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

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:17:08 GMT

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 awardedBold and bravura choices as Venice celebrates A Woman Unknown, Possible Love – and NAZAMay el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown has scooped the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, at an awards ceremony that also saw the Gaza documentary NAZA win the jury prize.Set in the immediate aftermath of Danish liberation from Nazi occupation, the Egyptian-Danish director’s film tells the story of a young housemaid, Marie (Mathilde Arcel), who is about to marry her widowed employer but anxious about him discovering a shameful secret in her past: during the war, Marie had an intimate relationship with a German soldier. Continue reading...

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