Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded

U povodu svoje 70-godišnjice Venecijanski Biennale pozvao je 70 svjetskih režisera da snime kratki film duljine između minute i minute i pol, bez sadržajnih i formalnih ograničenja.


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70 directors who made the recent history of the Venice Film Festival celebrate the anniversary offering a short film.

KARIM AÏNOUZ

Biography
A filmmaker and videoartist, he was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, in 1966. Ainouz made several shorts and documentaries in 16mm and video, such as O Preso (1992), Paixão Nacional (1994) and Les Ballons de Barrios (1998), and had his debut in feature films with Madame Satã (2002) that screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. He participated at the Venice Film Festival for the first time in 2001 as the screenwriter of  Walter Salles’sAbril despedaçado, and then twice as a director in the Orizzonti section: in 2006 with O céu de Suely and in 2009 withViajo porque preciso, volte porque te amo, set in the grasslands of Sertão, an isolated region of Northeastern Brazil. Aïnouz is also the author of TV series (Alice, made for the HBO Latin America). Some of his installations were exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennale (1997) and at the São Paulo Biennale (2004). His latest film is O Abismo Prateado (The Silver Cliff, 2011).

 

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE
2001 – Abril despedaçado (Behind the Sun) – In competition (screenplay)
2006 - O céu de Suely (Suely in the Sky) – Orizzonti (direction, screenplay)
2009 – Viajo porque preciso, volte porque te amo – Orizzonti (direction, screenplay)

JOHN AKOMFRAH

Biography
An artist, writer and filmmaker born in Accra (Ghana) in 1957, John Akomfrah was a leading figure in Black British cinema in the 80's. A former musician and photographer, then a director of Super8 films and the founder of several art-house cinemas in London, Akomfrah can boast an ample production of feature films, videoslides, cinematographic installations for museums, experimental films and creative documentaries. A follower of the “Do It Yourself” punk ethics, he realized projects laying between essay and poetry, exploring the worlds of both fiction and non-fiction, and between cinema and art galleries. He made his debut in film directing in 1986 with the controversial documentaryHandsworth Songs, on the contemporary experience of black population in Britain. The following Testament (1988) is the portrait of an African politician forced to exile after a coup, whereas Who Needs a Heart? (1991) and Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) are inspired by the growing Black Power movement in Britain. He participated in the Venice Film Festival three times: in 1988 with Speak Like a Child, in 2001 with Digitopia, a film on existential drifts caused by the rise of the digital age, and in 2010 with The Nine Muses  about the history of immigration in Britain after World War II, filtered through Homer’s Odyssey.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE
1998 – Speak Like a Child (videoclip) – Prospettive (director)
2001 – Digitopia – Nuovi territori (screenplay, director)
2010 – The Nine Muses – Orizzonti (director, actor)

HALA ALABDALLA

Biography
Born in Hama, Syria, in 1956, she studied Agronomy at the University of Damascus. When just 20, she took sides against the regime in her country and had to face a 14-month detention for political reasons. In 1981 she moved to Paris where she studied genetics, anthropology, and cinema eventually. She participated in Venice in 2006 with her first feature Ana alati tahmol Azouhour ila qabriha (I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Own Grave) co-directed with Ammar el-Beik, the first Syrian film ever in the history of the Venice Film Festival; the film screened in the Orizzonti section and was awarded the Doc/It prize. The second film Hey! La tensi el kamoun (Hey! Don't Forget the Cumin, 2008) combined fiction and documentary in order to tell the stories of three characters among whom is the Syrian narrator, Jamil Hatmal. Her latest work is the documentary Comme si nous attrapions un cobra (2012), focused on Syrian artists who use caricatures and drawings in their quest for freedom.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2006 – Ana alati tahmol Azouhour ila qabriha (I am the one who brings flowers to her own grave) – Orizzonti (director, screenplay, cinematography)

JURIES:
2007 - Orizzonti (member)

BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Biography
Bernardo Bertolucci may be considered the most famous active Italian director in the world, and one of the most influential in the history of cinema. His presence at the Venice Film Festival has been constant, especially on the most significant anniversaries: in 1983 Bertolucci was president of the Jury for the Competition of the 40th edition, which awarded the Golden Lion to Prénom Carmen by Jean-Luc Godard; in 2003, at the 60th edition, he presented his filmThe Dreamers. In 2007 he was awarded the Golden Lion of the 75th, a prize instituted to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Venice International Film Festival (the first edition was held in 1932). Bertolucci made his debut as a director right here in Venice with La commare secca (The Grim Reaper, 1962), but the year before he had been at the Venice Film Festival as the assistant director for Pier Pasolini for his debut film Accattone (1961). Subsequently, other important works by Bertolucci premiered at the Lido: Partner (1968),  Strategia del ragno (The Spider’s Stratagem, 1970), La luna (Luna, 1979), The Dreamers  (2003). In 2011 Bertolucci awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Marco Bellocchio. Bertolucci’s prestigious filmography has won him awards and acknowledgments in the major festivals. He established an absolute record for a European film, winning 9 Oscars withThe Last Emperor (1987), the first and only Italian film to win the Oscar for Best Director. His most recent masterpiece, Io e te (Me and You, 2012) won extraordinary critical and public acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, which in 2011 had awarded Bertolucci the Golden Palm for Lifetime Achievement. Io e te was awarded the Silver Ribbon for the year 2013 by the Sindacato Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
1962 - La commare secca (The Grim Reaper) – Informativa (screenplay, director)
1968 - Partner (screenplay, director)
1970 – La strategia del ragno (The Conformist) (screenplay, director)
1979 – La luna (Luna) – Venezia 79 (screenplay, director)
2000 – Bertolucci secondo il cinema – Passato presente (as himself)
2001 – Pier Paolo Pasolini e la ragione di un sogno – Out of competition (as himself)
2001 – The Triumph of Love – In competition (screenplay)
2002 – Histoire d’eau (in Ten Minutes Order: The Cello) – Out of competition (screenplay, director)
2003 – Cesare Zavattini – Special screenings (as himself)
2003 – The Dreamers – Out of competition (director)
2003 – Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris) – L’industria dei prototipi (screenplay, director)
2007 – La via del petrolio – Out of Competition/Lion of the 75th (director)

AWARDS:
2007 – 75th Anniversary Golden Lion

JURIES:
1983 – Venezia 40 (President)
2013 - Venezia 70 (President)

