Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival, an annual event attended by films from all over the world. On September 8, 2012, the 69th forum ended, and the awards went home to the winners.
This time the jury of the next competition was headed by the American director Michael Mann. The jury also included Laetitia Casta, Marina Abramovich, Peter Chan, Samantha Morton, Pablo Trapero, Matteo Garrone, Ari Folman and Ursula Mayer. They had to watch 18 films and award awards to the most worthy of them.
The main themes of the films that participated in the competition were sex and Scientology. The main award of the festival was predicted to the film "Master" directed by Paul Thomas Anderson from the USA. The protagonist of the film is a charismatic, intellectual young man who founds his religious organization in America in the 50s. However, the "Golden Lion" went to the Korean thriller "Pieta" directed by Kim Ki-dook. The story of a thirty-year-old mafioso who unexpectedly meets his lost mother won the hearts of the audience and the jury.
The director of The Master received the Silver Lion for his work. Also, the Volpi Cups for the best male roles were taken by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played the main character and his follower in this film.
The film "Paradise: Vera", the second part of the trilogy directed by Ulrik Seidl, won a special jury prize. The tape tells about the love of a Christian woman for Jesus, but the feelings of a believing woman are not so platonic. Immediately after the festival, a lawsuit was filed against the painting for insulting the feelings of believers.
The Best Actress Award went to actress Hadass Charon, who starred in the Israeli film Fill the Void. Hadas played a young girl in love who is forced by her parents to marry the husband of her deceased sister.
The films “Three Sisters” and “Free Tango” won prizes in the Horizons program.
Russia was represented by the film Treason by Kirill Serebrennikov at the main screening and by the film I Want Too by Alexei Balabanov. Unfortunately, the ribbons did not take prizes.
