The Voice of Hind Rajab should have won Venice’s top prize. But the result wasn’t a cop

There are standing ovations and there are jury decisions.

Jim Jarmusch’s droll, quirky, very charming film Father Mother Sister Brother got a mere six minutes for its standing ovation at Venice – though one day we’re going to have to introduce some Olympic-style standardisation to these timings. But it got the top prize, the Golden Lion, from Alexander Payne’s jury.

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine (15 minutes), with Dwayne Johnson as a troubled MMA fighter, got best director. Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia (six minutes) got Toni Servillo the best actor prize, for his elegant fictional Italian president. And Cai Shangjun’s The Sun Rises on Us All (whose standing-O doesn’t appear to have troubled the scorer) got best actress for Xin Zhilei. Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Bro