CATHERINE BREILLAT

Biography
Born in Bressuire, France, she is a director, screenwriter and author. She published her first novel, L’Homme facile(1965) at the age of 17; in 1972 she played Mouchette in The Last Tango in Paris by Bernardo Bertolucci. She soon abandoned her career as an actress, dedicating herself to writing screenplays for Maurice Pialat (Police, 1985), Liliana Cavani for La pelle (The Skin, 1981), Federico Fellini for E la nave va (And the Ship Sails On, 1983), and was the assistant editor for Marco Bellocchio in Gli occhi, la bocca (The Eyes, The Mouth, 1982). In 1976 she made her debut as a director with Une vraie jeune fille (A Real Young Girl), an adaptation of her novel, for which she also wrote the score. The recurring theme in Breillat’s cinema is undoubtedly sexuality: explored, denied, sought, suffered, endured. Female sexuality becomes the means for an exploration of self, for the analysis of one’s demons and dark sides; something of a painful psychoanalysis. Breillat’s cinema cries out to the world its stubborn will to be different, as demonstrated by the titles of her filmography which often end in exclamation points, from Parfait amour! (Perfect Love, 1996) to A ma soeur!,(Fat Girl, 2000), the story of Anaïs, a clumsy and bulimic twelve year-old, who has a love-hate relationship with her fifteen-year-old sister Elena, who is sunny and beautiful. The film, which triggered a heated debate, like all the works of this French director, won many prizes at the Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam and Chicago Film Festivals. She participated in the Venice Film Festival for the first time as a screenwriter in 2000 with Selon Matthieu(To Matthieu) by Xavier Beauvois; the following year she presented Brève traverse (Brief Crossing), the story of a disillusioned thirty-year-old who seduces and is seduced by a sixteen year-old, in the Nuovi Territori section. She returned in 2010 with La Belle Endormie (The Sleeping Beauty), an interpretation of the famous fairytale by Charles Perrault, which was presented as the opening film of the Orizzonti section (in 2009 she had previously drawn inspiration from Perrault as she borrowed his tale Bluebeard for her film Barbe Bleue, on the roster at the Berlinale). Her works also include Tapage nocturne (Nocturnal Uproar, 1979), 36 fillette (1987), presented at the Locarno Film Festival, with Jean-Pierre Léaud, Sale comme un ange (Dirty Like an Angel, 1991), Romance (1999) with Rocco Siffredi, Sex Is Comedy (2002), Anatomie de l’enfer (Anatomy of Hell, 2003); Une vieille maitresse (The Last Mistress, 2006), presented in competition at the 60th Cannes Film Festival. She is currently working on a film transposition of her novel Abus de faiblesse.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2000 – Selon Matthieu (To Mathieu) – In competition (screenplay)
2001 - Brève traversée (Brief Crossing) – Nuovi territori (screenplay, director)
2010 – La Belle Endormie (The Sleeping Beauty) – Orizzonti (screenplay, director)

JURIES:
2002 – Controcorrente 2007 – Venezia 64 

JÚLIO BRESSANE - (Brazil),
Films presented in Venice:
1997 – Miramar – Officina Veneziana Fiction (screenplay, director)
1999 – São Jerônimo – Nuovi territori (screenplay, director)
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RAMA BURSHTEIN - (Israel),
Films presented in Venice:
2012 – Lemale et ha’ chalal (Fill the Void) – In competition (screenplay, director)
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ANTONIO CAPUANO - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
1991 – Vito e gli altri (Vito and the Others) – International Critics’ Week (screenplay, director)
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PETER HO-SUN CHAN - (China),
Films presented in Venice:
2005 – Ru guo ai (Perhaps Love) – Out of Competition (director)
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ISABEL COIXET - (Spain),
Films presented in Venice:
2005 – La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words) – Orizzonti (screenplay, director)
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AMIEL COURTIN-WILSON - (Australia),
Films presented in Venice:
2011 – Hail – Orizzonti (screenplay, director)
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JAN CVITKOVIC - (Slovenia),
Films presented in Venice:
2001 - Kruh in mleko (Bread and Milk) – Nuovi territori (screenplay, director)
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CLAIRE DENIS - (France),
Films presented in Venice:
1990 – S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography
Born in Paris in 1946, she spent her youth in Djibouti, in Cameroon and in Burkina Faso. A graduate of the IDHEC (La Fémis), she worked with various filmmakers including Jacques Rivette, Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders. As a director, she immediately took on intercultural themes: her first feature-length film Chocolat (1988), a reflection on colonialism, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Since 1990, she has been a recurring presence at the Venice Film Festival: that year she was in Competition with her film S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die), in 1999 she was a member of the jury for debut films and participated in the ‘Cinema del presente’ section with Beau travail, to story of the adventure of a Foreign Legion platoon abandoned in the Gulf of Djibouti. She returned in 2002 with a short that was part of the anthology film Ten Minutes Older: The Cello and in the Controcorrente section with Vendredi soir (Friday Night). In 2004 she was back in Competition with the delicate L’intrus (The Intruder), the story of a man who, before undergoing a critical surgical operation, decides to leave home on a journey in search of a new life, and travels all the way to South Korea. In 2005 she was a member of the jury for the official Competition, in 2008 she presented her film 35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) Out of Competition. In 2009 she was back in the running for a Golden Lion with White Material, starring Isabelle Huppert in the role of the owner of a coffee plantation in an African country, determined not to abandon her land despite the outbreak of a civil war. Her last film, Bastards (2013), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE: 
1990 – S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
1995 – En avoir (ou pas) (To Have, or Not) – Finestra sulle immagini (actress)
1997 – Amours (episodio) – Officine veneziane (director)
1999 – Beau travail – Cinema del presente (screenplay, director)
2002 - Vers Nancy (in Ten Minutes Older: The Cello) – Out of Competition (screenplay, director)
2002 – Vendredi soir (Friday Night) – Controcorrente (screenplay, director)
2004 – L’intrus (The Intruder) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2008 – 35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) – Out of Competition (screenplay, director)
2009 – White Material – In Competition (screenplay, director)

JURIES:
1999 – Jury “Luigi De Laurentiis” Prize for a Debut Film
2005 – Competition jury 

LAV DIAZ - (Philippines),
Films presented in Venice:
2007 – Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos) - Orizzonti Doc (screenplay, cinematography, director)
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Biography
Born in 1958 at Datu Paglas, he is considered the ideological founder of the Newest Philippine Cinema. His extraordinary trilogy, Batang West Side (2002), Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang pilipino (Evolution of a Filipino family,2005) and Ikalawang aklat: ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak (2006), is the archetype for cinema that refuses to compromise, rigorous and consistent. He studied cinematography at the Mowelfund Film Institute (Philippines). His works includeSerafin Geronimo: kriminal ng Baryo Concepcion (The Criminal of Barrio Concepcion, 1998), Burger Boys(1999), Hubad sa ilalim ng buwan (Naked under the Moon, 1999), Hesus rebolusyunaryo (Jesus the Revolutionary,2002). Diaz, who lives between Manila and New York, with his sophisticated coherence of style and substance, has become an advocate of the Philippine people’s struggle for redemption. He has won many international awards, including Best Film at the Brussels and Singapore film festivals, and Best Film from the Gawad Urian critics’ awards for his debut film, Batang West Side (2002). Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang pilipino (2005) won the Gawad Urian critics’ award, and Ikalawang aklat: ang alamat ng prinsesang bayawak (2006) the Special Jury Prize at the Fribourg Film Festival. He participated in the Venice Film Festival for the first time in 2007 with Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos), a documentary about the apocalyptic consequences of the Reming typhoon which hit the Philippines in 2006, winning the 2007 Orizzonti Special Mention. The following year, with Melancholia, he won the 2008 Orizzonti Award. In 2010 he was a member of the jury,  and in 2011 he was back in competition in the Orizzonti section with Siglo ng pagluluwal (Century of Birthing). His latest film, Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan(Norte, The End of History, 2013), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2007 – Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos) - Orizzonti Doc (screenplay, cinematography, director)
2008 – Melancholia – Orizzonti (screenplay, cinematography, music, director)
2011 - Siglo ng pagluluwal (Century of Birthing) – Orizzonti (screenplay, music, director)

AWARDS:
2007 – Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos) – Special Mention Orizzonti
2008 – Melancholia – Orizzonti Award

