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81st Venice International Film Festival

Official poster by Lorenzo Mattotti
Opening film	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Closing film	The American Backyard
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: The Room Next Door
Hosted by	Sveva Alviti
Artistic director	Alberto Barbera
Festival date	28 August – 7 September 2024
Website	www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2024
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The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 7 September 2024, at Venice Lido in Italy. Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opened the festival on 28 August 2024, while Pupi Avati's The American Backyard closed on 7 September 2024.

French actress Isabelle Huppert served as Jury President for the main competition. Italian actress and model Sveva Alviti hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door was awarded with the Golden Lion.

Australian filmmaker Peter Weir and American actress Sigourney Weaver received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival.

Juries

Main Competition (Venezia 81)

• Isabelle Huppert, French actress - Jury President
• James Gray, American filmmaker
• Andrew Haigh, British filmmaker
• Agnieszka Holland, Polish filmmaker
• Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazilian filmmaker, producer and film critic
• Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritanian filmmaker
• Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian filmmaker
• Julia von Heinz, German filmmaker
• Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress

Horizons (Orizzonti)

• Debra Granik, American filmmaker and cinematographer - Jury President
• Ali Asgari, Iranian filmmaker and producer
• Soudade Kaadan, Syrian filmmaker
• Christos Nikou, Greek filmmaker
• Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and director
• Gábor Reisz, Hungarian filmmaker
• Valia Santella, Italian filmmaker

Luigi de Laurentis Award for Debut Film

• Gianni Canova, Italian film critic and Rector of the IULM University of Milan - Jury President
• Ricky D’Ambrose, American filmmaker
• Bárbara Paz, Brazilian actress, filmmaker, visual artist and producer
• Taylor Russell, Canadian actress
• Jacob Wong, Hong-Kong film festival curator and project market director

Venice Classics

• Renato De Maria, Italian filmmaker - Jury President

Venice Immersive

• Celine Daemen, Dutch director of transdisciplinary art - Jury President
• Marion Burger, French production designer and director
• Adriaan Lokman, Dutch artist

Official Selection

In Competition (Venezia 81)

The following films were selected for the main international competition:

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Orizzonti

The following films were selected to the Orizzonti main competition:

Orizzonti Extra

The following films were selected to the Orizzonti Extra section:

Orizzonti Short Films International Competition

The following films were selected to compete for the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film, assigned by the Jury of the Orizzonti section:

Venice Classics

Venice Classics is the section that since 2012 has presented world premiere screenings at the Venice Film Festival of restorations of film classics carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world. The section usually also presents a selection of documentaries about cinema. Director and screenwriter Renato De Maria will chair the Jury of Film Students which – for the eleventh year – will award the Venice Classics prizes for the respective competitions for Best Restored Film and for the Best Documentary About Cinema. The Jury chaired will be composed of 24 students. The following films were selected to the Venice Classics section:

Venice Immersive

The Venice Immersive is entirely devoted to immersive media and includes all XR means of creative expression, from 360° videos to XR works of any length, including installations and virtual worlds. The following projects were selected for the XR - Extended Reality section of La Biennale di Venezia:

In Competition

Out of Competition

The out of competition slot of Venice Immersive presents an international selection of works that have been released or premiered elsewhere since the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival:

Biennale College - Cinema

The following films were selected for the Biennale College - Cinema section.

Final Cut in Venice

Final Cut in Venice is the festival program that has been providing since 2013 support in the completion of films from African and Middle East countries. The following seven work-in-progress films have been selected for the 12th edition of Final Cut in Venice:

Independent Sections

Giornate degli Autori

The following films were selected to be screened in Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days):

Main Selection

The first two screenings of Rusudan Glurjidze's The Antique were cancelled following an emergency decree issued by the Court of Venice over a copyright dispute. The remaining screening took place after the section submitted a counterclaim and the court authorised the screening.

Venice Nights (Notti Veneziane)

39. Settimana Internazionale della Critica

The selection is curated by the General Delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Beatrice Fiorentino together with the members of the selection committee: Enrico Azzano, Chiara Borroni, Ilaria Feole and Federico Pedroni. The following films were selected to the International Critics’ Week sections:

Main Selection

SIC@SIC Short Italian Cinema

Official Awards

The following official awards were presented at the 81st Edition:

Main Competition (Venezia 81)

• Golden Lion: The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar
• Grand Jury Prize: Vermiglio by Maura Delpero
• Special Jury Prize: April by Dea Kulumbegashvili
• Silver Lion: Brady Corbet for The Brutalist
• Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Nicole Kidman for Babygirl
• Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Vincent Lindon for The Quiet Son
• Best Screenplay: Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega for I'm Still Here
• Marcello Mastroianni Award: Paul Kircher for And Their Children After Them

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

• Peter Weir
• Sigourney Weaver

Orizzonti

• Best Film: The New Year That Never Came by Bogdan Mureșanu
• Best Director: Sarah Friedland for Familiar Touch
• Special Jury Prize: One of Those Days When Hemme Dies by Murat Fıratoğlu
• Best Actress: Kathleen Chalfant for Familiar Touch
• Best Actor: Francesco Gheghi for Familia
• Best Screenplay: Scandar Copti for Happy Holidays
• Best Short Film: Who Loves the Sun by Arshia Shakiba

Horizons Extra (Orizzonti Extra)

• Audience Award: The Witness by Nader Saeivar

Lion of the Future

• Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film: Familiar Touch by Sarah Friedland

