# 41st Venice International Film Festival

The 41st annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 1984 under the direction of Gian Luigi Rondi.
Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was A Year of the Quiet Sun directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.
The main event of this edition was, out of competition, the premiere of Heimat, an almost 16 hours-long film directed by Edgar Reitz. Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder. The retrospective was dedicated to Luis Buñuel.

## Jury

The following people comprised the 1984 jury:
* Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
* Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet
* Balthus, French painter
* Günter Grass, West German author and visual artist
* Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker
* Erica Jong, American writer and poet
* Erland Josephson, Swedish actor
* Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer
* Isaac Bashevis Singer, American author
* Paolo Taviani, Italian filmmaker
* Vittorio Taviani, Italian filmmaker
* Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet poet

## Official Sections
### In Competition

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Angela's War | Angelas Krig | Eija-Elina Bergholm | Finland |
| The Annunciation | Angyali udvozlet | Andràs Jeles | Hungary |
| Claretta Petacci | Claretta | Pasquale Squitieri | Italy |
| Dionysos | Dionysos | Jean Rouch | France |
| Favorites of the Moon | Le favoris de la lune | Otar Ioseliani | France |
| Full Moon in Paris | Les nuits de la pleine lune | Eric Rohmer | France |
| The Future Is Woman | Il futuro è donna | Marco Ferreri | Italy |
| Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Hugh Hudson | United Kingdom |
| Love on the Ground | L'amour par terre | Jacques Rivette | France |
| Love Unto Death | L'amour à mort | Alain Resnais | France |
| Maria's Lovers | Maria's Lovers | Andrei Konchalovsky | United States |
| The Mirror | Der Spiegel | Erden Kiral | West Germany |
| La neve nel bicchiere | La neve nel bicchiere | Florestano Vancini | Italy |
| No One Twice | Ninguem duas vezes | Jorge Silva Melo | Portugal |
| Paar | Paar | Goutam Ghose | India |
| A Proper Scandal | Uno scandalo perbene | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Italy |
| Sister Stella L. | Sister Stella L. | Mike De Leon | Philippines |
| The Shore | Bereg | Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov | Soviet Union |
| Sonatine | Sonatine | Micheline Lanctôt | Canada |
| The Stilts | Los zancos | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| The Three of Us | Noi tre | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| Tukuma | Tukuma | Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt | Denmark |
| Under the Bridge | Da qiao xia mian | Chen Bai | China |
| Ybris | Ybris | Gavino Ledda | Italy |
| A Year of the Quiet Sun | Rok spokojnego słońca | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |

### Out of competition

Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder.

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

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:
* O pokojniku sve najlepse by Predrag Antonijevic (Yugoslavia)
* Beyond The Walls (Meachorei Hasoragim) by Uri Barbash (Israel)
* Wildrose by John Hanson (United States)
* Final Call (Unerreichbare Nähe) by Dagmar Hirtz (West Germany)
* Strikebound by Richard Lowenstein (Austria)
* Mosquito on the 10th Floor (Jukkai no mosukîto) by Yoichi Sai (Japan)
* End of the Miracle (A csoda vége) by János Vészi (Hungary)

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Golden Lion: A Year of the Quiet Sun by Krzysztof Zanussi
* Silver Lion for Best First Film: Sonatine by Micheline Lanctôt
* Grand Special Jury Prize: Favorites of the Moon by Otar Ioseliani
* Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Naseeruddin Shah for Paar
* Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Pascale Ogier for Full Moon in Paris