20/08/2007
Venice Film Festival 2007
Venice Film Festival 2007
Venice International Film Festival, This is the full name of the longest-running film festival in the world. The 64th edition is to take place in the festival’s historical home, the Palazzo del Cinema on Lido island, from Wednesday, August 29 through Saturday September 8.
Marco Muller, the festival director for the fourth consecutive year, has already announced the awarding of two Golden Lions: for a carreer in Cinema, to the gifted American director Tim Burton, and a special prize for the festival’s 75th anniversary (1932-2007) to Bernardo Bertolucci, one of the greatest living film directors. The two separate award ceremonies are to take place in the Great Hall at the Palazzo del Cinema on September 5 and 8 – the latter being part of the festival closing award ceremony. The festival will open with the world premiere of Joe Wright Espiazione’s film, Atonement. The Secret History of Italian Cinema series is dedicated this year to Italian (or Spaghetti) Westerns.
A special program has been prepared by Alexander Kluge, founding father of the Young German Cinema, and dedicated to the last 75 years in film history as seen through the Venice film Festival.
The international Jury is headed this year by the Chinese director Zhang Yimou and includes Catherine Breillant, Jane Campion, Emanuele Crialese, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Ferzan Ozpetek and Paul Verhoeven. (Just like in the festival’s 50th anniversary, the jury is made up exclusively of directors).