French sales powerhouse Charades Films, which is attending Mia Market in Rome this week, has acquired international rights to Emma Dante’s third feature “Misericordia.” The film will premiere in competition at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival on Nov. 11, and will hit theaters via Teodora on Nov. 16 in Italy.
Charades also handled Dante’s last feature, “The Macaluso Sisters,” which was in Venice Competition in 2020 and won the Pasinetti Award. Dante’s feature debut, 2013’s “A Street in Palermo,” was also in Venice Competition and won the best actress award for Elena Cotta’s performance.
“Misericordia” is set in Sicily’s Contrada Tuono, a seaside village with stone huts, surrounded by waste and debris. Behind it, a majestic mountain. This is where Arturo (Simone Zambelli) was born and where his mother died giving birth to him.
Betta (Simona Malato) and Nuccia (Tiziana Cuticchio), with the help of young Anna...
Charades also handled Dante’s last feature, “The Macaluso Sisters,” which was in Venice Competition in 2020 and won the Pasinetti Award. Dante’s feature debut, 2013’s “A Street in Palermo,” was also in Venice Competition and won the best actress award for Elena Cotta’s performance.
“Misericordia” is set in Sicily’s Contrada Tuono, a seaside village with stone huts, surrounded by waste and debris. Behind it, a majestic mountain. This is where Arturo (Simone Zambelli) was born and where his mother died giving birth to him.
Betta (Simona Malato) and Nuccia (Tiziana Cuticchio), with the help of young Anna...
- 10/13/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Jeff Lipsky’s Glass Half Full Media has acquired all U.S. rights for Emma Dante’s “The Macaluso Sisters,” which world premiered in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Represented in international markets by Charades, the movie is also being featured in the Flash Forward section of the Busan Film Festial.
“The Macaluso Sisters” opened in Italian theaters on Sept. 10 and has reached over 68,000 admissions to date. Glass Half Full plans to release the ensemble drama in theaters next spring.
The film tells the story of a tight-knit family of five orphaned sisters living in an apartment in Palermo, Sicily. The film follows them at three different stages of their lives: as they holiday together, grow apart, and ultimately reconnect at just the right moments.
“While only Ms. Dante’s second film, ‘Macaluso’ is the work of an exquisitely mature filmmaker. I was utterly swept away by...
Represented in international markets by Charades, the movie is also being featured in the Flash Forward section of the Busan Film Festial.
“The Macaluso Sisters” opened in Italian theaters on Sept. 10 and has reached over 68,000 admissions to date. Glass Half Full plans to release the ensemble drama in theaters next spring.
The film tells the story of a tight-knit family of five orphaned sisters living in an apartment in Palermo, Sicily. The film follows them at three different stages of their lives: as they holiday together, grow apart, and ultimately reconnect at just the right moments.
“While only Ms. Dante’s second film, ‘Macaluso’ is the work of an exquisitely mature filmmaker. I was utterly swept away by...
- 10/26/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The film adaptation of Melina Marchetta’s beloved bestseller understood the cruelty, cluelessness and soul-crushing indignities of teenage girlhood
Cursed women, shame, class, migrant identity, death – these are the themes that coalesce in the singular, coming-of-age film Looking for Alibrandi. Twenty years after release it has lost none of its emotional sting.
Adapted from Melina Marchetta’s beloved, best-selling 1992 novel, the film follows the stubborn and smart-mouthed Josie Alibrandi (Pia Miranda) in her final year of high school. She navigates a jagged relationship with her matriarchal Italian family, including mother (Greta Scacchi) and grandmother (Elena Cotta), confronts xenophobia and class anxiety at her private Catholic school, develops a relationship with her out-of-the-picture father (Anthony Lapaglia), dates, studies and wrestles with her own in-flux identity.
Cursed women, shame, class, migrant identity, death – these are the themes that coalesce in the singular, coming-of-age film Looking for Alibrandi. Twenty years after release it has lost none of its emotional sting.
Adapted from Melina Marchetta’s beloved, best-selling 1992 novel, the film follows the stubborn and smart-mouthed Josie Alibrandi (Pia Miranda) in her final year of high school. She navigates a jagged relationship with her matriarchal Italian family, including mother (Greta Scacchi) and grandmother (Elena Cotta), confronts xenophobia and class anxiety at her private Catholic school, develops a relationship with her out-of-the-picture father (Anthony Lapaglia), dates, studies and wrestles with her own in-flux identity.
