# 76th Venice International Film Festival

The 76th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 7 September 2019.
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel was the Jury President of the main competition. The Truth, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was the festival's opening film.
The Golden Lion was awarded to Joker, directed by Todd Phillips.

## Juries
### Main Competition (Venezia 76)

* Lucrecia Martel, Argentine filmmaker - Jury President
* Piers Handling, Canadian film historian and critic, executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival
* Mary Harron, Canadian director
* Stacy Martin, French actress
* Rodrigo Prieto, Mexican cinematographer
* Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor
* Paolo Virzì, Italian director and screenwriter

### Horizons (Orizzonti)

* Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
* Mark Adams, artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival
* Rachid Bouchareb, French filmmaker
* Álvaro Brechner, Uruguayan filmmaker
* Eva Sangiorgi, artistic director of the Vienna International Film Festival

### Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film

* Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker and actor - Jury President
* Antonietta De Lillo, Italian director and screenwriter
* Terence Nance, American filmmaker
* Hend Sabry, Tunisian actress
* Michael J. Werner, American-Hongkongese film producer

### Venice Virtual Reality

* Laurie Anderson, American composer, artist and director - Jury President
* Francesco Carrozzini, Italian photographer
* Alysha Naples, Italian designer

### Venice Classics

* Costanza Quatriglio, Italian director and screenwriter

## Official Section
### In Competition

The following films were selected for the main international competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| About Endlessness | Om det oändliga | Roy Andersson | Sweden, Germany, Norway |
| Ad Astra | Ad Astra | James Gray | United States |
| Babyteeth | Babyteeth | Shannon Murphy | Australia |
| The Domain | A Herdade | Tiago Guedes | Portugal, France |
| Ema | Ema | Pablo Larraín | Chile |
| Gloria Mundi | Gloria Mundi | Robert Guédiguian | France |
| Guest of Honour | Guest of Honour | Atom Egoyan | Canada |
| Joker | Joker | Todd Phillips | United States |
| The Laundromat | The Laundromat | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be | La mafia non è più quella di una volta | Franco Maresco | Italy |
| Marriage Story | Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | United States, United Kingdom |
| Martin Eden | Martin Eden | Pietro Marcello | Italy, France |
| The Mayor of Rione Sanità | Il sindaco del Rione Sanità | Mario Martone | Italy |
| No.7 Cherry Lane | 繼園臺七號 | Yonfan | Hong Kong, China |
| An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | Roman Polanski | France, Italy |
| The Painted Bird | Nabarvené ptáče | Václav Marhoul | Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine |
| The Perfect Candidate | المرشحة المثالية | Haifaa al-Mansour | Saudi Arabia |
| Saturday Fiction | 兰心大剧院 | Lou Ye | China |
| The Truth (opening film) | La vérité | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan, France |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | Waiting for the Barbarians | Ciro Guerra | Italy, United States |
| Wasp Network | Wasp Network | Olivier Assayas | France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium |
    Highlighted title indicates Golden Lion winner.

### Out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Fiction ||||
| Adults in the Room | Adults in the Room | Costa-Gavras | France, Greece |
| The Burnt Orange Heresy (closing film) | The Burnt Orange Heresy (closing film) | Giuseppe Capotondi | United Kingdom, Italy |
| The King | The King | David Michôd | United Kingdom, Hungary |
| Mosul | Mosul | Matthew Michael Carnahan | United States |
| Seberg | Seberg | Benedict Andrews | United States, United Kingdom |
| To Live | Vivere | Francesca Archibugi | Italy |
| Volare | Tutto il mio folle amore | Gabriele Salvatores | Italy |
| Non Fiction ||||
| 45 Seconds of Laughter | 45 Seconds of Laughter | Tim Robbins | United States |
| Citizen K | Citizen K | Alex Gibney | United Kingdom, United States |
| Citizen Rosi | Citizen Rosi | Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi | Italy |
| Collective | Colectiv | Alexander Nanau | Romania, Luxemburg |
| I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo | I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo | Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | Italy |
| The Kingmaker | The Kingmaker | Lauren Greenfield | United States |
| Il pianeta in mare | Il pianeta in mare | Andrea Segre | Italy |
| Roger Waters: Us + Them | Roger Waters: Us + Them | Roger Waters | United Kingdom |
| State Funeral | State Funeral | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Lithuania |
| Woman | Woman | Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova | France |
| Special screenings ||||
| Electric Swan | Electric Swan | Konstantina Kotzamani | France, Greece, Argentina |
| Eyes Wide Shut | Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States |
| Irréversible - Inversion intégrale | Irréversible - Inversion intégrale | Gaspar Noé | France |
| Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut | Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut | Matt Wells | United Kingdom |
| The New Pope (episodes 2 and 7) | The New Pope (episodes 2 and 7) | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France, Spain |
| No One Left Behind | No One Left Behind | Guillermo Arriaga | Mexico |
| ZeroZeroZero (episodes 1 and 2) | ZeroZeroZero (episodes 1 and 2) | Stefano Sollima | Italy |

