Opening film | Parallel Mothers |
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Closing film | Il Bambino Nascosto |
Location | Venice, Italy |
Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: Happening |
Hosted by | Serena Rossi |
No. of films | 92 |
Festival date | 1 – 11 September 2021 |
Website | www |
The 78th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 2021.[1]
South Korean director Bong Joon-ho was the Jury President of the main competition, marking the first time a South Korean director has been picked as the festival's top juror.[2][3] Serena Rossi hosted the opening and closing nights.[4] The Golden Lion was awarded to Happening directed by Audrey Diwan.[5]
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[7]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[8][9][10][11][12]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Fiction | |||
The Accusation | Les Choses Humaines | Yvan Attal | France |
The Catholic School | La scuola cattolica | Stefano Mordini | Italy |
Dune | Denis Villeneuve | United States | |
Halloween Kills | David Gordon Green | ||
The Hidden Child | Il bambino nascosto (closing film) | Roberto Andò | Italy, France |
The Inner Cage | Ariaferma | Leonardo Di Costanzo | Italy, Switzerland |
The Last Duel | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, United States | |
Last Night in Soho | Edgar Wright | United Kingdom | |
Old Henry | Potsy Ponciroli | United States | |
Non Fiction | |||
Becoming Led Zeppelin | Bernard MacMahon | United States | |
Deandré#Deandré Storio di un Impiegato | Roberta Lena | Italy | |
Django & Django | Luca Rea | ||
Ennio | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy, Belgium, Japan, Holland | |
Ezio Bosso: Le cose che restano | Giorgio Verdelli | Italy | |
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song | Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine | United States | |
Life of Crime 1984-2020 | Jon Alpert | ||
Republic of Silence | Diana El Jeiroudi | France, Germany, Syria | |
Tranchées | Loup Bureau | France | |
Viaggio Nel Crepuscolo | Augusto Contento | France, Italy | |
Series | |||
Scenes from a Marriage (5 episodes) | Hagai Levi | United States | |
Short Films | |||
The Night | 良夜不能留 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
Plastic Semiotic | Radu Jude | Romania | |
Sad Film | Vasili | Myanmar, Netherlands |
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Italian: Orizzonti) section:[13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Atlantide | Yuri Ancarani | Italy, France, United States, Qatar | |
Miracle | Miracol | Bogdan George Apetri | Romania, Czech Republic, Latvia |
Pilgrims | Piligrimai | Laurynas Bareisa | Lithuania |
The Peacock's Paradise | Il Paradiso del Pavone | Laura Bispuri | Italy, Germany |
The Falls | 瀑布 | Mong-hong Chung | Taiwan |
The Hole in the Fence | El hoyo en la cerca | Joaquín del Paso | Mexico, Poland |
Amira | أميرة | Mohamed Diab | Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia |
Full Time | À Plein Temps | Éric Gravel | France |
107 Mothers | Cenzorka | Peter Kerekes | Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine |
Vera Dreams of the Sea | Vera Andrron Detin | Kaltrina Krasniqi | Kosovo, Albania, North Macedonia |
Promises | Les Promesses | Thomas Kruithof | France |
White Building | Bodeng Sar | Kavich Neang | Cambodia, France, China, Qatar |
Anatomy of Time | Wela | Jakrawal Nilthamrong | Thailand, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Germany |
The Other Tom | El otro Tom | Rodrigo Plá | Mexico, United States |
The Great Movement | El Gran Movimiento | Kiro Russo | Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland |
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta | Aditya Vikram Sengupta | India, France, Norway | |
Rhino | Носоріг | Oleh Sentsov | Ukraine, Poland, Germany |
True Things | Harry Wootliff | United Kingdom | |
Inu-Oh | 犬王 | Masaaki Yuasa | Japan |
Highlighted title indicates Orizzonti award winner.
