In the Future has won the fourth
annual Queer Lion prize at the 67th Venice Film Festival.
The three-person jury announced the
winner Thursday.
Argentine director Mauro Andrizzi's En
El Futuro (In The Future) was selected “For portraying
and displaying, in short episodes, spontaneous and solid love,
regardless of it being part of a straight or gay love story,” the jury said of the 63-minute film shot entirely in black
and white.
The movie beat out six other titles,
including Darren
Aronofsky's much heralded thriller Black Swan, which
opened the festival. The film, and its star, Natalie Portman (Star
Wars), who plays a lesbian ballerina, have already attracted a
cheering section for this year's Oscar race.
Also in competition was Director
Daniele Segre's Lisetta
Carmi, Un'animo in Cammino, a film about the world of
transvestites in Genoa; Tom Tykwer's love
triangle flick Three; Potiche,
which stars Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu, from openly gay
director Francois Ozon; Antony
Cordier's bisexual couple swapping film Happy Few; and Et
in Terra Pax from filmmakers Matteo Botrugno and Daniele
Coluccini.
Fashion designer turned film director
Tom Ford won last year's prize with his big screen adaption of
Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel A Single Man. A Single
Man went on to win numerous additional prizes, but failed to
receive a best picture Oscar nomination.
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