Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize

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May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced exposé of Israel’s Gaza killings also awardedBold and bravura choices as Venice celebrates A Woman Unknown, Possible Love – and NAZAMay el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown has scooped the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, at an awards ceremony that also saw the Gaza documentary NAZA win the jury prize.Set in the immediate aftermath of Danish liberation from Nazi occupation, the E