What will be shown at the 69th Venice Film Festival

From August 29 to September 8, the 69th Venice Film Festival will take place, as a result of which the director of the best picture will get a Golden Lion figurine. In 2012, it is planned to introduce new nominations and abandon some traditions. At the 69th Venice Film Festival, both modern works and long-forgotten paintings will be shown.

The organizers of the 69th Venice Film Festival will present ten films in retrospect “80!”, Which is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the ceremony. Among the selected rare seven full-length and three short films featured a tape of Russian directors of 1936 - "Final Night" by Yulia Raizman and Dmitry Vasiliev. Films were selected from the collection of the Biennale's Historical Archive of Contemporary Art.

The main competition program of the 69th Venice Film Festival was reduced to 18 films. These included the picture of the Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov's "Cheating". In addition to him, the films of directors Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master), Brian De Palma ("Passion"), Kim Ki-Duc ("Pieta"), Takeshi Kitano ("Lawlessness-2"), Diamond Mendoza ("The Lioness" Your origins ") and others. The opening of the Venice Film Festival in 2012 will be the picture "Fundamentalist involuntarily" by Mira Nair.

In addition to the main one, films at the Horizons parallel program will be shown at the 69th Venice Film Festival. In 2012, stricter rules were introduced for the selection of participating paintings in this area. But, despite all the complex aspects, Alexey Balabanov’s picture "I Want It Too" occupies a well-deserved place in the list of films of the Horizons program.

At the 69th Venice Film Festival, there was a place for young, unknown directors. The YouTube video portal hosted a short film contest. Applications for participation were accepted from directors around the world. By voting, in which spectators of the online video portal participated, the top 10 works of directors from the UK, Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Portugal, Spain and Lebanon were selected. These pictures will be shown at the film festival, and the winner will receive a prize of $ 500, 000 for shooting a full-length film. The choice of the most talented director was entrusted to the British by Ridley and Tony Scott.