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The 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival runs August 29th to September 8th, 2007, directed by Marco Müller.
The aim of the Festival is to encourage the awareness and the promotion of all the various aspects of international cinema as art, entertainment and industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance.

The line-up of the Festival includes the following sections: Venezia 64-In Competition, Venezia 64-Out of Competition, Orizzonti, Corto Cortissimo, and Secret History of Italian Cinema 4.
Also in the line-up the 22nd International Critics' Week and the Venice Days; the films in these sections are independently selected by two commissions in accordance with their own regulations.

The screenings schedule of the Festival includes 11 days of screenings and a pre-opening in Venice on 28th August.

Four international juries will assign the official awards: Venezia 64, chaired by Zhang Yimou, Orizzonti, chaired by Gregg Araki, First Feature "Luigi De Laurentiis", chaired by Bill Mechanic, and Corto Cortissimo, chaired by François-Jacques Ossang.

This year’s festival will cast its eye over the protagonists of the cinema of tomorrow, and over the history of cinema: the 75th anniversary Golden Lion is to be awarded to Bernardo Bertolucci, the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement to Tim Burton, the celebratory events are directed by Alexander Kluge, and the retrospective is dedicated to “Spaghetti Westerns”.

The Palazzo del Cinema has a new external decor created by Dante Ferretti and a new graphics which characterises the festival venues by the Graph.x studio. Venice Biennale - Cinema Section
The Festival is articulated according to the estabilished outline: the Venezia 64 section presents the films competing for the Golden Lion, some of the most important works of the year screen Out of Competition, while the Orizzonti section is set to provide a picture of new trends in cinema. The international short film competition Corto Cortissimo is also in the line-up of the festival.

Fifth day at the 64th Venice Film Festival. Screening today, Sunday 2 September, the films by Carlo Lizzani, Hotel Meina, Júlio Bressane, Cleópatra, Claude Chabrol, La Fille coupée en deux, and Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream. In competition, Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, starring Brad Pitt. Also in the program the Alexander Kluge and Spaghetti Western retrospective sections, and the collateral sections.