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Everything the desk has filed on Golden Lion.

Woman Unknown Wins Golden Lion, Venice Jury Splits Critics

The 83rd Venice Film Festival closed with Woman Unknown taking the Golden Lion over festival favourite Possible Love, a decision Maggie Gyllenhaal's jury defended even as critics called it the wrong pick.

12 Sept 20262 min

Director Cédric Kahn with the young cast of A Place To Heal at the Venice Film Festival

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Cédric Kahn Brings Teen Psychiatric Ward Drama To Venice Competition

Cédric Kahn's Venice competition entry A Place To Heal dramatises life inside an adolescent psychiatric ward, drawing on real case histories gathered by co-writer Kahina Le Querrec over six months of research.

4 Sept 20262 min