### Horizons (Orizzonti)

The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Main Competition ||||
| A Son | بيك نعيش | Mehdi Barsaoui | Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar |
| Atlantis | Атлантида | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine |
| Back Home | Revenir | Jessica Palud | France |
| Balloon | 气球 | Pema Tseden | China |
| White on White | Blanco en blanco | Théo Court | Spain, Chile, France, Germany |
| The Criminal Man | ბოროტმოქმედი | Dmitry Mamuliya | Georgia, Russia |
| Giants Being Lonely | Giants Being Lonely | Grear Patterson | United States |
| Hava, Maryam, Ayesha | Hava, Maryam, Ayesha | Sahraa Karimi | Afghanistan |
| Just 6.5 | متری شش و نیم | Saeed Roustayi | Iran |
| Mother | Madre | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Spain, France |
| My Days of Glory | Mes jours de gloire | Antoine de Bary | France |
| Moffie | Moffie | Oliver Hermanus | South Africa |
| Nevia | Nevia | Nunzia De Stefano | Italy |
| Pelican Blood | Pelikanblut | Katrin Gebbe | Germany, Bulgaria |
| Rialto | Rialto | Peter Mackie Burns | Ireland |
| Shadow of Water | ചോല | Sanal Kumar Sasidharan | India |
| Sole | Sole | Carlo Sironi | Italy |
| Verdict | Verdict | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines |
| Zumiriki | Zumiriki | Óskar Alegría | Spain |
| Short films – In competition ||||
| After Two Hours, Ten Minutes Had Passed | Nach zwei Stunden waren zehn Minuten vergangen | Steffen Goldkamp | Germany |
| Austral Fever | Fiebre austral | Thomas Woodroffe | Chile |
| Darling | Darling | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan, United States |
| Delphine | Delphine | Chloé Robichaud | Canada |
| The Diver | The Diver | Jamie Helmer, Michael Leonard | France, Australia |
| Dogs Barking at Birds | Cães que ladram aos pássaros | Leonor Teles | Portugal |
| Give Up the Ghost | Give Up the Ghost | Zain Duraie | Jordan, Sweden |
| Kingdom Come | Kingdom Come | Sean Robert Dunn | United Kingdom |
| Sand | Morae | Kim Kyung-rae | South Korea |
| Sh_t Happens | Sh_t Happens | David Štumpf, Michaela Mihályi | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Superheroes Without Superpowers | Supereroi senza superpoteri | Beatrice Baldacci | Italy |
| The Tears Thing | Le coup des larmes | Clémence Poésy | France |
| Roqaia | Roqaia | Diana Saqeb Jamal | Afghanistan, Bangladesh |
| Short films – Out of competition ||||
| Condor One | Condor One | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States |
| GUO4 | GUO4 | Peter Strickland | Hungary |
    Highlighted titles indicate Horizons Prizes for Best Feature Film and Best Short Film respectively.

