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Venice 2009

67 articles available in total starting from 10/06/2009. Last article published on 12/09/2009.

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Iran seen through women’s eyes in Women Without Men

Photographer and video artist Shirin Neshat is known in particular for her portraits of women covered in Persian calligraphy. Her directorial debut, Women Without Men, in competition at Venice, is...  

12/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/Germany-Austria-Fr

Hausner’s Lourdes picks up FIPRESCI Prize

International critics have honoured Austrian director Jessica Hausner’s film, Lourdes, selected in competition (see our review). Meanwhile, in the Horizons section and Critics’ Week, the top award...  

12/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Parallel Awards

Philippine film Clash scoops top award

At the 66th Venice International Film Festival, the Horizons jury, composed of Pere Portabella (President), Gina Kim, Bady Minck, Garin Nugroho and Gianfranco Rosi, has unanimously decided to...  

12/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Awards | Horizons

Golden Lion for Lebanon, Special Jury Prize for Akin

Israeli debut director Samuel Maoz’s Lebanon (see review) has been awarded the Golden Lion by the 66th Venice International Film Festival jury (presided by Ang Lee). This award is much deserved by...  

12/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Awards

Van Dormael makes epic with Mr. Nobody

There’s a bit of everything in this epic film by Jaco Van Dormael, director of Toto the Hero and The Eighth Day. It draws on sci-fi fantasies of over 100 years of cinema, as well numerous films...  

12/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/France

Herzog splits himself in two

Director Marco Müller went against the usual rules (and was opposed by many) when he decided, for the first time “in the recent history of the Venice Film Festival,” according to the official...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition | Germany

Spada returns to sidebar with doc on poet Antonia Pozzi

The last documentary of Venice Days screened today, to audiences who were stirred to discover the little-known Italian poet Antonia Pozzi, in Marina Spada’s Poetry, You See Me. The film opens with...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Italy

War seen from a tank in Lebanon

The deafening clangour of the cannon rotating in search of a target, the gunsight lens that changes and turns into our eye staring at death and "enemies" like silent silhouettes to be shot down in...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/Israel/France/Germany

Emma Blank wins Europe Cinemas Label

Dutch/Belgian co-production The Last Days of Emma Blank, by Alex van Warmerdam's, has been awarded the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European Film in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Awards

The Double Hour, a love story disguised as a thriller

The Double Hour, the fourth and final Italian film in competition at the Venice Film Festival, centres on the love affair between former policeman Guido (Filippo Timi) and Slovenian waitress Sonia...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition | Italy

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