lean on Pete | data-sort-value="Haigh" | United Kingdom | ||||
| The Leisure Seeker | data-sort-value="Virzì" | Italy, France | ||||
| data-sort-value="Kechiche" | France, Italy | |||||
| Mother! | data-sort-value="Aronofsky" | United States | ||||
| The Shape of Water | data-sort-value="Del Toro" | Guillermo del Toro | United States | |||
| Suburbicon | data-sort-value="Clooney" | United States | ||||
| Sweet Country | data-sort-value="Thornton" | Australia | ||||
| data-sort-value="Third" | The Third Murder | 三度目の殺人 | data-sort-value="Hirokazu" | Japan | ||
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | data-sort-value="McDonagh" | United Kingdom | ||||
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[11] [12]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | |||||
| Brawl in Cell Block 99 | data-sort-value="Zahler]" | United States | |||
| Il colore nascosto delle cose | Silvio Soldini | Italy | |||
| Diva | data-sort-value="Patierno" | Francesco Patierno | |||
| Loving Pablo | data-sort-value="Aranoa" | Spain, Bulgaria | |||
| Manhunt | 追捕 | data-sort-value="Woo" | Hong Kong, China | ||
| La mélodie | Rachid Hami | France | |||
| Mr Rotpeter | data-sort-value="Signor" | Il signor Rotpeter | data-sort-value="Lillo" | Antonietta De Lillo | Italy |
| Our Souls at Night | data-sort-value="Batra" | United States | |||
| Outrage Coda (closing film) | アウトレイジ 最終章 | data-sort-value="Kitano" | Japan | ||
| data-sort-value="Private" | An Imperfect Murder | The Private Life of a Modern Woman | data-sort-value="Toback" | United States | |
| Racer and the Jailbird | data-sort-value="Fidele" | Le Fidèle | data-sort-value="Roskam" | Belgium, France, Netherlands | |
| Victoria & Abdul | data-sort-value="Frears" | United Kingdom | |||
| Wormwood | data-sort-value="Morris" | United States | |||
| Zama | data-sort-value="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 | |||
| 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:[13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | ||||||
| The Blessed | Les Bienheureux | Sofia Djama | France, Belgium | |||
| Caniba | data-sort-value="Paravel" | Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | France | |||
| Cinderella the Cat | Gatta Cenerentola | data-sort-value="Rak" | Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone | Italy | ||
| data-sort-value="Cousin" | The Cousin | Ha Ben Dod | data-sort-value="Grad" | Tzahi Grad | Israel | |
| Disappearance | Napadid shodan | data-sort-value="Asgari" | Ali Asgari | Iran, Qatar | ||
| Espèces menacées | Gilles Bourdos | France, Belgium | ||||
| Invisible | data-sort-value="Giorgelli" | Pablo Giorgelli | Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Germany, France | |||
| Krieg | data-sort-value="Ostermann" | Rick Ostermann | Germany | |||
| Nico, 1988 | data-sort-value="Nicchiarelli" | Susanna Nicchiarelli | Italy, Belgium | |||
| data-sort-value="Night" | The Night I Swam | data-sort-value="Nuit" | La Nuit où j'ai nagé | data-sort-value="Manivel" | Damien Manivel, Igarashi Kohei | France, Japan |
| No Date, No Signature | بدون تاریخ، بدون امضاء | data-sort-value="Jalilvand" | Iran | |||
| Oblivion Verses | data-sort-value="Versos" | Los Versos del Olvido | data-sort-value="Khatami" | Alireza Khatami | France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile | |
| The Rape of Recy Taylor | data-sort-value="Buirski" | United States | ||||
| Reinventing Marvin | Marvin ou la belle éducation | data-sort-value="Fontaine" | France | |||
| data-sort-value="Testament" | The Testament | Haedut | data-sort-value="Greenberg" | Amichai Greenberg | Israel, Austria | |
| Ugly Nasty People | Brutti e cattivi | data-sort-value="Gomez" | Cosimo Gomez | Italy, France | ||
| Under the Tree | Undir trénu | data-sort-value="Sigurosson" | Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Germany | |||
| La Vita in Comune | data-sort-value="Winspeare" | Italy | ||||
| West of Sunshine | data-sort-value=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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restored films | ||||||
| 1900 (1976) | Novecento | data-sort-value="Bertolucci" | Italy | |||
| data-sort-value="Ape" | The Ape Woman (1964) | data-sort-value="" | La donna scimmia | data-sort-value="Ferreri" | Italy, France | |
| Batch '81 (1982) | data-sort-value="De Leon" | Philippines | ||||
