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

Through the eyes of twins Esthappen and Rahel, we try to make sense of their lonely, lovely divorced mother, Ammu, and a host of characters that includes a Marxist pickle baron.

CNN: The start Of something big?

But as my foot touched the ground of my beloved Pakistan for the first time after eight lonely and difficult years of exile, I could not stop the tears from pouring from my eyes and I lifted my hands in reverence, in thanks, and in prayer.

NPR: Memoir: Bhutto Knew of Dangers in Her Return