JURIES:
2010 – Orizzonti Jury 

AMIT DUTTA - (India),
Films presented in Venice:
2009 – Aadmi ki aurat aur anya kahaniya (The Man’s Woman and Other Stories) – Orizzonti (screenplay, director)
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ATOM EGOYAN - (Canada),
Films presented in Venice:
1997 – Bach Suite #4 – Sarabande (in Yi-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach) – Special Events - Immagini e musica section (screenwriter, director)
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ALEKSEI FEDORCHENKO - (Russia),
Films presented in Venice:
2005 – Pervye na Lune (First on the Moon) – Orizzonti (director)
2010 – Ovsyanki (Silent Souls) – In Competition (director)
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DAVIDE FERRARIO - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
1994 – Anime fiammeggianti (Love Burns) – Panorama italiano (director)
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FRÉDÉRIC FONTEYNE - (Belgium),
Films presented in Venice:
1992 – Les sept péchés capitaux (anthology film) – International Critics’ Week (director)
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JAMES FRANCO - (Usa),

Films presented in Venice:

2011 – Sal – Orizzonti (director, actor)

2012 – Spring Breakers – In Competition (actor)
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LLUÍS GALTER - (Spain),
Films presented in Venice:
2010 – Caracremada – Orizzonti (director)
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HAILE GERIMA - (Ethiopia),
Films presented in Venice:
1999 – Adwa – Nuovi Territori section (subject, screenplay, direction)
2008 – Teza – In Competition (screenplay, direction
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ALEKSEY GERMAN JR. - (Russia),
Films presented in Venice:
2003 – Posledniy poezd (The Last Train) – Nuovi Territori section
2005 – Garpastum – In Competition (screenwriter, director)
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Biography

Born in Moscow in 1976, he followed in the footsteps of his father, the famous Russian director Aleksei German, and his mother, who was a screenwriter. He studied at the State Academy of Theatre Arts in Saint Petersburg (SPGATI), and earned his degree in filmmaking at the State University of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, soon becoming a leading figure in the new generation of Russian filmmakers. Venice has presented all of his films, which often reinterpret crucial events in Russian history from original private perspectives: Posledniy poezd (The Last Train) was screened at the 2003 Venice Film Festival and won the Special Mention in the Nuovi Territori section; two years later the director presented Garpastum in Completion; in 2008 Bumazhniy soldat (Paper Soldier) won the Silver Lion for Best Director and the Osella for Best Cinematography. In 2009 German Jr. participated in the Orizzonti section as the director of the episode titled Kim in the anthology film Korotkoye Zamykanie (Crush).

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2003 – Posledniy poezd (The Last Train) – Nuovi Territori section
2005 – Garpastum – In Competition (screenwriter, director)
2008 - Bumaznyj soldat (Paper Soldier) – In Competition (screenwriter, director)
2009 – Korotkoye Zamykanie – Orizzonti (director)

AWARDS:
2003 – Posledniy poezd (The Last Train) – Special Mention
2008 - Bumazhnyj soldat (Paper Soldier) – Silver Lion for Best Director, Osella for Best Cinematography 

AMOS GITAI - (Israel),
Films presented in Venice:
1989 – Berlin, Jerusalem – In Competition (director)
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MONTE HELLMAN - (Usa),
Films presented in Venice:
1975 - Cockfighter - Proposte di nuovi film (director)

1988 – Iguana – Venezia Orizzonti (director)

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SANG-SOO HONG - (South Korea),
Films presented in Venice:
2010 - Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa (Oki’s Movie) – Orizzonti (screenplay, director)
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Biography

Hong Sang-soo, born in Seoul in 1960, is considered the true founder of new Korean film, which over the past decade has earned important acknowledgments at all the major international film festivals. His first feature-length filmDwaejiga umure bbajin nal (The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well, 1996), which won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, is considered to mark the onset of an effervescent new era that brought to the international screens the films of many South Korean directors such as Kim Ki-duk, Park Chan-wook, and Lee Chang-dong. His most significant works include: Gangwon-do-ui him (The Power of Kangwon Province, 1998), O! Sujeong (Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, 2000), presented at the Cannes Film; Bam-gwa nat (Night and Day, 2008), in Competition in Berlin; Hahaha(2010), the closing film and winner of the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2010. The same year he participated in the Venice Film Festival with Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa (Oki’s Movie), a film in four episodes which feature the same three protagonists, two men and one woman, in different but overlapping roles, chosen as the closing film for the Orizzonti section. His most recent works have been the feature film The Day He Arrives and the short film List, both made in 2011; the feature-length film In Another Country (2012) starring Isabelle Huppert, presented in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012; and Nobody’s Daughter Hae-won (2013).

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2010 - Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa (Oki’s Movie) – Orizzonti (screenplay, director) 

BENOÎT JACQUOT - (France),
Films presented in Venice:
1982 – Une villa aux environs de New York – Mezzogiorno- Mezzanotte section (director)
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ZHANGKE JIA - (China),
Films presented in Venice:
2000 - Zhantai (Platform) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography

Born in China in 1970, in the Shanxi province. After studying at the Beijing Film Academy, in 1997 he made his debut with the independent 16-mm film Xiao Wu, which won him the Wolfgang Prize and the Netpac Award in the Forum of the Berlin Film Festival. He won international fame thanks to his many participations at the Venice Film Festival: he was in Competition in 2000 with his second feature-length film Zhantai (Platform), in 2004 with Shijie (The World) and in 2006 with Sanxia Haoren (Still Life), for which he won the Golden Lion. The following year, again at the Venice Film Festival, his film Wuyong (Useless) won the Best Documentary Award in the Orizzonti section. He is one of the most valued directors at the major international festivals: he was in competition at Cannes in 2002 with Ren xiao yao (Unknown Pleasures),  in 2008 with Er shi si cheng ji (24 City), in 2013 with Tian zhu ding (A Touch of Sin, Best Screenplay Award) and in 2010 he participated in the Un Certain Regard section with Hai shang chuang qi (I Wish I Knew). The same year Jia Zhang-Ke won the Leopard of Honour at the 63rd Locarno Film Festival: he is the youngest filmmaker to have ever earned this acknowledgment.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE: 
2000 - Zhantai (Platform) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2001 – Gong gong chang suo (In Public) – Nuovi Territori section (screenplay, cinematography, director)
2004 - Shijie (The World) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2006 - Sanxia Haoren (Still Life) – In Competition (cinematography, screenplay, director)
2006 – Dong (East, Orient) – Orizzonti section (screenplay, director)
2007 - Wuyong (Useless) – Orizzonti section (screenplay, cinematography, director)
2008 – Heshang Aiqing – Short Film Out of Competition (screenplay, director)

AWARDS: 
2006 – Golden Lion - Sanxia Haoren (Still Life)
2007 – Best Documentary Award in the Orizzonti section - Wuyong (Useless)

JURIES:
2011 - President of the Orizzonti Jury 

SEMIH KAPLANOGLU - (Turkey),
Films presented in Venice:
2008 - Süt (Milk) – In competition (director, screenplay)

SHEKHAR KAPUR - (India),
Films presented in Venice:
1998 – Elizabeth – Out of Competition (director)
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MELVIN KHUTSIEV - (Russia),
Films presented in Venice:
1965 – Mne dvadtsat let (I Am Twenty) – In competition (director)
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ABBAS KIAROSTAMI - (Iran),
Films presented in Venice:
1972 – Nan va koutcheh (The Bread and Alley) – Mostra Internazionale del Film Documentario e Cortometraggio (director)
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Biography

