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'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.

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00:01Women Unknown, a drama about Denmark in the aftermath of the Nazi occupation, directed by May Iltuki, won the prestigious
00:10Golden Lion at the 83rd Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
00:15Iltuki was the only woman to have solely directed a film in the main competition this year.
00:21South Korean author Lee Chang-dong's poetic portrait of class and labour, Possible Love, won the Silver Lion Grand Jury
00:30Prize, the runner-up award.
00:32Possible Love is Lee's first film in eight years, following his acclaimed 2018 title Burning.
00:39NASA, a harrowing documentary about military strategies employed in the war in Gaza, from Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel
00:50Soar, was awarded a special jury prize.
00:53It also received a record-breaking stand-in ovation, lasting some 25 minutes after its premiere, while Abraham urged for
01:03Israelis to watch the film.
01:05The jury gave the silver line for directing Ilya Kranovsky for his film Dao, a project about the Soviet physicist
01:13who built the atomic bomb that has taken over 20 years to make.
01:18Kranovsky, who renounced his Russian citizenship in protest over the war in Ukraine, dedicated the prize to Ukrainians, including his
01:27mother, who was born there.
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