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Venice Film Festival 2015: Venezuela’s Desde Alla Wins Golden Lion Prize

Venezuelan movie Desde Alla (From Afar) has won the top Golden Lion prize at this year’s Venice film festival.

In his debut feature film, director Lorenzo Vigas tells the story of a rich man who starts a relationship with a young man from one of Caracas’ gangs.

“I want to dedicate this prize to my amazing country, Venezuela.

“I know we have a few problems, but if we talk about them we will overcome them,” Lorenzo Vigas said.

Venezuela is going through a serious economic crisis, which led to months of street protests last year over the shortage of many goods.

On September 10, prominent Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was sentenced to 13 years and nine months in prison for inciting violence during the protests.

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Films should help Latin American countries “learn from the mistakes of the past,” Lorenzo Vigas added.

Meanwhile, Pablo Trapero’s Argentine crime thriller, The Clan, won the Silver Lion for best director.

The movie, which was a blockbuster in Argentina, tells the true story of an ordinary Buenos Aires family that abducted wealthy people for ransom and hid them in their house before killing them.

Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron was the president of this year’s Venice Film Festival jury.

He said he was pleased by the fact that a Latin American movie had won the top prize, but said it was “only a coincidence” that the jury had been led by a Mexican.

The runner-up Grand Jury Prize went to the American comedy fantasy Anomalisa, directed by Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman.

The best actor prize went to Fabrice Luchini, who played a judge in Christian Vincent’s L’Hermine (Courted).

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