The 64th Venice International Film Festival, organised by the Venice Biennale, takes place on the Venice Lido from 29th August to 8th September 2007.

The aim of the Festival is to encourage the awareness and the promotion of all the various aspects of international cinema as art, entertainment and industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance.

The line-up of the Festival includes the following sections: Venezia 64-In Competition, Venezia 64-Out of Competition, Orizzonti, Corto Cortissimo, and Secret History of Italian Cinema 4.

Also in the line-up the 22nd International Critics’ Week and the Venice Days; the films in these sections are independently selected by two commissions in accordance with their own regulations.

The screenings schedule of the Festival includes 11 days of screenings and a pre-opening in Venice on 28th August.

Four international juries will assign the official awards: Venezia 64, chaired by Zhang Yimou, Orizzonti, chaired by Gregg Araki, First Feature “Luigi De Laurentiis”, chaired by Bill Mechanic, and Corto Cortissimo, chaired by François-Jacques Ossang.

This year’s festival will cast its eye over the protagonists of the cinema of tomorrow, and over the history of cinema: the 75th anniversary Golden Lion is to be awarded to Bernardo Bertolucci, the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement to Tim Burton, the celebratory events are directed by Alexander Kluge, and the retrospective is dedicated to “Spaghetti Westerns”.

64th Venice International Film Festival
- Introduction by the President of the Venice Biennale, Davide Croff
- Introduction by the Director of the 64th Mostra, Marco Müller
- Statistics about the 64th Venice Film Festival
- Feature films from Italy and the USA, and documentaries
- New filmmakers and maestros
- Spaghetti Westerns. The Secret History of Italian Cinema 4
- Homage to Luigi Comencini and Ousmane Sembène
- The restored version of David Wark Griffith’s Intolerance
- Events Calendar
- A Practical Guide / Services
- News