Winners of the 2019 Venice Film Festival announced

Tonight, the 76th Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival, which was held in Italy from August 28 to September 7, recognized its winners

Read below for details on the winners of this festival in various categories:

Classic section

Best Documentary About Cinema: “Babenko” by Barbara Paz

Best Restored Film: Extase by Gustave Machati

Competitive section; special effects

Best Virtual Reality Story: “The Chibok Girls” by Joel Kashi Benson

Best Virtual Reality Experience: Ricardo Laganaro for “One Line”

Best Special Effects: Celine Tricard for “The Key”

Winner of the Lion of the Future Award: Amjad Abu El-Ali for “You Will Die at 20”

Horizons section

Best Short Film: “Aziz” by Salim Sadeq

Winner of the Best Screenplay Award: Jessica Paloud for Revenir

Winner of the Best Actor Award: Sami Bouajila for “A Boy”

Winner of the Best Actress Award: Marta Nieto for “Mother”

Special Jury Prize Winner: Raymond Ribé Gutierrez for “The Verdict”

Winner of the Best Director Award: Theo Kort for “White on White”

Best Film: “Atlantis,” directed by Vantin Vasianovic

The film “Six and a Half Meters” directed by Saeed Roustaei also represented our country in this category, but failed to win an award

Competitive sector

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress: Toby Wallace for “Baby Teeth”

Special Jury Prize: Franco Marsco for “The Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be”

Winner of the Best Screenplay Award: “No. 7 Cherry Alley” animation by Yunfan

Volpi Cup Winner for Best Actor: Luca Marinelli for “Martin Eden”

Volpi Cup Winner for Best Actress: Ariane Ascarides for Gloria Mundi

Silver Lion for Best Director: Roman Anderson for “About Infinity”

Special Jury Prize Winner: Roman Polanski for “An Agent and a Spy”

Golden Lion for Best Film: Todd Phillips for Joker