1. Leone d'oro (Golden Lion) Award
Film : Somewhere
Dir : Sofia Coppola
Country : USA
"From that first enchanted screening this film grew and grew in our hearts, in our minds, in our affections," jury president Quentin Tarantino .
The film follows a big, Hollywood mega-star, Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), over the course of a few days in his life. We witness his excessive partying, his inability to look after himself and his lack of any real connections to the world. That is except for his 11 year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning), who turns up at her father’s hotel one day whilst her mum is going through some unspecified crisis. Initially Johnny is bored, his eye always straying to the nearest beautiful woman. But he slowly begins to take notice and comes to examine what he is missing his own shell of an existence.2. Leone d'Argento(Silver Lion) Award
Film : Balada Triste de Trompeta (A Sad Trumpet Ballad)
Dir: Alex de la Iglesia
Country :Spain
A Sad Trumpet Ballad – starts off set in Madrid in 1937, during the civil war. A troupe of clowns are entertaining some children, with the sound of aerial bombardment in the background, when suddenly a group of republican soldiers burst in and arm the clowns – desperate to turn the tide of a losing battle.Imprisoned after the battle is lost, the clown’s son is left without a family… and with revenge in his heart.Then we are taken forward in time to 1973 and the dying days of General Franco regime in Spain. The son has grown up and become a “sad clown” unable to laugh or make jokes owing to the tragedy of his childhood years. He falls in love with a female acrobat who is in fact the girlfriend of an abusive “happy clown”, who beats her . Soon the two clowns are engaged in an on-going and self-destructive feud, over a woman who can’t decide whether she wants somebody violent, but exciting, or somebody who wants to look after her, but lacks fire.
"It’s not too much of a stretch to say that the indecisive women is Spain and her two lovers are the two sides from the Spanish civil war. She flirts briefly with communism of the republic, but is seduced by the strength of fascist dictatorship"- director Alex de la Iglesia3. Special Jury Prize
Film : Essential Killing
Dir : Jerzy Skolimowski
Country : Poland
The film focusses on Mohammed ,an Afghan who is detained after an encounter, and taken to a Guantanamo-style prison camp. After facing torture and interrogation in the prison, Mohammed is transported to an unspecified part of Eastern Europe , where he is able to make a daring escape after his transport rolls off the icy road and down a hill.What follows is a cross-country chase, as Mohammed must evade capture at any cost. Essential Killing is about survival and if Mohammed must take a few lives on the way, then so be it. There is nothing noble or heroic about our protagonist, as he does some very disturbing things, though the film doesn’t judge him either.4. Coppa Volpi for Best Actor
Vincent Gallo
Film :Essential Killing
Country : Poland
Vincent Gallo stars as Mohammed ,an Afghan who is detained after an encounter, and taken to a Guantanamo-style prison camp. After facing torture and interrogation in the prison, Mohammed is transported to an unspecified part of Eastern Europe , where he is able to make a daring escape after his transport rolls off the icy road and down a hill.What follows is a cross-country chase, as Mohammed must evade capture at any cost. Essential Killing is about survival and if Mohammed must take a few lives on the way, then so be it. There is nothing noble or heroic about our protagonist, as he does some very disturbing things, though the film doesn’t judge him either.5.Coppa Volpi for Best Actress
Ariane Labed
Film :Attenberg
Dir : Athina Rachel Tsangari
Country : Greece
The experimental film is about the adventures of two slightly weird young women (who act more like adolescent girls) who hang out and do weird dances and talk about boys. One of them has a boyfriend, the other has a terminally ill father, with whom she is discussing burial arrangements.6. Osella for Best Cinematography
Mikhail Krichman
Film : Silent Souls
Dir :Aleksei Fedorchenko
Country : Russia
Plot Overview :After a man’s young wife dies suddenly he enlists the help of a colleague in disposing of the body in accordance with the local custom. The characters here are Meryar, descendants of a 400-year-old Finnish tribe once native to that part of western Russia, but now all but forgotten. They have different and non-traditional names for places and people, but most strikingly different are their rituals to do with marriage and death and the expression of grief.
sources :obssessedwithfilm, hollywoodreporter, dailytelegraph, imdb.
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