‘Woman Unknown’ Takes Top Prize at Venice Film Festival

The film "Woman Unknown", directed by May el-Toukhy, has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The drama follows a Danish servant in the aftermath of World War II and stars Mathilde Arcel, who also took home the best actress award.

The film is set in a newly liberated Denmark where women who fraternized with German forces during the war were often subjected to vigilante justice. According to el-Toukhy, the film is about "the female body as a battleground and a public matter" and tells the story of "women who are invisible, unseen, and voiceless".

The runner-up Silver Lion award went to Lee Chang-dong for "Possible Love". Other winners included Ilya Khrzhanovsky, who won best director for "DAU", and Belarusian director Andrei Kutsila, whose documentary "Letters from the Silenced Country" won The Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary.

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