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Shame and Faust among Venice Film Festival award favourites
Sep 10, 2011, 13:38 GMT
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Venice, Italy (dpa) - Shame, by British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, and Faust, by Russian director Aleksander Sokurov, were tipped by the Italian media Saturday as possible winners at Venice Film Festival.
The Golden Lion for best film and other awards - including best female and male actors - were to be announced later at an evening gala ceremony at the lagoon city's Lido.
This year the Venice Film Festival, the world's oldest cinema competition, marked its 68th edition with 23 films vying for the Golden Lion.
A five-film strong Asian presence also delivered possible prize winners, reports said.
Taiwanese-born We Te-Sheng's historical epic Saideke Balai (Warriors of the Rainbow), which examines, often in bloody detail, the so-called 1930 'Wushe Incident' - a native Taiwanese rebellion against Japanese colonial rule - is seen as a possible Golden Lion contender.
And Deanie Ip's role as an elderly but feisty domestic worker in fellow Chinese Ann Hui's Tao jie (A Simple Life) could see her win the best actress award.
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