65th Venice International Film Festival
The 65th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on 27 August 2008 by Burn After Reading, and closed on 6 September 2008. International competition jury, led by Wim Wenders, awarded Leone d'Oro to The Wrestler, directed by Darren Aronofsky.
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | Burn After Reading |
|---|---|
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion - The Wrestler |
| Hosted by | Ksenia Rappoport |
| Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 2008 |
| Website | Website |
77-year-old Italian film director Ermanno Olmi received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.[1][2][3]
About the 65th edition of festival
The festival opened on August 27, 2008, with the highly anticipated film directed by the Coen brothers, Burn After Reading. Burn is not running in the official competition and thus is ineligible to win any prizes, but reaction in Venice will indicate whether Joel and Ethan Coen can repeat their success of 2008 with the Academy Award-winning Venice entry, No Country For Old Men.[4]
Unlike the Cannes Film Festival, American filmmakers have only twice won the coveted prize at Venice (with the majority of prizes going to European or Asian filmmakers over the past 65 years). It is also famine for British films, as none were selected for competition in this year's festival.[5] Despite the dearth of English-speaking films, several films at the fest are likely to make a splash at this year's Oscars in Hollywood. A trend has been that several films launched in Venice have gone on to garner multiple Academy Award nominations. In 2005, Taiwan-born director Ang Lee's film, Brokeback Mountain earned its director a Best Director Oscar. Lee has won the top prize at Venice twice in the past few years.[4][6]
The glamour of the Venice Film Festival (attended by many high-profile stars) as well as the link with the upcoming Academy Awards has helped raise the Venice Film Festival's profile. Nonetheless, the event has a long-established reputation for showcasing emerging cinema, including films from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, and this year's lineup proves the same.[7]
Festival organizers have announced that the festival's shorts competition will begin on September 1 with Natalie Portman's directorial debut, Eve. Rising Russian star Kseniya Rappoport will also host the opening and closing ceremonies.[8]
German independent film director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire) will head the Venice film jury.[9]
According to the International Herald Tribune, the Venice Film Festival will not be without its drama if the water-taxi drivers have any say:
"On the eve of the festival, Venice's water-taxi drivers were threatening to go on strike... The city's deputy mayor, Michele Vianello, at first responded in "make-my-day" mode, telling them to go right ahead, a sentiment shared by most of Venice's inhabitants, the vast majority of whom use public water buses and would only consider taking one of these astronomically expensive private conveyances for weddings, funerals, or if they won the lottery. Vianello subsequently declared the strike illegal, but if it goes ahead, ordinary festivalgoers may find themselves traveling with the stars (the Lido can only be reached by boat)."[5]
The festival will close on September 6, 2008.[9]
This year's Venice Film Festival's film selections had been widely criticized as being among the weakest in years, with some publications even describing it as the "worst ever".[10][11] Later showings made It improve from bad to better,[12][13] but it might have been too late.[14]
The 65th Venice International Film Festival will be dedicated to the late Egyptian director Youssef Chahine. Chahine who died recently at age 82, was a notable in post-war Arab cinema.[9] Festival director Marco Mueller said, "Who else could have succeeded in mixing the philosopher Averroes with Fred Astaire? That's what cinema should be about", Mueller said, referring to Chahine's film "Destiny".[15]
About the films in the festival
Of the 52 films selected to screen at this year's Venice Mostra, only 21 will be competing for the Golden Lion top prize.[15]
