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‘Woman Unknown’ wins Venice’s Golden Lion as Mathilde Arcel takes best actress

Danish film 'Woman Unknown' secured the Golden Lion at Venice. Mathilde Arcel also won best actress for her role in the drama. John Malkovich received the best actor award for his CIA agent portrayal. A documentary on Gaza's civilian deaths also garnered significant attention. The festival highlighted global politics and…

The Economic Times

Bold and bravura choices as Venice celebrates A Woman Unknown, Possible Love and NAZA

After facing heavy criticism over its lack of female directors, the film festival may have redeemed itself with its winners’ list

The Guardian - UK

Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize

May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced exposé of Israel’s Gaza killings also awarded

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John Malkovich becomes Best Actor Oscar frontrunner after winning Venice Film Festival prize

Danish drama ‘Woman Unknown’ won the Golden Lion prize for Best Film

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Danish WWII drama wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

A Danish WWII drama about a woman trying to hide a wartime relationship with a Nazi was awared top prize on Saturday at The Venice Film Festival, while Gaza documentary NAZA snagged the special jury prize. "Unknown Woman" had been a major talking point of the festival due to its…

France 24

'Woman Unknown' wins Golden Lion award at the 83rd Venice Film Festival while 'Naza' wins special jury prize

El-Toukhy's drama depicts the life of a young nanny and housekeeper who marries her wealthy and older widower employer, but harbours a shameful secret that threatens to unravel her new life and status in the post-World War II anarchy.

Euronews

Only woman director in Venice Film Festival says industry remains unequal

May el-Toukhy, the only woman director selected for the top competition at the Venice Film Festival, highlighted the scarcity of women within the film industry at a press conference on Sunday, quipping that her film, "Woman Unknown" was itself "about the invisibility of women".

France 24

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Woman Unknown review – postwar paranoia with some deliciously dastardly Du Maurier touches

A nanny becomes the new lady of a prosperous Copenhagen house as accused Nazi sympathisers are violently shamed in May el-Toukhy’s shrewd, painful portrait of survival

The Guardian - UK

Cult of male genius holding female film-makers back, says Woman Unknown director

May el-Toukhy says we must end veneration of male directors that causes ‘structural problem’ for women

The Guardian - UK

Murdoch and Musk in the crosshairs at Venice film festival

Danny Boyle’s drama about the acquisition of the Sun and a four-hour Elon Musk documentary will premiere alongside new films from Martin McDonagh and Werner Herzog – but only one female director has a movie in competition

The Guardian - UK

'A cultural uprising’: What is Dogma 25 - the new cinematic movement unveiled in Cannes?

Three decades after the first and hugely influential Dogma wave, five filmmakers are initiating a new cinematic movement: DOGMA 25. It is a defiant response to current events and a marked opposition to the internet.

Euronews

Dogma 25 announced at Cannes, as directors launch ‘cultural uprising’

A new collective seeks to reinvigorate cinema in the mould of Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95 movement, with a 10-point manifesto opposed to the internet

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