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Shadows @ Venezia Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica The world's oldest film festival was first held in 1932 as part of the Venice Biennale. Rich Cline was on the Queer Lion jury at the festival in 2016, 2017 and 2022.
83rd Venice International Film Festival 2 - 12 SEPTEMBER 2026 in Venice, Italy Opening Film: INK Closing Film: GOD LAUGHS RICH’S BEST OF THE FEST NAZA WILD HORSE NINE POSSIBLE LOVE A GOOD LITTLE SOLDIER QUEER EDWARD II MOONFISH LONDON TIJUANA, TODAVIA DAU EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE Honourable mention: GURIA. OUR SHARE OF SAND. HOUSE OF THE WIND. NO PARADISE IF YOU ARE KILLED BY A WOMAN. BACK TO BUENOS AIRES. MUSK. A BIT OF LIGHT. LOVERS IN THE BLUE NIGHT. HOMBRE AL AGUA. FROM INSIDE OUT. REPORTS & REVIEWS FROM THE FESTIVAL: DAILY ON THE BLOG	2 0 2 6 A W A R D S
	Golden Lion: WOMAN UNKNOWN Grand Jury Prize: POSSIBLE LOVE Special Jury Prize: NAZA Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy (DAU) Screenplay: Coralie Amedeo, Stephane Brize & Olivier Gorce (A GOOD LITTLE SOLDIER) Actress: Mathilde Arcel (WOMAN UNKNOWN) Actor: John Malkovich (WILD HORSE NINE) Queer Lion: LONDON and QUEER EDWARD II Lion of the Future: Bernard Auguste Kouemo Yanghu (HOUSE OF THE WIND) Mastroianni Award: Malou Khebizi (A PLACE TO HEAL) Life Achievement: Ellen Burstyn and George Clooney Glory to the Filmmaker: Luca Guadagnino Passion for Film: Serena Rossi Leoncino d'Oro: MR NELSON, DID YOU KILL PEOPLE? Bisato d'Oro: DAU Horizons: DIANE IN THE LOOP Horizons - Jury Prize: HOUSE OF THE WIND Horizons - Director: Jacqueline Lentzou (A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO) Horizons - Screenplay: Tommaso Landucci & Damiano Femfert (CHILDREN OF THE MONKEY) Horizons - Actress: Laleh Marzban (FALLING HOUSE) Horizons - Actor: Riccardo Scamarcio (CHILDREN OF THE MONKEY) Venice Days - Audience Award: BALKAN Venice Days - Director's Award: SOMETIMES SADNESS, SOMETIMES REBELLION Critics Week: BEFORE THE WAR Critics Week - Audience Award: OUR SHARE OF SAND Critics Week - Director: Paoli De Luca (REVOLVER) Critics Week - Technical: Giulia Cosentino (IF THINGS COULD EVER TALK) Fipresci: POSSIBLE LOVE Fipresci - Parallel Sections: THE COLOR OF THE SUN Nuovoimaie - Actress: Gaia Merlonghi (THE CITY OF THE LIVING) Nuovoimaie - Actor: Piero Usberti (BEFORE THE WAR) Pasinetti: BACK TO BUENOS AIRES Pasinetti - Actress: Vanessa Scalera (THE FIRE WITHIN YOU) Pasinetti - Actor: Adriano Giannini (BACK TO BUENOS AIRES) Pasinetti - Special Prize: THE GIRL WITH THE LEICA Lizzani: BALKAN Restored Film: LONG NIGHT IN 1943 Immersive: THE PIGEON RING Immersive - Jury Prize: OUT OF THE ASHES Immersive - Achievement: EMPIRE AT SEA XR Fan Experience: EMPIRE AT SEA	1964 Pop Art: THE GIRL WITH THE LEICA Arca CinemaGiovani: POSSIBLE LOVE Arca CinemaGiovani - Italian: THE SPIRAL Airone Della Laguna: FALLING HOUSE Authors Under 40 - Director: Maria Aparicio (SOMETIMES SADNESS, SOMETIMES REBELLION) and Michelle Zhou (BIG LITTLE THINGS) Authors Under 40 - Writer-Director: Shalini Adnani (OUR SHARE OF SAND) Authors Under 40 - Cinematography: Simone Hart (EKLIPSE) BookCiak: THE FIRE WITHIN YOU Bresson: Pedro Costa Brian: LET US THROUGH, DEAR ANCESTORS Cict-Unesco: DEAR AJAYI Cinema & Arts: LOOK BACK and SHUMEI: THE LIVING LEGACY OF KABUKI Cinema & Arts - Artist: Anatoly Vasiliev (DAU) CinemaSara: LOOK BACK Croce Rossa: A PLACE TO HEAL Edipo Re: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO: CHAPTER PHAEDRA Edipo Re - Student Jury: NAZA Europa Cinemas Label: A WOMAN TODAY Fanheart3: A MAN'S SKIN Fedic: SERPENTI Film Impresa: A GOOD LITTLE SOLDIER Final Cut: MADI MAKAMBU Golden Globes Documentary: LETTERS FROM THE SILENCED COUNTRY Green Drop: NAZA and THE SPIRAL Hotel Saturnia: THE END OF TIMES Interfilm: A GOOD LITTLE SOLDIER Lanterna Magica: A PLACE TO HEAL Mention Cinema: NAZA One True Pairing: Chris and Lee (WILD HORSE NINE) Pellicola d'Oro - Chief Engineer: Roberto Di Pietro (THE ECHO CHAMBER) Pellicola d'Oro - Machine Operator: Luigi Andrei (IT WILL HAPPEN TONIGHT) RB Casting: Emanuelle Maria Di Stefano (THE CITY OF THE LIVING) Roma Film: Adriano Giannini Signis: LOOK BACK Sorriso Diverso - Italian: RIDER Sorriso Diverso - Foreign: A GOOD LITTLE SOLDIER Sorriso Diverso - Director Under 35: Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor (NAZA) Soundtrack Stars: La Nina & Alfredo Maddaluno (THE FIRE WITHIN YOU) Sovena: Tomasso Usberti (BEFORE THE WAR) Spotlight: I MATTER Unimed: LOOK BACK Verona: ZOOM IN, ZOOM OUT
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	* AGATA THE WRITER (Dorabialski, Aus) AL BARANEYA (El-Hamus, Ned) ANATOMY OF A PORTRAIT (Clerici/Colombo, It) ARRESTED MEMORY (Sabu, Tai) AUBER 89 (Schillaci, Fr) BACK TO BUENOS AIRES (Bechis, It) BALCANICA (Sorcinelli, It) THE BASICS OF PHIOLOSOPHY (Schrader, US) BE BRAVE (Carrozzini, It) BEFORE THE WAR (Usberti, It) BIG LITTLE THINGS (Zhou, Chn) A BIT OF LIGHT (Asgari, Irn) BOATBUILDERS (Lorentzen, US) BUCKING FASTARD (Herzog, Ire) BUNKER (Zeller, Fr) BURGUNDY (Dweck/Kershaw, Fr) THE BURNING GIANTS (Aroonpheng, Tha) CAMOUFLAGE (Gibalenko, Ger) CAPITAL SUNDAY: SUNDAY GEN (Giuliani, It) CARLA LONZI: A FEMINIST STORY (Archibugi, It) THE CAT WAKES UP AND YAWNS; THEN LOVE (Francioni/Sestieri, It) CHILDREN OF THE MONKEY (Landucci, It) CITIZEN OSAMA (Hassouna, Pal) THE CITY OF THE LIVING (Gabbriellini, It) THE COLOR OF THE SUN (Tera, Can) A COMMON STORY (Foglietta, It) COMPANY (Affleck, Can) CONVERSATION WITH THE SEA (Alayan, Pal) THE CRAFT (Tufarulo, It) DAU (Khrzhanovsky, Ger) A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO: CHAPTER PHAEDRA (Lentzou, Gr) DEAR AJAYI (Orimogunje, Nga) DEMETRA IN ESILIO (Cicciari, It) DIANE IN THE LOOP (Sirot/Balboni, Bel) THE DIFFICULT BRIDE (Hossain, Ban) DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER (Southern/Lovelace, UK) DUST (Tsai, Tai) THE ECHO CHAMBER (Pallaoro, It) EKLIPSE (Wetscher, Aut) THE END OF TIMES (Gomez/Cardenas, Col) EVEN IF HELL CAME (Rossi, It) EVEREST: THE OTHER SIDE (Vasarhelyi/Chin, US) FALLING HOUSE (Mohsen Gharaei, Irn) FATHER JOE (Grossmann, Fr) THE FIRE WITHIN YOU (De Angelis, It) FROM INSIDE OUT: THE ARCHITECTURE OF PETER ZUMTHOR (Wenders, Ger) FURIES (Kodeih, Leb) GIAFFA THE GREAT (Santi, It) THE GIRL WITH THE LEICA (Marazzi, It) GOD LAUGHS (Veronesi, It) * THE GOOD LAWYER (Seguela, Fr) A GOOD LITTLE SOLDIER (Brize, Fr) GROUND FLOOR (Reisz, Hun) GU SHI (Song, Chn) GURIA (Koguashvili, Geo) THE H@LLOW MAN (Laaridhi, Tun) HOLY WOOD DUST (Kossakovsky, It) HOMBRE AL AGUA (Bernal, Mex) HOUSE OF THE WIND (Yanghu, Cam) I MATTER (Serban, Rom) I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN (Hadzija/Taheri, Ger)	IMPERIUM (Loznitsa, Fr) LES INDES (Julier/Chapoulier, Swi) INK (Boyle, UK) INTERMISSION (Yonfan, Chn) IT WILL HAPPEN TONIGHT (Moretti, It) JOIE DE VIVRE (Guadagnino, It) JUPITER (Smia, Fr) JUSO PER FERIE (Di Porto, It) THE LEGEND OF THE DESERT (Giannini, It) LET US THROUGH, DEAR ANCESTORS (Diaz, Ph) LETTERS (Kutsila, Pol) LIFE OF JORGE LUIS BORGES (Llinas, Arg) LONDON (Di Marco/Picoli, Br) LOOK BACK (Kore-eda, Jpn) LOVERS IN THE BLUE NIGHT (Roy, Ind) A MAN'S SKIN (Domenach, Fr) THE MASSACRE (Cosimo Messeri, It) MEMORIES OF LIGHTNING (Giacconi, It) METEORITE (Munera, Col) MOONFISH (Zvereff, US) LA MOULA (Pierrat, Fr) MR NELSON, DID YOU KILL PEOPLE? (Tsukamoto, Jpn) MUSK (Gibney, UK) MY NOTES ON MARS (Horvat, Hun) MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE (Loktev, US) NAZA (Abraham/Szor, Isr) NINO: UN FILM SU NINO ROTA (Fasano, It) NO PAIN (Amelio, It) NO PARADISE IF YOU ARE KILLED BY A WOMAN (Mustafa, Irq) OASIS (Lenz, Ger) * ONE MINUTE BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Pariser, Fr) OUR SHARE OF SAND (Adnani, Ind) PECCATO (Vestoso, It) THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO UTOPIAS (Fiennes, Ire) THE PHANTOM (Masllorens/Lamelas, Arg) PLACE TO BE (Mundruczo, Aus) A PLACE TO HEAL (Kahn, Fr) POSSIBLE LOVE (Lee, Kor) PRIMETIME (Oppenheim, US) QUEER EDWARD II (Rollason, UK) RIDER (Johnson/Pavanello, It) THE ROAD TO JERICHO (Gitai, Fr) SADNESS SOMETIMES, OTHER TIMES REVOLT (Aparicio, Arg) SALON DE BELLEZA (Acevedo, Mex) SCARPE ROTTE (Torre, It) SERPENTI (Maino, It) SHUMEI: THE LIVING LEGACY OF KABUKI (Miike, Jpn) SOUTHERN PEASANTS (Lancellotti, It) THE SPIRAL (Strippoli, It) SUMO: SPIRIT WEIGHS NOTHING (Shirai, Jpn) TIJUANA, TODAVIA (Morales, Mex) TOO MUCH SUGAR (Greene, US) * TRICK (Martone, It) TWIST AND SHOOT MISTER SUZUKI (Montmayeur, Fr) UNION TOWN (Kopple, US) UNTIL THE DAY ENDS (Maksimovic, Ser) * WHAT BELONGS TO OTHERS (Debowski, Pol) WHAT LOVE BUILDS (Crowe, Aus) WILD HORSE NINE (McDonagh, UK) A WOMAN TODAY (Guediguian, Fr) WOMAN UNKNOWN (el-Toukhy, Den) ZOOM IN, ZOOM OUT (Dong, Chn)

82nd Venice International Film Festival 27 AUGUST - 6 SEPTEMBER 2025 in Venice, Italy Opening Film: LA GRAZIA Closing Film: DOG 51	2 0 2 5 A W A R D S
