The 83rd Venice Film Festival has revealed the recipients of this year’s parallel awards. As per tradition, these accolades are independently decided upon by associations of film critics, cultural institutions, cinema clubs and professional guilds.

One of the key honours – the International Critics' Prize (FIPRESCI Prize) – went to Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love, which was crowned Best Film in Competition. Meanwhile, the FIPRESCI Award for a title screened in Orizzonti went to Xavier Tera’s The Color of the Sun, a Canadian-Italian-Japanese co-production.

Hirokazu Koreeda’s Look Back emerged as one of the most decorated films in this year’s side awards. The Japanese filmmaker’s latest work shared the Cinema & Arts Award for Best Film with Takashi Miike’s Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki, while also picking up the CinemaSarà Award, the SIGNIS Award and the UNIMED Award. It additionally received a Special Mention from the Fanheart3 jury.

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s Naza also attracted considerable attention from the collateral juries. The documentary received the Edipo Re Award presented by the Ca’ Foscari student jury, shared the Green Drop Award with Paolo Strippoli’s The Spiral, earned the Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award for Best Director Under 35 and received the Cinema for UNICEF Mention attached to the Leoncino d’Oro.

Stéphane Brizé’s A Good Little Soldier was another multiple winner. The French competition title received the Premio Speciale Film Impresa, the Interfilm Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue and the Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award for Best Foreign Film. Edoardo De Angelis’s The Fire Within You likewise collected several honours: the BookCiak Award, the Soundtrack Stars Award for La Niña and Alfredo Maddaluno’s score, and the Pasinetti Award for Best Actress for Vanessa Scalera.

Elsewhere, Possible Love added the Arca CinemaGiovani Award for Best Film of Venezia 83 to its FIPRESCI victory, while The Spiral was named Best Italian Film by the same jury in addition to sharing the Green Drop Award. Cédric Kahn’s A Place to Heal won both the Italian Red Cross Award and the Lanterna Magica Award, while Nicola Sorcinelli’s Balcanica landed the Carlo Lizzani Award. The latter had also previously won the Giornate degli Autori People’s Choice Award.

The Francesco Pasinetti Award for Best Film went to Marco Bechis’s Back to Buenos Aires, whose lead Adriano Giannini was also named Best Actor. Alina Marazzi’s The Girl with the Leica received the Pasinetti Special Prize, in addition to winning the 1964 Pop Art Award. Meanwhile, the Leoncino d’Oro went to Shinya Tsukamoto’s Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?

Finally, the Queer Lion was jointly awarded to Theo Rollason’s Queer Edward II, and Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli’s London.

Here is the list of the main parallel award winners:

FIPRESCI Award – Competition
Possible Love – Lee Chang-dong (South Korea)

FIPRESCI Award – Orizzonti
The Color of the Sun – Xavier Tera (Canada/Italy/Japan)

Queer Lion Award
Queer Edward II – Theo Rollason (UK)
London – Victor Di Marco, Márcio Picoli (Brazil)

Arca CinemaGiovani Award – Best Film of Venezia 83
Possible Love – Lee Chang-dong

Arca CinemaGiovani Award – Best Italian Film in Venice
The Spiral – Paolo Strippoli (Italy/France/Belgium)

Authors Under 40 Award – Best Director (ex aequo)
Michelle Zhou – Big Little Things (Hong Kong/USA)
María Aparicio – Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion (Spain/Argentina)

BookCiak Award
The Fire Within You – Edoardo De Angelis (Italy)

Brian Award
Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors – Lav Diaz (Philippines)

CICT-UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Prize – Fellini Medal 2026
Dear Ajayi – Damilola Orimogunje (Nigeria/Germany)

Cinema & Arts Award – Best Film (ex aequo)
Look Back – Hirokazu Koreeda (Japan)
Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki – Takashi Miike (Japan)

CinemaSarà Award
Look Back – Hirokazu Koreeda

Italian Red Cross Award
A Place to Heal – Cédric Kahn (France)

Edipo Re Award – Official Jury
A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra – Jacqueline Lentzou (Greece/Germany/France)

Edipo Re Award – Ca’ Foscari Student Jury
Naza – Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor (UK)

Fanheart3 Award – Golden Clip for Best Film
A Man’s Skin – Léa Domenach (France)
Special Mention
Look Back – Hirokazu Koreeda

FEDIC Award – Best Film
Serpenti – Roberto De Paolis Maino

Premio Speciale Film Impresa
A Good Little Soldier – Stéphane Brizé (France)

Green Drop Award
Naza – Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor (UK)
The Spiral – Paolo Strippoli (Italy/France/Belgium)

Interfilm Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue
A Good Little Soldier – Stéphane Brizé

Lanterna Magica Award
A Place to Heal – Cédric Kahn

Leoncino d’Oro Award
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? – Shinya Tsukamoto (Japan/USA/Thailand/Vietnam)

Carlo Lizzani Award
Balcanica – Nicola Sorcinelli (Italy/Serbia/Croatia)

Francesco Pasinetti Award – Best Film
Back to Buenos Aires – Marco Bechis (Italy/Brazil)

Francesco Pasinetti Award – Best Actress
Vanessa Scalera – The Fire Within You

Francesco Pasinetti Award – Best Actor
Adriano Giannini – Back to Buenos Aires

Francesco Pasinetti Award – Special Prize
The Girl with the Leica – Alina Marazzi (Italy/Germany/Sweden)

SIGNIS Award
Look Back – Hirokazu Koreeda

UNIMED Award
Look Back – Hirokazu Koreeda

1964 Pop Art Award
The Girl with the Leica – Alina Marazzi

Airone della Laguna Award – Best Film
Falling House – Mohsen Gharaei (Iran/USA/Germany)

Airone della Laguna Award – Best Short Film
Silence – Pavlo Shpegun (Ukraine)

Airone della Laguna Award – Special Mentions
Il senso della terra – Alessandro Ingaria, Simone Massi (Italy, short film)
Los Poderes – Salim Jaller (Colombia/France, short film)

Impact Golden Globes Prize for Documentary
Letters from the Silenced Country – Andrei Kutsila (Poland/Germany/Lithuania)

NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film
Lovers in the Blue Night – Anuparna Roy (India/USA)

NUOVOIMAIE Talent Award – Premio Fabio Sartor – Best Actress
Gaia Merlonghi – The City of the Living (Italy)

NUOVOIMAIE Talent Award – Premio Fabio Sartor – Best Actor
Piero Usberti – Before the War (France/Italy)

La Pellicola d’Oro Award – Best Chief Engineer
Roberto Di Pietro – The Echo Chamber (Italy/Belgium)

La Pellicola d’Oro Award – Best Machine Operator
Luigi Andrei – It Will Happen Tonight (Italy/France/Spain)

La Pellicola d’Oro Award – Special Mention
Laura Delli Colli

RB Casting Award
Emanuele Maria Di Stefano – The City of the Living

Roma Film Award – Il Lazio per il cinema
Adriano Giannini

Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award – Best Foreign Film
A Good Little Soldier – Stéphane Brizé

Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award – Best Italian Film
Rider – Roan Johnson, Davide Pavanello (Italy)

Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award – Best Director Under 35
Naza – Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

Soundtrack Stars Award – Best Soundtrack
La Niña and Alfredo Maddaluno – The Fire Within You

Soundtrack Stars Award – Special Prize
Daniel Pemberton – Ink (UK/France/USA)

Soundtrack Stars Special Award 2026
Daniel Blumberg and Tredici Pietro