South Korean film Pieta has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.
Pieta, directed by Kim Ki-duk, centres on a debt collector who is forced to examine his life when a woman turns up claiming to be his mother.
On accepting his award, Ki-duk sang a song to the audience while thanking the jury. Speaking after, he said: "This is a song that we Koreans sing when we are sad, when we feel alone, when we feel desperate, but also when we're happy."
The Venice jury, which was headed by US director Michael Mann, picked Hadas Yaron for best actress for Fill the Void, a film delving into the life of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
The best actor award was split between Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix for The Master.