Venice Film Festival Awards Top Prizes

Paris-based Italian director Tommaso Usberti’s romance “Before the War,” a reflection on racism and toxic masculinity set in the Northern Italian plains, is the big winner of the Venice Critics’ Week where it scooped the grand prize and the award for best producer.  “Bef

Italian-French director Tommaso Usberti’s Before the War, a coming-of-age tale exploring contemporary masculinity, has scooped the Grand Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Critics’ Week. In other key feature film prizes, Chilean-Indian London-based director Shalini Adnani’s Our Share

For Michael Dowse, the filmmaker behind The Stunt Driver, there’s a meta aspect to his journey with the Canadian sports comedy. The film, examining the dogged pursuit of a seemingly impossible dream, was in effect just that for him — a “white whale” that he chased for 12 years