51st Venice International Film Festival

51st Venice International Film Festival
	Festival poster
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion:; Before the Rain; Vive L'Amour
Festival date	1 – 12 September 1994
Website	Website
Venice Film Festival chronology
	52nd 50th

The 51st annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 1 September to 12 September, 1994.^[1]^[2]

American filmmaker David Lynch was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winners were Before the Rain directed by Milcho Manchevski and Vive L'Amour directed by Tsai Ming-liang.

Jury

The following people comprised the 1994 jury:^[3]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
6 Days, 6 Nights	À la folie	Diane Kurys	France
Ashes of Time	東邪西毒	Wong Kar-Wai	Hong Kong, China
Before the Rain	Пред дождот	Milcho Manchevski	Macedonia. France, United Kingdom
The Bull	Il toro	Carlo Mazzacurati	Italy
The Heart's Cry	Le cri du coeur	Idrissa Ouedraogo	Burkina Faso, France
Heavenly Creatures		Peter Jackson	New Zealand
In the Heat of the Sun	陽光燦爛的日子	Jiang Wen	China
Lamerica		Gianni Amelio	Italy, France, Switzerland, Austria
Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin	Жизнь и необыча́йные приключе́ния солда́та Ива́на Чо́нкина	Jiří Menzel	Russia, Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom, Italy
Little Odessa		James Gray	United States
Magic Hunter	Büvös vadász	Ildikó Enyedi	Hungary, France, Switzerland
Natural Born Killers		Oliver Stone	United States
Il branco		Marco Risi	Italy
Pigalle		Karim Dridi	France
A Shadow You Soon Will Be	Una sombra ya pronto serás	Héctor Olivera	Argentina
Somebody to Love		Alexandre Rockwell	United States
The Tit and the Moon	La Teta y la luna	Bigas Luna	Spain
Two Brothers, My Sister	Três Irmãos	Teresa Villaverde	Portugal
Vive L'Amour	愛情萬歲	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan

The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:^[4]

Accumulator 1 (Akumulátor 1) by Jan Svěrák (Czech Republic)
Cracking Up by Matt Mitler (United States)
Don’t Get Me Started by Arthur Ellis (United Kingdom)
The Road to Paradise (Doroga V Ray) by Vitalij Moskalenko (Russia)
Frankie, Jonny und die anderen... Schattenkämpfer by Hans-Erich Viet (Germany)
Ilayum Mullum (aka Leaves And Thorns) by K.P. Sasi (India)
Iron Horsemen by Gilles Charmant (France)
Passé-Composé (en. Past Imperfect) by Françoise Romand (France, Tunisia)
That Eye, the Sky by John Ruane (Australia)

^ "VENICE FILM FESTIVAL - 1994". Retrieved 6 October 2013.
^ "The 1990s". Retrieved 8 October 2013.
^ "Juries for the 1990s". Retrieved 1 April 2018.
^ "11th International Film Critics' Week". sicvenezia.it. Archived from the original on 2 April 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.