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76th Venice Film Festival Award Winners

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This is the list of awards given at the 2019 Biennale Cinema. To check awards at official site go here and check official collateral awards list here . Official Selection Golden Lion for Best Film: Joker , Todd Phillips, USA Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize : J'Accuse (An Officer and a Spy), Roman Polanski, France and Italy Special Jury Prize : La Mafia non è più quella di una Volta, Franco Maresco, Italy (documentary) Silver Lion for Best Director : Roy Anderson Om det oändliga (About Endlessness), Roy Andersson, Sweden Germany, and Norway Copa Volpi for Best Actress : Ariane Ascaride in Gloria Mundi , Robert Guédiguian, France and Italy Copa Volpi for Best Actor : Luca Marinelli in Martin Eden , Pietro Marcello, Italy and France Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actress or Actor : Toby Wallace in Babyteeth , Shannon Murphy , Australia Best Screenplay : Yonfan for 继园台七号 Ji yuan tai qi hao (No.7 Cherry Lane), Yonfan, Hong Kong (animation) Lion of the Future - Luigi d...

16th Giornate degli Autori Award Winners

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Yesterday the 28 Times Cinemas jury voted for the GdA top award between three finalists, La LLorona by Jayro Bustamante, Only the Animals by Dominik Moll and Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa. According to the event live video, the race was between La LLorona and Corpus Christi.  At the end it was La LLorona the one that got more votes and became the Venice Festival parallel section top winner.  The following is organizers statement about the winning film. Bustamante, one of Latin American cinema's most unique voices, weaves a portrait of Guatemala's tragic history and its open wounds inspired by the legendary folk-tale of the same name. The combination of poetics and politics forges a haunting and acute fable not only about the past but of the present. La Llorona is an intimate ghost story told through a vivid female figure. It expends on the themes of loss, denial and acceptance. As the song 'La Llorona' says: Dicen que no tengo duelo, Llorona, porque no me ven llorar. Hay...

34th Venice International Film Critics Week Award Winners

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Today, Friday September 6, the Venice International Film Critics' Week, the independent and parallel section organized by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) during the 76th Venice International Film Festival conferred the awards for its thirty-fourth edition. The BIG winner is All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein as film collected not only the Grand Prize but also the Audience Award plus the Best Technical Contribution award a trifecta that suggest film is appreciated by the industry and audiences plus seems will also have high production values.  Not bad at all. There is one more feature films award Verona Film Club Award that went to Scales by Shahad Ameen.  Also there are three awards for short films. Award winners are in *BLUE .  To check winners at official site go here . This year the section will run from August 28 to September 9, 2019. Feature Films Competition (*) El Príncipe (The Prince), Sebastián Muñoz, Chile, Argentina and Belgium جدار الصوت ...

13th Queer Lion Award Winner

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The 2019 Queer Lion Award goes to Chile in a co production with Argentina and Belgium, a movie by Sebastián Muñoz that premiered in the always "strange" section of the Venice Film Festival, Settimana Internazionale della Critica.  El Príncipe (The Prince) wins with the following motivation from the jurors. " El Príncipe is a passionate portrait of life in a Chilean prison on the eve of Allende’s rise to power in 1970. The savage brutality of prison life is contrasted by intensely emotional relationships between prisoners. Led by a towering Alfredo Castro, the excellent ensemble cast give stirring performances of a powerful script which conveys the paradoxical acceptance of gay attachments in prison at a time when it was not socially acceptable. Sebastián Muñoz’s directorial debut is a bold and erotically charged exploration of recent history which reveals an unexpected tenderness at its heart. " Awards ceremony will be tonight at 6:00pm at the Sala Tropicana in the...