2008 (65th) Venice Film Festival
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- Film Festival: Venice Film Festival
- Edition: 65th
- Period: August 27th-September 6th, 2008
- Location: Venice, Italy
Venezia 65 - In Competition
- Achilles and the Tortoise, Takeshi Kitano – Japan
- Ponyo on Cliff by the Sea. (Gake no ue no Ponyo), dir. Hayao Miyazaki – Japan
- Plastic City (Dangkou), dir. YU Lik-wai – Brazil / China / Hong Kong/China / Japan
- The Sky Crawlers, Mamoru Oshii – Japan
- The Wrestler, dir. Darren Aronofsky – USA
- The Burning Plain, dir. Guillermo Arriaga – USA
- Il papà di Giovanna, dir. Pupi Avati – Italy
- BirdWatchers, Marco Bechis – Italy / Brazil
- L’Autre, dir. Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic – France
- Hurt Locker, dir. Kathryn Bigelow – USA
- Il seme della discordia, dir. Pappi Corsicato – Italy
- Rachel Getting Married, dir. Jonathan Demme – USA
- Teza, dir. Haile Gerima – Ethiopia / Germany / France
- Bumažnyj soldat (Paper Soldier), dir. Aleksey German Jr. – Russia
- Süt, dir. Semih Kaplanoglu – Turkey / France / Germany
- Vegas: Based on a True Story. dir. Amir Naderi – USA
- Un giorno perfetto. dir. Ferzan Özpetek – Italy
- Jerichow, dir. Christian Petzold – Germany
- Inju, la Bête dans l’ombre, dir. Barbet Schroeder – France
- Nuit de chien, dir. Werner Schroeter – France / Germany / Portuga
- Gabbla (Inland), Tariq Teguia – Algeria / France, 140’
Out of Competition
- Cry Me a River, dir Jia Zhangke (short film) – China / Spain / France
- The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit, Minoru Kawasaki – Japan
- Ketto Takadanobaba, dir. Masahiro Makino, Hiroshi Inagaki (1937) – Japan
- Queens of Langkasuka, dir. Nonzee Nimibutr – Thailand
- Puccini e la fanciulla, dir. Paolo Benvenuti – Italy
- Yuppi Du, dir. Adriano Celentano – Italy
- Burn After Reading, dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen – USA
- 35 Rhums, dir. Claire Denis – France / Spain
- Shirin, dir. Abbas Kiarostami – Iran
- Tutto è musica, Domenico Modugno (1963) – Italy
- Vicino al Colosseo c’è Monti, dir. Mario Monicelli – Italy
- Do Visível ao Invisível, dir. Manoel de Oliveira – Brazil / Portugal
- Orfeo 9, Tito Schipa Jr. (1973) – Italy
- Les Plages d’Agnès, Agnés Varda – France
- Vinyan, dir. Fabrice Du Welz – France / UK / Belgium
- Encarnação do demonio, dir. José Mojica Marins – Brazil
- Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare), dir. Piero Tellini (1959) – Italy
- Bajo el Signo de las Sombras, Ferrán Alberich (1984) – Spain
- Vida en Sombras, dir. Lorenzo Llbobet Gracia (1947) – Spain
- La rabbia, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini (1963) (previously unreleased version) – Italy
Critics Week (In Competition)
- Cucumber - Zhou Yaowu (China)
- The Apprentice - Samuel Collardey (France)
- Night Guards - Namik Kabil (Bosnia)
- Two Lines - Selim Evci (Turkey)
- Kabuli Kid - Barmak Akram (France/Afghanistan)
- Pranzo di Ferragosto - Gianni Di Gregorio (Italy)
- Sell Out! Sell Out! - Yeo Joonhan (Malaysia)
Orizzonti (New Horizons)
- Melancholia - Lav Diaz (Philippines)
- Antonioni su Antonioni - Carlo Di Carlo (Italy)
- Below Sea Level - Gianfranco Rosi (Italy/US)
- A Erva do Rato - Julio Bressane & Rosa Dias (Brazil)
- L'Exil et le royaume - Andrei Schtakleff & Jonathan Le Fourn (France)
- La fabbrica dei tedeschi - Mimmo Calopresti (Italy)
- Los Herederos - Eugenio Polgovsky (Mexico)
- In Paraguay - Ross McElwee (U.S.)
- Puisque nous sommes nes - Jean-Pierre Duret & Andrea Santana (France/Brazil)
- Soltanto un nome nei titoli di testa - Daniele Di Biasio (Italy)
- ThyssenKrupp Blues - Pietro Balla & Monica Repetto (Italy)
- Valentino: The Last Emperor (documentary) - Matt Tyrnauer (U.S.)
- Venezia '68 (documentary) - Antonello Sarno, Steve Della Casa (Italy)
- Verso Est - Laura Angiulli (Italy/Bosnia)
- Women - Huang Wenhai (China/Switzerland)
- Z32 - Avi Mograbi (Israel/France)
- Khastegi - Bahman Motamedian (Iran)
