<<< 38th Venice Film Festival (1981) >>>
In Competition:
Beirut the Encounter / Beyroutou el lika (Borhane Alaouié - Lebanon)
Cutting It Short / Postrizinj (Jiří Menzel - Czechoslovakia)
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? / Сјећаш ли се Доли Бел? (Emir Kusturica - Yugoslavia)
The Fall of Italy / Pad Italije (Lordan Zafranović - )
The Fall of the Rebel Angels / La caduta degli angeli ribelli (Marco Tullio Giordana - Italy)
Forest of Love / Bosco d'amore (Alberto Bevilacqua - )
The Games of Countess Dolingen / Les Jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz (Catherine Binet - France)
The Kaleidoscope / Chaalchitra (Mrinal Sen - India)
Kargus / Juan Minon, Miguel Ángel Trujillo (Spain - )
Marianne and Juliane / Die bleierne Zeit (Margarethe von Trotta - West Germany)
The Opportunities of Rosa / Le occasioni di Rosa (Salvatore Piscicelli - Italy)
Prince of the City / Sidney Lumet (United States - )
Silvestre / João César Monteiro (Portugal - )
Starfall / Звездопад (Igor Talankin - Soviet Union)
Sweet Dreams / Sogni d'oro (Nanni Moretti - Italy)
Sweet Pea / Piso pisello (Peter Del Monte - )
They Don't Wear Black Tie / Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (Leon Hirszman - Brazil)
True Confessions / Ulu Grosbard (United States - )
The Tyrant's Heart / A Zsarnok Szive (Miklós Jancsó - Hungary)
The Witch Hunt / Forfølgelsen (Anja Brejen - Norway)
Golden Lion:
Marianne and Juliane by Margarethe von Trotta
Special Jury Prize:
Sweet Dreams by Nanni Moretti
They Don't Wear Black-tie by Leon Hirszman
Silver Lion:
Do You Remember Dolly Bell? by Emir Kusturica
Best Actress (assigned, but not Volpi Cup):
Barbara Sukowa & Jutta Lampe for Marianne and Juliane