Young Cinema Award

The Young Cinema Award (Italian : Premio Arca Cinema Giovani) is a film award given at the Venice Film Festival. The motto of the award is "Spirit of time: a look to the present". ^[1] The jury consists of one hundred 18- to 25-year-olds from different countries, such as France, Canada, Poland, Hungary, and Italy. The 2016 edition gathered French, Tunisian, and Italian young people.

Winners

The following categories are listed below:

Best Italian Film

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)
2003	Good Morning, Night	Buongiorno, notte	Marco Bellocchio
2004	Changing Destiny	Nemmeno il destino	Daniele Gaglianone
2005	Don't Tell	La bestia nel cuore	Cristina Comencini
2006	La rieducazione		Amanda Flor
2007	Don't Think About It	Non pensarci	Gianni Zanasi
2008	Mid-August Lunch	Pranzo di ferragosto	Gianni Di Gregorio
2009	The Double Hour	La doppia ora	Giuseppe Capotondi
2010	20 Cigarettes	20 sigarette	Aureliano Amadei
2011	The Last Man on Earth	L'ultimo terrestre	Gipi
2012	The Ideal City	La città ideale	Luigi Lo Cascio
2013	The Art of Happiness	L'arte della felicità	Alessandro Rak
2014	Belluscone: A Sicilian Story	Belluscone - una storia siciliana	Franco Maresco
2015	Burning Love	Pecore in erba	Alberto Caviglia
2016	Ears	Orecchie	Alessandro Aronadio
2017	Beautiful Things		Giorgio Ferrero
2018	Capri-Revolution		Mario Martone
2020	Notturno		Gianfranco Rosi
2021	The Hand of God	È stata la mano di Dio	Paolo Sorrentino
2022	Monica		Andrea Pallaoro
2023	El paraíso		Enrico Maria Artale
2024	Vittoria		Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman

Best International Film

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production country
2004	The Sea Inside	Mar adentro	Alejandro Amenábar	Spain, France, Italy
2005	The Constant Gardener		Fernando Meirelles	United Kingdom, Germany
2006	Black Book	Zwartboek	Paul Verhoeven	Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom
2007	The Secret of the Grain	La Graine et le Mulet	Abdellatif Kechiche	France, Tunisia
2008	The Hurt Locker		Kathryn Bigelow	United States
2009	Soul Kitchen		Fatih Akin	Germany
2010	The Last Circus	Balada Triste de Trompeta	Álex de la Iglesia	Spain, France
2011	Shame		Steve McQueen	United Kingdom, Canada
2012	The Fifth Season	La Cinquième Saison	Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth	Belgium, Netherlands, France
2013	Miss Violence		Alexandros Avranas	Greece
2014	Far from Men	Loin des hommes	David Oelhoffen	France
2015	Frenzy	Abluka	Emin Alper	Turkey
2016	Arrival		Denis Villeneuve	United States
2017	Foxtrot	פוֹקְסטְרוֹט	Samuel Maoz	Israel, Germany, France, Switzerland
2018	Never Look Away	Werk ohne Autor	Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck	Germany
2019	Ema		Pablo Larraín	Chile
2020	Pieces of a Woman		Kornél Mundruczó	Canada, United States, Hungary
2021	Happening	L'Événement	Audrey Diwan	France
2022	Athena		Romain Gavras
2023	Green Border	Zielona granica	Agniezska Holland	Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium
2024	The Brutalist [2]		Brady Corbet	United States, Hungary, United Kingdom

Other categories

Alternatives

• 2005 – Lady Vengeance by Park Chan-wook
• 2006 – Offscreen by Christoffer Boe
• 2007 – Sous les bombes by Philippe Aractingi
• 2008 – Sell Out! by Yeo Joon Han

Best Digital Film

• 2004 – Un silenzio particolare

References

1. "Venice Film Festival: Overview". Internet Movie Database. September 1–11, 2010. Retrieved December 5, 2006.
2. "CinemaItaliano.info - Tutto il nuovo cinema italiano lo trovi qui". www.cinemaitaliano.info (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-04-28.