82nd Venice International Film Festival: all the official awards

At the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, the official awards were announced, assigned by the five international juries during the closing ceremony.

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The jury, chaired by Alexander Payne, with Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero, Cristian Mungiu, Mohammad Rasoulof, Fernanda Torres, and Zhao Tao, awarded:

• Golden Lion for Best Film: Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch (USA, Ireland, France)

• Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize: The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, France)

• Silver Lion – Best Director: Benny Safdie, The Smashing Machine (USA)

• Volpi Cup – Best Actress: Xin Zhilei, Ri Gua Zhong Tian (The Sun Rises on Us All) by Cai Shangjun (China)

• Volpi Cup – Best Actor: Toni Servillo, La grazia by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)

• Best Screenplay: Valérie Donzelli and Gilles Marchand, À pied d’œuvre by Valérie Donzelli (France)

• Special Jury Prize: Sotto le nuvole by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy)

• Marcello Mastroianni Award (emerging actor): Luna Wedler, Silent Friend by Ildikó Enyedi (Germany, Hungary, France)

Orizzonti

The jury chaired by Julia Ducournau, with Yuri Ancarani, Fernando Enrique Juan Lima, Shannon Murphy and RaMell Ross, awarded:

• Best Film: En el camino by David Pablos (Mexico)

• Best Director: Anuparna Roy, Songs of Forgotten Trees (India)

• Special Jury Prize: Harà Watan (Lost Land) by Akio Fujimoto (Japan, France, Malaysia, Germany)

• Best Actress: Benedetta Porcaroli, Il rapimento di Arabella by Carolina Cavalli (Italy)

• Best Actor: Giacomo Covi, Un anno di scuola by Laura Samani (Italy, France)

• Best Screenplay: Ana Cristina Barragán, Hiedra (The Ivy) (Ecuador)

• Best Short Film: Utan Kelly (Without Kelly) by Lovisa Sirén (Sweden)

Venice Award for a Debut Film – Luigi De Laurentiis

The jury chaired by Charlotte Wells, with Erige Sehiri and Silvio Soldini, awarded:

• Lion of the Future: Short Summer by Nastia Korkia (Germany, France, Serbia)

Giornate degli Autori – Venice Spotlight

• Audience Award – Armani Beauty: Calle Málaga by Maryam Touzani (Morocco, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium)

Venice Classics

The jury chaired by Tommaso Santambrogio with 23 Italian film students awarded:

• Best Documentary on Cinema: Mata Hari by Joe Beshenkovsky, James A. Smith (USA)

• Best Restored Film: Bashu, Gharibeye Koochak (Bashù, The Little Stranger) by Bahram Beyzaie (Iran, 1985)

Venice Immersive

The jury chaired by Eliza McNitt, with Gwenael François and Boris Labbé, awarded:

• Grand Prize Venice Immersive: The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up by Singing Chen (Taipei, Germany)

• Special Jury Prize: Less than 5gr of Saffron by Négar Motevalymeidanshah (France)

• Achievement Award: A Long Goodbye by Kate Voet and Victor Maes (Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands)