Normal by Adele Tulli wins the Award for "Best Italian Documentary of the Year" at the third edition of Extra Doc Festival, the competition that intercepts the best expressions of the cinema of reality. Applauded at the 69th Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section, Normal reflects on the surprising conventionality of gender norms: outside the box, original and visually bold, the documentary shows how they are able to define daily action, influencing their gestures, want, behaviors and aspirations. Instead, the "Extra Doc CityFest" award for Best unreleased documentary this year will go to On the trail of Mary
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21° edition of ShorTS International Film Festival- The winners
In the Feature Films section "Faith" by Valentina Pedicini (Italy, 2019) wins with two awards. It ended on Sunday 12 July with the award ceremony live from the Telequattro studios in Trieste and streaming on MYmovies and on the official Facebook page the 21st edition of ShorTS International Film Festival, which also in this online version has seen an extraordinary success with the public, with over 100 thousand views from all over Italy. Large virtual participation from Lombardy, the region that followed the Festival the most online: in second position we find Friuli Venezia Giulia,
Film Critics from SNCCI: "TONY DRIVER" by Ascanio Petrini
"TONY DRIVER" by Ascanio Petrini presented at the 34th SIC in Venice 2019 has been designated Critics Film by the National Union of Italian Film Critics - SNCCI with the following Motivation:. In telling the paradoxical story of Pasquale Donatone, said Tony, born in Bari, raised in the US and "repatriated" to Italy (now a foreign land) for an illegal "passeur" activity on the Mexican border, Ascanio Petrini breaks down the concept of frontier in both geographical terms, than political and linguistic. Film about the absurdity of walls and ban, "Tony Driver" reinvents space according to new and
From DAVID to # NASTRI2020, passing through the Berlinale, the most popular films although blocked by the Pandemic
After the success of Marco Bellocchio with Il Traditore who at the beginning of May to DAVID 2020 in a surreal atmosphere of the ceremony broadcast by RAI with a solo Paolo Conte he repeated the recognition obtained in Taormina last year the candidates for TAPES have now been announced 2020 promoted by the union of film journalists. The Traitor leaves the scene supplanted by the new that advances impersonated by the brothers D'Innocenzo awarded in Berlin just in time before the Film Industry (the western one) stopped completely because of CORONAVIRUS.
25 My Vilnius IFF – Winners Announced streaming
Bold and poetic, "The metamorphosis of birds" Catarina Vasconcelos has won the title of best film in the European competition debut during a live broadcast of the award ceremony. The 25 ° Vilnius IFF has gone digital, by juries that have decided to reward the winners online. Fyzal Boulifa was named Best Director for his perceptive interpretation of the life of the working class "Lynn & Lucy”, with interpretations of Nichola Burley and Roxanne Scrimshaw that have earned him the award for Best Actress. The title
#Cinema from home and Academy of Italian Cinema
#Cinema da casa e Accademia del Cinema Italiano – Premi David di Donatello insieme per festeggiare le grandi protagoniste del cinema italiano Venerdì 3 April, the windows of Rome, Torino, Bologna and Catania merged into one "Special David" live programming to the window will be guests Piera Detassis and Elena Sofia Ricci . #Cinema from home, film flash mob organized by Alice in the City, opens its third week of release with a special evening that will combine the windows across Italy, from Rome to Turin, from Bologna to Catania. Together
CPH: DOX International Documentary Film Festival: Mention special SJÄLÖ – Island of Souls
SEILI - Island of Souls received a special mention by the jury NORDIC: DOX. The writer of the film and Finnish director Lotta Petronella had its world premiere in the digital edition version of this year's festival. The NORDIC competition: DOX Award presents a selection of documentaries in the Nordic countries, reflecting the diversity of the films with a clear vision and a personal touch. SEILI, that means island of the soul, was the fate of countless women for hundreds of years isolated in the hospital in the Baltic Sea island of Själö. With a
SPECIAL 70th #BERLINALE # 17- 20.02/01.03/2020: (DAY 11): THE PRICES
The Berlinale awards the Iranian film sheytan vojud nadarad for the courageous statement on the lack of HUMAN RIGHTS in that country. Italian At the movies the recognition of the Jury (Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful - Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale) At the conclusion of the most popular festival of the Old Continent with almost 400 films such as the verdict of the International Jury was balanced as can be seen by awards. In fact, after a long wait here Prizes decreed by the various juries that reflect a
SPECIAL 70th #BERLINALE #13 – 20.02/01.03/2020: (DAYS8&9): I Premi GENERATION e PDK
(Berlin Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful - Photos are published courtesy of the Berlinale) The two PDK and Generation sections that meet the favor of the Berlin public ended with the awarding of prizes: In fact, it was concluded yesterday the festival Generation with the awards and Crystal Bears assignment and Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (The Federal Agency for Civic Education) Awards in Generation 14plus I membri della giuria della sezione Generation 14plus - Julina Jung, Ion Kebernik, Shahida Kitzov, Lucia on, Rocco Mehlhose, Mette Maren
The Month of Documentary VI edition. – Audience Award to The CAVE
The prize was awarded on the basis of votes cast within the projections around Italy in the VI edition. of The Month of the Documentary film The Cave Feras Fayyad. The director Feras Fayyad (already nominated for Last Men in Aleppo) returns to his hometown to pursue a team of doctors who treat the victims tirelessly in an underground hospital while fighting sexism systemic. The documentary takes the viewer on an underground landscape similar to the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max (1979), a network of secret tunnels under