Venice Classics

• Best Documentary on Cinema: Chain Reactions by Alexander Philippe
• Best Restored Film: Ecce Bombo (1978) by Nanni Moretti, restored by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Venice Immersive

• Grand Prize: Ito Meikyu by Boris Labbé
• Special Jury Prize: Oto's Planet by Gwenael François
• Achievement Prize: Impulse: Playing with Reality by Barry Gene Murphy and May Abdalla

Glory to the Filmmaker Award

• Claude Lelouch

Independent Awards

Giornate degli Autori

• GdA Director's Award: Manas by Marianna Brennand Fortes
• Europa Cinemas Label Award: Alpha. by Jan-Willem van Ewijk
• Andrea Purgatori SIAE Career Award: Alice Rohrwacher
• SIAE Creative Talent Award: Federica Di Giacomo

Queer Lion

• Soul of the Desert by Mónica Taboada-Tapia

Ambassador of Hope Award

• King Ivory by John Swab

ARCA CinemaGiovani Award

• Best Film of Venezia 81: The Brutalist by Brady Corbet
• Best Italian Film in Venice: Vittoria by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman

Authors Under 40 Award

• Best Directing and Screenwriting: Jiang Xiaoxuan for To Kill a Mongolian Horse
• Best Directing: (ex aequo)
  • Anne-Sophie Bailly for Mon Inséparable
  • Elizabeth Lo for Mistress Dispeller
• Special Mention for Best Cinematography: Boróka Biró for The New Year That Never Came

Brian Award

• The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar

Casa Wabi - Mantarraya Award

• Familiar Touch by Sarah Friedland

CICT - UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award

• The Fisherman by Zoey Martinson

Cinema & Arts Award

• Golden Musa: Riefenstahl by Andres Veiel
• Golden Musa: Paul & Paulette Take a Bath by Jethro Massey
  • Special Mention Dedicated to a Multidisciplinary Artist': Brothers Quay

Premio CinemaSarà

• The Brutalist by Brady Corbet
  • Special Mention: Kill the Jockey by Luis Ortega

Edipo Re Award

• Kill the Jockey by Luis Ortega
  • Special Mention: Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero
• Ca' Foscari Young Jury Award: Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero

Premio Fondazione Fai Persona Lavoro Ambiente

• Peacock by Bernhard Wenger
  • Special Mention:
    • Sugar Island by Johanné Gómez Terrero (treatment of issues related to work)
    • Anywhere Anytime by Milad Tangshir (treatment of issues related to work)
    • The Mohican by Frédéric Farrucci (treatment of issues related to social environment)

Fanheart3 Award

• Graffetta d'Oro for Best Film: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice by Tim Burton
• Nave d'Argento for Best OTP: The characters of Wolfs by Jon Watts
• XR Fan Experience: Uncanny Alley: A New Day by Stephen Buchko and Rick Treweek
  • XR Special Mention: Nightmara: Episode 3 by Gianpaolo Gonzalez

FEDIC Award

• Vittoria by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman
  • Special Mention for Best Film: Familia by Francesco Costabile
  • Special Mention for Best Short Film: Playing God by Matteo Burani

FIPRESCI Awards

• Best Film from Venezia 81: The Brutalist by Brady Corbet
• Best Film from Orizzonti and parallel sections: The New Year That Never Came by Bogdan Mureşanu

Francesco Pasinetti Award

• Sicilian Letters by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
• Best Actress: Romana Maggiora Vergano for The Time It Takes
  • Special Mention: The cast of Familia (Francesco Gheghi, Barbara Ronchi, Francesco Di Leva and Marco Cicalese)

Green Drop Award

• Vermiglio by Maura Delpero
• I'm Still Here by Walter Salles

ImpACT Award

• The Quiet Son by Delphine and Muriel Coulin

Interfilm Award

• Quiet Life by Alexandros Avranas

Lanterna Magica Award

• The Story of Frank and Nina by Paola Randi

Leoncino d'Oro Award

• The Quiet Son by Delphine and Muriel Coulin
• Cinema for UNICEF: Familia by Francesco Costabile

Lizzani Award

• Sicilian Letters by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

NETPAC Award

• Mistress Dispeller by Elizabeth Lo

NUOVOIMAIE Talent Awards

• Best New Young Actress: Tecla Insolia for Familia
• Best New Young Actress: Martina Scrinzi for Vermiglio

La Pellicola d'Oro Award

• Best Costume Designer: Antonella Bachini for Battlefield
• Best Chief Electrician: Kristian De Martiis for Vermiglio
• Best Prop Maker: Italo Maurizi for Sicilian Letters

Premio Speciale Film Impresa

• Anne-Sophie Bailly for Mon Inséparable

RB Casting Award

• Francesco Gheghi for Familia

SIGNIS Award

• I'm Still Here by Walter Salles

"Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award" XI Edition

• Best Italian Film: Vermiglio by Maura Delpero
• Best Foreign Film: Mon Inséparable by Anne-Sophie Bailly

Premio Soundtrack Stars Award

• Best Soundtrack: Hildur Guðnadóttir for Joker: Folie à Deux
• Best Soundtrack: Colapesce for Sicilian Letters
  • Special Mention:
    • Fabio Massimo Capogrosso for The Time It Takes
    • CAM Sugar for the restoration of Swept Away... by an Unsual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August

UNIMED Award

• Prize for Cultural Diversity: The Brutalist by Brady Corbet

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External links

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