The festival’s first ever competition prize for best VR was given to “Arden’s Wake (Expanded)” by a jury led by the director John Landis. The festival’s Orizzonti competition, sometimes home to more adventurous works, awarded best film to the music biopic “Nico, 1988” by the director Susanna Nicchiarelli. The Iranian film “No Date, No Signature” won two prizes, for best director and best actor. On Friday, the sidebar section Critics’ Week gave its top prize to the father-son drama “Hunting Season,” from an Argentine filmmaker, Natalia Garagiola. Mr. Wiseman’s “Ex Libris” and Mr. Del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” were two very different favorites on the Lido, the Venetian island where the festival takes place.

Source: New York Times September 09, 2017 19:05 UTC