73rd Venice International Film Festival


The 73rd annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 10 September, 2016, at Venice Lido in Italy.
English filmmaker Sam Mendes was the jury president of the main competition. Italian actress Sonia Bergamasco hosted the opening and closing nights of the festival. The Golden Lion was awarded to The Woman Who Left by Lav Diaz.
A new project named Venice Production Bridge was introduced in this edition of the festival. The new project was 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.
The festival opened with La La Land by Damien Chazelle, and closed with The Magnificent Seven by Antoine Fuqua.
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Juries

Main competition (''Venezia 73'')

''[Orizzonti]''

''Luigi De Laurentiis'' 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:

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition

''[Orizzonti]''

The following films were selected for the Horizons section:

Venice Classics

The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:

Biennale College - Cinema

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

Final Cut in Venice

The following films were screened for the "Final Cut in Venice" section, a workshop to support the post-production of films from Africa:
Original TitleDirectorProduction country
FélicitéAlain GomisFrance, Senegal, Belgium
Ghost HuntingRaed AndoniPalestine, France, Switzerland
ObscureSoudade KaadanSyria, Lebanon
One of These DaysNadim TabetLebanon
Poisonous RosesFawzi SalehEgypt, France, Qatar
The WoundJohn TrengoveSouth Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France

''Il Cinema nel Giardino''

The following feature films were selected for the Il Cinema nel Giardino section:

Special screenings

The following film was presented as a Special Screening of the Official Selection:Spes contra Spem: Liberi Dentro by Ambrogio Crespi

Independent Sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were selected for the International Critics' Week section:

Venice Days

The following films were selected for the 13th edition of the Venice Days section:

Official Awards

In Competition (''Venezia 73'')

[Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement]

''[Orizzonti]''

Venice Classics Awards

''Luigi De Laurentiis'' Award for a Debut Film (Lion of the Future)

The Last of Us by Ala Eddine Slim

Special Awards

Independent Sections Awards

The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:

Venice International Critics' Week

Audience Award - Circolo del Cinema di Verona: The Nobodies by Juan Sebastián MesaSIAE Award: Paolo SorrentinoMario Serandrei - Hotel Saturnia Award: The Last of Us by Ala Eddine Slim

Venice Days

Venice Days Award: The War Show by Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah ZytoonBNL Award: Pamilya ordinaryo by Eduardo Roy Jr.Brian Award: Worldly Girl by Marco DanieliFedeora Awards:

Independent Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:

Open Award

Open Prize: Vangelo by Pippo Delbono

Francesco Pasinetti – SNGCI Award

Queer Lion

Heartstone by Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Arca CinemaGiovani Award

FEDIC Award

Indivisible by Edoardo De Angelis
  • * Special mentions:
  • ** The Greatest Dream by Michele Vannucci
  • ** Ears by Alessandro Aronadio

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''Fondazione Mimmo Rotella'' Award

Enrico Fulchignoni – CICT-UNESCO Award

Hotel Salvation ''Shubhashish Bhutiani''

Future Film Festival Digital Award

Arrival by Denis Villeneuve

Giovani Giurati del Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award

The Distinguished Citizen by Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn

Green Drop Award

Human Rights Nights Special Award

Bitter Money by Wang Bing

Interfilm Award

White Sun by Deepak Rauniyar

Lanterna Magica Award (CGS)

Dark Night by Tim Sutton

Leoncino d'Oro Agiscuola Award

On the Milky Road by Emir Kusturica

Cinema for UNICEF mention

Paradise by Andrei Konchalovsky

Golden Mouse

Jackie by Pablo LarraínSilver Mouse: Austerlitz by Sergei Loznitsa

NuovoImaie Talent Award

  • Best Young Actor: Daniele Parisi for his role in Ears
  • Best Young Actress: Camilla Diana for Tommaso by Kim Rossi Stuart

Francesco Pasinetti Special Prize

  • the cast of Piuma by Roan Johnson

Sfera 1932 Award

Spira Mirabilis by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti

SIGNIS Award

Piuma by Roan Johnson

C. Smithers Foundation – CICT-UNESCO Award

The Bleeder by Philippe Falardeau

Soundtrack Stars Award

Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award - Best Italian Film

Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award - Best Foreign Film

The Woman Who Left by Lav Diaz

Padre Nazareno Taddei Award

Paradise by Andrei Konchalovsky

Kinèo Awards

3rd ''Starlight Cinema'' Awards