29th Venice International Film Festival

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29th Venice International Film Festival
Location Venice, Italy
Founded1932
Awards Golden Lion:
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Festival date25 August – 7 September 1968
Website Website
Venice Film Festival chronology
Demonstration in front of the celebration of the Venice Film Festival in 1968. In the front, you can see director Marco Ferret. Contestazione Mostra Venezia 1968.jpg
Demonstration in front of the celebration of the Venice Film Festival in 1968. In the front, you can see director Marco Ferret.

The 29th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 25 August to 7 September 1968. [1]

Contents

The May 1968 events in France had serious repercussions on this festival. Five days before the festival was to be held, directors of the Italian filmmakers association ANAC, for both political and cultural reasons, withdrew their films from the competition. The Communist Party and the Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity were in favor of the boycott. Some directors, however, defected from this decision and Roberto Rossellini, Liliana Cavani, Bernardo Bertolucci and Nelo Risi decided to project their films. Pier Paolo Pasolini initially refused to participate at the festival, but finally his film entered in Competition. [2] [3]

During the inauguration day, the police had occupied the Palazzo del Cinema del Lido. The inauguration ceremony was skipped and a decision was taken to go ahead with the festival in a self-managed way, with the director of the festival, Chiarini, as chairman. The next day the police intervened and the meetings were canceled. Finally the competition started on the evening of 27 August, while demonstrations against "the fascist and bourgeois exhibition" were taking place outside the Palazzo. [2]

Jury

Official Selections

The following films were selected to be screened: [5]

In Competition

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
After the DelugeDespués del diluvioJacinto EstevaSpain
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos Alexander Kluge West Germany
Ballad for a DogBallade pour un chienGérard VergezFrance
The Castle Das Schloß Rudolf Noelte West Germany
The Deserters and the NomadsZbehovia a pútnici Juraj Jakubisko Czechoslovakia
Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl Diario di una schizofrenica Nelo Risi Italy
Faces John Cassavetes United States
Falak András Kovács Hungary
Fire!Fuoco! Gian Vittorio Baldi Italy
Galileo Liliana Cavani Italy
KierionDimosthenis TheosGreece
Me and My Brother Robert Frank United States
Monterey Pop D. A. Pennebaker United States
Naked Childhood L'Enfance nue Maurice Pialat France
Noon Podne Puriša Đorđević Yugoslavia
Our Lady of the Turks Nostra Signora dei Turchi Carmelo Bene Italy
Partner Bernardo Bertolucci Italy
Seven Days Somewhere ElseSept jours ailleurs Marin Karmitz France
Silence and Cry Csend és kiáltás Miklós Jancsó Hungary
Socrates Le SocrateRobert LapoujadeFrance
Spray of the DaysL'Écume des joursCharles BelmontFrance
Stress Is Three Stress es tres, tres Carlos Saura Spain
Summit Giorgio BontempiItaly
Tell Me Lies Peter Brook United Kingdom
Teorema Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy
Wheel of Ashes Peter Emmanuel Goldman United States
Wild in the Streets Barry ShearsUnited States

Out of Competition

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
A Report on the Party and the Guests O slavnosti a hostech Jan Nemec Czechoslovakia
Sul davanti fioriva una magnoliaPaolo BrecciaItaly

Informativa

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
Het compromisPhilo BregsteinNetherlands
Mandabi Le Mandat Ousmane Sembène France, Senegal

Official Awards

Main Competition

Pasinetti Award

References

  1. "The 1960s". Archived from the original on October 7, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Mostra del cinema di Venecia, anni '60". Giorgio dell'Arti (in Italian). Archived from the original on 1 April 2018. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  3. Guider, Elizabeth (September 4, 2005). "Protests at '68 Venice fest got a reality Czech". Variety . Retrieved April 22, 2020.
  4. "Juries for the 1960s" . Retrieved October 7, 2013.
  5. "29. Mostra Internazionale del Cinema". labiennale.org . Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  6. Gadjigo, Samba (April 11, 2007). "Ousmane Sembène: une conscience africaine : genèse d'un destin hors du commun". Homnisphères via Google Books.
  7. "Hommage à Patrick G. Ilboudo". Regard. April 11, 1995 via Google Books.
  8. Bory, Jean-Louis; Cluny, Claude Michel (April 11, 1972). "Dossiers du cinéma: Cinéastes". Casterman via Google Books.