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Special Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)
The Special Jury Prize is an official award given at the Venice Film Festival to one of the feature films in competition slate since 2013. It is considered the third most prestigious prize at the festival, the runner-up to both the main award Golden Lion and the second place award Grand Jury Prize. Winners See also * Golden Lion * Grand Jury Prize A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ... References External links The Venice Film Festival at the ''IMDb''La Bienalle, official awards of the 74th Venice Film Festival Venice Film Festival Italian film awards Lists of films by award {{film-award-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
75th Venice International Film Festival
The 75th Venice International Film Festival was held from 29 August to 8 September 2018. Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro was named as the President of the Jury. '' First Man'', directed by Damien Chazelle, was selected to open the festival. Guillermo del Toro was named as the Jury President for the main competition section, with Michele Riondino hosting the festival. The festival poster is made by Italian artist Lorenzo Mattotti, who designed it in the way "that attracts the eye, that attracts thought, but without revealing too much." The Golden Lion was awarded to ''Roma'', directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Jury Main Competition (Venezia 75) *Guillermo del Toro, Mexican film director (Jury President) * Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director *Trine Dyrholm, Danish actress, singer and songwriter * Nicole Garcia, French actress, film director and screenwriter *Paolo Genovese, Italian director and screenwriter *Małgorzata Szumowska, Polish film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Special Jury Prize Winners
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua and Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. The city was historically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Bears
''No Bears'' ( fa, خرس نیست, Khers Nist, ) is a 2022 Iranian drama film written, directed and produced by Jafar Panahi. The film was shot secretly in Iran and stars Panahi, , Vahid Mobasri, Bakhtiar Panjei and Mina Kavani. Production wrapped up in May 2022. ''No Bears'' premiered at the 79th Venice Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion, without the presence of the director, who has been arrested and sentenced to 6 years prison in Iran, prior to the film's release. The film is distributed by Celluloid Dreams. It won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in September 2022, and received generally positive reviews from critics. Summary Prohibited by the government from making films and from leaving Iran, owing to his politically critical movies, filmmaker Jafar Panahi—playing a fictionalized version of himself—has rented a room at the village of Jaban, near Turkey's border, where he is remotely directing a docudrama about an Iranian couple, Bak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
79th Venice International Film Festival
The 79th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 31 August to 10 September 2022. Juries Main Competition (Venezia 79) * Julianne Moore, American actress and author (Jury President) * Mariano Cohn, Argentine director, screenwriter and producer * Leonardo Di Costanzo, Italian director and screenwriter * Audrey Diwan, French director and screenwriter * Leila Hatami, Iranian actress * Kazuo Ishiguro, British novelist and screenwriter * Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spanish director and screenwriter Horizons (Orizzonti) * Isabel Coixet (Jury President) * Laura Bispuri * Antonio Campos * Sofia Djama * Luigi de Laurentiis Award * Michelangelo Frammartino (Jury President) * Jan P. Matuszyński * * Tessa Thompson * Rosalie Varda Venice Immersive * May Abdalla (Jury President) * David Adler * Blanca Li Official selections In competition The following films were selected for the main international competition: : indicates Golden Lion winner. Out of competition The followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Buco
''Il buco'' ( en, link=no, "The Hole") is a 2021 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Frammartino. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion The Golden Lion ( it, Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguishe ... at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, and won the Special Jury Prize. The film tells the story of the August 1961 discovery and exploration of the almost 700-metre deep Bifurto Abyss in the caves of Pollino in southern Italy. Accolades References External links * ''Il Buco''on Coproduction Office official website 2021 films 2021 drama films Italian drama films 2020s Italian-language films Venice Special Jury Prize winners 2020s Italian films {{2020s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
78th Venice International Film Festival
The 78th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 2021. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho was appointed as the President of the Jury, marking the first time a South Korean director has been picked as the festival's top juror. Serena Rossi hosted the opening and closing nights. The Golden Lion was awarded to ''Happening'' directed by Audrey Diwan. Jury Main Competition (Venezia 78) * Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter (Jury President) * Saverio Costanzo, Italian director and screenwriter * Virginie Efira, Belgian actress * Cynthia Erivo, British actress and singer * Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress * Alexander Nanau, Romanian-German documentary director * Chloé Zhao, Chinese director and screenwriter Horizons * Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnian director (Jury President) * Mona Fastvold, Norwegian director * Shahram Mokri, Iranian director * Josh Siegel, director of the cinema department of MoMA * Nadia Terranova, Italian novelis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Comrades!