Most of the films at Venice will be world premieres, including the "things that go boom" psychological thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker. The film deals with the physical and emotional strains faced by EOD bomb squads in Iraq.[7] Also premiering at the festival is home-grown favorite Birdwatcher directed by Italy's own Marco Bechis. Other strong contenders for the coveted Golden Lion award are the Darren Aronofsky directed film, The Wrestler, and director Barbet Schroeder's entry, L'Inju: la Bete dans l'Ombre.[9]
With no British pictures and a diminished U.S. presence, the Venice Film Festival will focus on Italian and Japanese cinema with four films from each country, including Oscar-winning animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki's latest, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.[16]
European films are also set to dominate the festival, due in part to the American Writer's Guild strike and the effects of the slow down in the film pipeline. Other theories for the lack of American films are the U.S. economy (with dollar's slump vs. the euro), and Hollywood studio belt-tightening.[16] The major U.S. studios have effectively gobbled up all the small independent labels, then went on to make poor development and/or marketing decisions causing the inevitable shuttering or downsizing of these same "independent" labels. Former "indies" such as Warner Independent, New Line and Paramount Vantage are ghosts of the past. The lucrative temptation for studios to bust their budgets with big tent pole films has also meant the hard squeeze on less expensive, but the more challenging-to-market independent films. Risk-averse U.S. majors are seemingly no longer as willing to foot the bill for innovative films made for grownups. Industry trade magazines have pronounced this both as a death and/or a subsequent potential rebirth or "reboot" for independent filmmaking.[17]
"We look for the vitality of cinema where it is hidden, be it in popular works or auteur cinema; it makes no difference to us", festival director Marco Mueller says. Muller added, "The choices I made this year reconfirm an identity for the festival, but I definitely want Venice to stay pluralistic and contradictory." The show this year is packed with Japanese and French titles, and Mueller was compelled to honor domestic films, unfurling the largest Italian contingent on the Lido in ages.[18]
African cinema is also well repped with Ethiopian director Haile Gerima's Teza and Algerian helmer Tariq Teguia is screening Inland.[18]
Asia could win the Golden Lion for best film for the fourth year running. Leading the Japanese line-up is Akires to kame (Achilles and the Tortoise) directed by Takeshi Kitano. Kitano is a favored son in Venice, having already won the 1997 Leone d'Oro for Hana-bi (Fireworks) and who was awarded a special prize for his direction of Zatoichi in 2003.[4]
Films being screen out of competition include 35 Rums by French director Claire Denis, Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami's film, Shirin and an autobiographical documentary by Belgium-born director Agnès Varda.[9]
The "record" for the longest film at this festival (or maybe any) goes to Philippine director Lav Diaz's Melancholia, with a running time of some seven-and-a-half hours, and which is included in the Orizzonti (Horizons) section.[7]
A highlight of this year's Italian retrospective is a restored version of Federico Fellini's 1952 comedy The White Sheik with forty minutes of newly discovered footage.[19]
Juries
The international juries of the 65th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:[20]
Main Competition (Venezia 65)
- Wim Wenders, German filmmaker, playwright, author and photographer (Jury President)
- Yuri Arabov, Russian screenwriter, writer, poet and educator
- Valeria Golino, Italian actress and director
- Douglas Gordon, Scottish artist
- John Landis, American director, screenwriter, actor and producer
- Lucrecia Martel, Argentine director, screenwriter, and producer
- Johnnie To, Hong Kong director and producer
Horizons (Orizzonti)
