The Venice International Film Critics’ Week
celebrates the Lion of the Future - “Luigi De Laurentiis“ Venice Award
for a Debut Film
awarded to LÀ-BAS by Guido Lombardi.

Produced by Eskimo, Figli del Bronx and Minerva Pictures, Là-bas has been presented in competition at the 26. Venice International Film Critics’ Week, independent section held within the 68. Venice Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia. This film also won the Kino Audience Award and will be distributed by Cinecittà Luce.

KINO Audience Award
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LÀ-BAS by Guido Lombardi

KINO Audience Award for the best film in competition at the 26. Venice International Film Critics’ Week – independent section held within the 68. Venice Film Festival – goes to Là-Bas by Guido Lombardi.

Culture as resource

In last year’s edition of the International Critics’ Week (SIC), one of the best in its no longer brief history, besides the Italian title that already had a domestic distributer, there were another six foreign films. By the end of the festival, three of the latter were picked up for Italian distribution, which was not only gratifying but also proved SIC’s worth in promoting, socially and economically, works of artistic merit as well as in giving a positive response to the cultural demand of the public, more precisely of the most demanding spectators who frequent arthouse and specialty cinemas.

Field Choices

From the cinematic traces disseminated in the line-up of the 26th Venice International Film Critics’ Week, one can decode the geography of a specific, harsh, disturbing contemporaneity. The filmmakers who map it – here at their directorial debuts – are all quite young and, with aesthetic bravery and an assured use of the medium, present an often despairing actuality, where not only existential conditions (and not always and only of youth) are put to the test, but also environmental safety, the relationship with the world’s natural resources, and attempts to reconcile with the consequences of migratory flows.