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Film Festival

Believed to be the most ancient of its kind as it began in , the Venice Film Festival is known in its native tongue as Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica. It is part of the countrys biennial exhibition for contemporary art. It is then held each year that starts in the latter part of August up to the early days of September which is held in Lido di Venezia. It is located in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi in Italy.

A new award has been added to the Venice Film Festival, it is called San Marco bestowed to the finest movie in the Controcorrente category. However, the most coveted trophy in the Venice Film Festival is the Golden Lion or Leone dOro. It was introduced in by its then steering committee. Between - , it was known as Lion of Saint Mark or Leone Di San Marco but before that, from - , it was dubbed as the Great International Prize of Venice or Premio Internazionale Di Venizia. Prior to that, the Mussolini Cup or Coppa Mussolini was regarded as the highest of all.

Here are the Golden Lion winners in the Venice Film Festival looking back to s Sirena by Karel Stekly until the recently controversial Brokeback Mountain by Ang Lee in . Laurence Oliviers Hamlet won in where it was an adaptation of a William Shakespeares tragedy distinguished as the most quoted plays. Manon by Henri- Georges Clouzot trailed right after where it is an comical opera divided in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French account by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille.

In , Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa won where it is a Japanese work in collaboration with Kazup Miyagawa starring Toshiro Mifune. Rene Clements Jeux Interdits was recognized in Venice Film Festival. It is based on the novel entitled Les Jeux Inconnus by author Francois Boyer about a five year- old Paulette where who flee after a Nazi plane raided their place. In , it was the turn of Ordet by Carl Theodor Dreyer where it is a Danish play by Kaj Munk, a pastor that was assassinated by the Nazis. Satyajit Rays Aparajito in shined among the rest where it is the second part of the Apu Trilogy starring Kanu Bannerjee and Karuna Bannerjee.

In the new millenium, The Circle by Jafar Panahi was cited in . It is an Iranian independent movie that concentrated on the treatment of women in their country. Mira Nairs Monsoon Wedding followed where it depicts different romantic affairs during a conventional marriage in Delhi, India called Punjabi. In , Peter Mullans The Magdalene Sisters emerged victorious where it was about females transferred to asylums since they did something sexually wrong.