Venice Film Festival winners shine on red carpet

Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy celebrated her Gold Lion win for "Woman Unknown" at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday (September 12) with its star Mathilde Arcel, who also took the prize for best actress in a rare double victory.

South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong took the runner-up Silver Lion award for "Promised Love", while Russian-born filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky won best director for "DAU," a hugely ambitious project shot largely in Ukraine before the ongoing war that has attracted intense scrutiny and controversy.

"NAZA", a hard-hitting documentary by Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, won the Special Jury Prize.

Stephane Brize, Coralie Amedeo and Olivier Gorce received the screenplay award for their well-received French workplace drama "A Good Little Soldier," while Malou Khebizi was named as best emerging young actor for her role in another well-received French production -- "A Place To Heal."

Camera: Christian Levaux, Production: Kristian Brunse/Reuters