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COMPETITION
Fatih Akin’s The Cut.
Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. Winner of the Golden Lion. And here’s a full list of all the awards.
Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes.
Rakhshan Banietemad’s Tales.
Xavier Beauvois’s The Price of Fame.
Saverio Costanzo’s Hungry Hearts.
Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini.
David Gordon Green’s Manglehorn.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman.
Benoît Jacquot’s Three Hearts.
Andrei Konchalovsky’s The Postman’s White Nights.
Barry Levinson’s The Humbling.
Kaan Müjdeci’s Sivas.
Francesco Munzi’s Black Souls.
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence.
Shinya Tsukamoto’s Fires on the Plain.
OUT OF COMPETITION
Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way.
Ulrich Seidl’s In the Basement.
ORIZZONTI
Hong Sang-soo’s Hill of Freedom.
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s Goodnight Mommy.
Duane Hopkins’s Bypass.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s The President.
Josh and Benny Safdie’s Heaven Knows What.
VENICE DAYS
Laurent Cantet’s Return to Ithaca.
Larry Clark’s The Smell of Us.
Kim Ki-duk’s One on One.
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