TRENT. In addition to the official prizes awarded by the international jury and the fifteen special awards, the Trento Film Festival also awards annually two audience awards. The Festival public was able to vote in the MyTFF area of the website, assigning a number of gentians which corresponds to a vote from 1 to 5. The sum of the votes decreed the two winners of the 2024 edition.
The Audience Award Best Mountaineering Film – Rotari He went to Monte Corno – It seemed that I was in the air Of Luca Cococcetta (Italy/2024/72′). The film tells the story of Francesco De Marchi, who on 19 August 1573 climbed, with a small expedition, the impervious and rocky peak of the Corno Grande, on the Gran Sasso, achieving an epic feat for his time: reaching a peak the curiosity to climb what he believed to be the highest mountain in Italy. Narrated in Francesco De Marchi’s own words, with a detailed reconstruction, the film recounts the climb through spectacular images of the climb up the limestone rock of Corno Grande. Born in 1982, Luca Cococcetta was born and studied in L’Aquila. In 2008 he won the selections for the preparatory directing course at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and in 2010 he began producing short films and documentaries with his production company Visioni Future.
The Audience Award Best Feature Film – DAO it was instead assigned to Signs of life Of Leandro Picarella (Italy, Switzerland/2023/106′). In Lignan, a village of few souls in the Saint-Barthelemy Valley in the Aosta Valley, an Astronomical Observatory scans the skies every night. Like a bell tower or a lighthouse, the large telescope marks the time of the small mountain community. In autumn, the astrophysicist Paolo Calcidese moves into the structure as the sole custodian and inhabitant to carry out his scientific research and experiment with new technologies. Due to a technical accident he will be forced to put aside the stars and solitude to dedicate himself to other forms of life not yet considered: human beings. Leandro Picarella is a Sicilian director and screenwriter. His first feature film, Triokala (2015), received numerous reviews in Italy and abroad. Subsequently he wrote and directed Epicentro, which premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival-Critics’ Week. Signs of Life is his third feature film
