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63rd Venice International Film Festival
The 63rd annual Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on 30 August 2006 with Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia" and was closed on 9 September 2006. Host of the event was Italian actress Isabella Ferrari.
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. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to American director David Lynch.
Jury Prize at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. The final part of the trilogy, "", premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Seidl was scheduled to attend the 2014 Jerusalem Film Festival, but cancelled his visit due to the political tension in the region.
Biography.
Seidl grew up in a Roman Catholic family. Although at one point he wanted to become a priest, he studied journalism and drama at Vienna University instead. Afterwards, he studied film-making at the Vienna