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| Location | Venice, Italy |
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| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion: Close to Eden |
| Festival date | 3 – 14 September 1991 |
| Website | Website |
The 48th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 3 to 14 September 1991. [1] [2]
Italian film critic Gian Luigi Rondi was the Jury President of the main competition.
The Golden Lion winner was Close to Eden directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.
The following people comprised the 1991 jury: [3]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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| American Friends | Tristram Powell | United Kingdom | |
| Anima Mundi | Godfrey Reggio | United States, Italy | |
| Atlantis | Luc Besson | France | |
| Cup Final | גמר גביע | Eran Riklis | Israel |
| Dawn | L'alba | Francesco Maselli | Italy |
| Regarding Henry | Mike Nichols | United States | |
| Rossini! Rossini! | Mario Monicelli | Italy | |
| Sand Screens | Écrans de sable | Randa Chahal Sabag | France |
| The Sergeant | Goroohban | Masoud Kimiai | Iran |
| The Stranger | Agantuk | Satyajit Ray | India |
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| I Dreamt I Woke Up | John Boorman | Ireland | |
| Kyoto, My Mother's Place | Nagisa Ôshima | Japan | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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| Abschied vom Drehbuch | Petra Seeger | Germany | |
| Corsica! | Nico Cirasola, Gianfrancesco Lazotti, Giorgio Molteni, Italo Spinelli, Pasquale Squitieri | Italy | |
| Esquizo | Ricardo Bofill | Spain | |
| The Gulf War... What Next? | Harb el khalij... wa baad | Borhane Alaouié, Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Nouri Bouzid, Mostafa Derkaoui, Elia Suleiman | Tunisia, Italy, United Kingdom, France |
| Il mito di Cinecittà | Giovanna Gagliardo | Italy | |
| The Woman God Forgot (1917) | Cecil B. DeMille | United States | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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| The 600 Days of Salo | I 600 giorni di Salò | Nicola Caracciolo, Valerio Marino | Italy |
| Ask for the Moon | Chiedi la luna | Giuseppe Piccioni | |
| Barocco | Claudio Sestieri | ||
| Crack | Giulio Base | ||
| Faccia di lepre | Liliana Ginanneschi | ||
| The Martello Case | Il caso Martello | Guido Chiesa | |
| Starry Night | Notte di stelle | Luigi Faccini | |
| Sweet War, Farewell | Uova di garofano | Silvano Agosti | |
| Where the Night Begins | Dove comincia la notte | Maurizio Zaccaro | |
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section: [6]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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| Railway Bar | Bar des rails | Cédric Kahn | France |
| Drive | Jefery Levy | United States | |
| The Sky Above Paris | Le ciel de Paris | Michel Béna | France |
| Nowhere Man | Muno no hito | Naoto Takenaka | Japan |
| Clouds | Nuvem | Ana Luísa Guimarães | Portugal |
| The Intruder | Razlucnica | Amir Karakulov | Soviet Union |
| Scorpion’s Garden | Sady skorpiona | Oleg Kovalov | Soviet Union |
| Vito And The Others | Vito e gli altri | Antonio Capuano | Italy |
| Waiting | Jackie McKimmie | Australia, United Kingdom | |
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| The Fall of Berlin (1950) | Падение Берлина | Mikheil Chiaureli | Soviet Union |