The Special Orizzonti Jury Prize has gone to writer/director Amiel Courtin-Wilson, producer Michael Cody and cinematographer Ari Wegner for Ruin. Confirming Amiel’s ownership of the high art- low budget micro-crew feature film Austra-zone.
According to the Venice synopsis, Ruin is
An impressionistic fable of trauma and love, Ruin is the story of Phirun and Sovanna—two lonely young Cambodians living amongst brutal surrounds—their isolated worlds gradually entwined through premonitions of vast bodies of water…. Unable to hold onto the impermanent peace and love cocooning them, they wake from the trauma of their former lives and unleash a violent rage upon the world. Love and death intermingle as they travel deeper into the abyss—the amorphous world strangely transforming around the two young lovers on the run.