| Black Peter (1963) | Černý Petr | data-sort-value="Forman" | Czechoslovakia | |||
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | data-sort-value="Spielberg" | United States | ||||
| Come and See (1985) | Иди и смотри | data-sort-value="Klimov" | 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 | data-sort-value="Ozu" | Japan | |||
| Into the Night (1985) | data-sort-value="Landis" | United States | ||||
| The Old Dark House (1932) | data-sort-value="Whale" | |||||
| Red Desert (1964) | data-sort-value="Deserto" | Il deserto rosso | data-sort-value="Antonioni" | Italy | ||
| The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956) | data-sort-value="Walsh" | United States | ||||
| Rosita (1923) | data-sort-value="Lubitsch" | |||||
| Sansho the Bailiff (1954) | 山椒大夫 | Japan | ||||
| data-sort-value="Story" | The Crucified Lovers (1954) | 近松物語 | ||||
| data-sort-value="Third" | The Third Lover (1962) | data-sort-value="Oeil" | L’oeil du malin | data-sort-value="Chabrol" | France | |
| Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) | Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle | data-sort-value="Godard" | ||||
| Under the Olive Tree (1950) | Non c’è pace tra gli ulivi | data-sort-value="De Santis" | Italy | |||
| El Haimoune (1984) | data-sort-value="Haimoune" | الهائمون | data-sort-value="Khemir" | Tunisia, France | ||
| Zero for Conduct (1933) | Zéro de conduite | data-sort-value="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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | United States | |||
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) | data-sort-value="Pollack" | United States | ||||
| Lievito madre: Le ragazze del secolo scorso | Concita De Gregorio, Esmeralda Calabria | Italy | ||||
| La lunga strada del ritorno (1962) | Alessandro Blasetti | |||||
| data-sort-value="Order" | The Order of Things | L’ordine delle cose | data-sort-value="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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||||||
| Crater | data-sort-value="Cratere" | Il Cratere | data-sort-value="Bellino" | Luca Bellino, Silvia Luzi | Italy | |
| Drift | data-sort-value="Wittmann" | Helena Wittmann | Germany | |||
| data-sort-value="Gulf" | The Gulf | Körfez | data-sort-value="Yeksan" | Emre Yeksan | Turkey, Germany, Greece | |
| Hunting Season | Temporada de caza | data-sort-value="Garagiola" | Natalia Garagiola | Argentina, United States, Germany, France, Qatar | ||
| Sarah Plays a Werewolf | Sarah joue un loup garou | data-sort-value="Wyss" | Katharina Wyss | Switzerland, Germany | ||
| Team Hurricane | Team Hurricane | data-sort-value="Berg" | Annika Berg | Denmark | ||
| data-sort-value="Wild" | The Wild Boys | data-sort-value="Garcons" | Les garçons sauvages | data-sort-value="Mandico" | Bertrand Mandico | France |
| Special Events - Out of competition | ||||||
| Pin Cushion (Opening film) | Deborah Haywood | United Kingdom | ||||
| (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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||||
| Candelaria | data-sort-value="Hinestroza" | Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza | Colombia, Germany, Norway, Argentina, Cuba | ||
| Equilibrium | data-sort-value="Equilibrio" | L'equilibrio | data-sort-value="Marra" | Vincenzo Marra | Italy |
| Eye on Juliet | data-sort-value="Nguyen" | Canada | |||
| Life Guidance | data-sort-value="Mader" | Austria | |||
| Longing | Ga'agua | data-sort-value="Gabizon" | Israel | ||
| Looking for Oum Kulthum | data-sort-value="Neshat" | Germany, Austria, Italy, Lebanon, Qatar | |||
| M | data-sort-value="Forestier" | France | |||
| Samui Song | data-sort-value="Ratanaruang" | Thailand, Germany, Norway | |||
| Tainted Souls | data-sort-value="Contagio" | Il contagio | data-sort-value="Botrugno" | Matteo Botrugno, Daniele Coluccini | Italy |
| data-sort-value="Taste" | The Taste of Rice Flower | 米花之味 | Pengfei | China | |
| Volubilis | data-sort-value="Bensaïdi" | Morocco, France, Qatar | |||
| Where the Shadows Fall | Dove cadono le ombre | data-sort-value="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 Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
Charlotte Rampling for Hannah
Sweet Country by Warwick Thornton
Charlie Plummer for Lean on Pete
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[28]