PESARO – The 60th edition of the International Exhibition of New Cinemacreated this year in conjunction with Pesaro Capital of Culture and with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture – General Directorate of Cinema and Audiovisual, the Municipality of Pesaro and the Marche Region. “I couldn’t have imagined anything better for this important anniversary” declared the Director Pedro Armocida. “It was an edition that I wanted to dedicate to Adriano Aprà, much participated and felt by the public, students, film enthusiasts and the numerous guests who attended, demonstrating that the passion for the cinema of the past, present and future is more alive than ever”. After the winners were announced, Luca Guadagninoguest of honor and Pesaro 60 Special Prize winner, introduced the screening of his latest film in Piazza del Popolo Challengers.
The international jury, made up of internationally renowned personalities – Luis Minarro, Júlio Bressane And Myriam Mézières – declared the winner of the International Jury Award of the 60th edition of the International Exhibition of New Cinema Slow Shift Of Shambhavi Kaul because it bears witness to the architecture of time, of the wind and of the world before and after men.
The director declares Slow Shift, Shambhavi Kaul: “I am truly honored to receive this award. I thank the festival organizers, the selection committee and the jury. For me, it was already an honor to have been selected in a legendary festival, which supported cinema internationally, without compromise. Even from India, where I first heard about the festival. And it is thinking about this story, this unique competition, that I feel particularly enthusiastic about receiving this award. I am happy not only for myself, but also for my excellent collaborators. And I’m happy for all the filmmakers in the world who break the mold and take risks.”
In addition to the main prize, the jury determined two special mentions: the first special mention goes to The Soldado Lagoon Of Pablo Álvarez Mesa for his profound sensitivity and his simple and powerful poetry about a place, its tragic history and its inhabitants; the second special mention goes to Direct Action Of Ben Russell And Guillaume Cailleau because it challenges the viewer on the urgent need to act and react to the manipulation orchestrated by power.
The young jury, made up of students from universities throughout Italy with courses in the history of cinema and from the main film schools and fine arts academies, chose to award the Young Jury Award Hexham Heads Of Chloe Delanghe And Mattijs Driesen for his ability to recode a genre starting from its stereotypes. Thinking about the relationship between spectator and image, the film causes disorientation through the coexistence of different audiovisual languages.
Honorable mention for At Fidai Film Of Kamal Aljafari for the ability to sabotage and revitalize the audiovisual and literary repertoire through research and editing work that diachronically constructs time, restoring historical dignity to a culturally defrauded people.
Special mention to Radiance Of Shuhei Hatano for sharing the intimate religiosity of small things, stimulating multiple sensory spheres and allowing the viewer to empathically participate in the synesthetic flow of his memory.
The jury composed of critics from the National Union of Italian Critics – Emanuele Di Nicola, Arianna Vietina And Sarah VanPut – assigned the Award of the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) to At Fidai Film Of Kamal Aljafari with the following motivation: for the vigorous work in recovering the documents that restore the identity and dignity of a people and for the ability to powerfully (re)build the missing image.
The jury decreed the special mention for Hexham Heads Of Chloe Delanghe And Mattijs Driesen for the following motivation: for the extraordinary technical ability in the use of the image which manages to touch the deepest anxieties.
The section Vedomusicadedicated to video clips, with the jury composed of Martino’s fairy tale, Fabio Bobbio And Carlo Griseri rewards Vitamin Life – Tripolar directed by Simone Bozzelliwith the following motivation: By combining different shooting techniques and focusing on an essential staging, Bozzelli focuses his gaze on the portrait of the body (of bodies), projecting the musical performance of Tripolar in a kaleidoscopic flow of images and rhythms. The result is a hypnotic and original work, which confirms the author’s talent in knowing how to create and give us generational visual imaginaries.
The following awards were also presented to the winners of the Lino Miccichè Award for film criticisma competition organized by the National Union of Italian Film Critics – Emilia-Romagna Marche Group together with the festival.
Section A – Very young people (reserved for secondary school students):
•1st Prize: Alessia Veronica Giardina for the critical essay on the film The area of interest Of Jonathan Glazer (present at the awards ceremony)
•2nd Prize: Tancredi Calzoni for the critical essay on the film Poor creatures Of Yorgos Lanthimos
•3rd Prize: Ginevra Bartuccio for the critical essay on the film The boy and the heron Of Hayao Miyazaki (present at the awards ceremony)
Section B – Young people (reserved for students of universities, film schools, academies of fine arts, conservatories, ISIA, members of film associations):
•1st Prize: Ailen Pasos for the critical essay on the film The oceans are the true continents Of Tommaso Santambrogio (present at the awards ceremony)
•2nd Prize: Gjokaj Romeo for the critical essay on Beau is scared Of Ari Aster (present at the awards ceremony)
•3rd Prize: Martina Bani for the critical essay on the film The chimera Of Alice Rohrwacher
Competition (Re)Montages: Cinema through imagesedited by Andrea Minuz And Chiara Grizzaffiand its jury composed of Martino’s fairy tale, Fabio Bobbio And Carlo Griseriawarded the prize to Chantal Akerman: The Private and the Public Of Tiziana Rovere, Elena Lacunza Sanabdon, Chiara Cucciniello Gómez, Stella Capolicchio with the following motivation: The Private and the Publicthe private and the public, is the dualism that forges (annulling itself in it) the cinema-self-portrait of Chantal Akerman. This eight-handed video essay summarizes him and pays homage, between sobriety and sharing, to his personal (and occasional) experience through a juxtaposition of images from News From Home And No Home Movie.
From the jurors, special mention to My Love Letter to Spirited Away Of Jasmyne Le with the following motivation: There are no parameters to judge love, there are no rules to put it into words: you need sincerity, you need to put aside the fear of exposing yourself, you need to line up the words that come directly from the heart. The love for a film becomes a text, its author does not think about it on a critical level but she expresses ideas and reflections on it The enchanted city better than many more ‘detached’ texts.
Also awarded the best animated film of Pesaro Film Festival Circusedited by Giulietta Fara. After a week of creative workshops with the creation of three animations and a treasure hunt through the streets of Pesaro, the jury of boys and girls awarded the best animated film of this edition Sirocco et le Royaume des Courants d’Air Of Benoit Chieux.
