The Voice of Hind Rajab was better than the film which won Venice. But that result wasn’t a cop-out

Audacious … Kaouther Ben Hania with the grand jury prize for The Voice of Hind Rajab. Photograph: Elisabetta A Villa/Getty Images

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.