42nd Venice International Film Festival

1985 film festival edition

42nd Venice International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival chronology
Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion: Vagabond
Festival date	26 August – 6 September 1985
Website	Website
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The 42nd annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 26 August to 6 September 1985.^[1]^[2]

Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was Vagabond directed by Agnès Varda.

Jury

The following people comprised the 1985 jury:^[3]

Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish filmmaker and producer - Jury President
Guido Aristarco, Italian film critic and author
Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei, Italian sociologist
Ricardo Bofill, Spanish architect
Frank Capra, Italian-American filmmaker
Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist
Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and art critic
Kon Ichikawa, Japanese filmmaker
Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright
Elem Klimov, Soviet filmmaker
Lino Miccichè, Italian film critic
Zoran Mušič, Yugoslavian painter
John Schlesinger, British director
Renzo Vespignani, Italian painter

Official Sections

In Competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Guardian	Bekçi	Ali Özgentürk	Turkey, West Germany
Dust		Marion Hänsel	Belgium, France
Glissando		Mircea Daneliuc	Romania
Family Without a Dinner Table	Shokutaku no nai ie	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan
The Feather Fairy	Perinbaba	Juraj Jakubisko	Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Forget Mozart	Vergeßt Mozart	Miloslav Luther	West Germany, Czechoslovakia
Legend		Ridley Scott	United States
Life Is Beautiful	Zivot je lep	Boro Draskovic	Yugoslavia
The Lightship		Jerzy Skolimowski	United States
Mother Ebe	Mamma Ebe	Carlo Lizzani	Italy
No Man's Land		Alain Tanner	Switzerland, France, West Germany, United Kingdom
Planet Parade	Парад планет	Vadim Abdrashitov	Soviet Union
The Lost Paradise	Los paraísos perdidos	Basilio Martín Patino	Spain
Tracks in the Snow	Pervola, sporen in de sneeuw	Orlow Seunke	Netherlands, Norway
Police		Maurice Pialat	France
Prizzi's Honor		John Huston	United States
Requiem for a Spanish Peasant	Réquiem por un campesino español	Francesc Betriu	Spain
The Satin Slipper	O Sapato de Cetim	Manoel de Oliveira	Portugal, France
Stone Years	Petrina hronia	Pantelis Voulgaris	Greece
The Tango of Our Childhood	Մեր մանկության տանգոն / Танго нашего детства	Albert Mkrtchyan	Soviet Union
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel	Tangos, el exilio de Gardel	Fernando Solanas	Argentina, France
Vagabond	Sans toit ni loi	Agnès Varda	France
Woman of Wonders	La donna delle meraviglie	Alberto Bevilacqua	Italy

Independent Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:^[4]

A Strange Love Affair by Eric de Kuyper, Paul Verstraten (Netherlands)
El Haimoune (En. Wanderers of the Desert) by Nacer Khemir (Tunisia, France)
Fandango by Kevin Reynolds (United States)
Ain't Nothin' Without You a.k.a. Noisy Martha (Nicht nichts ohne Dich) by Pia Frankenberg [de] (West Germany)
The Record (Der Rekord) by Daniel Helfer (West Germany, Switzerland)
The Disciples (A tanítványok) by Géza Bereményi (Hungary)
Yesterday by Radosław Piwowarski (Poland)

Official Awards

Main Competition

Golden Lion: Vagabond by Agnès Varda
Grand Special Jury Prize: Tangos, the Exile of Gardel by Fernando Solanas
Special Jury Prize: The Lightship by Jerzy Skolimowski
Silver Lion: Dust by Marion Hänsel
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Gérard Depardieu for Police
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: NOT ASSIGNED. (The jury deemed the best performances to be Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond) and Jane Birkin (Dust), but decided against awarding the prize as both films won major awards^[5])
- Volpi Cup Special mentions:
  - Sonja Savić for Life Is Beautiful
  - Galya Novents for The Tango of Our Childhood
  - Themis Bazaka for Stone Years

Career Golden Lion

Federico Fellini

Special Lion

Independent Awards

Sergio Trasatti Awards

Manoel de Oliveira for The Satin Slipper
- Special Mention: Juraj Jakubisko for The Feather Fairy

References

^ "VENICE 1985 – THE 42ND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
^ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2013.
^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
^ "2nd International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ "Venice Festival awards top prize to Varda film". New York Times. 7 September 1985.