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66th Venice International Film Festival
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion; Silver Lion
Festival date	September 2 – September 12, 2009
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The 66th annual Venice Film Festival held in Venice, Italy, was opened on September 2, 2009 by Baarìa - La porta del vento. International competition jury, led by Ang Lee, awarded Leone d'Oro to Lebanon.^[1] The festival was closed on September 12, 2009, with Maria Grazia Cucinotta serving as the festival's hostess.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Festival line-up

	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Opener	Baarìa - La porta del vento^[4]		Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy
Closer	Chengdu, I Love You		Fruit Chan & Cui Jian	China

The following 25 films competed for the Leone d'oro.^[5]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Baarìa	Baarìa - La porta del vento	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy/ France
Soul Kitchen		Fatih Akın	Germany/ Turkey
The Double Hour	La doppia ora	Giuseppe Capotondi	Italy
	Persécution	Patrice Chéreau	France
Accident	Yi ngoi	Cheang Pou-Soi	Hong Kong/ China
	Lo spazio bianco	Francesca Comencini	Italy
White Material		Claire Denis	France
Mr Nobody		Jaco van Dormael	Canada/ Belgium/ France
A Single Man		Tom Ford	United States
Lourdes		Jessica Hausner	Austria
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans		Werner Herzog	United States
The Road		John Hillcoat	United States
Between Two Worlds	Ahasin Wetei	Vimukthi Jayasundara	Sri Lanka
The Traveller	El Mosafer	Ahmed Maher	Egypt
Lebanon	Levanon	Samuel Maoz	Israel
Lola		Brillante Mendoza	Philippines
Capitalism: A Love Story		Michael Moore	United States
Women Without Men	Zanan-e bedun-e mardan	Shirin Neshat	Germany
	Il grande sogno	Michele Placido	Italy/ France
36 Views from the Pic Saint-Loup	36 vues du Pic Saint-Loup	Jacques Rivette	Italy/ France
Survival of the Dead		George Romero	United States
Life During Wartime		Todd Solondz	United States
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man	Tetsuo Project	Shinya Tsukamoto	Japan
Prince of Tears	Lei wangzi(淚王子)	Yonfan	China/ Hong Kong/ Taiwan
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done		Werner Herzog	United States

The following films were shown out of competition:

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Brooklyn's Finest		Antoine Fuqua	United States
Chengdu, I Love You		Fruit Chan & Cui Jian	China
Delhi-6	दिल्ली 6	Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra	India
Dev.D		Anurag Kashyap	India
Gulaal	गुलाल	Anurag Kashyap	India
	L'oro di cuba	Giuliano Montaldo	Italy
	Le ombre rosse	Francesco Maselli	Italy
Napoli Napoli Napoli		Abel Ferrara	Italy
	Prove per una tragedia siciliana	Roman Paska & John Turturro	Italy
REC 2		Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza	Spain
Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story	Ehki ya shahrazade	Yousry Nasrallah	Egypt
South of the Border		Oliver Stone	United States
The Hole in 3D		Joe Dante	United States
The Informant!		Steven Soderbergh	United States
The Men Who Stare at Goats		Grant Heslov	United States
Toy Story 3D		John Lasseter	United States
Toy Story 2 3D		John Lasseter, Ash Brannon & Lee Unkrich	United States
Valhalla Rising		Nicolas Winding Refn	Denmark/ United Kingdom
Yona Yona Penguin	Yonayona pengin	Rintaro	Japan/ France