The 64th annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, from 29 August to 8 September 2007. The opening film of the festival was Joe Wright's Atonement and the closing film was Alexi Tan's Blood Brothers. Italian actress Ambra Angiolini was the Host of the Festival. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was presented to American director Tim Burton. Once again all the films running the contest were shown for the first time as world premieres in keeping with the festival tradition since the Second World War.

Juries

The international juries of the 64th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows:

Main Competition (Venezia 64)

Horizons (Orizzonti)

Opera Prima ("Luigi de Laurentis" Award for a Debut Film)

Short Films Competition (Corto Cortissimo)

Official Sections

In Competition

The competitive section of the official selection is an international competition of feature films in 35mm and digital HD format, running for the Golden Lion.

Out of Competition

Shown below are new works by authors who were honored in past festivals, as well as movies shown in the midnight time band.

Horizons

New trends of cinema with full-length films in 35mm and digital format, and documentary-movies.

Short Films Competition (Corto Cortissimo)

The following films in 35mm, whose length does not exceed 30 minutes, were selected for the short film competition (Corto Cortissimo):

Retrospective - Secret History of Italian Cinema 4

Special mono-graphic sessions dedicated to the secret story of Italian cinema. This is the fourth part of the retrospective, initiated at the 61st edition of the festival; the patron of this edition, focused on Italian Spaghetti Western, was the director Quentin Tarantino.

New Versions Restored

As a pre-opening event of this future section, the restored Digital Cinema version of David Wark Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) was screened as a world premiere, in collaboration with the Le Giornate del Cinema Muto di Pordenone. "Venice Classics" which features restored classic films and documentaries on cinema, started as a new section in 2012, at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.

Independents Sections

Venice International Film Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for the 22nd Venice International Film Critics’ Week:

Venice Days

The following films were selected for the 4th edition of Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori) autonomous section:

Official Awards

The following Official Awards were conferred at the 64th edition:

In Competition (Venezia 64)

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

Horizons (Orizzonti)

Short Film Competition (Corto Cortissimo)

Luigi De Laurentis Award for a Debut Film

Independent Sections Awards

The following official and collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections:

Venice International Film Critics' Week

Venice Days (Giornate Degli Autori)

Independent Awards

The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the official selection:

FIPRESCI Awards

SIGNIS Award

Francesco Pasinetti Awards

C.I.C.A.E. Award

Prize of the Forum for Cinema and Literature

Little Golden Lion

Queer Lion

Young Cinema Award

Open Prize

Doc/It Award

Lina Mangiacapre Award

Filmcritica "Bastone Bianco" Award

Future Film Festival Digital Award

Biografilm Award

'CinemAvvenire' Award

EIUC Award

Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award