I PREMI UFFICIALI / OFFICIAL AWARDS
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
The jury of the Feature Film Competition, chaired by Margaret Mazzantini (Italy) and composed of Milcho Manchevski (Macedonia), Anne Parillaud (France), Giovanni Spagnoletti (Italy), and Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland), award the following prizes:
• Best Film (20,000 Euros) to: HOLY ROSITA by Wannes Destoop
• Special Jury Prize IWONDERFULL (7,000 Euros) to: VENA by Chiara Fleischhacker
• Best Screenplay to: L’AIGUILLE/THE NEEDLE by Abdelhamid Bouchnack
• Best performance 1: Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, Christine Albeck Børge, Karen-Lise Mynster in MADAME IDA
• Best performance 2: River Gallo in PONYBOI
• Mention to DISSIDENT by Stanislav Gurenko and Andrii Al’ferov
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
The jury of the Documentary Competition, chaired by Roberta Torre (Italy) and composed of KD Davison (United States) and Federico Gironi (Italy), awards the prizes:
• Best Film (10,000 Euros) to: LE RETOUR DU PROJECTIONNISTE by Orkhan Aghazadeh
• Special Jury Prize ex aequo to:
I’M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE by Klára Tasovská
THE BRINK OF DREAMS by Ayman El Amir, Nada Riyadh
• Mention to HIGHER THAN ACIDIC CLOUDS by Ali Asgari
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
The jury of the Short Film Competition, chaired by Michela Cescon (Italy) and composed of Darko Perić (Serbia) and Nicola Nocella (Italy), awards the prizes:
• Best Film (3,000 Euros) to: WALK IN by Haneol Park, for the movie’s ability to portray an unexpected dimension with a personal and impeccable style, with highpoints of pure poetry.
• Special Jury Prize to: FIRE DRILL by Maximilian Villwock
• Mention to SOMEONE’S TRYING TO GET IN by Colin Nixon
FIPRESCI PRIZE
The jury composed of the film critics Marco Lombardi (Italy), Giuseppe Di Salvatore (Switzerland), Massimo Arciresi (Italy) award the FIPRESCI prize (International Film Critics Award) to:
VENA by Chiara Fleischhacker
With the following motivation:
“For its ability to transform the intense story of a pregnancy into a plausible pathway of salvation from addiction, thanks to a very compassionate performance, a story with strong emotional impact, and editing that expertly marks the tempo of the narration, comprehensive signs of a directorial maturity that is uncommon in a first film.”
