The winners | BFF42
The 42nd edition of Bellaria Film Festival ended last night! Five days of screenings, masterclasses, talks, and much much more… Moments shared and dedicated to film independence. We thank all our viewers of this special edition, without you this festival would not be the same.
Here are the winners:
CASA ROSSA AWARD
Best Italian film
Gli oceani sono i veri continenti by Tommaso Santambrogio
awarded by the giuria giovani
For the poetry that fills and permeates the images, creating spaces and silences that become spaces of thought, for the strength and sacredness of the shots, of the light that animates them, the skill of taking in and restoring reality, for the productive commitment and independent spirit, a contemplative cinema that knows how to take its own time, a collective, non-hierarchical work that can be a point of reference for new ways of filmmaking, for the ability to narrate something seemingly distant, but in fact profoundly universal, because oceans are the true continents.
Special mention for Simone Bozzelli
awarded by the giuria giovani
The Young Jury decided to award a special mention this year. We would like to thank Simone Bozzelli because he succeeds in representing sensitivities and issues common to us, not only through his films but also on the exterior by making his voice heard within a system that does not evolve.
CASA ROSSA INTERNAZIONALE PRIZE
Best international film
On the Go by Maria Gisèle Royo, Julia de Castro
awarded by the jury composed of Federica Illuminati, Tommaso Colliva and Chiara Malta
By unanimous decision “On the Go” wins the Casa Rossa Internazionale prize. A modern punk story, at times unrefined, a film that brings into discourse current themes from original and subversive perspectives.
Special mention
Animal by Sofia Exarchou
awarded by the jury composed of Federica Illuminati, Tommaso Colliva and Chiara Malta
Special Mention goes to the director Sofia Exarchou for having made a film that ticks all the boxes, for its delicate observation and poetic expression of daily life.
SNCCI critic prize
Spirit of Ecstasy by Héléna Klotz
awarded by the jury composed of Joana Fresu de Azevedo, Giuseppe Ghigi, Alessandro Amato
For the film’s stylistic and narrative maturity, the representation of two distant but complimentary worlds. For its ability to connect two multilayered characters who are never reduced to stereotypes.
GABBIANO COMPETITION
Best film
Ludendo docet by Luca Ferri
awarded by the jury consisting of Alessandro Comodin, Carla Vulpiani, Roberto Cavallini
Semmai un pupazzo, in divenire nella sua analisi elegiaca, criticasse la ragion autoptica perché il vino rivela? Il film si rivela nella tensione tra campi regolamentari, dirige e rompe le regole del ping pong, per un pubblico esigente. Che belli i peli pubici, che si trasformano, si raddoppiano e poi si moltiplicano. Cadendo.
Best film for cinematic innovation
Horkos by Marta Anatra
awarded by the jury consisting of Alessandro Comodin, Carla Vulpiani, Roberto Cavallini
The film is a melancholy drift, poetry of a wounded landscape: a heartbreaking portrait of a community struggling between the inescapable blackmail of progress and the nature that endures in spite of it all.
OXILIA 10 PRIZE — in collaboration with Cinema Beltrade in Milan
Horkos by Marta Anatra
For the exploration of landscape as an ethnographic and aesthetic medium in a story of Sardinian and at once Italian and universal struggle, through an original and searching gaze, like a small flower that endures.
Impressio in urbe #3 – Brescia by Giuseppe Spina and Giulia Mazzone
For the technique and style with which they make us discover a more hidden face of Brescia, its oldest part. Frame after frame, the city is revealed and dissolved, time expands and speeds up giving us a kaleidoscopic journey through time and urban space.
MYMOVIES PRIZE
Audience Award to Mycelia by Alessandra Stefani
THREE-MINUTE SHORTS PRIZE
Best green film
Something We Forget to Remember by Valentina Manzoni
Awarded by the jury consisting of Ilaria Malagutti, Francesca Mazzoleni, Davide Vizzini, Matteo Maranzana, Monica Piscaglia.
Through a careful, scientific yet poetic study, the director creates a layered dialogue between past and future by questioning the deep meaning of image creation, from cyanotype to artificial intelligence. More than giving answers it poses questions, in search of what is still natural in the technique.
Best direction
30 anni in 3 minuti by Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
Awarded by the jury consisting of Ilaria Malagutti, Francesca Mazzoleni, Davide Vizzini, Matteo Maranzana, Monica Piscaglia.
Through careful and essential direction, the filmmakers evoke the environmental and human effects of the war over time, thanks to a narrative construction that is revealed only at the finale.
