The 41st annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 1984 under the direction of Gian Luigi Rondi.

Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was A Year of the Quiet Sun directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.

The main event of this edition was, out of competition, the premiere of Heimat, an almost 16 hours-long film directed by Edgar Reitz. Among the other titles showed out of competition there were Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Wolfgang Petersen's The NeverEnding Story and a restored version of Metropolis edited and scored by Giorgio Moroder. The retrospective was dedicated to Luis Buñuel.^[1][2]

The following people comprised the 1984 jury:^[3]

• Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
• Rafael Alberti, Spanish poet
• Balthus, French painter
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet poet
• Günter Grass, West-German author and visual artist
• Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, American author
• Erica Jong, American writer and poet
• Erland Josephson, Swedish actor
• Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italian filmmakers
• Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer