
Tommaso Usberti's film 'Before the War' has won the top prize at Venice Critics' Week, a section dedicated to first works from around the world.
The film is a romance that reflects on racism and toxic masculinity, set in the Northern Italian plains, and tells the story of a young man named Guido.
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