FIRST PRIZE

Isti’maryah Controvento tra Napoli e Baghdad

Director: Michelangelo Severgnini

MOTIVATIONS:

The documentary describes the big History through small individual stories. For the dialogues built up, for the capacity to face such a strong political theme without fanaticism. For the glimmer of hope that still exist in the chance of choosing as individuals.

Because the documentary interpret in an impeccable way the topic of dialogue, one of the aim of this exhibition.

THE DIRECTOR MICHELE SEVERGNINI RECEIVED THE PRIZE

BEST DOCUMENTARY ISLAM SECTION AWARD

Le Chemins the la Baraka

Directors: Manoel Penicaud, Khamis Mesbah

MOTIVATIONS:

The documentary shows with grace, poetry and anthropological sensitivity an important issue of the Islamic world, popular spirituality.

BEST DOCUMENTARY MEDITERRANEAN SECTION AWARD

Il Senso degli Altri

Director: Marco Bertozzi

MOTIVATIONS:

The documentary describes in an excellent way the concept of migration as human condition and exchange between diversities.

SALVO CUCCIA, DIRECTOR OF THE ALBASUITE PROJECT IN WHICH MARCO BERTOZZI’S DOCUMENTARY IS INCLUDED, RECEIVED THE PRIZE

BEST DIRECTION AWARD

The Virgin of Palermo

Director: Antonio Guidi

MOTIVATIONS:

Thanks to the tuning among different glances, the documentary restores the complexity of a deep-rooted cult catching different aspects of individual devotion.

The black and white choice and the photography technique place this documentary in a time out of time.

THE DIRECTOR ANTONIO GUIDI RECEIVED THE PRIZE

BEST PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

Un metro sotto i pesci

Photography: Michele Mellara

Director: Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi

MOTIVATIONS:

The documentary describes the landscape as a never ending result of the meeting between Nature and History.

ONE OF THE DIRECTORS MICHELE MELLARA SENT US A PIECE OF WRITING:

“I receive this prize with satisfaction. This work about the Po Delta has been very important for me and Alessandro.

People we met in that places, the spaces of visual contemplation, the temporal dimension, rural and antique, all this contributed to the creation of this story through images, which is so important to us. Thanks so much for this award. A big hug, Michele Mellara”

BEST EDITING AWARD

Gaza Souvenirs

Editing: Sabine El Chamaa

Director: Samuel Albaric

MOTIVATIONS:

The documentary succeeds in showing a just narrated story.

THE DIRECTOR SAMUEL ALBARIC RECEIVED THE PRIZE

JURY SPECIAL AWARD

Three  Times Divorced

Director: Ibtisam Mara’ana

MOTIVATIONS:

The obstinate perseverance of the main character in pursuing a fair goal in the name of justice becomes here a metaphor of redemption from every kind of abuse.

JURY SPECIAL MENTION

Karim’s Journey

Director: Christopher Nupen

MOTIVATIONS:

The documentary gives the chance to take part in the education and growth of an unusual intellectual journey.