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Location | Venice, Italy |
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Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: Hana-bi |
Festival date | 27 August – 6 September 1997 |
Website | Website |
The 54th annual Venice International Film Festival was held between 27 August to 6 September 1997. [1] [2]
New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion was the Jury President of the Main Competition. The opening film was Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry , while the closing film was a restored version of 1912 silent film Richard III , accompanied live by Vittorio Gassman serving as narrator and Ennio Morricone conducing the Arturo Toscanini Orchestra. [3] Takeshi Kitano's Hana-bi was the Golden Lion winner.
The following people comprised the 1997 jury: [3] [4]
The following films were selected to be screened: [3] [5]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Blinded | A ciegas | Daniel Calparsoro | Spain |
Chinese Box | Wayne Wang | United States | |
Dry Cleaning | Nettoyage à sec | Anne Fontaine | France |
Hana-bi | Takeshi Kitano | Japan | |
Hardboiled Egg | Ovosodo | Paolo Virzì | Italy |
The Informant | Jim McBride | United States, Ireland | |
Keep Cool | 有話好好說 | Yimou Zhang | China |
Love Stories | Historie milosne | Jerzy Stuhr | Poland |
Niagara, Niagara | Bob Gosse | United States, Canada | |
One Night Stand | Mike Figgis | United States | |
Ossos | Pedro Costa | Portugal, France, Denmark | |
The Oyster and the Wind | A Ostra e o Vento | Walter Lima Jr. | Brazil |
Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea | Giro di lune tra terra e mare | Giuseppe M. Gaudino | Italy, Germany |
Seventh Heaven | Le Septième ciel | Benoît Jacquot | France |
The Thief | Вор | Pavel Chukhraj | Russia |
The Vesuvians | I vesuviani | Pappi Corsicato, Antonio Capuano, Antonietta De Lillo, Stefano Incerti, Mario Martone | Italy |
Wild Games | Combat de fauves | Benoit Lamy | Belgium, Germany, France |
The Winter Guest | Alan Rickman | United Kingdom |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Deconstructing Harry (opening film) | Woody Allen | United States | |
Danubio | Ivo B. Micheli | Italy | |
Full Tilt Boogie | Sarah Kelly | United States | |
The Kingdom II | Riget II | Lars von Trier | Denmark |
Our God's Brother | Brat naszego Boga | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland, Italy, Germany |
Richard III (closing film) | André Calmettes and James Keane | France, United States | |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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100% Arabica | Mahmoud Zemmouri | Algeria, France | |
Bent Familia | Nouri Bouzid | Tunisia | |
Cinque giorni di tempesta | Francesco Calogero | Italy | |
Go for Gold! | Lucian Segura | Germany, Spain, France | |
In the Name of Innocence | Im Namen der Unschuld | Andreas Kleinert | Germany |
Kokkuri-san | こっくりさん | Takahisa Zeze | Japan |
The Locusts | John Patrick Kelley | United States | |
The Second Civil War | Joe Dante | United States | |
True Love and Chaos | Stavros Kazantzidis | Australia |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Affliction | Paul Schrader | United States | |
Air Force One | Wolfgang Petersen | United States | |
The Bride's Journey | Il viaggio della sposa | Sergio Rubini | Italy |
Deceiver | Jonas and Joshua Pate | United States | |
Heroines | Héroïnes | Gérard Krawczyk | France |
Marquise | Véra Belmont | France | |
Mimic | Guillermo del Toro | United States | |
The Tango Lesson | La lección de tango | Sally Potter | Argentina, United Kingdom |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Alors, voila | Michel Piccoli | France | |
The Collector | Neitoperho | Auli Mantila | Finland |
Malemare | Pasquale Mazzarro | Italy | |
Miramar | Júlio Bressane | Brazil | |
The Night of the Painter | Der tag des malers | Werner Nekes | Germany |
The Sanguinaires | Les Sanguinaires | Laurent Cantet | France |
The Sticky Fingers of Time | Hilary Brougher | United States | |
Strawberry Fields | Rea Tajiri | United States | |
Subway Stories | Bob Balaban, Patricia Benoit, Julie Dash, Jonathan Demme, Ted Demme, Abel Ferrara, Alison Maclean, Craig McKay, Lucas Platt, Seth Rosenfeld | United States | |
Tamas and Juli | Tamás és Juli | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary |
Tatuaggi | Laura Angiulli | Italy | |
The Tree of Hanging Destinies | L'albero dei destini sospesi | Rachid Benhadj | Italy |
Non Fiction | |||
4 Little Girls | Spike Lee | United States | |
As Time Goes By | 去日苦多 | Ann Hui | Taiwan |
HHH: Portrait de Hou Hsiao-hsien | Olivier Assayas | France, Taiwan | |
In memoriam Gyöngyössy Imre | Katalyn Peteny, Barna Kabay | Hungary | |
Kippur | Amos Gitai | Israel | |
Still Love You After All These | 念你如昔 | Stanley Kwan | Taiwan, China |
The Voice of Bergman | Bergmans rost | Gunnar Bergdahl | Sweden |
The Year After Dayton | Das Jahr nach Dayton | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Tribute to Alida Valli | |||
The Third Man | Carol Reed | United Kingdom | |
Tribute to Gerard Depardieu | |||
Hurricane Rosy | Temporale Rosy | Mario Monicelli | Italy |
Tribute to Marcello Mastroianni | |||
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (long version) | Mi ricordo, sì, io mi ricordo | Anna Maria Tatò | Italy |
Tribute to Roberto Rossellini | |||
Roberto Rossellini: il mestiere di uomo | Beppe Cino | Italy | |
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV | La presa del potere da parte di Luigi XIV | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
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