- 5/15/2020
- by Isabella Trimboli
- The Guardian - Film News
Company releases first image for The Macaluso Sisters and Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu.
Paris-based company Charades has boarded world sales on Sicilian director Emma Dante’s Palermo-set feature The Macaluso Sisters, about a group of tightly-knit sisters whose lives are marked forever by the death of one of them in a tragic beach accident.
The feature is an adaptation of Dante’s 2014 play of the same name which has toured her native Italy as well as Europe and the Us to critical acclaim in recent years. It is a second fiction feature for Dante after debut film A...
Paris-based company Charades has boarded world sales on Sicilian director Emma Dante’s Palermo-set feature The Macaluso Sisters, about a group of tightly-knit sisters whose lives are marked forever by the death of one of them in a tragic beach accident.
The feature is an adaptation of Dante’s 2014 play of the same name which has toured her native Italy as well as Europe and the Us to critical acclaim in recent years. It is a second fiction feature for Dante after debut film A...
- 2/18/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
We’ve got a really cool trailer for you to check out from Italian filmmaker Marco Bonfanti (Bozzetto non troppo), called The Man Without Gravity. Bonfanti wrote and directed the film about the life of a man whose body does not obey the physical laws of gravity. The movie looks beautifully shot and like a completely new concept, which is pretty exciting. Here’s the full description for the film:
Oscar comes to light on a stormy night, in the hospital of a small town and immediately we understand that there is something extraordinary in him : Does not obey the law of gravity. It floats in the air, hovers in the lightest room of a balloon, in front of the incredulous look of the mother and grandmother. The two women run away with the baby and decide to keep it hidden from the eyes of the world for many,...
Oscar comes to light on a stormy night, in the hospital of a small town and immediately we understand that there is something extraordinary in him : Does not obey the law of gravity. It floats in the air, hovers in the lightest room of a balloon, in front of the incredulous look of the mother and grandmother. The two women run away with the baby and decide to keep it hidden from the eyes of the world for many,...
- 10/21/2019
- by Jessica Fisher
- GeekTyrant
"The world isn't how you think it is." "Why not? This is my life." Netflix has debuted an official trailer for an indie film from Italy titled The Man Without Gravity, also known as L'uomo senza gravità in Italian. This film seems similar, in a few ways, to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But instead of a baby being born old, this baby has no connection to gravity. He just floats. A gravity-defying baby raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man—and an international celebrity—but he still longs for an ordinary life. Starring Elio Germano as Oscar, with a cast including Michela Cescon, Elena Cotta, Silvia D'Amico, Vincent Scarito, and Pietro Pescara. This actually looks quite charming and uplifting. Perhaps a little cliche, but still seems like a good story about how to live your own life even when everyone else wants a part of it. I'm curious about seeing this one,...
- 10/14/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Rome-based Fandango Sales has taken world sales on supernatural drama “The Man Without Gravity” toplining Elio Giordano, who in 2010 for his performance in “Our Life” tied with Javier Bardem for the best actor prize in Cannes and is considered among Italy’s top talents.
Fandango, which is owned by Italian producer Domenico Procacci and operated by Raffaella Di Giulio, will be presenting the pic, now doing its extensive post, to buyers at the Cannes market.
“Man Without Gravity,” which was partly shot on a specially equipped soundstage at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios (pictured), is a rare type of movie for Italy where naturalistic cinema is the norm. The effects are being done in Italy and Belgium.
The pic is being directed by emerging young helmer Marco Bonfanti, whose docs “The Last Shepherd” and “Bozzetto Non Troppo” circulated widely on the fest circuit, here at his fiction feature debut.
Bonfanti calls...
Fandango, which is owned by Italian producer Domenico Procacci and operated by Raffaella Di Giulio, will be presenting the pic, now doing its extensive post, to buyers at the Cannes market.
“Man Without Gravity,” which was partly shot on a specially equipped soundstage at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios (pictured), is a rare type of movie for Italy where naturalistic cinema is the norm. The effects are being done in Italy and Belgium.
The pic is being directed by emerging young helmer Marco Bonfanti, whose docs “The Last Shepherd” and “Bozzetto Non Troppo” circulated widely on the fest circuit, here at his fiction feature debut.
