It was concluded last Saturday's edition 2017 Giffoni Film Festival. For this edition were 4600 the jurors that among the red chairs of four different cinemas were able to compare, discuss, sometimes even change your mind, examining 101 titles feature films, short films and documentaries selected from over 4500 received under preselection. From impossible missions and daring to the mysteries surrounding places infested by ghosts, passing for much more sensitive issues such as the work of mourning, the affirmation of the "self" in the transition from childhood to adulthood and the fight against the disease with courage and determination: This is the heart of the six films of the Gryphon Award winners 2017.

For the Elements section +6 triumph was MASTER SPY (2016, Netherlands - delivered from Incredible Film) di Pieter Van Rijn: Tim, 10 years, it is catapulted into a world of special missions and to solve crimes with Simon, a hibernated light 'coming' from 1973. Change of gender for the work elected by Elements +10 con ROOM 213 (2017, Sweden - distributed by Media Luna New Films) di Emelie Lindblom: in the room 213 a summer camp seems to hover a mysterious spirit ready to persecute guests. I Generator +13 Instead they chose to reward THE BACHELORS (Usa, 2017 - distributed by Fortitude Int'l) di Kurt Voelker, work focused on the development of mourning approached from different points of view. The cast actor Josh Wiggins along with Julie Delpy and an Academy Award J.K. Simmons (Best Supporting Actor for "Whiplash", winning film 3 statues in 2015). Ad incoronare DO IT RIGHT (France, 2017 - distributed by Films Distribution), directed by Chad Chenouga, instead, were the Generator + 16. In the work we meet the sixteen year old Nassim, entrusted to a family home at the death of his mother: not to be toghether “social cases”, the boy will invent another life. Obstacles to be overcome for the feature film selected by Generator + 18, con GARDEN LANE (Sweden, 2017) Olof Spaak in which we are shown the meeting between Eric and Elen who, after living together as children with their parents addicts, They find themselves as adults face a shared past. Last winner for the section Doc Gex, totally dedicated to documentaries, è EVERYDAYS HEROES (France, 2016 - distributed by TF1 Studio) Anne-Dauphine Julliand, History of small brave heroes who fight daily against serious diseases.

Among the honorable mentions awarded for Generator Section +13 The Socio-cultural Youth Cineclubs Award - "Best Creative 2017" in WALKING OUT Alex & Andrew Smith (Usa) "Because the film is, avoiding conventional simplifications, the theme of the difficult recovery of the relationship parent / child, undermined by not only geographical distance between the two ". The Aluminum Grifone - Cial Prize (Aluminum Packaging Consortium) environmental went inveceall'opera LANE 1974 SJ Chiro (Usa) Generator section of the +16. Cial The group has decided to award the film "for the approach that the director has no filters used to highlight the relationship between a territory known a few young, forced to live in areas that seem to open and free but in reality prove castrating and full of contradictions, in a nature that makes them outsiders than their peers ". Last special recognition is the Amnesty International Award, assigned to the documentary section of Gex Doc THEY CALL US MONSTERS Ben Lear (USA) "For having addressed the issue of the possible reinstatement of some boys in society, guilty of violent crimes, but tried as adults ".