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. BEST FILM - WORLD PROBLEMS:
PARTTALAN - SHORE-LESS di Sàmuel Visky [Romania]
For the technical and emotional skills of a young yet already
extremely talented director and his ability to dig into a complex and
universal theme with gentleness and sensitivity.
. BEST FILM - ACTIVE EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP:
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF PANIKOS CHRISANTHOU di Spiros Christofi e George Kasolas [ Cyprus ]
A brave report with a precise and skilled use of the medium. The young
and talented director shows us the issues and contradictions of an
occupied country at the dawn of its entry into the European community.
. BEST FILM - THE WORLD OF YOUNG VOLUNTEERS:
KEY OF SOL di Movie and Photografy Team, mentor: Marija Apcevska [Macedonia]
The European volunteering projects can represent an important chance to
get to know better different European realities. Cinema is a
communication and research medium. Therefore, we award this movie for
its effectiveness in joining the volunteering experience to the desire
of highlighting the revealing traits of a local reality in which we see
glimpses of the universal one.
. BEST FILM - INTERCULTURALITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY:
[Ex equo] UROPEANS - di Ivan Menkachev e Zoran Misevski [ Bulgaria ]
For its ability to portrait with disarming irony an often forgotten
European reality. For its truthfulness that reveals all the affinities
with our rural areas.
[Ex equo] ARAFAT AND I di Mahdi Fleifel [ UK-Palestine ]
A love story between a Palestinian Arab and an English girl becomes the
starting point to analyze cultural diversity and its difficulties. The
whole thing is done in a witty and effective way, through the use of
brilliant dialogues, excellent photography and humour.
. size_S AWARD – LA NUOVA TV:
VIETATO FERMARSI – Don’t Stop di Pierluigi Ferrandini [Italy]
Through an ironic and evocative directing along with an elegant use of
photography and images, the short movie presents a sociopolitcal theme:
that of a Communism which seems to be out of date. The collective
social fight is replaced by an individualistic one.
. ITALIAN AWARD, PREMIO DI RAPPRESENTANZA GIORGIO NAPOLITANO:
CHILDREN OF MANìLA di Alessandro Molatore [Ireland – Philippines - Italy]
Technically effective and moving, the documentary is an accurate
testimony of the efforts of a group of volunteers operating among
millions of street children in Manila.
. POTENZA CITTA’ CULTURA AWARD:
6.5 MINUTES IN TEL AVIV di Mirey Brantz [Israel]
Through a brilliant directing, a flawless editing and a fine
photography, the movie shows a slice of life in Tel Aviv. In the short
lapse of six and a half minutes, anxiety and fear of terrorism replace
hopes of Cultural Integration.
. MENZIONE SPECIALE:
[Ex equo] LE PETITE MORT - THE LITTLE DEATH di Zsalt Kato [Romania]
The excellent script, along with an intense and brilliant acting, make
this an extremely well shot movie, which faces - with sincere and
analytic depth- a very intimate but universal story. Overall, the movie
turns out to be very coherent and convincing.
[Ex equo] 3 DNY – 3 DAYS di Zuzana Dubivà [Czech Republic]
The fleeting but intense relationship between Laura and Andrey becomes
the starting point to examine the human soul, revealing to the audience
its more subtle pulses. Featuring young talented actors and a director
with a distinctive personality, this movie is a little but powerful
example of great cinema.
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