OFFICIAL AWARDS
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
The jury of the Feature Film Competition, chaired by Ippolita di Majo (Italy) and composed of Lolita Chammah (France), Wannes Destoop (Belgium), Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine), and Giona Nazzaro (Italy), award the following prizes:
- Best Film (20,000 Euros): THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS by Morgan Knibbe.
- Special Jury Prize (7,000 Euros): IDA WHO SANG SO BADLY EVEN THE DEAD ROSE UP AND JOINED HER IN SONG by Ester Ivakič.
- Best Screenplay: AILLEURS LA NUIT by Marianne Métivier.
- Best Performances: Sadie Scott (FUCKTOYS) and Maria Wróbel (QUE MA VOLONTÉ SOIT FAITE).
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The jury of the Documentary Competition, chaired by Giovanna Gagliardo (Italy) and composed of Orkhan Aghazadeh (Azerbaijan) and Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio (Italy), award the following prizes:
- Best Film (10,000 Euros): SEEDS by Brittany Shyne.
Motivation: “For its ability to use powerful images to recount the daily life of a community forced to endure the hypocrisy of the words of the laws.” - Special Jury Prize: COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! by Amber Fares.
Motivation: “How irony can be used to recount the complexity of a tragedy.” - Special Mention: BOBÒ by Pippo Delbono.
Motivation: “We are grateful for the wisdom that lies in madness.”
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
The jury of the Short Film Competition, chaired by Lina Sastri (Italy) and composed of Paolo Spina (Italy) and Sergio Toffetti (Italy), award the following prizes:
- Best Film (3,000 Euros): WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, ZARINA? by Camila Sagyntkan.
Motivation: “Camila Sagyntkan, with sensitivity and courage, tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl who gets pregnant after being raped. A meticulous mise-en-scène interweaves the contradictions of a patriarchal family, social injustice, and the psychological drama of Zarina, in an intense performance by Yenlik Kozike, who is tempted to shoulder a feeling of guilt that is accentuated by her community’s archaic prejudices.” - Special Jury Prize: 175 by Sepehr Nosrati.
Motivation: “With a remarkably striking and dynamic mise-en-scène, Nosrati confronts us with the contradictions of one of the key topics of European politics and society, immigration.” - Special Mention: FIN by Ward Kayyal.
Motivation: “For having translated, with touching synthesis, the dialectic between war and normality in the Palestinian drama.”
FIPRESCI PRIZE
The jury composed of the film critics Igor Angjelkov (Macedonia), Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi (Italy), and Paul Risker (United Kingdom), award the FIPRESCI Prize (International Film Critics Award) to:
THE ANATOMY OF THE HORSES di Daniel Vidal Toche.
Motivation: “The film reflects on a necessary truth: revolution is made of action and bloodshed, but it is a frame of mind that is destined to failure. This sensitive exploration of indigenous culture comes to life through a magical realism, drawing from the spirit of Eadweard Muybridge. Like a work of visual poetry, unassailable by time, the film shows that what has been held in captivity by man is freer that the human being.”