	Golden Lion: FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER Grand Jury Prize: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Special Jury Prize: BELOW THE CLOUDS Director: Benny Safdie (THE SMASHING MACHINE) Screenplay: Valerie Donzelli and Gilles Marchand (AT WORK) Actress: Xin Zhilei (THE SUN RISES ON US ALL) Actor: Toni Servillo (LA GRAZIA) Queer Lion: ON THE ROAD Spotlight Audience Award: CALLE MALAGA Lion of the Future: Nastia Korkia (SHORT SUMMER) Mastroianni Award: Luna Wedler (SILENT FRIEND) Life Achievement: Werner Herzog and Kim Novak Glory to the Filmmaker: Julian Schnabel Passion for Film: Gus Van Sant Horizons: ON THE ROAD Horizons - Jury Prize: LOST LAND Horizons - Director: Anuparna Roy (SONGS OF FORGOTTEN TREES) Horizons - Screenplay: Ana Cristina Barragan (THE IVY) Horizons - Actress: Benedetta Porcaroli (THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA) Horizons - Actor: Giacomo Covi (A YEAR OF SCHOOL) Venice Days - Audience Award: MEMORY and A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD Venice Days - Director's Award: INSIDE AMIR Venice Days - Creative Talent: 6:06 Critics Week: STRAIGHT CIRCLE Critics Week - Audience Award: ISH Critics Week - Independent Film: AGON Critics Week - Director: Nadir Taji (FAMILY FEAST) Critics Week - Technical: WAKING HOURS and MARINA Fipresci: SILENT FRIEND Fipresci - Parallel Sections: AGON Nuovoimaie: Giacomo Covi, Pietro Giustolisi and Samuel Volturno (A YEAR OF SCHOOL) Leoncino d'Oro: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Graffetta d'Oro: FRANKENSTEIN Nave d'Argento: Scarlet/Hijiri (SCARLET) Europa Cinemas Label: BEARCAVE Doc on Cinema: MATA HARI Restored Film: BASHU, THE LITTLE STRANGER Immersive: THE CLOUDS ARE TWO THOUSAND METERS UP Immersive - Jury Prize: LESS THAN 5GR OR SAFFRON Immersive - Achievement: A LONG GOODBYE	Arca CinemaGiovani: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Arca CinemaGiovani - Italian: LA GRAZIA Authors Under 40 - Director: Laura Samani (A YEAR OF SCHOOL) Authors Under 40 - Screenplay: Mayra Hermosillo (VAINILLA) BookCiak: THE STRANGER Brian: LA GRAZIA Ca' Foscari: STRAIGHT CIRCLE Casa Wabi-Mantarraya: INSIDE AMIR Cict-Unesco: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Cinema & Arts: THE TALE OF SILYAN and WHO IS STILL ALIVE Cinema & Arts - Multidisciplinary: Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani Cinema for Unicef: SILENT FRIEND CinemaSara: SILENT FRIEND Croce Rossa Italiana: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Edipo Re: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB and SILENT FRIEND Fai Persona: HUMAN RESOURCE Fedic: THE HOLY BOY Film Impresa: FERDINANDO SCIANNA: IL FOTOGRAFO DELL'OMBRA Green Drop: BUGONIA and SILENT FRIEND ImpACT: REMAKE Interfilm: SILENT FRIEND Lanterna Magica: A YEAR OF SCHOOL Lizzani: CONFESSION: HOW I FOUND OUT I WOULDN'T MAKE THE REVOLUTION Netpac: THE IVY Pasinetti: LA GRAZIA Pasinetti - Actress: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (DUSE) Pasinetti - Actor: Toni Servillo (LA GRAZIA) Pellicola d'Oro - Production Manager: Elda Baldi (LA GRAZIA) Pellicola d'Oro - Electrician: Diana Martia Hernandez Giralo (ELISA) Pellicola d'Oro - Props: Michael Ceracchini (DUSE) Pop Art: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi RB Casting: Tiziano Menichelli (MY TENNIS MAESTRO) Signis: ELISA Sorriso Diverso - Italian: ELISA Sorriso Diverso - Foreign: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB Soundtrack Stars: Fabrizio Elvetico, Marco Messina and Sacha Ricci (DUSE) Unimed: THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB XR Fan Experience: HAPPY SHADOW
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	100 NIGHTS OF HERO (Jackman, UK) 6:06 (Taidelli, It) AFTER THE HUNT (Guadagnino, UK) AGON (Bertelli, It) ANGELA'S DIARIES. TWO FILMMAKERS. CHAPTER THREE (Gianikian/Lucchi, It) AT WORK (Donzelli, Fr) BACK HOME (Tsai, Tai) BARRIO TRISTE (Stillz, Col) BE LOVED (Amoruso, It) BEARCAVE (Dinopoulos/Papadakis, Gr) BECOMING HUMAN (Ly, Cam) BELOW THE CLOUDS (Rosi, It) BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL (Kittredge, US) BROKEN ENGLISH (Forsyth/Pollard, UK) BUGONIA (Lanthimos, US) CALLE MALAGA (Touzani, Mor) CONFESSION: HOW I FOUND OUT I WOULDN'T MAKE THE REVOLUTION (Angius, It) CORA (Kalogiropoulou, Gr) COTTON QUEEN (Mirghani, Pal) COVER-UP (Poitras/Obenhaus, US) DAI NOSTRI INVIATI (Giannotti/Salvatori, It) DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T (Di Gregorio, It) DEAD MAN'S WIRE (Van Sant, US) DIRECTOR'S DIARY (Sokurov, Russia, It) DIVINE COMEDY (Asgari, Irn) DO YOU LOVE ME (Daher, Fr) DOG 51 (Jimenez, Fr) DOM (Battistella, Bos) DUSE (Marcello, It) ELISA (Di Costanzo, It) ELVIRA NOTARI: OLTRE IL SILENZIO (Ciriaci, It) ETTY (Levi, Fr) FATHER (Nvotova, Svk) FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER (Jarmusch, US) FERDINANDO SCIANNA - IL FOTOGRAFO DELL'OMBRA (Ando, It) FRANCESCO DE GREGORI NEVERGREEN (Pistolini, It) FRANKENSTEIN (del Toro, UK) FULL SPEED BACKWARD (Morabito, It) FUNERAL CASINO BLUES (Warich, Ger) GHOST ELEPHANTS (Herzog, US) LA GIOIA (Gelormini, It) GIRL (Shu, Tai) LA GRAZIA (Sorrentino, It) HIJRA (Ameen, Sau) HOLOFICTION (Kosakowski, Ger) A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (Bigelow, US) HUMAN RESOURCE (Thamrongrattanarit, Tha) HUNGRY BIRD (di Andrea/Capuano It) I WANT HER DEAD (Matarrese, It) IN THE HAND OF DANTE (Schnabel, UK) INSIDE AMIR (Azizi, Irn) ISH (Perretta, UK) IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS (Rondon/Ugas, Mex) THE IVY (Barragan, Ecu) JAY KELLY (Baumbach, US) KABUL, BETWEEN PRAYERS (Amini, Afg) THE KIDNAPPING OF ARABELLA (Cavalli, It) KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO (Philippe, US) LAGUNA (Bartas, Lit) LAMB OF GOD (Camaiti, It) LANDMARKS (Martel, Arg) LAST NIGHT I CONQUERED THE CITY OF THEBES (Azorin, Sp) THE LAST VIKING (Jensen, Den) LATE FAME (Jones, US)	LIFE BEYOND THE PINE