6. Queer Lion Award: films in competition

Acciaio by Stefano Mordini (Italy, 95')

Cast, credits, synopses, pictures and of all the movies in competition for Queer Lion 2012; and the calendar with the screening schedule throughout the Film Festival

Passion
by Brian De Palma (France, Germany, 102’)
with Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth
Venezia 69
A deadly power struggle between Christine and Isabelle in the dog-eat-dog world of international business. Christine takes pleasure in exercising control over her admiring protégé, leading her one step at a time ever deeper into a game of seduction and manipulation, dominance and humiliation. An erotic thriller in the tradition of Dressed To Kill.

Den skaldede frisør (Love Is All You Need)
by Susanne Bier (Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany, 116’)
with Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind
Fuori Concorso
Two very different families meet in a beautiful Italian villa, the occasion being a romantic wedding, planned to the smallest detail. Of course, nothing goes according to plan, the wedding will be called off and the groom will have to come to terms with his homosexuality, yet everything works out in the end. A liberatingly different comedy, which will inspire hope in anyone with their heart in the right place.

Cherchez Hortense
by Pascal Bonitzer (France, 100’)
with Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré
Fuori Concorso
Damien is a professor living with his wife Iva and their son. Their love is mired in a mountain of disenchantment. Iva gets Damien to promise he’ll ask for help in keeping an immigrant from getting deported to his father, a state department official. But getting close to his estranged dad, and finding out he’s now happily linving his homosexuality, will send Damien spiraling downward and over the edge.

Muge (The Weight)
by Jeon Kyu-hwan (South Korea, 108’)
with Jae-hyeon Jo, Ji-a Park, Cho Jae-hyun
9. Giornate degli Autori
Jung is adopted by a woman who keeps him hidden in her attic and uses him as a slave for her dress shop. She has a pre-op transsexual son of her own, with whom Jung has a love-hate relationship. As an adult, Jung works in a mortuary, where his life becomes a mixture of reality and fiction, as corpses become his imaginary friends.

Acciaio
by Stefano Mordini (Italy, 95’)
with Michele Riondino, Vittoria Puccini, Matilde Giannini
9. Giornate degli Autori
Here, the steel worker works on a continuous cycle, twenty-four hours a day and never stops. There, by the sea, on the island of Elba, is a paradise so close, yet so unattainable. In the middle, neither here nor there, Anna and Francesca, young but already old, have a friendship as special as love itself.

6 sull’autobus
by Simone Dante Antonelli, Giacomo Bisordi, Rita De Donato, Irene Di Lelio, Antonio Ligas, Emiliano Russo (Italy, 38’)
with Margherita Buy, Luigi Lo Cascio, Sergio Rubini
9. Giornate degli Autori
An old bus drives through the streets of Rome. It´s a long day. The bus fills up with people and stories. 6 episodes, 6 shorts, 6 debuts. In “Unghie” (Nails) by Emiliano Russo, actor Simone Fucci is Giacomo, M to F transsexual.

Kiss of the Damned
by Xan Cassavetes
with Joséphine de La Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida
27. Settimana Internazionale della critica
Djuna is a beautiful vampire living in a wonderful mansion in Connecticut. She meets Paulo, a scriptwriter who falls in love with her. When her evil sister Mimi suddenly arrives in the house, their love story and the whole vampire community are seriously endangered. Echoes of Tony Scott’s The Hunger.

CALENDAR WITH THE SCREENING SCHEDULE

Passion
Sep 07 | 09:00 Sala Darsena | Press, Industry
Sep 07 | 11:30 Sala Perla | Press, Industry
Sep 07 | 19:30 Sala Grande | Tickets
Sep 07 | 20:00 Sala PalaBiennale | Tickets
Sep 08 | 10:30 Sala PalaBiennale | All Accreditations

Den skaldede frisør (Love Is All You Need)
Sep 02 | 09:00 Sala Perla | Press, Industry
Sep 02 | 11:30 Sala Darsena | Press, Industry
Sep 02 | 22:15 Sala Grande | Tickets, All Accreditations
Sep 03 | 17:30 Sala PalaBiennale | Tickets, All Accreditations

Cherchez Hortense
Aug 31 | 19:30 Sala Darsena | Press, Industry
Aug 31 | 22:00 Sala Perla | Press, Industry
Sep 01 | 22:00 Sala Grande | Tickets, All Accreditations
Sep 02 | 17:30 Sala PalaBiennale | Tickets, All Accreditations

Muge (The Weight)
Aug 30 | 22:30 Sala Pasinetti | Press, Industry
Sep 07 | 14:00 Sala Darsena | Tickets, All Accreditations
Sep 08 | 09:00 Sala Volpi | All Accreditations

Acciaio
Sep 09 | 22:30 Sala Pasinetti | Press, Industry
Sep 03 | 17:00 Sala Darsena | Tickets, All Accreditations
Sep 05 | 22:30 Sala Pasinetti | All Accreditations

6 sull’autobus
Sep 02 | 11:30 Sala Volpi | Tickets, All Accreditations

Kiss of the Damned
Sep 06 | 11:30 Sala Volpi | Press, Industry
Sep 07 | 16:45 Sala Darsena | Tickets, All Accreditations
Sep 08 | 20:00 Sala Pasinetti | All Accreditations