Born in Teheran in 1940, Kiarostami is one of the greatest contemporary Iranian artists as director, screenwriter, poet, painter and sculptor. After graduating from the University of Fine Arts of Teheran, he worked in advertising and as an illustrator of children’s books. He made his directorial debut with a series of black-and-white short films, one of which, Nan va koutcheh (The Bread and Alley), was presented at the Venice Film Festival in 1972. He became one of the most active directors in the field of films for children. It is no coincidence that the main character of his first feature-length film Mossafer (The Traveler, 1974) is a ten-year-old child trying to find a way to attend a football game in Teheran. His films also include Gozaresh (1977), the story of a functionary of the Ministry of Finance accused of taking bribes, whose marriage is on the rocks; Khane-ye doust kodjast? (Where is the Friend’s Home?, 1987), which in 1989 won the Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, Zire darakhatan zeyton(Through the Olive Trees, 1994), presented at the Cannes Film Festival; Tickets (2005), a collective film in three episodes directed by Kiarostami, Ken Loach and Ermanno Olmi; Copie conforme (Certified Copy, 2010), filmed in Tuscany (Prize for best Actress to Juliette Binoche at the Cannes Film Festival 2010). Kiarostami has been a protagonist of the Venice Film Festival several times: in 1995 he was a member of the jury of the official competition chaired by Guglielmo Biraghi, the following year he returned in competition with his own film Ta’m-e-gilass (Taste of Cherry, which in 1997 won the Golden Palm at Cannes). In 1999 he won an important acknowledgment at the Venice Film Festival: Bad ma ra khahad bord(The Wind Will Carry Us) won the Grand Jury Prize. In 2001 he participated in the Art Biennale with the photographic workHazan. In 2008 he was back at the Venice Film Festival, out of competition, with the experimental film Shirin, in which one hundred fourteen famous Iranian film and theatre actresses, in addition to Juliette Binoche, silently watch a theatrical representation of the ancient Persian poem Khosrow and Shirin, staged by Kiarostami himself. The production is not however visible to the film viewer: the story is told by the faces of the women watching the piece. His last film Like Someone in Love (2012), set in Tokyo, was presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
1972 – Nan va koutcheh (The Bread and Alley) – Mostra Internazionale del Film Documentario e Cortometraggio (director)
1996 – Ta’m-e-gilass (Taste of Cherry) – In competition (screenplay, director)
1999 – Le vent nous emportera (The Wind Will Carry Us) – In competition (screenplay, director)
1999 – Volte sempre, abbas! – Nuovi territori (story author)
2008 – Shirin – Out of competition (director)

AWARDS:
1999 – Le vent nous emportera (The Wind Will Carry Us) – Grand Special Jury Prize

JURIES:
1995 – Venezia 52 (member)

KIM KI-DUK - (South Korea),
Films presented in Venice:
2000 – Seom (The Isle) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography

Kim Ki-duk is one of the leading directors of South Korean film d’essai. Born in 1960 in Bonghwa, a small village in South Korea, as a child he moved to Seoul, where he attended a school for professional training in the field of agriculture. His early work experiences included a job as a steelworker and enlistment in the Navy. He approached art and cinema in 1990: in the course of a long journey through Europe, he lived in Paris for two years, where he began to establish himself as a painter. Upon his return to Korea, he took his first steps as a self-taught screenwriter and film director. He made his debut behind the camera in 1996 with Crocodile, the story of a boy who lived on the edge of a river, with a child and his grandfather, stealing the personal belongings of people who committed suicide by drowning. The director’s particular style emerged in his very first film: a poetic, visionary style of filmmaking, with a painterly approach, that does not require a lot of  dialogue or different characters to explore the contradictions in modern man and the human soul, the tenuous relationship between love and hate, the inevitability of violence. Crocodile was followed by the feature-length films Wild Animals (1997) and Birdcage Inn (1998). The director achieved international fame in 2000 here in Venice, where he participated In Competition with Seom (The Isle), a love story between two people who live on the margins of society, she the lonely and silent manager of a pay fishing lake, he a former policeman guilty of murder. Kim Ki-Duk returned to the Venice Film Festival the following year with Suchwiin Bulmyeong(Address Unknown), about the life of three young citizens of Pyongtaek, a Korean town long dominated by an American military base. The director makes almost one film a year: highly regarded in Europe, he participated in the Locarno Film Festival with Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring, 2003) and in the Berlin International Film Festival with Samaria (Samaritan Girl, 2004), winning the Silver Bear for Best Director. The same year he returned to Venice with another film, Bin-Jip (3-Iron), the delicate love story between a boy who lives in temporarily-vacant homes and a woman mistreated by her husband: the jury awarded him the Silver Lion as Best Director. In 2005, Hwal (The Bow) was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. His filmography includes other titles released to critical acclaim in Europe and abroad: Shigan (Time, 2006), Soom (Breath, 2007, presented in competition at Cannes), Bimong (Dream, 2008, out of competition at the Torino Film Festival), the documentary film Arirang (2011, winner of the Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes). In 2012, again in competition at the Venice Film Festival, he won the Golden Lion for Best Film with Pieta (Pietà) about the love-hate relationship between a violent young loan shark and a woman who sustains she is the mother who abandoned him as a baby.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2000 – Seom (The Isle) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2001 – Suchwiin bulmyeong (Address Unknown) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2004 – Bin-Jip (3-Iron) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2012 – Pieta (Pietà) – In Competition (screenplay, director)

AWARDS: 
2004 – Bin-Jip (3-Iron) – Silver Lion – Special Prize for Best Director
2012 – Pieta (Pietà) – Golden Lion for Best Film 

YORGOS LANTHIMOS - (Greece),

Films presented in Venice:

2010 – Attenberg – In Competition (producer, actor)

2011 – Alpeis – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography

Born in Athens, where he studied film and television direction. Since 1995 he has directed videos for dance-theatre companies, television commercials, music videos, short films and plays. In 2011 he staged Chekhov’s Platonov at the Greek National Theatre. Kinetta (2005), his first film, participated successfully at the Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals. His next film Kynodontas (2009) won the Un Certain Regard Award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Oscars in 2011 as Best Foreign Language Film, confirming Lanthimos as one of the major figures in new Greek cinema. He came to the Venice Film Festival for the first time in 2010 as an actor and co-producer ofAttenberg, directed by his compatriot Athina Rachel Tsangari. He returned as a director in 2011 with Alpeis, winning the Osella for Best Screenplay.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2010 – Attenberg – In Competition (producer, actor)
2011 – Alpeis – In Competition (screenplay, director)

AWARDS:
2011 – Alpeis – Osella for Best Screenplay

PABLO LARRAÍN - (Chile),
Films presented in Venice:
2010 – Post Mortem – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography

Born in Santiago, Chile in 1976, he is considered one of the leading figures in the new generation of Chilean filmmakers. He studied Audiovisual Communication at UNIACC University. He is a founding member of Fabula, a company specialized in film and advertisement production. In 2005 he directed his first feature-length film, Fuga, released in Chilean theatres in March 2006. In 2007 he worked on his second feature-length film Tony Manero, for which he also co-authored the screenplay with Alfredo Castro (who is also the star) and Mateo Iribarren, set during the Pinochet regime: the film had its world premiere at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes in 2008, and won the Torino Film Festival that year, along with many other awards. The author relies on a narrative approach to explore the consequences of the dictatorship on the people, filtered through the individual private point of view of his characters; he continues his investigation in Post Mortem, set during the coup d’état in Chile and presented at the Venice Film Festival in 2010. The trilogy on the dictatorship closed in 2012 with the release of No, presented at both the Cannes and Locarno Film Festivals and nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film: it is the story of young advertiser René Saavedra (played by Gael Garcia Bernal), who was hired by the leaders of the Chilean opposition to support the “No” side when in 1988, Pinochet was forced by international pressure to call a plebiscite on his presidency.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2010 – Post Mortem – In Competition (screenplay, director) 

