[1] During the festival, retrospectives were held on the one hundredth anniversary of the births of three major Italian directors: Roberto Rossellini, Mario Soldati and Luchino Visconti.

[2][3] Jia Zhangke's Still Life won the Golden Lion, the festival top prize, following main competition prizes to Alain Resnais, Emanuele Crialese, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Isild Le Besco, Emmanuel Lubezki, Peter Morgan, and a Special Lion to French filmmakers duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for their innovation in cinematographic languages.

[6] Works by directors already established in past editions of the Festival, and films deemed appropriate for a midnight screening.

[8] International competition of 35mm short films, in world premiere, not exceeding 30 minutes in length.

His daughter, Alice de Andrade, also a producer, restored the fourteen works that constitute all of her father's filmography.