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Golden Lion for Best Film to Pieta by Kim Ki-duk (Republic of Korea)

Silver Lion for Best Director to The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson (USA)

Special Jury Prize to Paradies: Glaube by Ulrich Seidl (Austria, Germany, France)

Coppa Volpi for Best Actor to Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix

in the film The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson (USA)

Coppa Volpi for Best Actress Hadas Yaron

in the film Lemale Et Ha.Chalal by Rama Bursthein (Israel)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress to Fabrizio Falco

in the films Bella Addormentata by Marco Bellocchio (Italy) and È Stato Il Figlio by Daniele Ciprí (Italy)

Award For Best Screenplay to Olivier Assayas

for the film Apres Mai by Olivier Assayas (France)

Award For The Best Technical Contribution (Cinematography) to Daniele Ciprì

for the film È Stato Il Figlio by Daniele Ciprì (Italy)

. Lion Of The Future...

South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s ‘Pieta’ won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival. Earlier in 2004 Duk had won the same award for his ’3-Iron’.

“Pieta” that means piety in English captures the mysterious relationship between a brutal man who works for loan sharks and a middle-aged woman who claims to be his mother, mixing Christian symbolism and highly sexual content.

List of winners

Golden Lion for Best Film

Pieta – Kim Ki-duk

Silver Lion for Best Director

The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson

Special Jury Prize

Ulrich Seidl – Paradise: Faith

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix – The Master

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

Hadas Yaron – Fill The Void

Marcello Mastroianni Award

Fabrizio Falco – Dormant Beauty and E Stato il Figlio

Osella Award for Best Screenplay

Après mai – Olivier Assayas

Osella Award for Best Technical Contribution

E Stato il Figlio – Daniele Cipri...

The awards for the 69th Venice International Film Festival have been announced!

In Competition

Golden Lion – Pieta, directed by Kim Ki-Duk

Silver Lion (Best Director) – The Master, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Special Jury Prize – Paradise: Faith, directed by Ulrich Seidl

Best Screenplay – Something in the Air, written by Olivier Assayas

Volpi Cup for Best Actor – Joaquin Phoenix & Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master

Volpi Cup for Best Actress – Hadas Yaron, Fill the Void

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress – Fabrizio Falco, Dormant Beauty & È stato il figlio

Technical Prize – È stato il figlio, directed by Daniele Cipri

Horizons (Orizzonti)

Orizzonti Award – Three Sisters, directed by Wang Bing

Orizzonti Jury Prize – Tango Libre, directed by Frédéric Fonteyne

International Film Critics Week

RaroVideo Audience Award – Eat Sleep Die, directed by Gabriela Pichler

Lion of the Future Award

Best Debut Film – Mold, directed by Ali Aydın

Fipresci

Competition Fipresci Prize – The Master,...

Following the Toronto International Film Festival line-up earlier this week, the 69th Venice Film Festival has weighed in with their choices this morning. Outside of films also premiering at Tiff — including most notably Ramin Bahrani‘s At Any Price and Terrence Malick‘s To the Wonder – they have a strong batch of films not at that fest. We have the highly anticipated next feature from Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, Carlos), titled Something In The Air, as well as Brian De Palma‘s sensual thriller Passion with Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace.

Then things get a little silly with Harmony Korine‘s James Franco and Selena Gomez gangster/party film Spring Breakers. Rounding out the other major titles are Susanne Bier following up her Oscar win with Love Is All You Need and Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson documentary Bad 25. The lack of Paul Thomas Anderson‘s heavily rumored The Master...

After a remarkable presence at Cannes Film Festival this year, Indian cinema hasn’t had much luck with the prestigious Venice International Film Festival.

The festival, headed by new Director Alberto Barbera announced its lineup today, but no Indian film figures in any of the sections.

The 69th edition of the festival will run from August 29-September 8, 2012. Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist will be the opening film.

In its 2011 edition, the festival had screened Sonchidi by Amit Dutta and Anhey Ghorhey da Daan(Alms of the Blind Horse) by Gurvinder Singh in the Orizzonti (New Horizons) section.

Films in Competition:

Olivier Assayas – APRÈS Mai (Something In The Air)

France, 122′

Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Félix Armand

Ramin Bahrani – At Any Price

USA, UK, 100′

Zac Efron, Dennis Quaid, Kim Dickens, Heather Graham

Marco Bellocchio – Bella Addormentata

Italy, France, 115′

Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher, Michele Riondino, Maya Sansa, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio

Peter Brosens,...