TOBIAS LINDHOLM - (Denmark),
Films presented in Venice:
2012 – Kapringem (A Hijacking) – Orizzonti section (screenplay, director)

GUIDO LOMBARDI - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
2010 – Vomero Travel – Giornate degli Autori section (screenplay, director)
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JAZMÍN LÓPEZ - (Argentina),
Films presented in Venice:
2012 – Leones – Orizzonti section (screenplay, director)
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MILCHO MANCHEVSKI - (Macedonia),
Films presented in Venice:
1994 – Before the Rain – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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SAMUEL MAOZ - (Israel),
Films presented in Venice:
2009 – Lebanon – In Competition (screenwriter, director)
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PIETRO MARCELLO - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
2007 – Il passaggio della linea (Crossing the Line) – Orizzonti section (screenplay, director)
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FRANCO MARESCO - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
1995 – Lo zio di Brooklyn (The Uncle from Brooklyn) – Finestra sulle immagini Lungometraggi (subject, screenplay, director)
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BRILLANTE MENDOZA - (Philippines),
Films presented in Venice:
2009 – Lola – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2012 – Sinapupunan (Thy Womb) (screenplay, director) 

Biography

Born in the Philippines in 1960, he is one of the leading authors in new Filipino cinema. After completing his studies at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, and beginning his career in the field of advertising, he made his debut in cinema, inaugurating an extremely prolific filmography and soon becoming a leading protagonist of international film festivals. His debut film Masahista (The Masseur, 2005), a feature-length film inspired by the true story of a young homosexual Filipino masseur, won the video competition prize at the Festival of Locarno. His next film Kàleldo(Summer Heat, 2006) was screened in the Extra section of the Rome Film Festival, and Manoro (2006) won the CinemAvvenire award at the Torino Film Festival. In 2007 he was in Cannes for the screening of Foster Child in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section, in 2008 for Serbis (Service) and in 2009 with Kinatay (The Execution of P), for which he won the award for Best Director. The Berlin Film Festival welcomed him in 2007 for Tirador (Slingshot), presented in the Forum section, and in 2012 for Captive. Mendoza participated in the Venice Film Festival twice: in 2009 with Lola, one of the two surprise films in the Competition of the 66th Edition, which tells the story of two old women who try their best to help their grandchildren involved in opposite sides of a crime, and in 2012 with the delicate Sinapupunan (Thy Womb), in Competition, the story of a Filipino wife who could not have children, and so decided to find a fertile new companion for her husband.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2009 – Lola – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2012 – Sinapupunan (Thy Womb) (screenplay, director)

SALVATORE MEREU - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
2003 – Ballo a tre passi (Three-Step Dance) – International Critics’ Week
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CELINA MURGA - (Argentina),
Films presented in Venice:
2003 – Ana y los otros – International Critics’ Week (screenplay, director)
2008 – Una semana solos – Giornate degli Autori Venice Days (screenplay, director)

AMIR NADERI - (Iran),
Films presented in Venice:
1985 – Davandeh (The Runner) – Venezia speciali 1 (director)
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SHIRIN NESHAT - (Iran),
Films presented in Venice:
2009 – Zanan bedoone mardan (Women without Men) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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ERMANNO OLMI - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
1958 – Tre fili fino a Milano – 9. Mostra Internazionale del Film Documentario e del Cortometraggio (director)
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NICOLÁS PEREDA - (Mexico),
Films presented in Venice:
2010 – Verano de Goliat (Summer of Goliath) – Orizzonti section (screenplay, director)
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FRANCO PIAVOLI - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
1982 – Il pianeta azzurro – Cinema 82 Opera Prima section (screenplay, director)
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GIUSEPPE PICCIONI - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
1991 – Chiedi la Luna (Ask for the Moon) – Mattinate del Cinema Italiano section (screenplay, director)
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MICHELE PLACIDO - (Italy),
Films presented in Venice:
1998 – Del perduto amore – Out of Competition (subject, screenplay, director)
1999 – Un uomo perbene – Special Events (actor)
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EDGAR REITZ - (Germany),
Films presented in Venice:
1966 – Abschied von Gestern (Anita G.) – In Competition (cinematography)
1967 – Mahlzeiten (Table for Love) – In Competition (director)
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JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES - (Portugal),
Films presented in Venice:
1997 – Parabéns (Happy Birthday!) – Corto Cortissimo (subject, screenwriter, cinematographer, director)
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Biography
Born in Lisbon in 1966, he studied at the Theatre and Film School in Portugal. He began his career as an assistant director for important Portuguese directors such as Alberto Seixas Santos and Teresa Villaverde. In 1997 he made his debut as a director with the short film Parabéns (Happy Birthday), which participated in the Venice Film Festival, winning the Silver Lion in the Corto Cortissimo section. Parabéns tells the story of a young man who wakes up on the morning of his thirtieth birthday with a hangover: not only is he late for his date with his girlfriend, and for an important job interview, but he also discovers that there is a stranger in his bed, a young man he has spent the night with. After filming the documentary Viagem à expo (1998), he came to the Venice Film Festival with his debut feature-length film: O fantasma (Phantom), 2000, presented in Competition, tells the story of a street-cleaner living on the margins in Lisbon, dominated by an erotic love obsession. In 2005 he participated in the Cannes Film Festival, in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, with his third film Odete (Two Drifters). His most recent feature-length films are Morrer como um homem (To Die Like a Man, 2009), the story of a transsexual who wants to cancel the traces of his past as a man, and A ultima vez que vi Macau (The Last Time I Saw Macao, 2012).

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
1997 – Parabéns (Happy Birthday!) – Corto Cortissimo (subject, screenwriter, cinematographer, director)
2000 – O fantasma (Phantom) – In Competition (screenwriter, director)

AWARDS: 
1997 – Parabéns – Silver Lion for Best Short Film

WALTER SALLES - (Brazil),

Films presented in Venice:

2001 – Abril despedaçado (Behind the Sun) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1956, he is one of the foremost directors in Brazilian contemporary cinema. After attending the University of Southern Califormia School of Cinematic Arts, in 1986 he began to film a series of documentaries for Brazilian television. In 1991, he made his debut in feature-length films with A grande arte (Exposure), but he achieved real success in 1996 with Terra Estrangeira (Foreign Land) and more particularly two years later with the film Central do Brasil (Central Station), winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the Silver Bear for Best Actress to Fernanda Montenegro and the Golden Globe as Best Foreign Film. He participated In Competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 with Abril despedaçado (Behind the Sun), the story, set in the Brazilian grasslands, of a boy whose father orders him to avenge his brother’s death, but he knows that this act will radically change his life. In 2004, he confirms his love of road movies in directing one of his most famous films, Diàrios de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries), with Gael Garcia Bernal starring as the young Ernesto Guevara: the film won the Jury Prize at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. Also presented at the French film festival were Linha de passe (2008), which won the prize for Best Actress with the star Sandra Corveloni, and On the Road (2012), the first film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s famous beat novel, co-produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Garrett Hedlund in the role of Dean Moriarty and Sam Riley as Sal Paradise.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE 
2001 – Abril despedaçado (Behind the Sun) – In Competition (screenplay, director)