Bonfanti calls...
- 5/8/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
★★★★☆ Making her debut appearance at the London Film Festival, noted theatre director, screenwriter and actress Emma Dante presents Sicilian-based drama A Street in Palermo (2013), a big screen adaptation of her own acclaimed novel of the same name. Widower Samira (Elena Cotta) cleans the tomb of her daughter before going to pick up her son-in-law Saro (Renato Malfatti) and his family from the beach. Once seated, she drives them through the streets of Palermo towards home. Meanwhile, lesbian couple Rosa (Dante) and Clara (Alba Rohrwacher) search for a wedding reception only one of them wants to attend.
The two cars meet head-to-head in the middle of a narrow street, and with neither of the stubborn women willing to reverse and let the other one pass, a showdown commences between the old and the new; traditionalism and liberalism. Horns sound, neighbours look out of windows and a traffic jam inevitably starts to form.
The two cars meet head-to-head in the middle of a narrow street, and with neither of the stubborn women willing to reverse and let the other one pass, a showdown commences between the old and the new; traditionalism and liberalism. Horns sound, neighbours look out of windows and a traffic jam inevitably starts to form.
- 10/13/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It's farewell for another year to mosquitos, vaporettos and incomprehensibly rude Italian film critics who insist on checking their email mid-screening, because the 70th Venice Film Festival wrapped up on Saturday. For a festival that had seen quite a few twists and turns, it felt appropriate that it ended with Bernardo Bertolucci pulling a few surprises, shunning the more lauded films in the line-up to bestow the Golden Lion on "Sacro Gra," the first Italian film to win the top prize in fifteen years and the first documentary to ever manage the feat. Elsewhere, Greek film "Miss Violence" also proved popular, taking both the Silver Lion and the Best Actor prize for Themis Panou, while Tsai Ming-Liang's "Stray Dogs" won the Grand Jury Prize, Elena Cotta took Best Actress for "Via Castellana Bandiera" (which we unfortunately didn't see), Tye Sheridan was awarded Best Young Actor for David Gordon Green's "Joe,...
- 9/9/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
While I struggle to keep up at Tiff (good lord what a learning curve) the Venice Film Festival wrapped up and announced its awards. We didn't share them in a timely fashion. My apologies. The winners were...
Stray Dogs
Golden Lion: Sacro Gra (Gianfranco Rosi)
This surprise winner is a documentary about a famous highway in Rome. Sometimes non-sexy subject matter translates into great films.
Grand Jury Prize: Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
From the sounds of twitter this was the sensation of the festival though it doesn't screen at Tiff until after I leave town. *snifffle*
Silver Lion (Best Director): Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence
Best Actor: Themis Panou, Miss Violence
I have a terrible habit of skipping films which then become winners at festivals. This is also playing Toronto but descriptions make it sound like a Greek version of The Virgin Suicides and I didn't bite. In hindsight and...
Stray Dogs
Golden Lion: Sacro Gra (Gianfranco Rosi)
This surprise winner is a documentary about a famous highway in Rome. Sometimes non-sexy subject matter translates into great films.
Grand Jury Prize: Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
From the sounds of twitter this was the sensation of the festival though it doesn't screen at Tiff until after I leave town. *snifffle*
Silver Lion (Best Director): Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence
Best Actor: Themis Panou, Miss Violence
I have a terrible habit of skipping films which then become winners at festivals. This is also playing Toronto but descriptions make it sound like a Greek version of The Virgin Suicides and I didn't bite. In hindsight and...
- 9/8/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
An Italian documentary about the Grande Raccordo Anulare ring road in Rome has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Sacro Gra from director Gianfranco Rosi is the first documentary to ever win the prestigious Golden Lion. It is also the first Italian film to win the Golden Lion for 15 years.
Rosi called it "an incredible honour" to win the award, saying: "I didn't expect to win such an important prize with a documentary. It was truly an act of courage, a barrier has been broken."
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope won the 'Best Screenplay' award for the film Philomena, starring Coogan and Dame Judi Dench.
Italian star Elena Cotta won the 'Best Actress' prize for A Street in Palermo, despite not having any spoken lines in the film.
The Silver Lion for 'Best Director' was given to Greece's Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence, while the film's Themis Panou won 'Best Actor'.
