Australian film Ruin, a surreal and meditative love story filmed in Cambodia, won a special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday night. Ruin, directed by Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody, was shot on a shoestring budget with Khmer-speaking actors. The directors and cinematographer Ari Wegner were awarded the prize in the festival’s cutting-edge Horizons section.

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