The jury
Carmen Gray (New Zealand), Marco Lombardi (Italy), Berke Göl (Turkey), Anna Maria Osmólska-Metrak (Poland), Alvise Mainardi (Italy), Jorge Roig Graterol (Venezuela),
Awarded films
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Possible Love by
Lee Chang-dong,
(South Korea, 2026, 164 min) -
The Color of the Sun by
Xavier Tera,
(Canada, Italy, Japan, 2026, 110 min)
Reports
- A Political Year: Documentaries at the Venice Film Festival by Carmen Gray
- Seeking Identity Beneath Okinawan Shadows: The Color of the Sun by Jorge Roig Graterol
- No Prizes, They Are Italian Films by Marco Lombardi
- The 100th Anniversary of Andrzej Wajda’s Birth, Celebrated in Venice by Anna Maria Osmólska-Metrak
- Critics’ Week in Venice: The Invention of Contemporariness by Alvise Mainardi
- Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love: A Multi-layered Story of Love and Empathy Across the Class Divide by Berke Göl
Section: Concorso, winner Possible Love, motivation: “For a multi-layered and perfectly paced film of subtle power games that explores exploitation, class, disillusionment, love, desire, and the ownership and ethics of storytelling”.
Section: Orizzonti, winner The Color of the Sun, motivation: “For a striking movie that blends the specific political tension in Okinawa with a more universal journey of a young man through self-acceptance”.
Discover the results of the FIPRESCI-FNE Critics’Poll here.
In honor of the centenary of the birth of Andrzej Wajda, Polish critic and FIPRESCI jury member Anna Osmólska-Mętrak (pictured below) introduced a screening of the restored version of Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds, which won the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice festival in 1959.
The world’s oldest film festival and one of the major ones in Europe, headed by Artistic Director Alberto Barbera, is set on the Lido, across from the city of Venice. The Mostra offers an ample selection of world premieres, as well as international conferences, presentations, an industry section and several social opportunities. As always, our five people jury will present two awards: to a film in the international competition, and to a first film in the parallel sections (“Horizons” and “Critics’ Week”).
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