2008 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Winner

The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky
A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
2008 Venice Film Festival – Golden Lion – Best Film Nominees

A Perfect Day
Ferzan Ozpetek

Achilles and the Tortoise
Takeshi Kitano

Birdwatchers
Marco Bechis

Gabbla
Tariq Teguia

Giovanna’s Father
Pupi Avati

Il seme della discordia
Pappi Corsicato

Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
Barbet Schroeder

Jerichow
Christian Petzold

Milk
Semih Kaplanoglu

Paper Soldier
Aleksey German Jr.

Plastic City
Nelson Lik-wai Yu

Ponyo
Hayao Miyazaki

Rachel Getting Married
Jonathan Demme

Teza
Haile Gerima

The Burning Plain
Guillermo Arriaga

The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow

The Other One
Patrick-Mario Bernard

The Sky Crawlers
Mamoru Oshii

This Night
Werner Schroeter
