CultureDanish WWII drama wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

A Danish World War II drama about a woman concealing a wartime relationship with a Nazi won the Venice Film Festival’s top prize on Saturday. Gaza documentary NAZA received the special jury prize. Unknown Woman drew attention for its rarely explored subject and because director May el-Toukhy was nearly the festival’s only woman director.

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