The Festival is made up of several sections: official feature and short film competitions as well as a number of parallel sidebars including a program for new territories and another for videos. The films compete for the following prizes: The Golden Lion for best film; The Jury's Grand Prize; The Special Award for best director; The Best Screenplay Award; The Coppa Volpi Award for best actor; The Coppa Volpi Award for best actress; The Marcello Mastroianni Award to a young actor or actress; and The Golden Medal awarded by the President of the Senate.

Opening film:
Space Cowboys by Clint Eastwood, US

Closing film:
Vengo by Tony Gatlif, France-Spain

In Competition:

Dr. T And The Women by Robert Altman, US

Freedom by Sharunas Bartas, France/Portugal/Lithuania

Selon Matthieu by Xavier Beauvois, France

Durian Durian (Liulian Piao Piao) by Fruit Chan, Hong Kong/China/France

Il Partigiano Johnny by Guido Chiesa, Italy

The Wrestlers (Uttara) by Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India

Liam by Stephen Frears, UK

I Cento Passi by Marco Tullio, Italy

The Isle (Seom) by Ki-duk Kin, South Korea

The Goddess Of 1967 by Clara Law, Australia

La Lingua Del Santo by Carlo Mazzacurati, Italy

Palavra E Utopia by Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/France/Brazil/Spain

The Circle (Dayereh) by Jafar Panahi, Iran

The Man Who Cried by Sally Potter, UK/France

Platform by Jia Zhang-ke, China

O Fantasma by Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal

Fils De Deux Meres Ou Comedie De L'Innocence by Raoul Ruiz, France

Denti by Gabriele Salvatores, Italy

Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel, US

La Vierge Des Tueurs by Barbet Schroeder, France/Colombia

Out of competition:

Small Time Crooks by Woody Allen, US

Merci Pour Le Chocolat by Claude Chabrol, France

Brother by Takeshi Kitano, Japan/US/UK

Il Dolce Cinema by Martin Scorsese, Italy/US

Calle 54 by Fernando Trueba, France/Spain

Jokes: Chapter 1 "Easter" (work in progress) by Gus van Sant, US

"Dreams and Visions" sidebar:

Time and Tide by Tsui Hark, Hong Kong/China

Sade by Benoit Jacquot, France

U-571
by Jonathan Mostow, US

Plata Quemada by Marcelo Pineyro, Argentina/Spain/Uruguay/France

The Cell by Tarsem, US

Sud Side Stori by Roberta Torre, Italy

The Princess And The Warrior by Tom Tykwer, Germany

What Lies Beneath by Robert Zemeckis, US

"Cinema del presente" sidebar:


Esperando Al Mesias by Daniel Burman, Argentina

Everybody Famous! (Iedereen Beroemd!) by Dominique Deruddere, Belgium

Samia by Philippe Faucon, France

Estate Romana
by Matteo Garrone, Italy

La Ville Est Tranquille by Robert Guediguian, France

Pollock by Ed Harris, US

My Generation by Barbara Kopple, US

Possible Worlds by Robert Lepage, Canada

Adanggaman, Costa D'Avorio
by Roger Gnoan M'bala

Series 7 - The Contenders by Dan Minahan, US

Together (Tillsammans) by Lukas Moodysson, Sweden/Denmark/Italy

Prime Gig by Gregory Mosher, US

Memento by Christopher Nolan, UK/US

The Last Resort by Paul Pawlikowski, Russia/UK

Die Innere Sicherheit by Christian Petzold, Germany

Thomas In Love by Pierre Paul Renders, Belgium/France

Animali Che Attraversano La Strada by Isabella Sandri, Italy

Placido Rizzotto by Pasquale Scimeca, Italy

Suspicious River by Lynne Stopkewich, Canada

Otesanek by Jan Svankmajer, Czech Republic/UK/Japan

Moskva by Alexander Zeldovich, Russia

Tribute to Clint Eastwood:


The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) by Sergio Leone, Italy

The Beguiled (1971) by Don Siegel, US

Play Misty For Me (1971) by Clint Eastwood, US

The Outlaw Josey Wales
(1976) by Clint Eastwood, US

Bronco Billy (1980) by Clint Eastwood, US

Honkytonk Man (1982) by Clint Eastwood, US

Bird (1988) by Clint Eastwood, US

Unforgiven
(1992) by Clint Eastwood, US

A Perfect World (1993) by Clint Eastwood, US

Critics' Week:

Felicidades by Lucho Bender, Argentina

Scout Man by Masato Ishioka, Japan

La Faute A Voltaire by Abdel Kechiche, France

You Can Count on Me by Kenneth Lonergan, US

The Day I Became a Woman by Marzieh Meshkini, Iran

Lontano In Fondo Agli Occhi
by Giuseppe Rocca, Italy

Noites by Claudia Tomaz, Portugal