- Chantal Akerman, Belgian director, artist and professor of film (President)
- Nicole Brenez, French historian, theoretician and professor of cinema
- Barbara Cupisti, Italian documentary director and actress
- José Luis Guerín, Spanish filmmaker and educator
- Veiko Õunpuu, Estonian film director and screenwriter
Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentiis" Award for a Debut Film)
- Abdellatif Kechiche, Tunisian-French actor, director and screenwriter (President)
- Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
- Gregory Jacobs, American director, producer and screenwriter
- Donald Ranvaud, British producer and film journalist
- Heidrun Schleef, Italian screenwriter and producer
Official selection
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[21][22]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Achilles and the Tortoise | Akiresu to Kame | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Birdwatchers | La terra degli uomini rossi | Marco Bechis | Italy |
| The Burning Plain | Guillermo Arriaga | United States | |
| Giovanna's Father | Il papà di Giovanna | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| The Hurt Locker | Kathryn Bigelow | United States | |
| Inju: The Beast in the Shadow | Inju, la bête dans l'ombre | Barbet Schroeder | France |
| Inland | Gabbla | Tariq Teguia | Algeria, France |
| Jerichow | Christian Petzold | Germany | |
| Milk | Süt | Semih Kaplanoglu | Turkey, France, Germany |
| The Other One | L’Autre | Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic | France |
| Paper Soldier | Bumazhnyy soldat | Aleksei German | Russia |
| A Perfect Day | Un giorno perfetto | Ferzan Özpetek | Italy |
| Plastic City | Dangkou | Yu Lik-wai | Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Japan |
| Ponyo | Gake no Ue no Ponyo | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| Rachel Getting Married | Jonathan Demme | United States | |
| The Seed of Discord | Il seme della discordia | Pappi Corsicato | Italy |
| The Sky Crawlers | Sukai Kurora | Mamoru Oshii | Japan |
| Teza | Haile Gerima | Ethiopia, Germany, France | |
| This Night | Nuit de Chien | Werner Schroeter | France, Germany, Portugal |
| Vegas: Based on a True Story | Amir Naderi | United States | |
| The Wrestler | Darren Aronofsky | USA, France | |
- Highlighted title indicates the Golden Lion winner.
Out of competition
New works by directors who have been honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.[23]
| Feature films | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 35 Shots of Rum | 35 Rhums | Claire Denis | France, Spain |
| The Beaches of Agnès | Les Plages d'Agnes | Agnès Varda | France |
| Burn After Reading | Joel and Ethan Coen | United States | |
| Cry Me a River (short) | Heshang aiqing | Jia Zhangke | China, Spain, France |
| Embodiment of Evil | Encarnação do Demônio | Jose Mojica Marins | Brazil |
| Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit | Girara no Gyakushū: Tōyako Samitto Kiki Ippatsu | Minoru Kawasaki | Japan |
| Puccini and the Girl | Puccini e la fanciulla | Paolo Benvenuti & Paola Baroni | Italy |
| Queens of Langkasuka | Puen yai jom sa lad | Nonzee Nimibutr | Thailand |
| Shirin | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | |
| Vinyan | Fabrice Du Welz | France, UK, Belgium | |
| Short films | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country | |
| Do Visível ao Invisível (short segment from Mundo Invisível) | Manoel de Oliveira | Brazil, Portugal | |
| Vicino al Colosseo c’è Monti (documentary, short) | Mario Monicelli | Italy | |
| Special Event | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country | |
| Yuppi du | Adriano Celentano | Italy | |
| Events | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| N/A | Bajo el signo de las sombras (1984 documentary) | Ferrán Alberich | Spain |
| Bicycle Thieves (1948) | Ladri di biciclette | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| Cairo Station (1958) | Bab el-hadid | Youssef Chahine | Egypt, France |
| Life in Shadows (1947) | Vida en Sombras | Lorenzo Llbobet Gracia | Spain |
| Orfeus 9 (1975) | Orfeo 9 | Tito Schipa Jr. | Italy |