### Venice Classics

The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Restored classic films ||||
| Crash (1996) | Crash (1996) | David Cronenberg | Canada |
| The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) | Ensayo de un crimen | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
| Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) | La muerte de un burócrata | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| Ecstasy (1933) | Extase | Gustav Machatý | Czechoslovakia |
| Francisca (1981) | Francisca (1981) | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| The Grim Reaper (1962) | La commare secca | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| The House Is Black (1962) | خانه سیاه است | Forough Farrokhzad | Iran |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) | The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) | Jack Arnold | United States |
| Maria Zef (1981) | Maria Zef (1981) | Vittorio Cottafavi | Italy |
| Mauri (1988) | Mauri (1988) | Merata Mita | New Zealand |
| New York, New York (1977) | New York, New York (1977) | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Out of the Blue (1980) | Out of the Blue (1980) | Dennis Hopper | Canada, United States |
| The Red Snowball Tree (1973) | Калина красная | Vasily Shukshin | Soviet Union |
| Sodrásban (1964) | Sodrásban (1964) | István Gaál | Hungary |
| The Spider's Stratagem (1970) | Strategia del ragno | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| The Hills of Marlik (1964) | تپه‌های مارلیک | Ebrahim Golestan | Iran |
| Tiro al piccione (1961) | Tiro al piccione (1961) | Giuliano Montaldo | Italy |
| Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) | Le Passage du Rhin | André Cayatte | France, West Germany, Italy |
| Way of a Gaucho (1952) | Way of a Gaucho (1952) | Jacques Tourneur | United States |
| The White Sheik (1952) | Lo sceicco bianco | Federico Fellini | Italy |
| Documentaries on cinema ||||
| 800 Mal Einsam - Ein Tag mit dem Filmemacher Edgar Reitz (2019) | 800 Mal Einsam - Ein Tag mit dem Filmemacher Edgar Reitz (2019) | Anna Hepp | Germany |
| Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer | Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer | Andrey Tarkovsky Jr. | Russia |
| Babenco - Alguém tem que ouvir o coração e dizer: parou | Babenco - Alguém tem que ouvir o coração e dizer: parou | Bárbara Paz | Brazil |
| Boia, maschere e segreti: L'horror italiano degli anni sessanta | Boia, maschere e segreti: L'horror italiano degli anni sessanta | Steve Dalla Casa | Italy |
| Fellini fine mai | Fellini fine mai | Eugenio Cappuccio | Italy |
| Fulci for Fake | Fulci for Fake | Simone Scafidi | Italy |
| Life As a B-movie: Piero Vivarelli | Life As a B-movie: Piero Vivarelli | Fabrizio Laurenti, Niccolò Vivarelli | Italy |
| Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist | Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist | Alexandre O. Philippe | United States |
| Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto: Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari | Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto: Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari | Simone Isola, Fausto Trombetta | Italy |
    Highlighted titles indicate the Best Restored Film and Best Documentary on Cinema official awards respectively.

### Sconfini

The following films were selected for the Sconfini section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| American Skin | American Skin | Nate Parker | United States |
| Beyond the Beach: The Hell and the Hope | Beyond the Beach: The Hell and the Hope | Graeme A. Scott, Buddy Squires | United Kingdom |
| Chiara Ferragni – Unposted | Chiara Ferragni – Unposted | Elisa Amoruso | Italy |
| Effetto domino | Effetto domino | Alessandro Rossetto | Italy |
| Once More Unto the Breach | Il varco | Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini | Italy |
| The Scarecrows | Les épouvantails | Nouri Bouzid | Tunisia, Morocco, Luxembourg |

## Independent Sections
### Venice International Critics' Week

The following films were selected for the 34th Venice International Critics' Week (Italian: Settimana Internazionale della Critica):
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| In competition ||||
| All This Victory | Jeedar el sot | Ahmad Ghossein | Lebanon, France, Qatar |
| Parthenon | Partenonas | Mantas Kvedaravičius | Lithuania, Ukraine, France |
| The Prince | El príncipe | Sebastian Muñoz | Chile, Argentina, Belgium |
| Psychosia | Psykosia | Marie Grahtø | Denmark, Finland |
| Rare Beasts | Rare Beasts | Billie Piper | United Kingdom |
| Scales | Sayidat al Bahr | Shahad Ameen | United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Saudi Arabia |
| Tony Driver | Tony Driver | Ascanio Petrini | Italy, Mexico |
| Special events – Out of competition ||||
| Bombay Rose (opening film) | Bombay Rose (opening film) | Gitanjali Rao | India, United Kingdom, France |
| Sanctorum (closing film) | Sanctorum (closing film) | Joshua Gil | Mexico, Dominican Republic, Qatar |

