AND I am Captain the best film of the 69th edition of the David di Donatello. Matteo Garrone he also won as best director and his film about the via crucis of two boys from Senegal to Italy, Silver Lion at Venice 80, took home 7 of the 15 nominations. «This film was born from the idea of listening to those who are usually not listened to. It was important to do it with those who lived this contemporary odyssey. All the extras were migrants who had made that journey. I often found myself co-directing with them. I was a director but also a spectator. If the film has come this far it is thanks to the interpretation of Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall”, said the director, closing with a wish (“it’s time for cinema to be taught in school”), and passing the word to his Mamadou Kovassi Idris, which the story is inspired by. «This is my story and that of many people who risk their lives to seek a better future. This film has toured the world. I thank the NGOs that save human lives at sea and on land.” And he adds: “Enough deaths in Palestine.” Seydou dedicates all the awards received by the film “to those who died in the desert and in the Mediterranean”.
Paola Cortellesi wins with There’s still tomorrow among the first works (dedicated to his daughter, «Lauretta è per te») and of the 19 nominations (a record for a debut) he won 6. Starting from the only safety before the start of the ceremony from Theater 5 of Cinecittà, in live on Rai 1, the viewer’s David. «Thanks to the 5 million people who made the heroic gesture of leaving their homes and trusting a bizarre black and white story with beatings and dancing. In particular, the lady from Genoa who told me: I was a Delia but now I’m no longer one.” The speech was the only one he had prepared. And so she goes to the imprint when she returns to the stage to collect the awards for best adapted screenplay and best actress. «It’s all a big deal, I thank the director who gave me this role».
It does an encore, after last year with DroughtEmanuela Fanelli among the supporting actors.
An important double of actors by Elio Germano – who wins his fifth David – for Laf building, on the Ilva of Taranto, the first work by Michele Riondino, awarded as protagonist and supporting character. «This film talks about work, cinema deals too little with it», underlines Germano. «This year Taranto is present with many films shot in Puglia, in Taranto – comments Riondino -. We grew up with the idea that there was no other destiny other than the factory, the steelworks. Cinema is not the alternative but it is an industry, it provides work, it produces wealth. So in our small way we can also do without the factory.” It becomes a trio, with Diodato winning for best song, My land. «I would like to dedicate it to my land, to Taranto, a city that suffers, a land that however continues to show beauty and I invite you to come and see it, I dedicate it to all the citizens of Taranto, those who fought and are no longer here, those who but we feel at our side in the ongoing struggle and those who believe that a different future for our land is possible, thank you very much.”
Five statuettes (out of 11 nominations) for Kidnapped Of Marco Bellocchio including the one for best non-original screenplay written with Susanna Nicchiarelli. He also deserves the David for the most relaxed and witty. «Age makes me moderately satisfied, if I hadn’t been rewarded I would have been moderately dissatisfied – he jokes -. I just hope to have a clear mind for a few more years to make other films.”
Mahmood, with Gold suitwhile Giorgia competed with a medley of songs from George Moroder, one of the two highly acclaimed Davids for their careers. The other went to Milena Vukotic (“Federico Fellini changed my life, from dance to cinema”) e George Moroderand the special one for Vincenzo Mollica (“This is the house of cinema”).
Entered the race as favorite, with 19 nominations for There’s still tomorrow, Paola Cortellesi had put her hand forward. «The success of the film? It’s a beautiful thing, I’m now starting to realize, it’s going to take some time. And maybe someone will never get over it. I believe that one explanation is the topic we discussed, gender violence, which is current not only in Italy.” Her reward, she insists, was public reception. «At the end of the screenings wonderful things always came out. And that’s real life.” Teresa Mannino had warned her that morning at the Quirinale. «Prepare a speech for the evening. After all those nominations, you’re sure to win some awards. You’re like the one who buys twenty cards at the Christmas bingo: both are guaranteed.”
For all candidates, winners and otherwise, a sincere embrace from the President of the Republic in the morning Sergio Mattarella. «We need cinema. Of his sensitivity, his art, his plural visions. The entry of new generations produces new wealth. It expresses freedom, that freedom that must be guaranteed even to those who don’t share our tastes, to those who think differently.”
Piera Detassis, president and artistic director of the Academy of Italian Cinema, relaunches «it was an important year for our cinema. The five tell us about beautiful and powerful films.”
But the 36.6 million euros grossed in 2023 by There’s Still Tomorrow do not erase the difficulties of cinemas, also mentioned by Mattarella. And who knows if the encore, from 9 June to 19 September, of the Cinema Revolution campaign, promoted by the Ministry of Culture, will be enough.
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