PAUL SCHRADER - (Usa),
Films presented in Venice:
1990 – Hollywood Mavericks – Fuoriprogramma Documenti (as himself)
1997 – Affliction (screenplay, director)
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ULRICH SEIDL - (Austria),
Flms presented in Venice:
2001 – Hundstage (Dog Days) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2012 – Paradise: Glaube (Paradise: Faith) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography
Seidl was born in Vienna in 1952. He began his career as a director of documentary films as early as 1980, with titles such as Einsvierzig (One Fourty) and Der Ball (The Prom, 1982). He began to achieve recognition shortly thereafter for Good News (1990), Tierische Liebe (Animal Love, 1995) and Models (1998). Seidl made his debut in feature-length fiction films, maintaining a dryness in his style inspired by an apparently-detached observation of reality, withHundstage (Dog Days, 2001), the story of suburban Vienna and its inhabitants during a particularly hot summer. The film was presented in Competition at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize. In 2003 he returned to documentary filmmaking with Jesus, Du weißt (Jesus, You Know), winner of the Grand prize at the Vienna Film Festival. Seidl presented his second fiction feature-length film Import/Export (2007), the double journey, practically a documentary, of a Ukrainian nurse who finds a job in Vienna and a young Viennese man who trades in video-poker machines in the former Soviet republics, in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2012 he released his Paradise Trilogy, which explores the theme of love in all its forms, from physical and sexual love to spiritual and religious love, through the figures of three women. The first chapter Paradise:Love was presented in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the second Paradise: Faith was in Competition at the 2012 Venice Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize; the third Paradise: Hope participated in the Berlin Film Festival in 2013.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2001 – Hundstage (Dog Days) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2012 – Paradise: Glaube (Paradise: Faith) – In Competition (screenplay, director)

AWARDS:
2001 – Hundstage (Dog Days) – Grand Jury Prize
2012 – Paradies: Glaube (Paradise: Faith) – Special Jury Prize 

TODD SOLONDZ - (Usa),
Films presented in Venice:
2004 – Palindromes – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2009 – Life During Wartime – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography
Born in 1959, Todd Solondz grew up in the suburbs of Newark, New Jersey. Since his earliest feature-length films he has garnered a string of successes in the major international festivals: in 1996, Welcome to the Dollhouse, which he produced, wrote and directed, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival; in 1998, Happiness, won the International Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. His next film, Storytelling, premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was named one of the ten best films of the year by “The New York Times”. His first participation in the Venice Film Festival was with Palindromes,which premiered in competition in 2004. Life During Wartime won the Osella for Best Screenplay in 2009, and Dark Horse, starring Mia Farrow and Christopher Walken, competed for the Golden Lion in 2011.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE: 
2004 – Palindromes – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2009 – Life During Wartime – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2011 – Dark Horse – In Competition (screenplay, director)

AWARDS: 
2009 – Life During Wartime – Osella for Best Screenplay 

SION SONO - (Japan),
Films presented in Venice:
2010 – Tsumetai Nettaigyo (Cold Fish) – Orizzonti section (screenplay, director)
2011 – Himizu – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography
Sion Sono, born in Toyokawa in 1961, is a Japanese director, poet and composer. He has written poetry since he was an adolescent and in 1985 made his first short film Ore wa Sono Sion da! (I Am Sion Sono!), in which the author himself reads some of his writings. His first feature-length film came in 1989 with Kessen! Joshiryou tai Danshiryou (Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm). In 2001 he filmed Jisatsu sâkuru (Suicide Club), a horror film in which the main character investigates a series of mysterious collective suicides in Japan. The film is the first of a trilogy that addresses the themes of solitude and alienation, and the second chapter Kimyô na sakâsu (Strange Circus, 2005) was presented and appreciated at the Berlin Film Festival. The same year he made Hazard and Noriko no shokutaku(Noriko’s Dinner Table) presented in various international film festivals including the Yokohama Film Festival. He later won the First Prize at the Austin Fantastic Fest, with Ekusute (Exte: Hair Extensions, 2007). One of his most famous films is Ai no mukidashi (Love Exposure, 2008), which won several prizes around the world including the Fipresci award at the Berlin Film Festival. His first participation in the Venice Film Festival was in 2010, when he presented the filmTsumetai nettaigyo (Cold Fish) in the Orizzonti section of the 67th edition of the Venice Film Festival. He returned in 2011 with Himizu, the story of two adolescents with tormented lives against the background of the disaster of Fukushima, which won the young stars Fumi Nikaidô and Shôta Sometani the “Marcello Mastroianni” award. His next film Kibô no kuni (2012) participated in the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2013 he will be back in Venice in the Orizzonti section with the action movie Jigoku de naze warui.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2010 – Tsumetai Nettaigyo (Cold Fish) – Orizzonti section (screenplay, director)
2011 – Himizu – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2013 – Jigoku de naze warui (Why Don’t You Play in Hell?) – Orizzonti section (director)

AWARDS: 
2011 – Himizu – “Marcello Mastroianni” Award to Best Emerging Young Actor and Actress to Fumi Nikaidô and Shôta Sometani

JEAN-MARIE STRAUB - (France),

Films presented in Venice:

1963 - Machorka-Muff - 14. Mostra Int.le del Film Documentario (director)

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Biography
Born in Metz in 1933, Straub is a film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. With a passion for film dating back to his adolescence, he began organizing film forums as early as the 1950’s; following his studies in literature at the Universities of Strasbourg and Nancy he moved to Paris and in 1954 met Danièle Huillet, with whom he began a sentimental and artistic partnership which would last their entire lifetime, centred on the experimental re-elaboration, in film, of literary works, plays and even works of art. Straub began to work in film in 1956 as a voluntary assistant to Renoir, Bresson, Rivete. After being condemned as a deserter (he had refused to fight the war in Algeria), he moved to Germany with Huillet in 1958; in 1963 he made his directorial debut with the anti-military short filmMachorka-Muff, which was presented that year in Venice at the 14th International Documentary Film Festival. Since this debut work, their films have always departed from the traditional canons of the seventh art, combining expressive experimentation, the alienation effect in acting, a political approach and historic analysis. The couple’s first feature-length film was Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, 1967), based on the life of the singer Anna Magdalena Bach, wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. In 1969 Straub and Huillet moved to Rome where they made several films, such as the feature-length Les yeux ne veulent pas en tout temps se fermer ou Peut-être qu’un jour Rome se permettra di choisir a son tour, ou Othon (1969), Geschichtsunterricht (History Lessons, 1972), inspired by Brecht and Fortini/Cani (1976). In 1975, the Venice Film Festival dedicated a personal retrospective to Straub and Huillet: the programme also included the couple’s second feature-length film,Moses und Aron (Moses and Aaron, 1974), as well as many earlier works such as Nicht Versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht (Not Reconciled, 1965) and Einleitung zu Arnold Schönbergs "Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene” (Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene, 1972). In 1979 they returned to the Lido with Dalla nube alla resistenza (From the Clouds to the Resistance), divided into two parts and inspired by ‘Dialoghi con Leucò’ and ‘La luna e i falò’ by Cesare Pavese: in the first the Gods reflect on their dominion over man, in the second, set in the 1950’s, two inhabitants of the Langhe region reminisce and discuss the positive and negative aspects of the Resistance. Straub and Huillet’s later more important titles includeAmerika/Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations, 1983), inspired by Kafka, Der Tod des Empedokles, oder Wenn dann der Erde Grün von Neuem euch erglänzt (The Death of Empedocles, 1986) and Schwartze Sünde (Black Sin, 1989) from Hölderlin, Antigone (1992) from Sophocles, Sicilia! (1999) and Il ritorno del figlio prodigo ? Umiliati (2003) from Vittorini, Une visite au Louvre (2004), considerations on painting. In 2005 Straub and Huillet came to the Venice Film Festival in Competition with Quei loro incontri (These Encounters of Theirs), again inspired by Pavese: Venice awarded both of them the Special Lion for Innovation in the Language of Cinema. In 2006, after Huillet’s death, Straub made several short films such as Il ginocchio di Artemide (Artemis’ Knee, 2008), O somma luce (2010) and L’inconsolable(2011).