Sacro Gra from director Gianfranco Rosi is the first documentary to ever win the prestigious Golden Lion. It is also the first Italian film to win the Golden Lion for 15 years.
Rosi called it "an incredible honour" to win the award, saying: "I didn't expect to win such an important prize with a documentary. It was truly an act of courage, a barrier has been broken."
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope won the 'Best Screenplay' award for the film Philomena, starring Coogan and Dame Judi Dench.
Italian star Elena Cotta won the 'Best Actress' prize for A Street in Palermo, despite not having any spoken lines in the film.
The Silver Lion for 'Best Director' was given to Greece's Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence, while the film's Themis Panou won 'Best Actor'.
- 9/8/2013
- Digital Spy
In Competition
Golden Lion – Sacro Gra, directed by Gianfranco Rosi
Silver Lion (Best Director) – Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence
Grand Jury Prize – Stray Dogs, directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Special Jury Prize – The Police Officer's Wife, directed by Philip Gröning
Volpi Cup for Best Actor – Themis Panou, Miss Violence
Volpi Cup for Best Actress – Elena Cotta, A Street in Palermo
Best Screenplay – Philomena, written by Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress – Tye Sheridan, Joe
Horizons (Orizzonti)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film – Eastern Boys, directed by Robin Campillo
Orizzonti Award for Best Director – Uberto Pasolini, Still Life
Special Orizzonti Jury Prize – Ruin, directed by Michael Cody & Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Special Orizzonti Prize for Innovative Content – Fish & Cat, directed by Shahram Mokri
Lion of the Future Award
Best Debut Film – White Shadow, directed by Noaz Deshe
Fipresci
Competition Fipresci Prize – Tom at the Farm, directed by Xavier Dolan...
Golden Lion – Sacro Gra, directed by Gianfranco Rosi
Silver Lion (Best Director) – Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence
Grand Jury Prize – Stray Dogs, directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Special Jury Prize – The Police Officer's Wife, directed by Philip Gröning
Volpi Cup for Best Actor – Themis Panou, Miss Violence
Volpi Cup for Best Actress – Elena Cotta, A Street in Palermo
Best Screenplay – Philomena, written by Steve Coogan & Jeff Pope
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress – Tye Sheridan, Joe
Horizons (Orizzonti)
Orizzonti Award for Best Film – Eastern Boys, directed by Robin Campillo
Orizzonti Award for Best Director – Uberto Pasolini, Still Life
Special Orizzonti Jury Prize – Ruin, directed by Michael Cody & Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Special Orizzonti Prize for Innovative Content – Fish & Cat, directed by Shahram Mokri
Lion of the Future Award
Best Debut Film – White Shadow, directed by Noaz Deshe
Fipresci
Competition Fipresci Prize – Tom at the Farm, directed by Xavier Dolan...
- 9/8/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
A still from Kush
Shubhashish Bhutiani’s short film Kush, the lone Indian entry at the Venice Film Festival, has won the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film.
Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival showcases new trends in world cinema. The Orizzonti Jury was chaired by Paul Schrader and composed of Catherine Corsini, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Frédéric Fonteyne, Kseniya Rappoport and Amr Waked.
Kush featuring Sonika Chopra, Shayaan Sameer and Anil Sharma is inspired by a true story : In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, causing anti-Sikh riots to erupt throughout the country. A teacher travelling back from a field trip with her class of 10-year-old students struggles to protect Kush, the only Sikh student in the class, from the growing violence around him.
Bhutiani recently graduated from School of Visual Arts (Sva) in New York.
List Of Awards:
Golden...
Shubhashish Bhutiani’s short film Kush, the lone Indian entry at the Venice Film Festival, has won the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film.
Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival showcases new trends in world cinema. The Orizzonti Jury was chaired by Paul Schrader and composed of Catherine Corsini, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Golshifteh Farahani, Frédéric Fonteyne, Kseniya Rappoport and Amr Waked.
Kush featuring Sonika Chopra, Shayaan Sameer and Anil Sharma is inspired by a true story : In 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her two Sikh bodyguards, causing anti-Sikh riots to erupt throughout the country. A teacher travelling back from a field trip with her class of 10-year-old students struggles to protect Kush, the only Sikh student in the class, from the growing violence around him.
Bhutiani recently graduated from School of Visual Arts (Sva) in New York.
List Of Awards:
Golden...
- 9/8/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 70th annual Venice Film Festival handed out its awards Saturday (Sept. 7), with "Sacro Gra," an Italian documentary by Gianfranco Rosi, taking home the Golden Lion for Best Film.
This was the first year that documentaries were included in the competition for the top honor and Rosi calls winning the award "a breakthrough" for non-fiction films, reports the AP. This was also the first year since 1998 that an Italian picture won Best Film.
"I didn't expect to win such an important prize with a documentary," says Rosi. "Finally documentaries are being seen alongside fiction. Documentaries are cinema."
Best Director went to Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas for "Miss Violence," a film about a grandfather who perpetrates sexual violence and abuse. That movie also won Best Actor for Themis Panou.
Italian actress Elena Cotta won Best Actress for "A Street in Palermo" and 16-year-old Tye Sheridan won Best Young Actor for his...
This was the first year that documentaries were included in the competition for the top honor and Rosi calls winning the award "a breakthrough" for non-fiction films, reports the AP. This was also the first year since 1998 that an Italian picture won Best Film.
"I didn't expect to win such an important prize with a documentary," says Rosi. "Finally documentaries are being seen alongside fiction. Documentaries are cinema."
Best Director went to Greek filmmaker Alexandros Avranas for "Miss Violence," a film about a grandfather who perpetrates sexual violence and abuse. That movie also won Best Actor for Themis Panou.
Italian actress Elena Cotta won Best Actress for "A Street in Palermo" and 16-year-old Tye Sheridan won Best Young Actor for his...
- 9/7/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The Venice Golden Lion returned to the host country after fifteen years this evening with Gianfranco Rosi's biography of a Rome ring road, Sacro Gra, picking up the festival's top prize. Renowned director Bernardo Bertolucci and his jury plumped for high arthouse cinema over the more crowd-pleasing fare of Stephen Frears' British offering Philomena, which had to make do with the award for Best Screenplay. Best Actor and Best Director went respectively to Themis Panou and Alexandros Avranas for Greek family abuse drama Miss Violence. Although the film (for this reviewer at least) is an exploitative, nasty piece of work, it's undeniably well-directed, and Panou is utterly brilliant as the chilling pater familias.
The Grand Jury Prize was reserved for Tsai Ming-liang's dark horse Stray Dogs which, with its ten-minute long takes of people staring at walls and eating cabbages, could well be a test case for cinephile seriousness.
The Grand Jury Prize was reserved for Tsai Ming-liang's dark horse Stray Dogs which, with its ten-minute long takes of people staring at walls and eating cabbages, could well be a test case for cinephile seriousness.
- 9/7/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Sacro Gra, a documentary about the people who live and work around Rome’s ring road, took home the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival Saturday.
Sacro Gra, directed by Gianfranco Rossi, is the first documentary to ever win the prize, and is the first Italian film to be recognized at the highest level since 1998 when Gianni Amelio’s The Way We Laughed won. Founded in 1932, the Venice Film Festival has historically excluded non-fiction films from the competition. This was the first year they were eligible for consideration.
Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang’s family drama Stray Dogs won the Grand Jury Prize,...
Sacro Gra, directed by Gianfranco Rossi, is the first documentary to ever win the prize, and is the first Italian film to be recognized at the highest level since 1998 when Gianni Amelio’s The Way We Laughed won. Founded in 1932, the Venice Film Festival has historically excluded non-fiction films from the competition. This was the first year they were eligible for consideration.
Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang’s family drama Stray Dogs won the Grand Jury Prize,...
- 9/7/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Surprise choice for Golden Lion is Italian documentary. Silver Lion for best director goes to Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence.
The surprise winner of the Venice Golden Lion is Gianfranco Rosi’s Italian documentary Sacro Gra, about life on the highway that surrounds Rome.
It marks the first time a documentary has ever won the Golden Lion.
Greek film Miss Violence had a strong showing winning both best director for Alexandros Avranas and best actor for Themis Panou.
Review: Sacro Grareview: Miss Violence
The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, Ryuichi Sakamoto has awarded the following prizes:
Main Competition Awards
Golden Lion for Best Film
Sacro Gra, Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence (Greece)
Grand Jury Prize
Jiaoyou, Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)Best Actor: Themis Panou, Miss ViolenceBest...
The surprise winner of the Venice Golden Lion is Gianfranco Rosi’s Italian documentary Sacro Gra, about life on the highway that surrounds Rome.
It marks the first time a documentary has ever won the Golden Lion.
Greek film Miss Violence had a strong showing winning both best director for Alexandros Avranas and best actor for Themis Panou.
Review: Sacro Grareview: Miss Violence
The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, Ryuichi Sakamoto has awarded the following prizes:
Main Competition Awards
Golden Lion for Best Film
Sacro Gra, Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Alexandros Avranas, Miss Violence (Greece)
Grand Jury Prize
Jiaoyou, Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)Best Actor: Themis Panou, Miss ViolenceBest...
- 9/7/2013
- ScreenDaily
Surprise choice for Golden Lion is Italian documentary. Silver Lion for best director goes to Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence.
The surprise winner of the Venice Golden Lion is Gianfranco Rosi’s Italian documentary Sacro Gra, about life on the highway that surrounds Rome.
Greek film Miss Violence had a strong showing winning both best director for Alexandros Avranas and best actor for Themis Panou.
The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, Ryuichi Sakamoto has awarded the following prizes
Main Competition Awards
Golden Lion for Best Film
Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence (Greece)
Grand Jury Prize
Jiaoyou by Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Themis Panou in Miss Violence
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
Elena Cotta inVIA Castellana Bandiera by Emma Dante (Italy, Switzerland...
The surprise winner of the Venice Golden Lion is Gianfranco Rosi’s Italian documentary Sacro Gra, about life on the highway that surrounds Rome.
Greek film Miss Violence had a strong showing winning both best director for Alexandros Avranas and best actor for Themis Panou.
The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, Ryuichi Sakamoto has awarded the following prizes
Main Competition Awards
Golden Lion for Best Film
Sacro Gra by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
Silver Lion for Best Director
Alexandros Avranas for Miss Violence (Greece)
Grand Jury Prize
Jiaoyou by Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Themis Panou in Miss Violence
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
Elena Cotta inVIA Castellana Bandiera by Emma Dante (Italy, Switzerland...
- 9/7/2013
- ScreenDaily
The 70th Venice Film Festival wrapped this weekend with the top prize of the Golden Lion going to Gianfranco Rosi's documentary "Sacro Gra".
The Venice fest awards are unique in that, only in exceptional cases, can a film win more than one prize. On top of that, whoever wins the Golden Lion can only win that award.
An exceptional case was seen with "Miss Violence" which took the Best Director (Alexandros Avranas) and Best Actor (Themis Panou) honors. Elena Cotta won Best Actress for "Via Castellana Bandiera".
Tsai Ming-liang's "Stray Dogs" took the newly added Grand Jury Prize, while Philip Groning's "The Police Officer’s Wife" won a Special Jury Prize.
Rising young "Mud" star Tye Sheridan took Best New Young Actor/Actress for "Joe," and comedian Steve Coogan along with Jeff Pope took best screenplay for "Philomena".
Earlier, the critics week "Lion of the Future" award for debut...
The Venice fest awards are unique in that, only in exceptional cases, can a film win more than one prize. On top of that, whoever wins the Golden Lion can only win that award.
An exceptional case was seen with "Miss Violence" which took the Best Director (Alexandros Avranas) and Best Actor (Themis Panou) honors. Elena Cotta won Best Actress for "Via Castellana Bandiera".
Tsai Ming-liang's "Stray Dogs" took the newly added Grand Jury Prize, while Philip Groning's "The Police Officer’s Wife" won a Special Jury Prize.
Rising young "Mud" star Tye Sheridan took Best New Young Actor/Actress for "Joe," and comedian Steve Coogan along with Jeff Pope took best screenplay for "Philomena".
Earlier, the critics week "Lion of the Future" award for debut...
- 9/7/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
"Sacro Gra" – a little known Italian documentary about the ring road around Rome – pulled off a shocking upset to snag the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. Underdogs also prevailed in many other top races: Golden Lion: "Sacro Gra," Gianfranco Rosi Grand Jury Prize: "Stray Dogs," Tsai Ming-liang Silver Lion (Best Director): "Miss Violence," Alexandros Avranas Best Actor: Themis Panou, "Miss Violence" Best Actress: Elena Cotta, "A Street in Palermo" Marcello Mastroianni Award (Best Young Actor): Tye Sheridan, "Joe" -Break- Best Screenplay: Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, "Philomena" Special Jury Prize: "The Police Officer's Wife," Phillip Groning Luigi de Laurentiis Award (Best Debut Feature): "White Shadow," Noaz Deshe Horizons Awards Best Film: "Eastern Boys," Robin Campillo Best Director:...
