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 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | La La Land |
|---|---|
| Closing film | The Magnificent Seven |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: The Woman Who Left |
| Hosted by | Sonia Bergamasco |
| Festival date | 31 August – 10 September 2016 |
| Website | Website |
The 73rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 10 September 2016.[1]
English filmmaker Sam Mendes was the Jury President of the main competition.[2] The opening night film was Damien Chazelle's musical La La Land, and Antoine Fuqua's western The Magnificent Seven was the closing film.[3]
The Golden Lion was awarded to Lav Diaz's film The Woman Who Left.[4]
A new project named Venice Production Bridge was introduced in this edition of the festival. The new project is intended to attract industry professionals and focus on original projects for films, internet, series, virtual reality, and works in progress, in order to help their development and production. It is also meant to work in conjunction with the Venice Film Market which started in 2012. Such projects as Final Cut in Venice, meant to help finance original films from African countries, and the Venice Gap-Financing Market will come under its scope.[5]
Juries
The following people formed the 2016 juries:[6][7]
Main competition (Venezia 73)
- Sam Mendes, British filmmaker and stage director - Jury President
- Laurie Anderson, American artist, composer, musician and film director
- Gemma Arterton, English actress
- Giancarlo De Cataldo, Italian writer
- Nina Hoss, German actress
- Chiara Mastroianni, French-Italian actress
- Joshua Oppenheimer, American filmmaker
- Lorenzo Vigas, Venezuelan film director, screenwriter and producer
- Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, singer and film director
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Robert Guédiguian, French filmmaker, producer and actor - Jury President
- Jim Hoberman, American film critic and academic
- Nelly Karim, Egyptian actress, fashion model and ballerina
- Valentina Lodovini, Italian film and TV actress
- Moon So-ri, South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter
- José María (Chema) Prado, director of the Filmoteca Española
- Chaitanya Tamhane, Indian filmmaker
Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film
- Kim Rossi Stuart, Italian actor and director - Jury President
- Rosa Bosch, Spanish-born film producer
- Brady Corbet, American actor and filmmaker
- Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish film actress
- Serge Toubiana, Tunisian-born journalist and film critic
Official Sections
In competition (Venezia 73)
The following films were selected for the main competition:[8][9][10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrival | Denis Villeneuve | United States | |
| The Bad Batch | Ana Lily Amirpour | ||
| The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez | Les Beaux Jours d'Aranjuez | Wim Wenders | France, Germany |
| The Blind Christ | El Cristo ciego | Christopher Murray | Chile |
| Brimstone | Martin Koolhoven | Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom | |
| The Distinguished Citizen | El ciudadano ilustre | Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat | Argentina, Spain |
| Frantz | François Ozon | France, Germany | |
| Jackie | Pablo Larraín | United States, Chile, France, Italy | |
| La La Land | Damien Chazelle | United States | |
| The Light Between Oceans | Derek Cianfrance | United Kingdom, United States, India, Canada | |
| Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford | United States | |
| On the Milky Road | Lungo la Via Lattea | Emir Kusturica | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico, Serbia, United Kingdom, United States |
| Paradise | Рай | Andrei Konchalovsky | Russia |
| Piuma | Roan Johnson | Italy | |
| These Days | Questi giorni | Giuseppe Piccioni | |
| Spira Mirabilis | Massimo D'Anolfi & Martina Parenti | ||
| The Untamed | La Region Salvaje | Amat Escalante | Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland |
| Voyage of Time | Terrence Malick | United States | |
| The Woman Who Left | Ang Babaeng Humayo | Lav Diaz | Philippines |
| A Woman's Life | Une Vie | Stéphane Brizé | France, Belgium |
- Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion winner.
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition[11][9][10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age of Shadows | 밀정 | Kim Jee-woon | South Korea |
| Chuck | The Bleeder | Philippe Falardeau | United States |
| Gantz: O | Yasushi Kawamura | Japan | |
| Hacksaw Ridge | Mel Gibson | United States, Australia | |
| The Journey | Nick Hamm | United Kingdom | |
| The Magnificent Seven | Antoine Fuqua | United States | |
| Monte | Amir Naderi | Italy, United States, France | |
| Never Ever | À jamais | Benoît Jacquot | France, Portugal |
| Planetarium | Rebecca Zlotowski | France, Belgium | |
| Tommaso | Kim Rossi Stuart | Italy | |
| The Young Pope (series) | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France, Spain, United Kingdom, United States | |
| Non Fiction | |||
| American Anarchist | Charlie Siskel | United States | |
| Assault to the Sky | Assalto al cielo | Francesco Munzi | Italy |
| Austerlitz | Sergei Loznitsa | Germany | |
| I Called Him Morgan | Kasper Collin | Sweden, United States | |
| One More Time With Feeling | Andrew Dominik | United Kingdom | |
| Our War | La nostra guerra | Bruno Chiaravalloti, Claudio Jampaglia, Benedetta Argentieri | Italy, United States |
| Safari | Ulrich Seidl | Austria, Denmark | |
Horizons (Orizzonti)
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[12]