A painful docudrame on the murder of Israel of a five -year Palestinian daughter during her current war against Gaza won the Silver Lion Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
The voice of Hind Rajab, of the French director Kaouther Ben Hania, arrived second Saturday at the Mother Sister Brother Brother Cinema by the independent director of the United States, Jim Jarmusch.
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The film tells the true story of Hind Rajab, which was killed by Israeli forces last year, when she and her family were trying to evacuate Gaza City.
He uses a real sound of Rajab’s call to Palestine Red Crescent Society, in which the rescuers tried to reassure her when she was trapped in a ball with the bodies of her aunt, her uncle and her three cousins, who had all been killed by Israeli fire.
The girl was then also killed, just like the two ambulance workers who went to the scene to try to save her.
The film was the most spoken film in Venice Lido and went more as a probable winner after a standing ovation of 23 minutes on his first Wednesday.
Ben Hania, accepting his prize, said that Rajab’s story was not only that of the girl, but tragically that of a whole sustainable people of genocide “.
“Cinema cannot bring Hind back, and it cannot erase the atrocity committed against it. Nothing can ever restore what has been taken, but cinema can preserve its voice, make it resonate through the borders,” said the director.
“His voice will continue to echo until the responsibility is real, until justice is done.”
The War of Israel against Gaza, which killed more than 64,000 Palestinians, including more than 18,000 children, launched a long shadow compared to this year’s festival.
Jarmusch, who won the coveted Golden Lion, reported his opposition to the continuous headquarters of Israel and the Bombing of Gaza by carrying a badge saying “enough” during the award ceremony.
Earlier in the weekend, when he had unveiled Father Mother Sister Brother, the 72-year-old director acknowledged that he feared that one of his main distributors took money from an Israeli army company.
The stars of the winning film by Jarmusch, Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits, are a three -part meditation on uncomfortable links between parents and their adult children.
He called on Saturday’s victory an “unexpected honor” and thanked the great jury to “appreciate our calm film”.
In other categories, Toni Servillo d’Italie has been appointed best actor for his ironic representation of a tired president near the end of his mandate, at La Grazia, while Xin Zhilei in China won the best actress for her role in the sun is rising on all of us, a drama that weighs in questions of sacrifice, guilt and unresolved feelings dark.
The best leading head went to Benny Safdie for the breaking machine, which featured Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the role of the pioneer of the mixed martial arts Mark Kerr.
The special jury prize was awarded to Gianfranco Rosi Italian for its black and white documentary under the clouds, on life in the chaotic city in the south of Naples, marked by repeated earthquakes and the threat of volcanic eruptions.
Servillo, who won the best actor, was one of the many winners to talk about Gaza on the scene, expressing “admiration” for activists on a flotilla of boats trying to break the seat of Israel from Gaza.
They “decided to have courageously sail to reach Palestine and bring a sign of humanity to a country where human dignity is daily and cruelly demeaned,” said Servillo.
Annapurna Roy, who won the prize for best director in the Horizons sidebar, a discovery section led by French filmmaker Julia Ducournau, also devoted part of his remarks to the conflict in Gaza.
Roy, who is an Indian, won the prize for his first feature film, Songs of Forgorton Trees, about two migrant women in Mumbai.
“Each child deserves peace, freedom, liberation and Palestine is no exception,” said Roy. “I stand next to Palestine. I could upset my country, but it no longer matters to me. ”
The awarded director of the public of Armani Beauty, Maryam Touzani (Calle Málaga), also highlighted the conflict in Gaza.
“How many mothers have been made childless?” She said. “How more until this horror is put in its end? We refuse to lose our humanity.”
The Venice Festival marks the start of the awards season and regularly throws big favorites for Oscars, with films by making the first there in the past four years, collecting more than 90 Oscar nominations and winning nearly 20.
Among the films that left Venice empty handed appeared a trio of photos of Netflix, the nuclear thriller of Kathryn Bigelow a House of Dynamite, the College by Guillermo Del Toro by Frankenstein and the drama of the comedy of Noah Baumbach, Jay Kelly.
No other choice of Park Chan-Wook in South Korea has also managed to obtain a price, despite solid criticism; Likewise, Bugonia de Yorgos Lanthimos, who featured Emma Stone.
