Lion of the Future
Venice Film Festival award
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The Lion of the Future, also known as Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film, is an official award of the Venice Film Festival. Inspired by Cannes' Caméra d'Or, it is awarded to the best first feature film work presented in any section of the festival.
| Lion of the Future | |
|---|---|
2025 recipient: Nastia Korkia | |
| Awarded for | Best first feature film |
| Country | Italy |
| Presented by | Venice Film Festival |
| First award | 1999 |
| Currently held by | Short Summer by Nastia Korkia (2025) |
Among its winners are: Abdellatif Kechiche, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Brady Corbet, Xavier Legrand and Alice Diop.
Winners
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1990s
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | This Is the Garden | Questo è il giardino | Giovanni Maderna | Italy |
2000s
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Poetical Refugee | La Faute à Voltaire | Abdellatif Kechiche | France |
| 2001 | Bread and Milk | Kruh in mleko | Jan Cvitkovic and Danijel Hocevar | Slovenia |
| 2002 | Two Friends | Due Amici | Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli | Italy |
| Roger Dodger | Dylan Kidd | United States | ||
| 2003 | The Return | Возвращение | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| 2004 | The Great Journey | Le Grand Voyage | Ismaël Ferroukhi | France, Morocco, Bulgaria, Turkey |
| 2005 | 13 Tzameti | Géla Babluani | France | |
| 2006 | Khadak | Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens | Belgium, Germany, Holland | |
| 2007 | The Zone | La zona | Rodrigo Plá | Spain, Mexico |
| 2008 | Mid-August Lunch | Pranzo di ferragosto | Gianni Di Gregorio | Italy |
| 2009 | Clash | Engkwentro | Pepe Diokno | Philippines |
2010s
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Majority | Cogunluk | Seren Yüce | Turkey |
| 2011 | Là-bas: A Criminal Education | Là-bas - Educazione criminale | Guido Lombardi | Italy |
| 2012 | Mold | Küf | Ali Aydin | Turkey, Germany |
| 2013 | White Shadow | Noaz Deshe | Italy, Germany, Tanzania | |
| 2014 | Court | Chaitanya Tamhane | India | |
| 2015 | The Childhood of a Leader | Brady Corbet | United States, United Kingdom, Hungary, Sweden, France, Canada, Belgium | |
| 2016 | The Last of Us | آخر واحد فينا | Ala Eddine Slim | Lebanon, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates |
| 2017 | Custody | Jusqu'à la garde | Xavier Legrand | France |
| 2018 | The Day I Lost My Shadow | يوم أضعت ظلي | Soudade Kaadan | Syria, Lebanon, France, Qatar |
| 2019 | You Will Die at Twenty | ستموت في العشرين | Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway |
2020s
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Listen[1] | Ana Rocha de Sousa | United Kingdom, Portugal | |
| 2021 | Immaculate[2] | Imaculat | Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark | Romania |
| 2022 | Saint Omer[3] | Alice Diop | France | |
| 2023 | Love Is a Gun[4] | 愛是一把槍 | Lee Hong-chi | Hong Kong, Taiwan |
| 2024 | Familiar Touch[5] | Sarah Friedland | United States | |
| 2025 | Short Summer[6] | Nastia Korkia | Germany, France, Serbia | |
Other winners
Special mentions
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Bye Bye Africa | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad, France | |
| 2004 | Saimir | Francesco Munzi | Italy | |
| 2006 | 7 Years | 7 Ans | Jean-Pascal Hattu | France |