Venice, the gold lion for “All beauty and bloodshed”, silver for Guadagnino. Panahi Special Jury Award – Cinema

Entire theaters, young audiences, strong, brave and dangerous movies, powerful themes and new talent to unleash. Female directors have dominated the scene, winning numerous awards, from the Golden Lion to Laura Poitras for the documentary all beauty and bloodnewcomer alice diop by Saint Omar The Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize and The Lion of the Future for Best First Feature. And the great absentee who was raised by all, the opposition director Jaafar Panahi, who is in prison in Iran, who was very well received.

Venice 79 closes the curtain, a version of “extraordinary normality” as defined by the godmother Rocío Muñoz Morales, referring to the methods in which the festival was carried out after the pandemic (which was left in the hotel this morning anyway). night, for Coved, Nobel Prize-winning jury Kazuo Ishiguro).

Italy, present in great numbers, brings home an award as important as last year for Paolo Sorrentino and E’ was the Hand of God: Silver Lion, Director’s Award luca guadjino by all the bonesA beautiful film, eagerly awaited by box office exhibitors, is an example of one of the powerful directions that cinema is taking: internationalization, a mix of production with several countries. Bones and all was filmed in the United States, with an all-American cast with Timothèe Chalamet and Taylor Russell (the actress won the Mastroianni Award for New Talent), produced by the same director with Frenesy Film and the American company Per Capita Productions. with Lorenzo Mieli’s The Apartment and many others and will be in the showroom with Vision from November 23rd. “Thanks to director Barbera who protects filmmakers”, said Guadagnino as he went on stage, he chose me 20 years ago for my first job. Making movies has always been my life from first to super 8. Bones and all celebrate a special marriage between Italy and America and a film title that knows no geography. There are no limits. I dedicate this award to Muhammad Rasoulof and Jaafar Panahi, who are imprisoned in Iran. Long live sabotage and long live cinema”. Panahi, who faces a six-year prison sentence for “propaganda against the regime,” was arrested on July 11 after he went to the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office to get an update on the case of two other directors, Mohammad Rasoulof and Mustafa. to the. – Ahmad. , who was held for a few days, was perfectly present, and was cited several times.

A woman has won the Gold Master for the third year after Nomadland’s Chloe Chow and Audrey Dewan (who gave her up today as a jury): Laura Poitras, the American documentary filmmaker, who won an Academy Award in 2015 for Citizenfour, loved the chair Julianne Moore with the jury all beauty and blood. “This film – said Poitras – narrates the fight of the American photographer Nan Goldin against the Sackler family, owner of the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, which has been blamed for the opiate epidemic in the United States. I have not met anyone with his extraordinary courage The award that inspired me, journalists and filmmakers like Panahi who risk their work. Golden Lion 2022 will also be released in Italy, distributed by I Wonder Pictures.

The most intense moment of the evening was going on stage to receive the Special Award A from the Jury bears don’t exist From Panahi (from October 6 in theaters with Academy Two) two actors got up, excited and excited. “We are honored to accept this award for him and invite everyone to rise to the power of cinema in honor of Panahi,” said Mina Cavani. They were strong themes in many films, and one in particular won two Moore Jury Awards: Saint Omar From Alice Diop, an autobiographical story of a writer who follows the trial of a Senegalese immigrant accused of murdering her daughter and having her son at sea. In theaters in November with Minerva Film, she brings to the stage an ambiguous image of motherhood but also a different and atypical mural of immigrant women in France. “This film is female. Silence about black women does not protect us and tonight it has stopped here,” said Diop, a Frenchman of Senegalese origin as Medea in her film.

The funniest moment was hanging out with Colin Farrell in Los Angeles, where the Volpi Cup-winning Irish actor zoomed in from his publicist’s kitchen. Another Coppa Volpi was Cate Blanchett, her second (she won in 2007 with Todd Haynes’ I’m Not Here). “I would fill this glass with red wine: Todd Field’s Tar Award to co-star Nina Hoss, to the little daughter who walked her back to the beach, and to ‘music that’s always great,’” she said. dedicating the Todd Field’s Tar Award to co-star Nina Hoss, to music that’s always great. In Italian Booty there is also Vera Gemma, Best Actress in Horizons in a film about her, Vera, written by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, the inevitable dedication “to my wonderful father Giuliano Gemma.” The 90-year-old, “even if he advertises himself as 79,” joked Biennale president Roberto Secoto, scheduling the 80th session from August 30, 2023.