CURTAIN: AMERICA THE INVISIBLE (Troilo, It) A LOOSE END (Hendler, Uru) LOST LAND (Fujimoto, Jpn) LOUIS MALLE, LE REVOLTE (Duguet, Fr) MADE IN EU (Komandarev, Bul) MARC BY SOFIA (Coppola, US) MATA HARI (Beshenkovsky/Smith, US) MEGADOC (Figgis, US) MEMORY (Sandu, Fr) MEMORY OF PRINCESS MUMBI (Hauser, Ken) MEMORY OF THE FORGOTTEN (Espada, Sp) MILK TEETH (Mincan, Rom) THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE (Sollima, It) MOTHER (Mitevska, Mac) MOTOR CITY (Ponciroli, US) MY FATHER AND QADDAFI (K, Lby) MY TENNIS MAESTRO (Di Stefano, It) A NEAR THING (Nese, It) NEWPORT AND THE GREAT FOLK DREAM (Gordon, US) NINO: A JOURNEY OF 18 DAYS (d'Angelo, It) NO OTHER CHOICE (Park, Kor) NOTES OF A TRUE CRIMINAL (Rodnyansky/Alferov, Ukr) ON THE ROAD (Pablos, Mex) ONE WOMAN ONE BRA (Nchogu, Ken) ONE YEAR OF SCHOOL (Samani, It) ORFEO (Viloresi, It) ORPHAN (Nemes, Hun) THE OZU DIARIES (Raim, US) PAST FUTURE CONTINOUS (Khosrovani/Ahmadvand, Irn) PIERO PELU (Fei, It) PIN DE FARTIE (Moguillansky, Arg) PORTOBELLO (Bellocchio, It) A PROPHET (Artale, Fr) REMAKE (McElwee, US) ROQIA (Koussim, Alg) ROSE OF NEVADA (Jenkin, UK) A SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD (Aris, Leb) SANGRE DEL TORO (Montmayeur, Fr) SCARLET (Hosoda, Jpn) SECRET OF A MOUNTAIN SERPENT (Saxena, Ind) SERMON TO THE VOID (Baydarov, Az) SHORT SUMMER (Korkia, Ger) SILENT FRIEND (Enyedi, Hun) SILENT REBELLION (Sgualdo, Swi) THE SITE (Hata, Fr) THE SMASHING MACHINE (Safdie, US) SONGS OF FORGOTTEN TREES (Roy, Ind) THE SOUFFLEUR (Solnicki, Aut) A STATE FILM (Sejko, It) STEREO GIRLS (Peano, Fr) STRAIGHT CIRCLE (Hudson, UK) STRANGE RIVER (Muxart, Sp) THE STRANGER (Ozon, Fr) THE SUN RISES ON US ALL (Cai, Chn) THE TALE OF SYLIAN (Kotevska, Mac) THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (Fastvold, UK) TIRED OF KILLING (Vicari, It) TONI, MY FATHER (Negri, It) VAINILLA (Hermosillo, Mex) THE VALLEY OF SMILES (Strippoli, It) THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (Hania, Tun) WAKING HOURS (Cammarata/Foscarini, It) WHO IS STILL ALIVE (Wadimoff, Swi) THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN (Assayas, Fr) WRITING LIFE (Simon, Fr)

81st Venice International Film Festival 28 AUGUST - 7 SEPTEMBER 2024 in Venice, Italy	2 0 2 4 A W A R D S
	Golden Lion: THE ROOM NEXT DOOR Silver Lion: VERMIGLIO Special Jury Prize: APRIL Director: Brady Corbet (THE BRUTALIST) Actress: Nicole Kidman (BABYGIRL) Actor: Vincent Lindon (THE QUIET SON) Screenplay: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega (I'M STILL HERE) Queer Lion: SOUL OF THE DESERT Lion of the Future: Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH) Mastroianni Award: Paul Kircher (AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM) Life Achievement: Peter Weir and Sigourney Weaver Glory to the Filmmaker: Claude Lelouch Horizons: THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME Horizons - Jury Prize: ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES Horizons - Audience Award: THE WITNESS Horizons - Director: Sarah Friedland (FAMILIAR TOUCH) Horizons - Screenplay: Scandar Copti (HAPPY HOLIDAYS) Horizons - Actress: Kathleen Chalfant (FAMILIAR TOUCH) Horizons - Actor: Francesco Gheghi (FAMILIA) Leoncino d'Oro: THE QUIET SON	Venice Days - Audience Award: MANAS Venice Days - Career Award: Alice Rohrwacher Venice Days - Creative Talent: Federica Di Giacomo Critics Week: DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY Critics Week - Audience Award: PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH Critics Week - Independent Film: ANYWHERE ANYTIME Critics Week - Technical: HOMEGROWN Critics Week - Innovation: DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY Fipresci: THE BRUTALIST Fipresci - Parallel Sections: THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME Nuovoimaie: Tecia Insolia (FAMILIA) and Martina Scrinzi (VERMIGLIO) Graffetta d'Oro: BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE Doc on Cinema: CHAIN REACTIONS Restored Film: ECCE BOMBO Immersive Grand Prize: ITO MEIKYU Immersive Jury Prize: OTO'S PLANET Immersive Achievement: IMPULSE
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	2073 (Kapadia, UK) ALPHA (Van Ewijk, Ned) APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (Costa, Br) APRIL (Kulumbegashvili, Geo) BABY INVASION (Korine, US) BABYGIRL (Reijn, US) BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE (Burton, US) BOOMERANG (Fotouhi, Irn) THE BRUTALIST (Corbet, US) CHAIN REACTIONS (Philippe, US) DISCLAIMER (Cuaron, UK) DON'T CRY, BUTTERFLY (Linh, Vie) FAMILIAR TOUCH (Friedland, US) FAMILIES LIKE OURS (Vinterberg, Den) FINALEMENT (Lelouch, Fr) HAPPYEND (Sora, Jpn) HARVEST (Tsangari, UK) HOMEGROWN (Premo, US) HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA – CHAPTER 2 (Costner, US) I'M STILL HERE (Salles, Br) JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (Phillips, US) KILL THE JOCKEY (Ortega, Arg) KING IVORY (Swab, US) LOVE (Haugerud, Nor)	MANAS (Brennand, Br) MARIA (Larrain, It) OF DOGS AND MEN (Rosenberg, Isr) ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (Macdonald, UK) THE ORDER (Kurzel, Can) PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH (Massey, UK) PEACHES GOES BANANAS (Losier, Fr) PEACOCK (Wenger, Aut) QUEER (Guadagnino, It) THE QUIET SON (Coulin/Coulin, Fr) RIEFENSTAHL (Veiel, Ger) THE ROOM NEXT DOOR (Almodovar, Sp) RUSSIANS AT WAR (Trofimova, Fr) SANATORIUM UNDER THE SIGN OF THE HOURGLASS (Quay/Quay, UK) SEEKING HEAVEN FOR MR RAMBO (Mansour, Egy) SEMPRE (Fina) SEPARATED (Morris, US) SEPTEMBER 5 (Fehlbaum, Ger) VERMIGLIO (Delpero, It) WOLFS (Watts, US)

80th Venice International Film Festival 30 AUGUST - 9 SEPTEMBER 2023 in Venice, Italy	2 0 2 3 A W A R D S
