Samuel Maoz Samuel Maoz Samuel Maoz (Hebrew: שמואל מעוז; born c. 1962) is an Israeli film director. His 2009 film, "Lebanon" won the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Screenplay for Lebanon at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2010. Shmuel (Shmuel) Maoz was born in Tel Aviv. At the age of 20, he was a gunner in one of the first Israeli tanks to enter Lebanon in the 1982 Lebanon War. After the war, he trained as a cameraman at the Beit Zvi theater school, and did art direction in film
68th Venice International Film Festival by Whit Stillman. The international juries of the 68th Venice International Film Festival were composed as follows: Main competition (Venezia 68) Horizons (Orizzonti) Controcampo Italiano Opera Prima (Venice Award for a Debut Film) The following films were selected to compete for the Golden Lion: The following films were shown out of competition: The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section: The following films, representing "new trends in Italian cinema", were screened in this section: In competition Out of competition The following films were screened for this section: The following films were screened as part of the Venice Days