Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize

2017 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerFoxtrotSamuel MaozA troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son's desolate military post.AmazonSweet CountryWarwick ThorntonAustralian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.Amazon

2016 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerNocturnal AnimalsTom FordA wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.AmazonThe Bad BatchAna Lily AmirpourIn a desert dystopia, a young woman is kidnapped by cannibals.Amazon

2015 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerAnomalisaCharlie KaufmanA man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.AmazonFrenzyEmin AlperAmid the intense political violence of Istanbul, Kadir is released on parole two years early on the condition that he become an informant for the police gathering terrorist informations, activities, and searching for bombs on trash cans.Amazon

2014 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerSivasKaan MüjdeciAn eleven-year-old boy and a weathered fighting dog develop a strong relationship after the boy finds the dog wounded in a ditch, left to die.AmazonThe Look of SilenceJoshua OppenheimerA family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.Amazon

2013 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerStray DogsMing-liang TsaiAn alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.AmazonThe Policeman's WifePhilip GröningChristine (Alexandra Finder) is married to police officer Uwe (David Zimmerschied) and together with their little girl Clara (played by Pia and Chiara Kleemann) they live in a small town ...Amazon

2012 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerParadise: FaithUlrich SeidlA single woman in her 50's devotes her vacations to doing Catholic missionary work in Vienna, descending into violent self-punishment as part of her faith.Amazon

2011 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerTerrafermaEmanuele CrialeseA Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.Amazon

2009 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerSoul KitchenFatih AkinIn Hamburg, German-Greek chef Zinos unknowingly disturbs the peace in his locals-only restaurant by hiring a more talented chef.Amazon

2008 Venice Film Festival - Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize WinnerTezaHaile GerimaThe Ethiopian intellectual Anberber returns to his native country during the repressive totalitarian regime of Haile Mariam Mengistu and the recognition of his own displacement and ...Amazon