On Wednesday launched the Venice Film Festival in its 72nd edition. 21 films competing for the Golden Lion. “Anomalisa” the only animated film at this year’s Biennale, could have a good chance on one of the main prizes. All info in the ticker.
- Film Festival in Venice from 2 to 12 September
- Venezuelan film “Desde allá” wins Venice Golden Lion
- Two German co-productions in the race: “Francofonia” and “Remember”
- Opening with Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley in the mountaineering drama “Everest”
Venezuelan film “Desde allá” wins Venice Golden Lion
11.55 Clock: A dark story about repressed homosexual love has the 72nd Venice Film Festival Golden Lion the coveted won: The award went on Saturday night to the Venezuelan film “Desde allá” (about: “From a distance”), directed by Lorenzo Vigas. The debut work prevailed against 20 other films from around the world through.
“I have not made a film that should appeal to everyone,” said the 48-year-old Vigas about his winning film in which there between a love relationship a shy man at an advanced age and a young lover goes. “I shot him, to bring the people of the many problems here in Venezuela this week, social, economic and political, that we share with other Latin American countries.” The film “Desde allá”, which also contains a violent sex scene, received at the press screening on Thursday striking a lot of applause.
The jury, chaired by Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón was impressed by the young South American cinema , The Silver Lion for Best Director went to the Argentinean Pablo Trapero for his work “El Clan”. It’s about a family who has relocated to Buenos Aires to the kidnapping of wealthy individuals.
Best Actress the Italian Valeria Golino was in Venice for her role in the film “Per amor vostro” awarded by director Giuseppe Gaudino. . Best Actor Frenchman Fabrice Luchini for his role in the work “L’Hermine” directed by Christian Vincent was honored
Germany was represented with two films in competition: In the German-Canadian co-production “Remember” play among others Jürgen Prochnow and Bruno with Ganz. The documentary “Francofonia”, a co-production of Germany, France and the Netherlands, has the Louvre Museum in Paris during the Nazi period on the subject.
The Venice Film Festival is the oldest in the world. The opening film was in the “Mostra” on September 2, the film “Everest” of the Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur is shown in which it comes to a catastrophic failed Mount Everest Expedition.
Background: The prices of the 72nd festival will be awarded on 12 September by an international jury. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest in the world and is one of the most important in the sector. The jury this year also born in Lower Saxony actress Diane Kruger (39, “Inglourious Basterds”) belong as well as the US-American woman Elizabeth Banks (41, “The Hunger Games”). 2015 attracts the 72nd Film Festival as part of the Biennale of Contemporary Art cineastes from 2 to 12 September at the lagoon city. Festival Director is the Italian film critic Alberto Barbera.
The “Exhibition of Film Art” was the first film festival in 1932 held at the hotel “Excelsior” terrace. Prices were at that time not yet awarded. In 1935 the festival became an annual event, but interrupted by the Second World War.
First Winners of Best Picture since 1949 Golden Lion was “Manon” by Henry Georges Clouzot. Additional winners included “Belle de jour” by Luis Buñuel (1967) and “The State of Things” by Wim Wenders (1982). 2014 was “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” by Roy Andersson successfully. .
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