2. Queer Lion Award: films in competition

Les Plages d’Agnès by Agnès Varda

Cast, credits, synopses, pictures and of all the movies in competition for Queer Lion 2016; and the calendar with the screening schedule throughout the Film Festival

VENEZIA 65
Nuit de chien by Werner Schroeter (France/Germany/Portugal 2008, 110’)
Il seme della discordia by Pappi Corsicato (Italy 2008, 85’)

FUORI CONCORSO
Les Plages d’Agnès by Agnès Varda (France 2008, 110’)
La rabbia di Pasolini. Ipotesi di ricostruzione della versione originale del film by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giuseppe Bertolucci (Italy 1963 / 2008, 76’)

ORIZZONTI
Jay by Francis Xavier Pasion (Philippines 2008, 96’)
Khastegi by Bahman Motamedian (Iran 2008, 76’)
Il primo giorno d’inverno by Mirko Locatelli (Italy 2008, 88’)
Below Sea Level by Gianfranco Rosi (Usa 2008, 105’)
Valentino: The Last Emperor by Matt Tyrnauer (Usa 2008, 96’)

5. GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI
Pescuit sportiv (Hooked) by Adrian Sitaru (Romania/France 2008, 80’)
Pokrajina Št. 2 (Landscape No.2) by Vinko Möderndorfer (Slovenia 2008, 90’)
Venkovský Ucitel (A Country Teacher) by Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic/Germany/France 2008, 113’)
Un altro pianeta by Stefano Tummolini (Italy 2008, 82’)

23. SETTIMANA INTERNAZIONALE DELLA CRITICA
Lønsj (Cold Lunch) by Eva Sørhaug (Norway 2008, 85’)

VENICE MARKET
Antarctica by Yair Hochner (Israel 2008, 110’)
Ciao by Yen Tan (Usa 2008, 87’)
Esprit es-tu là? by Philippe Vallois (France 2008, 93’)
The Loast Coast by Gabriel Fleming (Usa 2008, 74’)

The Loast Coast by Gabriel Fleming

The list of films of queer interest included as well the following titles, subsequently excluded from the competition:

VENEZIA 65
The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky (Usa 2008, 105’)

FUORI CONCORSO
Tutto è musica by Domenico Modugno (Italy 1963, 95’)
Orfeo 9 by Tito Schipa jr. (Italy 1975, 84’)

QUESTI FANTASMI: CINEMA ITALIANO RITROVATO (1946 – 1975)
Padre selvaggio by Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italy 1962, 8’)
Agostino by Mauro Bolognini (Italy 1962, 89’)
Parigi o cara by Vittorio Caprioli (Italy 1962, 106’)
Flashback by Raffaele Andreassi (Italy 1969, 106’)
I mostri by Dino Risi (Italy 1963, 118’) (30’ previously unreleased episodes)
Una vita violenta by Paolo Heusch and Brunello Rondi (Italy 1962, 106’)

CORTO CORTISSIMO
The Butcher’s Shop by Philip Haas (Usa 2008, 7’)

SIGLA
L’arroseur arrosé by Ermanno Olmi (Italy 2008, 30”)