37th Venice International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Location | Venice, Italy |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1932 |
| Festival date | 28 August – 8 September 1980 |
| Website | Website |
The 37th annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 28 August to 8 September, 1980.[1][2]
Jury[]
The following people comprised the 1980 jury:[3]
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico (Italy) (head of jury)
- Yûssif Châhine (Egypt)
- Michel Ciment (France)
- Umberto Eco (Italy)
- Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy)
- Andrew Sarris (USA)
- George Stevens, Jr. (USA)
- Margarethe von Trotta (West Germany)
Films in competition[]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Age of the Earth | A idade da terra | Glauber Rocha | Brazil |
| Alexander the Great | O Megalèxandros | Theo Angelopoulos | Greece |
| Atlantic City | Louis Malle | Canada | |
| Eugenio / Turn Around Eugenio | Voltati Eugenio | Luigi Comencini | Italy |
| Gloria | John Cassavetes | USA | |
| Going in Style | Martin Brest | USA | |
| The Human Factor | Otto Preminger | UK | |
| The Little Mermaid | La petite sirène | France | |
| Long Days | Al-ayyam al-tawila | Tewfik Saleh | Iraq |
| Melvin and Howard | Jonathan Demme | USA | |
| Phobia | John Huston | Canada | |
| Richard's Things | Anthony Harvey | UK | |
| Story of an Unknown Man | Vitautas Zalakevicius | Soviet Union | |
| Two Lions in the Sun | Deux lions au soleil | Claude Faraldo | France |
Officina veneziana[]
- by
- by Péter Gothár
- Opera prima by Fernando Trueba
- Oxalá by António-Pedro Vasconcelos
- Lásky mezi kapkami deste by Karel Kachyna
- by Srdjan Karanovic
- Uomini e no by Valentino Orsini
- by Peter Del Monte
- by Gianni Serra
- by
- by
- by Paul Vecchiali
- by Robert Kramer
- by Peter Lilienthal
- by
- by Werner Schroeter
- Charlotte by Frans Weisz
- by Michael Roemer
Films out of competition[]
- The Empire Strikes Back by Irvin Kershner
- The Black Stallion by Carroll Ballard
- Lightning Over Water by Wim Wenders
- Loulou by Maurice Pialat
- Mon oncle d'Amérique by Alain Resnais
- by
Awards[]
- Golden Lion:
- Atlantic City - ex-aequo
- Gloria - ex-aequo
References[]
- ^ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL – 1980". Retrieved October 6, 2013.
- ^ "The 1980s". Archived from the original on September 2, 2012. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
- ^ "Juries for the 1980s". Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- Edoardo Pittalis - Roberto Pugliese, Bella di Notte, August 1996
- L'Europeo, Cinema in Laguna, SePtember 2008
External links[]
Categories:
- 1980 film festivals
- 1980 in Italian cinema
- 1980 festivals in Europe
- Venice Film Festival
- 1980s in Venice
- August 1980 events in Europe
- September 1980 events in Europe