Juries in balance (precarious?). The best films in the side autonomous sections.
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This year the many personalities invited to be part of the juries of the various sections of Venice, they are expressed on the evening of the awards ceremony with poise even if precarious. It seems appropriate to recall the members and thank them for the good work put in the ten days of the Show!
The jury Venice 73, in addition to the president, director Sam Mendes, included 
l'artista, singer, American director and writer Laurie Anderson, British actress Gemma Arterton, the magistrate, writer, playwright and screenwriter Italian Giancarlo De Cataldo, German actress Nina Hoss, Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlinale, French actress Chiara Mastroianni, Excellence Award at the Locarno Film Festival. But even the American director Joshua Oppenheimer, author of two documentaries nominated Oscar, The Act of Killing (2012) e The Look of Silence (2014, Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas, Leone d'oro last Venice Film Festival with the work before Desde allá and actress, director and Chinese singer Zhao Wei, box office records in China for a newcomer women in directorial So Young.
while the international jury of the Orizzonti section, in addition to the president, French director Robert Guédiguian, It was composed by the critic and historian of American cinema Jim Hoberman, from 'Egyptian actress Nelly Karim, Italian actress Valentina Lodovini, David di Donatello 2010, dall 'actress and Korean director Moon So-ri, Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2002 as a rising young actress with Oasis Lee Chang-dong , by critic and film scholar Spanish Jose Maria (Call) Prado, Phoenix Award for Contribution to the Film Culture in Latin America, by Indian director Chaitanya Tamhane, that with Court won the "Luigi De Laurentiis" Award for a Debut and Horizons Award 71. Show.
The Jury Prize Opera Prima "Luigi De Laurentiis"- Lion of the Future,
in addition to the president, Italian actor and director Kim Rossi Stuart, It was composed by the Spanish producer Rosa Bosch, from 'American actor and director Brady Corbet winner with The Childhood of a Leader the Lion of the Future – Prize Opera Prima "Luigi De Laurentiis" and the Horizons Award for Best Director, from 'Spanish actress Pilar López de Ayala, among the most regarded and beloved Iberian interpreters, you in the role of Queen Juana of Castile in Juana la Loca (2001) Vicente Aranda won the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian Festival and the Goya Award.
We propose now what were we believe the best five films seen in Venice, and the best Italian films.
The War Show can be said is the best movie of all time of year 2016 
because it goes straight to the heart of the audience and why was shot with makeshift but catapults us into civil war ravaging Syria for almost a decade without that face world something concrete for the Syrian people. Indeed the conflict "is used" for domain mire of world powers. The Venice Days are still young but they give space to works of art like this.
Also there CRITICS WEEK is not far behind and presented among others the poetic and universal Akher WAHED FINA (THE LAST OF US) Tunisian Ala Eddine Slim. This time the biblical migration from the east and from the south crossing the Sahara desert before and the Mediterranean after a starting point for something that goes beyond the countless human stories that the news we slam in your face every day. And 'the journey of a man with no name. From Africa to an unnamed area. E 'was honored with the Award for a First De Laurentis.
In second place unfortunately OUT OF COMPETITION the doc Austerlitz Sergei 
Loznitsa. The director, like many others of this edition used the black and white to represent a symbol of absolute evil places because they do not happen again. Are a number of paintings in which fixed the goal keeps track of the behavior of visitors in front of so many atrocities. In this digital age it is unfortunately no place for selfies, perhaps in front of the crematoria, but no place more for the horrified face of so much barbarity. Now the Director Barbera stressed the peculiarity that unites the selected filmmakers to use the indirect form. It is this the case in which the fixed frame technique forces the viewer to reflect inexorably to those events of the recent past, yet so current such as precisely the Syrian conflict treated by The War Show.
Fourth in the official selection of the acclaimed Paradise Andrei Konchalovsky an interweaving of three stories that intersect in the absolute evil devastation of the last century: Olga, Jules e Helmut. Film is shot entirely in black and white. however, it suffers from a certain melodramatic air that makes you lose the initial force. The film received a stand ovation from the audience in the Great Hall in the presence of the director and the beautiful female interpreter. As we foresaw got the Silver Lion.
Finally Horizons for a topical film about the adult in the relationship 
against an adolescence devoid of ideals that turns into boredom and violence to download adrenaline. This is Home by Fien Troch that precisely tells of two generations in conflict. The arrival of a young seventeen out of the house of correction causes tearing of delicate (I'd say silly) family balance. But there is also unhealthy relationship with a single mother with John her only son. The tragedy looming in the spectator who suddenly finds himself horrified to come to terms with his conscience Parenthood. And if it happened to me?
Unfortunately, as happens every year after Venice is not yet known whether some of these can expect distributed in Italy.
As for the Italian feature films judgment will be partial because we have seen half (otto). As we said Italians in competition show a certain self-absorption as both form as content, one for all these days by Giuseppe Piccioni which went the Smile Award Unlike Venice 2016 – Ass Ucl for Best Italian Film ex aequo The greatest dream of Michele Vannucci. Whole other story in the Horizons section where Federica Di Giacomo rightly has been awarded for best director with Deliver film documentary that treats the exorcism in the contemporary world. He dwells with the look "from outside" saving on the work of Father Cataldo an exorcist monk who 
It operates in Sicily, where it is among the most sought. History of the practice exorcism with daily life, where the contrasts between ancient and contemporary, religious and profane will be the more disturbing traits and at times hilarious. But in the background the discomfort of life in search of themselves. A film about how religion can be experienced. Another film of equal importance in this independent section Venice Days is INDIVISIBLE Edoardo De Angelis who has got a great consensus and we have seen both the FEDIC Prize is awarded the Francesco Pasinetti Award - SNGCI Best film with a special mention for the Angela interpreters and Marianna Fontana. film lashing, disturbing and Pasolini but emphasizes excessively on a certain clergy acquiescent with the Camorra. Besides the amazing interpretation of "twin" Fontana finds himself a cameo with Peppe Servillo who embodies the good part in the fragmented society of the Domitian coast. Directed and interpretation are impeccable less precisely certain exaggerations that do not add much to the high artistic content. Unfortunately he found himself competing with powerful films such as The War Show winner at Venice Days which as we said at the beginning is the best film in Venice 2016! In this regard it is right Gianluca Giannelli Alice in the Cities, presented today at the Casa del Cinema, when it criticizes certain "muggings" of Venice to the detriment of the young Roman festival. We feel that it is a concrete example Indivisible along with Marco Danieli film The Girl in the World.
For transparency we report the location of Italian films seen in the various sections:
VENEZIA 73 (16 popular films)
- These days by Giuseppe Piccioni – Italy, 120’
- Spira mirabilis of Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti – Italy, Switzerland, 121’ (documentary)
HORIZONS (14 popular films)
- Free me by Federica Di Giacomo – Italy, France, 89′ (in mid-table)
out of Competition (13 popular films)
- Assault to heaven by Munzi – Italy, 78′(documentary)
31 but the International Critics' Week (3 popular films)
- The last things to Irene Dionisio
XIII edition of Venice Days (7 popular films)
- INDIVISIBLE Edoardo De Angelis (in mid-table)
- THE GIRL IN THE WORLD Marco Danieli