 

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE
1963 - Machorka-Muff - 14. Mostra Internazionale del Film Documentario (director)
1975 - Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach - Personale di Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet Proposte di nuovi film (director)
1975 - Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter - Personale di Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet Proposte di nuovi film (director)
1975 - Nicht Versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht - Personale di Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet Proposte di nuovi film (director)
1975 – Geschichtsunterricht - Personale di Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet Proposte di nuovi film (director)
1975 - Einleitung zu Arnold Schönbergs "Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene - Personale di Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet Proposte di nuovi film (director)
1975 – Moses und Aron - Personale di Jean-Marie Straub e Danièle Huillet Proposte di nuovi film (director)
1979 – Dalla nube alla resistenza – La notte di Officina (director)
2005 – Quei loro incontri – In concorso (director)

AWARDS
2005 – Quei loro incontri - Special Lion to Jean-Marie Straub for innovation in film language (2006)

TUSI TAMASESE - (Samoa),

Films presented in Venice:

2011 – O Le Tulafale (The Orator) – Orizzonti (director, screenplay)
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TARIQ TEGUIA - (Algeria),
Films presented in Venice:
2006 – Roma wa la n’touma (Rome Rather Than You) – Orizzonti (screenplay, director)
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PABLO TRAPERO - (Argentina),
Films presented in Venice:
2000 - Mundo grúa (Crane World) - Settimana internazionale della critica (producer, screenplay, director)
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ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI - (Greece),
Films presented in Venice:
2010 – Attenberg – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2011 - Alpeis - In Competition (producer)
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Biography
Born in Athens in 1966, she lives and works between Greece and the USA. She received a B.A. in Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and two Master’s Degrees: one in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the other in Film Directing from the University of Texas in Austin. Her introduction to cinema was a small role in Richard Linklater’s seminal film Slacker (1991). Her first short film, Fit, was a finalist at the Student Academy Awards. Her thesis at the University of Texas in Austin coincided with her debut feature-length film The Slow Business of Going, a sci-fi road movie shot in nine cities across the world on a small budget, which is now in the permanent film collection of the MoMA. She was the co-founder and artistic director of the Austin-based Cinematexas International Short Film Festival, programming cinema, avant-garde music and politically engaged media, which ran from 1997 to 2007. In 2004 Tsangari was invited to be the projections designer and video director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens Olympic Games that year. She designs large-scale projections for dance, theatre and site-specific installations. In 2005, she founded Haos Film, a creative office that develops and produces work by and with fellow filmmakers, including Yorgos Lanthimos, for whom she co-produced Kinetta (2005), Kynodontas (Dogtooth, 2009) and Alpeis (Alps, 2011, winner at the Venice Film Festival of the Osella for Best Screenplay). In 2010 she was in Competition at the Venice Film Festival with her second feature-length film Attenberg: the star Ariane Labed won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress. Tsangari co-produced the film by Richard Linklater Before Midnight (chapter three of the trilogy that also includes Before Sunrise and Before Sunset), where she also appears in the role of Ariadni. With the screenplay for her next sci-fi comedy Duncharon (co-authored with her long-time collaborator Matt Johnson) she won the “ARTE France Cinéma” award for Best European Project for Development at CineMart 2012, Rotterdam. Her latest film The Capsule was previewed at the Locarno and Toronto Film Festivals in 2012 and screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013.  In 2012 she was on the jury of the 63rd Berlin Film Festival chaired by Wong Kar-wai.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE: 
2010 – Attenberg – In Competition (screenplay, director)
2011 - Alpeis - In Competition (producer)

AWARDS: 
2010 – Attenberg – Coppa Volpi for Best Actress to Ariane Labed

SHINYA TSUKAMOTO - (Japan),
Films presented in Venice:
1998 – Bullet Ballet – Prospettive (actor, cinematography, screenplay, director)
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Biography
Shinya Tsukamoto was born in Tokyo on New Year’s Eve of 1960. He is one of the most radical and innovative of independent Japanese filmmakers: he began his career in the 1980’s as an advertiser, but soon founded the underground theatre company ‘Kaiju’ with which he produced his first dramas and made his first films. In 1987, as an emerging new artist, he won the Grand Prize at the Pia Film Festival of Tokyo with Denchu kozo no boken (Adventures of Electric Rod Boy), a short science-fiction film shot in Super-8. In 1988 he made his first feature-length film, Tetsuo (Tetsuo: The Iron Man), the story of how a man mutates into biomechanical being, which soon became an international cult film and won many international awards in fantasy film festivals, just like its sequel, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer(1992). In 1995 Tsukamoto won the two major awards of the Young People’s Jury at the Locarno Film Festival forTokyo Fist. Since 1998 his films have been regularly invited to the Venice Film Festival: the desperate obsessive Bullet Ballet was screened in the Prospettive section; the following year the period film Sôseiji (Gemini) was presented in the Cinema del Presente section, while the voyeuristic erotic nightmare Rokugatsu no hebi (A Snake of June) appeared in the Controcorrente section in 2002 and won the Special Jury Prize. Tsukamoto returned to Venice in 2004 with Vital, starring Tadanobu Asano, then in 2009 with the highly anticipated third chapter of Tetsuo: The Bullet Man proposed in a memorable midnight screening, and in 2011 with the surreal and visionary horror film Kotoko, which won the Orizzonti prize.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
1998 – Bullet Ballet – Prospettive (actor, cinematography, screenplay, director)
1999 – Soseiji (Gemini) – Cinema del Presente section (cinematography, screenplay, director)
2002 – Rokugatsu no hebi (A Snake of June) – Controcorrente section (actor, cinematography, screenplay, director)
2004 – Marebito – Venezia 61 Cinema Digitale (actor)
2004 – Vital – Orizzonti section (cinematography, screenplay, director)
2009 – Tetsuo: The Bullet Man – In Competition (actor, cinematography, screenplay, director)
2011 – Kotoko – Orizzonti section (actor, cinematography, screenplay, director)

AWARDS: 
2002 – Rokugatsu no hebi (A Snake of June) – Special Jury Prize
2011 – Kotoko – Orizzonti Award