	Golden Lion: POOR THINGS Silver Lion: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST Special Jury Prize: GREEN BORDER Director: Matteo Garrone (IO CAPITANO) Actress: Cailee Spaeny (PRISCILLA) Actor: Peter Sarsgaard (MEMORY) Screenplay: Guillermo Calderon & Pablo Larrain (EL CONDE) Debut Performance: Seydou Sarr (IO CAPITANO) Queer Lion: HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS Lion of the Future: LOVE IS A GUN Life Achievement: Liliana Cavani and Tony Leung Chiu-wai Glory to the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson Doc on Cinema: THANK YOU VERY MUCH Restored Film: MOVING Critics Week: MALQUERIDAS Critics Week - Audience Award: HOARD Critics Week - Director: Gabriele Biasi (LA LINEA DE TERMINATORE) Critics Week - Technical: MALQUERIDAS	Horizons: EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING Horizons - Jury Prize: AN ENDLESS SUNDAY Horizons - Audience Award: FELICITA Horizons - Director: Mika Gustafson (PARADISE IS BURNING) Horizons - Actress: Margarita Rosa de Francisco (EL PARAISO) Horizons - Actor: Tergel Bold-Erdene (CITY OF WIND) Horizons - Screenplay: Enrico Maria Artale (EL PARAISO) Venice Days - Audience Award: THROUGH THE NIGHT Venice Days - Director: Ariane Louis-Seize (HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON) Fipresci: EVIL DOES NOT EXIST Fipresci - Parallel Sections: AN ENDLESS SUNDAY Nuovoimaie - Young Actor: Gianmarco Franchini (ADAGIO) Nuovoimaie - Young Actress: Sara Ciocca (NINA OF THE WOLVES) Immersive Grand Prize: SONGS FOR A PASSERBY Immersive Jury Prize: FLOW Immersive Achievement: EMPEROR
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	AGGRO DR1FT (Korine, US) THE BEAST (Bonello, Fr) BYE BYE TIBERIAS (Soualem, Pal) THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL (Friedkin, US) EL CONDE (Larrain, Chl) COUP DE CHANCE (Allen, Fr) DAAAAAALI! (Dupieux, Fr) DAY OF THE FIGHT (Huston, US) DOGMAN (Besson, Fr) EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, Jpn) FERRARI (Mann, It) GREEN BORDER (Holland, Pol) HIT MAN (Linklater, US) HOARD (Carmoon, UK) HOLLYWOODGATE (Nash'at, Ger) HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS (Stolevski, Mac) HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON (Louis-Seize, Can) IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS (Lorenz, Ire) INFESTED (Vanicek, Fr) IO CAPITANO (Garrone, It) THE KILLER (Fincher, US)	LOVE IS A GUN (Lee, Tai) MAESTRO (Cooper, US) MALQUERIDAS (Gilbert, Chl) MEMORY (Franco, US) MENUS PLAISIRS: LES TROISGROS (Wiseman, Fr) ORIGIN (DuVernay, US) THE PALACE (Polanski, It) PARADISE IS BURNING (Gustafson, Swe) PET SHOP DAYS (Schnabel, US) POOR THINGS (Lanthimos, UK) PRISCILLA (Coppola, US) THE PROMISED LAND (Arcel, Den) RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: OPUS (Sora, Jpn) SHADOW OF FIRE (Tsukamoto, Jpn) SKY PEALS (Hussain, UK) SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (Bayona, Sp) THE SUMMER WITH CARMEN (Mavroeidis, Gr) THE SUN WILL RISE (Najafi, Irn) TATAMI (Nattiv/Ebrahimi, Geo) WOMAN OF... (Szumowska/Englert, Pol) THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR (Anderson, US) * reviews coming
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