The best film award at the Venice Film Festival was awarded to All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, a documentary about the opioid epidemic in the United States.
The American documentary _All the Beauty and the Bloodshed_ has won the Golden Lion, the main prize at the Venice Film Festival. The award was received by a documentary film only for the second time in the award’s 90-year history, reports the film website Screen Daily.
– First of all, I want to thank the film festival for understanding that documentaries are film art, Poitras said when accepting the award, according to Screen Daily.
At the award ceremony, Poitras also showed his support for the Iranian film director Jafar Panahi, who was also nominated, who is currently imprisoned in his home country.
Award for the third time in a row for a woman
The Venice Film Festival turned 90 years old this year. However, the party has not been organized without interruption every year, and this year’s film festival was the 79th in a row.
There was a decade-long hiatus in the distribution of the Golden Lion during the political unrest that plagued Italy in the 1970s.