Michael Cascio, senior vice president of production for the channel, said the abundance of programming just makes sense.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Italian actors picked up the best actor and actress categories - Luigi Lo Cascio won for Luce dei miei Occhi (Light of My Eyes), about a lonely young man and his obsession with a single mother.

BBC: Indian film scoops top Venice prize

We follow the aging of the Carati parents and the progress of their four children above all, of Nicola (Luigi Lo Cascio), smiling and slightly guarded, who grows up to be a psychologist, and of his handsome brother Matteo (Alessio Boni), whose rage for order finds him joining the police.

NEWYORKER: The Best of Youth