The Robert Bresson Prize is a recognition offered during the
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ...
to the director who, according to the Pontifical Councils
for Culture and
for Social Communications of the
Vatican
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The Holy See
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, "has given a testimony, significant for sincerity and intensity, of the difficult passage in search of spiritual meaning in our lives".
In 2010, on the occasion of the 11th edition of the Prize, a special piece of art has been realized. The title of the work is "HOPE" and was made by the artist
Akelo (Andrea Cagnetti).
Previous editions
* 2000 –
Giuseppe Tornatore
* 2001 –
Manoel de Oliveira
* 2002 –
Theo Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (; ; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely re ...
* 2003 –
Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...
* 2004 – Wim Wenders
* 2005 – Jerzy Stuhr
* 2006 – Zhang Yuan (director), Zhang Yuan
* 2007 – Alexander Sokurov
* 2008 – Daniel Burman
* 2009 – Walter Salles
* 2010 – Mahamat Saleh Haroun
* 2011 – Dardenne brothers
* 2012 – Ken Loach
* 2013 – Amos Gitai
* 2014 – Carlo Verdone
* 2015 – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
External links
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Robert Bresson
Venice Film Festival