The 60th edition of the International New Cinema Exhibition in Pesaro has just ended with great public success, coinciding this year with Pesaro Capital of Culture and also available online on MYmovies ONE until next 24 June (WATCH FILMS IN STREAMING NOW)
Director Pedro Armocida declares: “I couldn’t have imagined anything better for this important anniversary, it was an edition, which I wanted to dedicate to Adriano Aprà, which was well attended and felt by the public, students, film enthusiasts and the numerous guests who attended to demonstrate that the passion for the cinema of the past, present and future is more alive than ever”.
The three juries of the official competition met and each announced their winners.
INTERNATIONAL JURY PRIZE
The international jury, composed of internationally renowned personalities – Luís Miñarro, Júlio Bressane and Myriam Mézières – has declared the winner of the INTERNATIONAL JURY PRIZE of the 60th edition of the Venice International Film Festival Slow Shift by Shambhavi Kaul because he witnesses the architecture of time, of the wind and of the world before and after men.
Director Shambhavi Kaul declares: “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 soldier’s lagoon by Pablo Alvarez-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 by Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau because it asks the viewer about the urgent need to act and react to the manipulation orchestrated by power.
YOUNG JURY PRIZE
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, has chosen to award the YOUNG JURY PRIZE Hexams Heads by Chloë 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 by Kamal Aljafari for his 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 by 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.
SNCCI AWARD
The jury composed of critics from the National Union of Italian Critics – Emanuele Di Nicola, Arianna Vietina and Sarah Van Put – awarded the AWARD OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF ITALIAN FILM CRITICS (SNCCI) to At Fidai Film by 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 Hexams Heads by Chloë 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.
BEST VIDEO CLIP
The Vedomusica section dedicated to video clips, with the jury composed of Fiaba Di Martino, Fabio Bobbio, Carlo Griseri awards Vitamin Life – Tripolar directed by Simone Bozzelli, with the following motivation: “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 Tripolare 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”.
LINO MICCICHÉ AWARD
The following awards were also presented to the winners of the LINO MICCICHÉ AWARD FOR FILM CRITICS, a competition organized by the National Union of Italian Film Critics – Emilia-Romagna Marche Group together with the festival.
SECTION A – YOUNG PEOPLE (reserved for secondary school students):
1st PRIZE Alessia Veronica Giardina for the critical essay on the film “The Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer (present at the award ceremony)
2nd PRIZE Tancredi Calzoni for the critical essay on the film “Poor Creatures” by Yorgos Lanthimos
3rd PRIZE Ginevra Bartuccio for the critical essay on the film “The Boy and the Heron” by Hayao Miyazaki (present at the award 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” by Tommaso Santambrogio (present at the award ceremony)
2nd PRIZE Gjokaj Romeo for the critical essay on “Beau is afraid” by Ari Aster (present at the award ceremony)
3rd PRIZE Martina Bani for the critical essay on the film “La chimera” by Alice Rohrwacher
(RE)EDITING COMPETITION
The (Re)Montages competition Cinema through images, curated by Andrea Minuz and Chiara Grizzaffi and its jury composed of Fiaba Di Martino, Fabio Bobbio, Carlo Griseri, awarded the prize to Chantal Akerman: The private and the public by Tiziana Rovere, Elena Lacunza Sanabdón, Chiara Cucciniello Gómez, Stella Capolicchio with the following motivation: “The Private and the Public, the private and the public, is the dualism that forges (annulling itself in it) Chantal Akerman’s cinema-self-portrait. 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 the special mention to My Love Letter to Spirited Away by 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 expresses ideas and reflections on Spirited Away better than many more ‘detached’ texts”.
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The best animation work of the PESARO FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUS curated by Giulietta Fara was also awarded. 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 royale des courants d’air by Benoit Chieux.