''Dear Comrades!'' (russian: Дорогие товарищи!, Dorogie tovarishchi!) is a 2020 Russian historical drama film about the Novocherkassk massacre produced, co-written and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It was entered in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. At Venice, the film won the Special Jury Prize. The film received a nomination for BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and was selected as the Russian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, making the shortlist of fifteen films. Plot The film tells about the shooting of a demonstration of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962. Lyudmila is a party worker of the local city committee, and a staunch communist. During a large workers' strike at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant over rising food prices and cuts in wages, Lyudmila witnesses the mass shooting of demonstrators by order of the Government Commission, which is trying to hide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
77th Venice International Film Festival
The 77th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 2 to 12 September 2020, albeit in a "more restrained format" due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Australian actress Cate Blanchett was appointed as the President of the Jury. '' The Ties'', directed by Daniele Luchetti, was selected as the opening film, the first Italian film in 11 years to open the festival. The Golden Lion was awarded to ''Nomadland'', directed by Chloé Zhao. The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to the Mexican-French art film thriller ''New Order''. The Volpi Cup for Best Actor was won by Pierfrancesco Favino and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress was won by Vanessa Kirby. The Silver Lion for Best Direction was awarded to Kiyoshi Kurosawa for the movie ''Wife of a Spy''. Jury Main Competition (Venezia 77) * Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (Jury President) * Matt Dillon, American actor * Veronika Franz, Austrian director and screenwriter * Joanna Hogg, British director and screenwriter * Nicola Lagioia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used To Be
''The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be'' ( it, La mafia non è più quella di una volta) is a 2019 Italian satirical documentary film directed by Franco Maresco. It is intended as a follow-up to '' Belluscone: A Sicilian Story'' (2014). It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. At the Venice Film Festival, the film won the Special Jury Prize. Synopsis In 2017, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Capaci and via D'Amelio bombings, where the Sicilian Mafia murdered antimafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, director Franco Maresco wonders what's left of their ideals and struggles in contemporary Sicily, dwelling on its relationship with the Mafia through one of his usually darkly comic "anthropological" documentaries. While discussing with renewed photographer Letizia Battaglia about the shallow institutionalization of antimafia by Italian politics, Maresco meets again Ciccio Mira, the shady Mafia-apologist co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
76th Venice International Film Festival
The 76th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 7 September 2019. Film director Lucrecia Martel was appointed as the President of the Jury. ''The Truth'', directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was selected to open the festival. The Golden Lion was awarded to '' Joker'', directed by Todd Phillips. Jury Main Competition (Venezia 76) * Lucrecia Martel, Argentine director and screenwriter (Jury President) * Piers Handling, Canadian film historian and critic, executive director of the Toronto International Film Festival * Mary Harron, Canadian director * Stacy Martin, French actress * Rodrigo Prieto, Mexican cinematographer * Shinya Tsukamoto, Japanese filmmaker and actor * Paolo Virzì, Italian director and screenwriter Horizons * Susanna Nicchiarelli, Italian director and screenwriter (Jury President) * Mark Adams, artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival * Rachid Bouchareb, French filmmaker * Álvaro Brechner, Uruguayan filmmaker * Eva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nightingale (2018 Film)
''The Nightingale'' is a 2018 Australian historical psychological thriller drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Jennifer Kent. Set in 1825 in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania), the film follows a young female convict seeking revenge for terrible acts of violence committed against her and her family. It stars Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, and Baykali Ganambarr and was filmed mostly in English, with some Irish and palawa kani. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 75th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize. The film premiered at Venice on 6 September 2018 and was theatrically released in Australia on 29 August 2019, by Transmission Films. The film received positive reviews for its performances, atmosphere, cinematography, screenplay, scope, and acknowledgement of racial violence in Australia. However, the film received controversy for its extreme and graphic depictions of violence and rape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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