Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize

2007 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerI'm Not ThereTodd HaynesRuminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.AmazonThe Secret of the GrainAbdellatif KechicheIn southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dream of opening a restaurant.Amazon

2006 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerDry SeasonMahamat-Saleh HarounChad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a ...Amazon

2019 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerAn Officer and a SpyRoman PolanskiIn 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.AmazonThe Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to BeFranco MarescoOn the 25th anniversary of Capaci and via D'Amelio bombings, Franco Maresco wonders what's left of their ideals and struggles in contemporary Sicily, dwelling on its relationship with the Mafia.Amazon

2004 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerThe Sea InsideAlejandro AmenábarThe factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a thirty-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.Amazon

2003 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerThe KiteRanda Chahal SabagA young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the...Amazon

2002 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerHouse of FoolsAndrey KonchalovskiyIn the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.Amazon

2001 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerDog DaysUlrich SeidlIn a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple...Amazon

2000 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerBefore Night FallsJulian SchnabelThe life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.Amazon

1999 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerThe Wind Will Carry UsAbbas KiarostamiIrreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.Amazon

1998 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerNext Stop ParadiseLucian PintilieThe Bucharest's suburb, a torrid summer day. Norica, a waitress and Mitu, a swineherd, meet and tease each other and starts a beverage competition. Their relationship is not just a ...Amazon