The following films were selected to the Orizzonti Extra section:[14]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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7 Prisoners | 7 Prisioneiros | Alexandre Moratto | Brasil |
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic | Sokea mies, joka ei halunnut nähdä Titanicia | Teemu Nikki | Finland |
Costa Brava, Lebanon | كوستا برافا، لبنان | Mounia Akl | Lebanon, France, Qatar, Spain, Sweden |
The Girl Flew | La ragazza ha volato | Wilma Labate | Italy, Slovenia |
Land Of Dreams | Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari | United States, Germany, Qatar | |
La macchina delle immagini di Alfredo C. | Roland Sejko | Italy | |
Mama, I'm Home | Мама, я дома | Vladimir Bitokov | Russia |
My Night | Ma Nuit | Antoinette Boulat | France, Belgium |
Highlighted title indicates Orizzonti Extra award winner.
The lineup of films selected for the 36th Venice International Critics' Week is as follows:[15]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In Competition | |||
They Carry Death | Eles transportan a morte | Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón | Spain, Colombia |
Erasing Frank | Eltörölni Frankot | Gábor Fabricius | Hungary |
Mondocane | Alessandro Celli | Italy | |
Mother Lode | Matteo Tortone | France, Italy, Switzerland | |
Detours | Obchodnye puti | Ekaterina Selenkina | Russia |
The Salamander | A salamandra | Alex Carvalho | Brazil, France, Germany |
Zalava | Arsalan Amiri | Iran | |
Out of Competition | |||
Karmalink (opening film) | Jake Wachtel | Cambodia, United States | |
The Last Chapter (closing film) | La Dernière Séance | Gianluca Matarrese | Italy, France |
The following films were selected for the Giornate degli Autori (aka Venice Days) section:[16]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In Competition | |||
Anatomy | Anatomia | Ola Jankowska | Poland, France |
Californie | Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman | Italy | |
Private Desert | Deserto Particular | Aly Muritiba | Brazil, Portugal |
Madeleine Collins | Antoine Barraud | France, Belgium, Switzerland | |
The Stranger | Al-Ḡarīb | Ameer Fakher Eldin | Syria, Germany, Palestine, Qatar |
Immaculate | Imaculat | Monica Stan, George Chiper-Lillemark | Romania |
Dusk Stone | Piedra noche | Iván Fund | Argentina, Chile, Spain |
Shen Kong | Chen Guan | China | |
Out of Sync | Tres | Juanjo Giménez | Spain, Lithuania, Germany |
You Resemble Me | Tu me ressembles | Dina Amer | Egypt, France, United States |
Out of competition | |||
Lovely Boy | Francesco Lettieri | Italy | |
Special events | |||
The Forgotten Ones | Mizrahim, les oubliés de la terre promise | Michale Boganim | France, Israel |
Il Palazzo | Federica Di Giacomo | Italy, Czech Republic | |
Senza fine | Elisa Fuksas | Italy | |
The Great Silence | Il silenzio grande | Alessandro Gassmann | Italy, Poland |
Three Minutes: A Lengthening | Bianca Stigter | Netherlands | |
Venice Nights | |||
Caveman | Tommaso Landucci | Italy, Switzerland | |
Cùntami | Giovanna Taviani | Italy | |
Sons of Cain | Les Enfants de Caïn | Keti Stamo | France, Albania, Italy |
Fellini and the Shadow | Fellini e l'ombra | Catherine McGilvray | Italy, Switzerland |
Giulia | Ciro De Caro | Italy | |
Hugo in Argentina | Stefano Knuchel | Switzerland | |
Isolation | Michele Placido, Julia von Heinz, Olivier Guerpillon, Jaco Van Dormael, Michael Winterbottom | Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, United Kingdom | |
The World in Shots | Il mondo a scatti | Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli | Italy |
Our Ghosts | I nostri fantasmi | Alessandro Capitani | Italy |
Princesa | Stefania Muresu | Italy | |
With or Without You | Una relazione | Stefano Sardo | Italy |
Spin Time | Sabina Guzzanti | Italy | |
Tonino de Bernardi - Un tempo, un incontro | Daniele Segre | Italy | |
Welcome Venice | Andrea Segre | Italy | |
Women's Tales Project | |||
#21. Shangri-La | Isabel Sandoval | Italy, United States | |
#22. I and the Stupid Boy | Kaouther Ben Hania | Italy, France |
The following official awards were presented at the 78th Edition:[17]
The following awards were presented by independent juries:[20]
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