64th Venice International Film Festival


The 64th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, opened on 29 August 2007, with Joe Wright's Atonement and closed 8 September 2007. Host of the event was Italian actress Ambra Angiolini. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to American director Tim Burton. Once again all the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premieres in keeping with the festival tradition since the Second World War.

Juries

The international juries of the 64th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:
Main Competition
Horizons
Opera Prima
Short Film Competition

In competition

The competitive section of the official selection is an international competition of feature films in 35mm and digital HD format, running for the Golden Lion.

Out of competition

Shown below are new works by authors who were honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.

Horizons

New trends of cinema with full-length films in 35mm and digital format, and documentary-movies.

Short film competition

The following films in 35mm, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition :

Secret History of Italian Cinema 4

Special monographic sessions dedicated to the secret story of Italian cinema. This is the fourth part of the retrospective, initiated at the 61st edition of the festival; the patron of this edition, focused on Italian Spaghetti Western, was the director Quentin Tarantino.

New Versions Restored

As a pre-opening event of this future section, the restored Digital Cinema version of David Wark Griffith’s Intolerance was screened as a world premiere, in collaboration with the Le Giornate del Cinema Muto di Pordenone. "Venice Classics" which features restored classic films and documentaries on cinema, started as a new section in 2012, at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.

Autonomous sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for the 22nd Venice International Film Critics’ Week:

Venice Days

The following films were selected for the 4th edition of Venice Days autonomous section:

Awards

Official selection

The following Official Awards were conferred at the 64th edition:
In Competition
Special Awards
Horizons awards
Short Film awards
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
Venice International Film Critics' Week
Venice Days
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection: