The 66th annual Venice Film Festival held in Venice, Italy, was opened on September 2, 2009 and culminated on September 12, 2009 .International competition jury was led by Ang Lee and Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap .The winners for the 2009 66th Venice Film Festival are:1.Golden Lion Award:
"Lebanon" by Samuel Maoz
Country :Israel
Synopsis : During the First Lebanon War. A lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town - a simple mission that turns into a nightmare. The four members of a tank crew find themselves in a violent situation that they cannot contain. The conflict is seen through the binocular-aided eyes of those inside a tank, with their cramped quarters lending an anxious sense of claustrophobia to their viewpoint.Motivated by fear and the basic instinct of survival, they desperately try not to lose themselves in the chaos of war.2. Silver Lion Award :
"Zanan Bedoone Mardan"(Women Without Men) by Shirin Neshat
Country :Iran
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Synopsis : Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran’s 1953 CIA-backed coup d’état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship. Shirin Neshat makes her directorial debut with this incisive reflection on the pivotal moment in history that directly led to the Islamic revolution and the Iran we know today.3. Special Jury Prize
"Soul Kitchen" by Fatih Akin
Country :Germany
Synopsis : Zinos owns and caters a warehouse restaurant in the Hamburg where the working-class clientele like deep-fried burgers with their beer. Always running behind the eight-ball, Zinos even arrives late for the farewell dinner of his better-off Nadine who's leaving for a job in Shanghai.When Zinos' larcenous younger brother, Illias , is let out of jail on day release, he asks Zinos to give him a fake job so he can get out more often.With a tax inspector and health officer on his back, Nadine nagging himlong-distance to join her, and a real estate shark trying to force him to sell the place , Zinos is in deep trouble .4. Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Colin Firth for the film "A Single Man"
Dir: Tom FORD
Country :USA
Synopsis : A Single Man is based on 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood.Set in Southern California during 1962, it depicts one day in the life of George, a middle-aged gay Englishman
who works as a college professor in Los Angeles and whose lover, Jim, has recently died.
5. Coppa Volpi for Best Actress:
Ksenia Rappoport for the film "La doppia ora" (The Double Hour )
Dir : Giuseppe Capotondi
Country :Italy
Synopsis : Sonia is a Slovenian woman who works as a chambermaid in a Turin hotel. There’s something going on behind her rather wary expression and hesitant manner, but we assume at first that it may just be shyness, and root for her when she meets Guido , an awkward, reticent but romantic former policeman, at a speed-dating session.But about 20minutes in, the lovebirds find themselves held at gunpoint during a burglary, and shots are fired.
Remaining 75 minutes detail the bumpy road to Sonia's understanding of what really happened, with Capotondi and the screenwriters going through different genres -- horror, mystery, psychodrama -- and their required elements in rapid succession.
6. Osella Award for Best Screenplay
Todd Solondz for the film "Life during Wartime"
Country :USA
Synopsis : the film tells the story of a dysfunctional family, we follow 3 separate stories. The father, who was just released from prison after some paedophilia charges tries to find his son, to make sure he doesn't turn out like him. The son is in college, he has two siblings, a younger brother who is turning 13 and a younger sister who is a karaoke singer. The wife/mother is looking for a new lover in her life and finds this other man . Finally the sister of the mother ,who mixes romance and her work. The problem is that death follows her wherever she goes and it has kind of driven her crazy.------------------------------------------
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