1988 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner
The Legend of the Holy Drinker
Ermanno Olmi
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
1988 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Nominees
À corps perdu
Léa Pool
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Fernando Birri
Burning Secret
Andrew Birkin
Camp de Thiaroye
Ousmane Sembene
Caro Gorbaciov
Carlo Lizzani
Chess King
Wenji Teng
Dedé Mamata
Rodolfo Brandão
Eldorádó
Géza Bereményi
Gli invisibili
Pasquale Squitieri
Hard Times
João Botelho
Haunted Summer
Ivan Passer
Landscape in the Mist
Theodoros Angelopoulos
Lights and Shadows
Jaime Camino
Madame Sousatzka
John Schlesinger
Once More
Paul Vecchiali
Story of Women
Claude Chabrol
The Black Monk
Ivan Dykhovichnyy
The Moderns
Alan Rudolph
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Wojciech Has
Things Change
David Mamet