| N/A | La rabbia di Pasolini (2008, documentary) | Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci | Italy |
| Takadanobaba Duel (1937) | Kettô Takadanobaba | Masahiro Makino, Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan |
| N/A | Tutto è musica (1963 musical) | Domenico Modugno | Italy |
| Volare (1959) | Nel blu dipinto di blu - Volare | Piero Tellini | Italy |
Short film competition
The following films were selected for the Short film competition (Corto Cortissimo) section:[24]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 1937 | Giacomo Gatti Francesco Carrozzini | USA, Italy, France | |
| The Altruists | De onbaatzuchtigen | Koen Dejaegher | Belgium |
| Ashes Engagement | Noces de cendre | Pierre Eden Simon | Belgium |
| The Butcher’s Shop | Philip Haas | United States | |
| Corpus/Corpus | Christophe Loizillon | France | |
| The Dinner | Vacsora | Karchi Perlmann | Hungary |
| Every Breath You Take | Vdih (working title) | Igor Sterk | Slovenia |
| I Don't Dream in German | Ich träume nicht auf Deutsch | Ivana Lalovic | Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| I’m in Away from Here | Catriona MacInnes | United Kingdom | |
| Land and Bread | Tierra y Pan | Carlos Armella | Mexico |
| Lies | Lögner | Jonas Odell | Sweden |
| Mine | Wode | Liu Hui | China |
| Sand | Zand | Joost Van Ginkel | Netherlands |
| The Second Coming | Teine tulemine | Tanel Toom | Estonia |
| The Stars Don't Twinkle in Outer Space | Peter Thwaites | United Kingdom | |
| Ten | Dix | Bif | France, United Kingdom |
| We Who Stayed Behind | Vi der blev tilbage | Martin de Thurah | Denmark |
| When I’m 20 | Khi toi 20 | Dang Di Phan | Vietnam |
| Corto Cortissimo Events - Out of competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Occasion | Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Opening film | Eve | Natalie Portman | United States |
| Closing film | Jarred | Martin Gaiss | United States |
| 'Event' | Alba | Giorgia Farina | Italy |
| 'Event' | Il colore della Bassa | Giuseppe Morandi | Italy |
| 'Event' | Un canto lontano | Alberto Momo | Italy |
| 'Event' | Managua Boxing | Frediana Fornari | Italy |
- Highlighted title indicates Lion for Best Short Film winner.
Horizons
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[25]
| Fiction | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The First Day of Winter | Il primo giorno d’inverno | Mirko Locatelli | Italy |
| Goodbye Solo | Ramin Bahrani | United States | |
| The Herb of the Rat | data-sort-value="Erva" A Erva do Rato | Julio Bressane, Rosa Dias | Brazil |
| I'm Gonna Explode | Voy a explotar | Gerardo Naranjo | Mexico |
| Jay | Francis Xavier Pasion | Philippines | |
| N/A | Un lac | Philippe Grandrieux | France |
| Melancholia | Lav Diaz | Philippines | |
| Pa-ra-da | Marco Pontecorvo | Italy, France, Romania | |
| Parc | Arnaud des Pallières | France | |
| Perfect Life | Wanmei Shenhuo | Emily Tang | China, Hong Kong |
| Tedium | Khastegi | Bahman Motamedian | Iran |
| Wild Field | Dikoe Pole | Mikhail Kalatozishvili | Russia |
| Zero Bridge | Tariq Tapa | India, United States | |
| Documentaries | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Below Sea Level | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy, United States |
| L'Exil et le royaume | Andreο Schtakleff, Jonathan Le Fourn | France |
| Los Herederos | Eugenio Polgovsky | Mexico |
| In Paraguay | Ross McElwee | United States |
| Puisque nous sommes nés | Jean-Pierre Duret, Andréa Santana | France, Brazil |
| Women | Huang Wenhai | China, Switzerland |
| Z32 | Avi Mograbi | Israel, France |
| Horizons Events (documentaries) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Antonioni su Antonioni | Carlo Di Carlo | Italy |
| La fabbrica dei tedeschi | Mimmo Calopresti | Italy |
| Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa | Daniele Di Biasio | Italy |
| ThyssenKrupp Blues | Pietro Balla & Monica Repetto | Italy |
| Valentino: The Last Emperor | Matt Tyrnauer | United States |
| Venezia '68 | Antonello Sarno, Steve Della Casa | Italy |
| Verso Est | Laura Angiulli | Italy, Bosnia |
- Highlighted titles indicate the Horizons Awards for Best Film and Best Documentary respectively.
