After awarding this year’s Golden Lion for best film to Jim Jarmusch’s “ Father Mother Sister Brother ,” Venice Film Festival jury president Alexander Payne faced a flurry of questions from journalists about the decision. Many had expected Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza drama “ The Voice of Hind Rajab ,” which received a tearful 22-minute standing ovation at its premiere and was ultimately awarded the second-place grand jury prize, to be a shoo-in for the festival’s top award.

“That’s the unfair thing of being at a festival, is having to say this is better than that. It’s not,” Payne said diplomatically at a press conference following the awards ceremony on Saturday. “As a jury, we treasure both of those films equally, each for its own reason. And we wish both of those films a long

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