JURIES:
1997 – Corto Cortissimo
2005 – Orizzonti 

TERESA VILLAVERDE - (Portugal),
Films presented in Venice:
1994 - Três irmãos (Two Brothers, My Sister) – In Competition (screenplay, director)
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BING WANG - (China),
Films presented in Venice:
2010 – Le fossé (The Ditch) – In Competition (director)
2012 – San zi mei (Three Sisters) – Orizzonti section (director)
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Biography
Wang Bing, born in 1967 in Xi’an, in the Chinese province of Shaanxi, is one of the foremost contemporary documentary filmmakers. His films are about important moments in Chinese history, focusing special attention on the small and great stories of those who personally suffer the tragic consequences of specific historic events. He began his career as a photographer at the Department of Photography of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts (1992) and at the Department of Cinematography at the Beijing Film Academy (1995). He made his debut as a film director in 2001 with the documentary Tie Xi Qu (West of the Tracks), a project conceived at an epic scale, which tells the story of the most ancient of Chinese industrial districts, Shenyang: the final version is a trilogy that lasts a total of 9 hours, transformed into the fascinating saga of a people and a nation. In 2007 he made He Fengming (Fengming, a Chinese Memoir), a documentary in which the director conducts a series of interviews with an elderly Chinese woman who reminisces about the critical moments in her life, and the short film Baoli Gongchang (Brutality Factory), an episode in the anthology film State of the World. His next project was another documentary of significant length, Yuan You(Crude Oil, 208) about a group of workers at an oil field in the Gobi Desert. In 2009 he filmed the documentary Tong Dao (Coal Money), presented at the Cinéma du Réel in Paris. In 2010 he participated in the Venice Film Festival with his film Le fossé (The Ditch), which was screened In Competition as the surprise film. It tells the true story of thousands of Chinese citizens who were accused of opposition to the regime in the late 1950’s, and were deported to the camp of Jiabiangou, in western China, and is based on the eyewitness accounts of people who lived through this experience. He returned in 2012 to win the Orizzonti Award with San zi mei (Three Sisters) about three sisters who live alone in a small mountain village in the Yunnan area.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2010 – Le fossé (The Ditch) – In Competition (director)
2012 – San zi mei (Three Sisters) – Orizzonti section (director)

AWARDS:
2012 – San zi mei (Three Sisters) – Orizzonti Award

APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL - (Thailand),
Films presented in Venice:
2006 – Sang sattawat (Syndromes and a Century) – In competition (screenplay, director)
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Biography
Weerasethakul was born in Bangkok and grew up in Khon Kaen in north-eastern Thailand. He holds a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in Film- making from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He began making film and video shorts in 1994, and completed his first feature Mysterious Object at Noon(Dokfah Nai Meu Maan) in 2000. He has also mounted exhibitions and installations in many countries since 1998. Often non-linear, with a strong sense of dislocation, his works deal with memory, subtly addressed personal politics and social issues. Working independently of the Thai commercial film industry, he is active in promoting experimental and independent film-making through his company Kick the Machine, founded in 1999. His art projects and feature films have won him widespread international recognition and numerous festival prizes, including two prizes from the Cannes Film Festival. In 2005 he was presented with one of Thailand’s most prestigious awards for visual artists, Silpatorn, by the Thai Ministry of Culture. In 2008, he became the first artist to receive the Fine Prize from the 55th Carnegie International, USA. Also in 2008, the French Minister of Culture and Communications bestowed on him the medal of Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature). His film, Syndromes and a Century, completed in late 2006, was the first Thai film to be selected for competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Apichatpong has also completed a short film commission entitled Vampire for Louis Vuitton, which premiered at the Espace Louis Vuitton in Paris. Apichatpong is also one of 20 international artists and filmmakers commissioned to create a short film for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2009, the Austrian Film Museum published a major English language monograph on his work. His latest project, Primitive, consists of a large-scale video installation, a short film, an artist’s book, and a feature film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. This film won a Palme d’Or prize at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival in 2010, making it the first Southeast Asian film (and the seventh from Asia) to win the most prestigious award in the film world. He’s currently working on a project focusing on the Mekong river at a Thai-Laos border.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2006 – Sang sattawat (Syndromes and a Century) – In competition (screenplay, director)

YONFAN - (China),
Films presented in Venice:
2003 – Breaking the Willow – Nuovi territori Special Screenings (subject, screenplay, director)
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Biography
Born in 1947 in Hunan, China, and raised in Taiwan, Yonfan moved in 1965 to Hong Kong where he has lived ever since. At the end of the Seventies he travelled and studied in Europe and America. He first made his name as a fashion photographer (for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue) and continued to publish his own books of photographs taken in the wildest and most remote regions of China. His debut in film direction came in 1984, with A Certain Romance. He often directs films produced by his own company, Far Sun Films, working in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan. His international breakthrough came with Mei shaonian zhi lian (Beauty), screened to great acclaim in Berlin in 1999. Yonfan writes, designs and is the executive producer of his own films. In 2003 he participated in the Venice Film Festival with his first documentary, Breaking the Willow, about the cultural heritage of kunqu, traditional Chinese opera. He returned to the Venice Film Festival, this time in Competition, in 2009 with the fiction feature-length filmLei Wangzi (Prince of Tears), set in Taiwan in the 1950’s, the story of two sisters who, upon their return from school, find their house ransacked by the military police and their parents arrested and accused of being Communist spies.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
2003 – Breaking the Willow – Nuovi territori Special Screenings (subject, screenplay, director)
2009 – Lei Wangzi (Prince of Tears) – In Competition (screenplay, director)

KRZYSZTOF ZANUSSI - (Poland),
Films presented in Venice:
1966 – Smierc prowincjala (The Death of a Provincial) - 18. International Documentary Film Festival (director)
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Biography
Born in 1939 in Warsaw, Zanussi studied physics at the University of Warsaw, then philosophy at the University of Krakow. Shortly after the age of twenty he began to make his first short films. One of them, Tramsaj do nieba (The Tram to Heaven), was noticed by Andrzej Munk who invited Zanussi to enrol in the Lódz Film Academy, from which he graduated in 1966 and where he later taught. In 1969 he made his debut feature-length film Struktura krysztalu (The Structure of Crystal); his most important films include Zycie rodzinne (Family Life, 1971, in Competition at Cannes),Illuminacja (The Illumination, 1973, Golden Leopard and Jury Prize at Locarno), Bilans kwartalny (A Woman’s Decision, 1975, winner of the OCIC award at the Berlin Film Festival), Spirala (Spiral, 1978) and Constans (The Constant Factor, 1980), both winners of the Ecumenical Prize of the Jury at Cannes). In 1981 he won the European David di Donatello. The same year, Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival, he presented From a Far Countrydedicated to Pope John Paul II, whom the director met many times. In 1982, he returned to the Venice Film Festival with Imperativ (Imperative), which won the Special Jury Prize. Two years later he won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 41st Venice Film Festival with Rok Spokojnego slonca (A Year of the Quiet Sun). Zanussi made more than thirty films for the big screen and television. His most recent works include two co-productions with Italy: Persona non grata, which screened in Competition at the Lido in 2005, and The Black Sun (2007). The director is currently completing his new film Inner Voice.

FILMS PRESENTED IN VENICE:
1966 – Smierc prowincjala (The Death of a Provincial) - 18. International Documentary Film Festival (director)
1980 – Kontrakt (The Contract) – Officina veneziana section (director)
1981 – From a Far Country – Cinema 81 Out of Competition (director)
1982 – Imperativ (Imperative) – In Competition (director)
1984 – Blaubart (Bluebeard)– Venezia TV (director)
1984 – Rok Spokojnego slonca (The Year of the Quiet Sun) – In Competition (director)
1985 – Paradigma – Venezia speciali 1 (director)
1997 – Our God’s Brother – Special Events (screenplay, director)
2001 – Lapac Zlodzieja - Andrzej Munk Retrospective (director)
2005 – Persona non grata – In Competition (screenplay, director)

AWARDS: 
1982 – Imperativ (Imperative) – Special Jury Prize
1984 – Rok Spokojnego slonca (A Year of the Quiet Sun) – Golden Lion for Best Film

JURIES:
1981 – Official Competition
1985 – Official Competition Venezia 42 (President)