### Giornate degli Autori

The following films were selected for the 16th edition of the Giornate degli Autori section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| In Competition ||||
| 5 is the Perfect Number | 5 è il numero perfetto | Igort | Italy, Belgium, France |
| Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labidi Labbé | Tunisia, France |
| Beware of Children | Barn | Dag Johan Haugerud | Norway, Sweden |
| A Bigger World | Un monde plus grand | Fabienne Berthaud | France, Belgium |
| Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | Jan Komasa | Poland, France |
| La Llorona | La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala, France |
| Lingua Franca (opening film) | Lingua Franca (opening film) | Isabel Sandoval | United States, Philippines |
| The Long Walk | ບໍ່ມີວັນຈາກ | Mattie Do | Laos |
| Only the Animals | Seules les bêtes | Dominik Moll | France, Germany |
| You Will Die at Twenty | ستموت في العشرين | Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway |
| They Say Nothing Stays the Same | ある 船頭 の 話 | Joe Odagiri | Japan |
| Out of competition ||||
| Time of the Untamed (closing film) | Les chevaux voyageurs | Bartabas | France |
| Special events ||||
| Burning Cane | Burning Cane | Phillip Youmans | United States |
| House of Cardin | House of Cardin | P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes | United States |
| Mondo Sexy | Mondo Sexy | Mario Sesti | Italy |
| My Brother Chases Dinosaurs | Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri | Stefano Cipani | Italy, Spain |
| Il prigioniero | Il prigioniero | Federico Olivetti | Italy |
| Scherza con i fanti | Scherza con i fanti | Gianfranco Pannone | Italy |
| Miu Miu Women's Tales ||||
| #17 Shako Mako | #17 Shako Mako | Hailey Gates | Italy, United States |
| #18 Brigitte | #18 Brigitte | Lynne Ramsay | Italy, United Kingdom |

## Official Awards

The following official awards were presented at the 76th edition:

### In Competition

* Golden Lion: Joker by Todd Phillips
* Grand Jury Prize: An Officer and a Spy, by Roman Polanski
* Silver Lion: Roy Andersson for About Endlessness
* Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Ariane Ascaride for Gloria Mundi
* Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Luca Marinelli for Martin Eden
* Best Screenplay: No.7 Cherry Lane, by Yonfan
* Special Jury Prize: The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be by Franco Maresco
* Marcello Mastroianni Award: Toby Wallace, Babyteeth

### Horizons (Orizzonti)

* Best Film: Atlantis by Valentyn Vasyanovych
* Best Director: Théo Court for White on White
* Special Jury Prize: Verdict by Raymund Ribas Gutierrez
* Best Actress: Marta Nieto for Madre
* Best Actor: Sami Bouajila for A Son
* Best Screenplay: Back Home by Jessica Palud
* Horizons Prize for Best Short: Darling by Saim Sadiq

### Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film (Lion of the Future)

* You Will Die at Twenty by Amjad Abu Alala

### Venezia Classici Awards

* Best Documentary on Cinema: Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
* Best Restored Film: Ecstasy (1933)

### Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

* Pedro Almodóvar
* Julie Andrews

## Independent Sections Awards

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

### Giornate degli Autori

* GdA Director's Award: La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante
* Europa Cinemas Label: Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa

## Independent Awards
### SIAE Award

* Marco Bellocchio for The Traitor

### Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Award

* Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger for The Burnt Orange Heresy

### Campari Passion for the Cinema Award

* Luca Bigazzi for The New Pope

### Bresson Award

* Lucrecia Martel