- 9/7/2013
- Gold Derby
Italian director Gianfranco Rosi's documentary “Sacro Gra” is the winner of the 70th Venice Film Festival. The movie is about the ring road around Rome. See the full list of official Venice competition award-winners below. International Competition Golden Lion “Sacro Gra” (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy) Silver Lion “Miss Violence” (Alexandros Avranas, Greece) Jury Grand Prize “Stray Dogs” Tsai Ming Liang (Chinese Taipei) Special Jury Prize “The Police Officer’s Wife” (Philip Groneing, Germany) Actor Themis Panou (“Miss Violence, Greece”) Actress Elena Cotta (“A Street in Palermo,” Italy) Marcello Mastroianni Prize For Young Performer Tye Sheridan (Joe, David Gordon Green, U.S.) Best Screenplay Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope (Philomena, U.K.) Luigi De Laurentiis Lion Of The Future “White Shadow” (Noaz Deshe, Italy, Germany, Tanzania)...
- 9/7/2013
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
In the first year that documentaries were included in the Venice Film Festival’s main competition, one won it all — “Sacro Gra,” which studies life on the highway that encircles Rome, took the Golden Lion at the 70th annual fest. Italian director in Gianfranco Rosi (above) accepted the award at Saturday’s ceremony. Alexandros Avranas of Greece won the Silver Lion — the best-director prize — for “Miss Violence,” the disturbing story of a sexually abusive grandfather. Greek actor Themis Panou won the best actor prize for the film. Italian actress Elena Cotta won best actress for her role in “A Street in Palermo,...
- 9/7/2013
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
The 70th annual Venice International Film Festival closed today with an awards ceremony that honored "Joe" and "Philomena" -- but shut out "Night Moves" and "Under The Skin." The full list of winners follows. Read More: The 70th Venice Film Festival is a Historic Mess -- and Still a Thing of Beauty Official Competition Golden Lion - "Sacro Gra," directed by Gianfranco Rosi Grand Jury Prize - "Stray Dogs," directed by Tsai Ming-liang Silver Lion (Best Director) - Alexandros Avranas, "Miss Violence" Volpi Cup (Best Actor) - Themis Panou, "Miss Violence" Volpi Cup (Best Actress) - Elena Cotta, "Via Castellana Bandiera" Marcello Mastroianni Award (Best New Young Actor or Actress) - Tye Sheridan, "Joe" Best Screenplay - Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, "Philomena" Special Jury Prize - "The Police Officer’s Wife," directed by Philip Groning Critics Week Lion of the Future –...
- 9/7/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Thanks to Guy Lodge the awards announcements are trickling in. So far: Golden Lion: Sacro Gra, Gianfranco Rosi Grand Jury Prize: Stray Dogs, Tsai Ming-liang Silver Lion, for Best Director: Miss Violence,...
- 9/7/2013
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Italy kicks off its Venice competition with Emma Dante’s reworking of her eponymous novel. The story of Via Castellana Bandiera is superficially simple: two cars face each other on a narrow street and neither driver is willing to let the other pass. However, the stories of the two women at the wheel are not as simple.
Dante is a stalwart of Italian theatre, but this is her directorial debut on the big screen and not content with being both writer and director, Emma Dante has cast herself in the lead. Rosa is an angry woman dragged back to Palermo by her grungy illustrator girlfriend Laura (played by the darling of Italian cinema, Alba Rohrwacher). The day starts badly as the two women bicker in the heat as they drive around the city. In a parallel story, we see an old woman visiting her daughter’s tomb at the cemetery.
Dante is a stalwart of Italian theatre, but this is her directorial debut on the big screen and not content with being both writer and director, Emma Dante has cast herself in the lead. Rosa is an angry woman dragged back to Palermo by her grungy illustrator girlfriend Laura (played by the darling of Italian cinema, Alba Rohrwacher). The day starts badly as the two women bicker in the heat as they drive around the city. In a parallel story, we see an old woman visiting her daughter’s tomb at the cemetery.
- 8/29/2013
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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