VENICE GOLDEN LION GOES TO LAV DIAZ'S THE WOMAN WHO LEFT

Thierry Fremaux, take note: my man Lav Diaz deserves a space in your official selection some year soon, not just in Un Certain Regard, ocurrrrr? After winning the biggest international awards ever bestowed upon Filipino films at Locarno and Berlin festivals, he tops his own personal best by winning Venezia 73's Golden Lion for The Woman Who Left; I posted the trailer for it just yesterday. Check out the full list of winners below, which include several awards for major Oscar contenders, despite the highly arthouse flavour of the top winner.

Concorso Venezia 73

Golden Lion for Best Film

The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)

Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)

Special Jury Prize

The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour)

Silver Lion for Best Director

Amat Escalante (The Untamed)

Andrey Konchalovsky (Paradise)

Volpi Cup for Best Actress

Emma Stone (La La Land)

Volpi Cup for Best Actor

Oscar Martinez (The Distinguished Citizen)

Best Screenplay

Noah Oppenheim (Jackie)

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Actor / Actress

Paula Beer (Frantz)

Concorso Orrizonti

Best Film

Liberami (Federica di Giacomo)

Special Jury Prize

Big Big World (Reha Erdem)

Best Director

Fien Troch (Home)

Best Actress

Ruth Diaz (The Fury of a Patient Man)

Best Actor

Nuno Lopes (Sao Jorge)

Best Screenplay

Wang Bing (Bitter Money)

Best Short Film

La Voz Perdida (Marcelo Martinessi)

Leone del Futuro

Luigi de Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film

The Last of Us (Ala Eddine Slim)

Venezia Classici

Best Restored Film

The Man with the Balloons (Marco Ferreri)

Best Documentary on Cinema

Le Concours (Claire Simon)

Independent Awards

Premio l'Oreal Paris per il Cinema

Matilde Gioli

Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award

Amir Naderi

Persol Tribute to Visionary Talent Award

Liev Schreiber

VENICE LINEUP ANNOUNCED: ARRIVAL, NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, VOYAGE OF TIME IN THE MIX

The Venice Film Festival has revealed its full slate of screeners for its 73rd edition, following the announcement of the Venice Days selection. Major American titles such as Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals (both starring Amy Adams), Damien Chazelle's fest opener La La Land, Pablo Larrain's Jackie Kennedy biopic Jackie - his second major festival competition entry of the year, following Neruda, which showed at Cannes - and Terrence Malick's IMAX documentary Voyage of Time make the cut. Alongside those buzzed-about features are plenty from esteemed international auteurs such as Andrey Konchalovskiy with Paradise, Wim Wenders with The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez, and Lav Diaz with The Woman Who Left - another director debuting a second film in competition at a top fest, following his 8-hour Berlin prize winner A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery. Plenty of promise in the other strands too! Check it all out below:

Venezia 73

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)

The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour)

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (Wim Wenders)

Brimstone (Martin Koolhoven)

El Ciudadano Ilustre (Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat)

El Cristo Ciego (Christopher Murray)

Frantz (Francois Ozon)

Jackie (Pablo Larrain)

La La Land (Damien Chazelle) - opening film

The Light Between Oceans (Derek Cianfrance)

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)

On the Milky Road (Emir Kusturica)

Paradise (Andrey Konhcalovskiy)

Piuma (Roan Johnson)

Questi Giorni (Giuseppe Piccioni)

La Region Salvaje (Amat Escalante)

Spira Mirabilis (Massimo d'Anolfi and Martina Parenti)

Une Vie (Stephane Brize)

Voyage of Time (Terrence Malick)

The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz)

Orizzonti

500,000 Years (Chai Siris)

Amalimbo (Juan Pablo Libossart)

Big Big World (Reha Erdem)

Bitter Money (Wang Bing)

Boys in the Trees (Nicholas Verso)

Ce Qui Nous Eloigne (Hu Wei)

Colombi (Luca Ferri)

Dadyaa (Bibhusan Basnet and Pooja Gurung)

Dark Night (Tim Sutton)

Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)

Die Einsiedler (Ronny Trocker)

First Night (Andrei Tanase)

Good Luck, Orlo! (Sara Kern)

Good News (Giovanni Fumu)

Gukoroku (Ishikawa Kei)

Home (Fien Troch)

Kekszakallu (Gaston Solnicki)

King of the Belgians (Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth)

Liberami (Federica di Giacomo)

Malaria (Parviz Shahbazi)

Maudine Poutine (Karl Lemieux)

Midwinter (Jake Mahaffy)

Molly Bloom (Chiara Caselli)

On the Origin of Fear (Bayu Prihantoro Filemon)

Il Piu Grande Sogno (Michele Vannucci)

Reparer les Vivants (Katell Quillevere)

Le Reste est l'Oeuvre de l'Homme (Doria Achour)

Ruah (Flurin Giger)

Samedi Cinema (Mamadou Dia)

Sao Jorge (Marco Martins)

Stanza 52 (Maurizio Braucci)

Tarde para la Ira (Raul Arevalo)

Through the Wall (Rama Burshtein)

La Voz Perdida (Marcelo Martinessi)

White Sun (Deepak Rauniyar)

Take a look below the cut for La Biennale's other sidebars, including some hotly-anticipated world premieres showing out of competition:

WOMEN AT THE FORE IN 2016 VENICE DAYS SELECTION

The Venice Days section, an unofficial sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, has announced its screenings for its 2016 edition. Films from female directors are given special prominence in this year's lineup, with 7 of the 19 titles hailing from women. The competition entries here will compete for the Venice Days award, worth €20,000, with the top prize decided upon by a jury presided over by Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce - certain to produce an interesting result! Additionally, there will be an audience award for the section, and the several first works in the selection will also be eligible for the Luigi de Laurentiis award, which covers all of the festival's strands. Venice Days' 12th edition will take place between the 31st of August and the 10th of September. Check out their choices below:

Competition

Guilty Men (Ivan D. Gaona)

Heartstone (Guomundur Arnar Guomundsson)

Hounds of Love (Ben Young)

Indivisible (Edoardo de Angelis)

Pamilya Ordinaryo (Eduardo Roy Jr.)

Polina (Valerie Muller and Angelin Preljocaj)

The Road to Mandalay (Midi Z.)

Quit Staring at My Plate (Hana Jusic)

Sami Blood (Amanda Kernell)

The War Show (Andreas Dalsgaard and Obaidah Zytoon) - opening film

Worldly Girl (Marco Danieli)

Women's Tales Project

Seed (Kawase Naomi)

That One Day (Crystal Moselle)

Special Events

Always Shine (Sophia Takal)

Coffee (Cristiano Bortone)

Il Profumo del Tempo delle Favole (Mauro Caputo)

Rocco (Thierry Demaiziere and Alban Teurlai)

Vangelo (Pippo Delbono)

You Never Had It - An Evening with Bukowski (Matteo Borgardt)