1997 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner and Nominees

Fireworks

Takeshi Kitano

Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

Blinded

Daniel Calparsoro

Chinese Box

Wayne Wang

Dry Cleaning

Anne Fontaine

Hardboiled Egg

Paolo Virzì

Keep Cool

Yimou Zhang

Love Stories

Jerzy Stuhr

Niagara, Niagara

Bob Gosse

One Night Stand

Mike Figgis

Ossos

Pedro Costa

Round the Moons Between Earth and Sea

Giuseppe M. Gaudino

Seventh Heaven

Benoît Jacquot

The Informant

Jim McBride

The Oyster and the Wind

Walter Lima Jr.

The Thief

Pavel Chukhray

The Vesuvians

Pappi Corsicato

The Winter Guest

Alan Rickman

Wild Games

Benoît Lamy