These Phantoms: Italian Cinema Rediscovered (1946-1975)
Retrospective screenings and restorations. Special monographic sessions dedicated to the "secret story of Italian cinema". This is the fifth part of the retrospective, initiated at the 61st edition of the festival.
| Documentaries and shorts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Release Year | |
| E il Casanova di Fellini? | Gianfranco Angelucci and Liliana Betti | 1975 | |
| Italia proibita | Enzo Biagi | 1963 | |
| La Forza e la Ragione (interview to Salvador Allende) | Roberto Rossellini | 1971 | |
| I misteri di Roma (Mysteries of Rome) | (collective film) | 1963 | |
| Provini per "Il padre selvaggio" (a series of auditions for a film never realized)[26] | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1962 | |
| Spot Banca di Roma (commercial short) | Federico Fellini | 1992 | |
Autonomous sections
Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following films were selected for the 23rd International Film Critics' Week:[27]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Apprentice | L'apprenti | Samuel Collardey | France |
| Cucumber | Huanggua / Qing gua | Zhou Yaowu[28] | China |
| Kabuli Kid | Barmak Akram | France, Afghanistan | |
| Mid-August Lunch | Pranzo di ferragosto | Gianni Di Gregorio | Italy |
| Nightguards | Čuvari noći | Namik Kabil[29] | Bosnia |
| Sell Out! | Yeo Joonhan[30] | Malaysia | |
| Two Lines | Iki Çizgi' | Selim Evci[31] | Turkey |
| Special Events - Out of competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Line-up | Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Opening film | ''Cold Lunch (Lønsj) | Eva Sørhaug | Norway |
| Opening film | Pinuccio Lovero - Sogno di una morte di mezza estate | Pippo Mezzapesa[32] | Italy |
- Highlighted title indicates the Lion Of The Future winner.
Venice Days
The following films were selected for the 5th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:[33][34]
| In competition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| One Day in a Life | Un altro pianeta | Stefano Tummolini | Italy |
| Broken Lines | Sallie Aprahamian | United Kingdom | |
| Machan | Uberto Pasolini | Sri Lanka, Italy, Germany | |
| The Visitor | Muukalainen | Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää | Finland |
| Nowhere Man | (N)iemand | Patrice Toye | Belgium |
| Hooked | Pescuit sportiv | Adrian Sitaru | Romania |
| Landscape No. 2 | Pokrajina št. 2 | Vinko Möderndorfer | Slovenia |
| Scratch | Rysa | Michał Rosa | Poland |
| A Week Alone | Una semana solos | Celina Murga | Argentina |
| Stella | Sylvie Verheyde | France | |
| The Country Teacher | Venkovský učitel | Bohdan Sláma | Czech Republic |
| Portraits (documentaries) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Country | |
| Che saccio | Camille d'Arcimoles | Italy | |
| Il passato è il mio bastone | Flavia Mastrella & Antonio Rezza | Italy | |
| Villa degli Autori – Open Space | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Director(s) | Country | |
| Adius Piero Ciampi e altre storie | Ezio Alovisi | Italy | |
| Emilia Galotti: dal Settecento ad oggi | Alessandro Berdini | Italy | |
| Lo stato d’eccezione | Germano Maccioni | Italy | |
| Un paese diverso | Silvio Soldini & Giorgio Garini | Italy | |
Awards
Official selection
The following Official Awards were conferred at the 65th edition:
In Competition (Venezia 65)[35]
- Golden Lion: The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky
- Silver Lion for Best Director: Aleksei German for Bumazhnyy soldat (Paper Soldier)
- Special Jury Prize: Teza by Haile Gerima
- Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Silvio Orlando for Giovanna's Father
- Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Dominique Blanc for The Other One
- Marcello Mastroianni Award (for the best emerging actor or actress): Jennifer Lawrence for Burning Plain
- Award for Best Cinematography: Alisher Khamidhodjaev and Maxim Drozdov for Bumazhnyy soldat
- Award for Best Screenplay: Haile Gerima for Teza
Special Awards
Horizons awards (Premi Orizzonti)[36]
- Best Film: Melancholia by Lav Diaz (Philippines)
- Best Documentary: Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi
- Special mention: Un Lac by Philippe Grandrieux & Wo men (We) by Huang Wenhai
Short Film awards (Corto Cortissimo Lion)[37]
- Lion for Best Short: Tierra y Pan by Carlos Armella
- Special mention: Vacsora by Karchi Perlmann
- U.I.P. Award for Best European Short: De onbaatzuchtigen by Koen Dejaegher
Autonomous sections
The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:
Venice International Film Critics' Week
- Best Film: The Apprentice (L'apprenti) by Samuel Collardey
- Lion Of The Future
- "Luigi de Laurentiis" Award For A Debut Film: Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di ferragosto) by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Francesco Pasinetti Award for Best Film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Isvema Award for a debut or second feature film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- Doc/it Award – Special mention: The Apprentice by Samuel Collardey
- Arca Cinemagiovani Award for Best Italian Film: Mid-August Lunch by Gianni Di Gregorio
- "Altre Visioni" Award: Sell Out! by Yeo Joon Han
- EIUC Human Rights Film Award: Kabuli Kid by Akram Barmak
Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori)
- Label Europa Cinemas Award: Machan by Uberto Pasolini
- Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Awards: Stella by Sylvie Verheyde
- Queer Lion Award: One Day in a Life (Un altro pianeta) by Stefano Tummolini
- FEDIC Award: Machan by Uberto Pasolini
- Lina Mangiacapre Award: Stella by Sylvie Verheyde
Other collateral awards
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:[38]
- FIPRESCI Award[39]
- Best Film (Main competition): Gabbla (Inland) by Tariq Teguia
- Best Film (Out of competition): Goodbye Solo by Ramin Bahrani
- SIGNIS Award: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- Special mention: Vegas: Based on a True Story by Amir Naderi & Teza by Haile Gerima
- Francesco Pasinetti Award (SNGCI):
- Best Actor: Silvio Orlando for Giovanna's Father
- Best Actress: Isabella Ferrari for Un giorno perfetto
- Special mention: Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo (Out of competition)
- Doc/it Award – Sicilia Film Commission: Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi
- Leoncino d'oro Agiscuola Award: Giovanna's Father by Pupi Avati
- UNICEF Award: Teza by Haile Gerima
- Art Cinema Award: Dikoe Pole (Wild Field) by Mikhail Kalatozishvili (Out of competition)
- La Navicella – Venezia Cinema Award: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- C.I.C.T. UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award: BirdWatchers (La terra degli uomini rossi) by Marco Bechis
- Biografilm Lancia Award:
- Best fiction film: Rachel Getting Married by Jonathan Demme
- Best documentary: Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi (Horizons)
- Nazareno Taddei Award: Giovanna's Father by Pupi Avati
- Don Gnocchi Award: Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo (Out of competition)
- Special mention: Ezio Greggio for Giovanna's Father
- Future Film Festival Digital Award: The Sky Crawlers by Mamoru Oshii
- Special mention: Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) by Hayao Miyazaki
- Brian Award: Khastegi by Bahman Motamedian (Horizons)
- Lanterna Magica Award (Cgs): Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo (Out of competition)
- CinemAvvenire, Best Film in Competition: Vegas: Based on a True Story by Amir Naderi
- "The circle is not round. Cinema for peace and the richness of diversity" Award: Teza by Haile Gerima
- Bastone Bianco Award (Filmcritica): Achilles and the Tortoise (Akires to kame) by Takeshi Kitano
- Human Rights Film Network Award: The Hurt Locker by Kahryn Bigelow
- Arca Cinemagiovani Award for Best Film Venezia 65: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
- Air For Film Fest Award: Pa-ra-da by Marco Pontecorvo
- "Poveri ma belli" Award: Puccini e la fanciulla by Paolo Benvenuti (Out of competition)
- Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award for a film which shows a firm connection with the arts: Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) by Hayao Miyazaki
- Open Award 2008: The Butcher's Shop by Philip Haas
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