All the awards from the two juries of the 2017 edition

 

The International Jury and the Italian Jury of the Ischia Film Festival have chosen the winners of the 15th Ischia Film Festival.

 

The International Jury, composed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi, director and screenwriter Miguel Barros and producer Dagmar Jacobsen, deliberated:

 

Ischia Film Award for Best Feature Film

IMMORTALITY by Mehdi Fard Ghaderi

 

Motivation of the jury

Let's give this movie the best feature film award for the brave use of a single location in a single shot. Beyond his mastery, we recognize that it is a well-written and recited movie whose purpose is to provide a unique fresco in modern Iran. What a success!

Special mention to:

 

Aragonese Castle Award for Best Director

Alessandro Aronadio for the ORECCHIE movie

 

Motivation of the jury

We reccomend mr. Aronadio for the best director because we believe his film uses humorous tension and imagination in a well-balanced way, the story proceeds rhythmically by getting a really well-built movie.

Epomeo Award for Cinematographic Photography

Rocco Marra and Roberta Allegrini for the movie CAINA

 

Motivation of the jury

We consider Cain's cinematography a faithful mirror of cruelty and the lack of empathy that the film itself denounces. The camera keeps the distance, the camera just looks. Images are gray, inconsistent, dark, lightless, hopeless.

Avenir at the best scenery

George Thomson for the movie LE MONDE DONT ON REVE N'EXISTE PAS

 

Motivation of the jury

Choosing the landscape - an unspoilt nature in which people still have time to live in contrast to a modern apartment in a chaotic city - is perfect for telling the story of a fleeing world.

Ischia Film Award for Best Short Film

SELFIE by David M. Lorenz

 

Motivation of the jury

We award this film for the best short film for the precise use of modern technologies, for the intelligent use of parallel mounting and for the clear and far-sighted use of film discourse in such a limited time. What a hit!

Special mention to:

THE SILENCE OF Farnoosh Samedi and Ali Asgari

THE TRANSFER by Michael Grudsky

 

Motivation of the jury

We have decided to give the special mention for these two exceptional shorts that underline the need for communication in such tangled society. Both works, albeit very different, offer a clear statement of strong and powerful princes.

The Italian Jury, composed by film critic Gianni Canova, journalist Franco Dassisti and stage designer Daniela Ciancio, has deliberated:

 

Ischia Film Award at Best Documentary

UNWANTED HERITAGE by Irena Skoric

 

Motivation of the jury

"The maturity of a society can be measured by the relationship it establishes with the legacy of its past."

So it sounds like the phrase of architect Tomislav Premerl that opens this film. A meticulous work to reconstruct a relationship with an uncomfortable artistic-monumental legacy, which director Irena Skoric did not compromise with that time, for reasons of memories, began with a game: to complete a figurine album of the monuments of former Yugoslavia Tito. Wet testimonies of a past that was "daily" for many generations, now neglected or abandoned. And so, "I have it, I miss it", the director tells us the relationship that people and the territory of Croatia have kept with that History. And why it is important not to destroy the signs, especially those of artistic value, capable of more than others, to tell an age. Not to become like those who, by iconoclastic fury, destroy masterpieces of humanity like those of Palmira.

 

Special mention to:

ANOTHER ME by Claudio Casazza

 

Motivation of the jury

Often documentaries are content with the urgency of "telling" what. Claudio Casazza in Another also questions me also and above all about "how" to tell. His film not only dives into the disturbed universe of prisoners of sexual offenses in Bollate jail but breaks the naturalistic canons of movie language and uses the film syntax (from out of focus to retail) to find A form that calls the spectator into question and interrogates him on what he sees. From this point of view, thanks to the form created by the film, the title - in some way - all concerns us. Another me is, after all, each one of us.

 

BAYER Location Negata Location

THE INVISIBLE CITY [KAKUMA] by Lieven Corthouts

 

Motivation of the jury

Kakuma means "Nothing". In fact, Kakuma is a ghost town, grown up in nothingness, and soon became a place of hope and suffering. Director Lieven Courthouts, following with a pronounced poetic vein the affair of u

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