Winners of Venice Festival are named: among them director-Azerbaijani

Documentary “All Beauty and BloodShed) of the American director Laura Poratras was awarded the Main Prize of the Venice Film Festival -” Golden Leo of St. Mark “.

The picture of the PODTRAS was the only documentary among 23 tapes of the main competition. Earlier, the director became famous for the documentary about Edward Snowden “Citizenfour: Truth Snowdenfour” (Citizenfour, 2014), for which Oscar received the Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Italian director Luke Guadaninino received the Silver Leo award for the best directing for the film “The whole and completely” (2022, Italy, USA); The French film “Saint-Omer” (Alice Diop, 2022) received the second award “Silver Leo”.

Australian actress Kate Blanchett is called the best actress for his role in the film “Tar” (director Todd Field, 2022, USA), and Irish actor Colin Farrell became the best actor for his role in the film “Banshee Inisherin” (director Martin McDona, 2022 year, Ireland, Great Britain, USA).

The prize for the best script received by Martin McDon for the film “Banshee Inisherin”, the special prize of the jury received the film “Without Bears” (2022) of the Iranian director of Azerbaijani origin of Jafar Panahi, in conclusion.

Iran’s judicial authorities announced in July that the 62-year-old Jafar Panahi should leave a six-year prison term for the verdict issued in 2010. Then the director was arrested after anti -government protests. He spent two months in prison, after which he was released parole.