And the winner is ...

OPERE NUOVE

- MAIN AWARD "Opere Nuove of the city of Bolzano" to the best film € 1.500 ANDANTE MEZZO FORTE by Annarita Zambiano unanimously: For the reviewing of the subject of education from an unprecedented and particularly original point of view, that is at the same time close to the current problems that interest families and the relationships between generations. The approach is genuine, non-rhetorical, actors are effective and credible in their roles.
- SPECIAL AWARD OF THE JURY € 500 OGGI HO ALTRO DA FARE by Antonello Schioppa For the strength and the effectiveness of the message given, in a society where the issues of job and precariousness are getting more and more important. The choice of the Jury wanted to award the courageous stance proposed by the work and the effectiveness as well as the originality of the used language.
- MENTION IL SUONO DEL BINGO by Bernardo Nuti For the ability of using the stylistic features of the Pulp genre with full mastership.
- MENTION PRIVATUNTERRICHT by Laura Lazzarin For the gracefulness and the effectiveness in the representation of a youth microcosm of a metropolitan universe.
- AUDIENCE AWARD WUNDERKAMMER by Andrea Pallaoro

NO WORDS

- INTERNATIONAL NO WORDS AWARD to the best film € 1.500

LE JOUR DE GLOIRE by Bruno Collet
For the perfect adhesion between stylistic choices and content. The work emphasizes the rhetoric of heroism against the horrors of war, using a mixed technique of great emotional and evocative effectiveness.

- SPECIAL AWARD OF THE JURY € 500

EL EMPLEO by Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
For the originality of the proposed narrative solution for a “classical” subject like the one of manipulation of the individual.

- MENTION

TEMBUR by Hannes Treiber
For the attention given to the violation of human rights (here referred to the Kurdish situation), through a story of immigration and slow regaining of a “normality”.

- MENTION

THIS WAY UP by Smith & Foulkes
For the refined animation that does duty for an amusing and amused black humour.

- AUDIENCE AWARD

EL EMPLEO by Santiago 'Bou' Grasso

SHORTFILMEXPERIMENT

- BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM € 1000

DER SPIEGEL by Keren Cytter
unanimously: For having been able to conjugate the dramaturgy of the textual material with cinema language in a very strong short film.

- SPECIAL AWARD OF THE JURY € 300

DET VISNER by Petter Napstad
For the ability of rousing the audience into a fiction work with a great evocative strength through a delicate experimentation.

- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

NYMPH by Ken Jacobs
Unanimous acknowledgement of the jury to the film Nymph for the contribution given by Ken Jacobs, through all his works, to the experimental cinema and its history.

- AUDIENCE AWARD
MAN OS 1 / EXTRAORDINATEUR by Roland Seidel + Achim Stiermann

BOLZANO SHORTFILMFESTIVAL

- BEST ANIMATION AWARD € 500

MONSIEUR COK by Franck Dion
For the refined graphic execution that allowed to highlight the gloomy atmosphere of an authoritarian and mechanical world, and for the sophisticated animation that, without falling off to decorative mannerisms, typical of 3D, turns out to be effective and expressive.

- YOUTH JURY AWARD € 300

EL EMPLEO by Santiago 'Bou' Grasso
It is an animation that stands out for its naturalness.
The atmosphere that the film is able to create, thanks to the chromatic choices and to an almost minimalist sound performance, is reflected in the impersonality common to all characters, who are consenting pawns in the game of solitary resignation without conditions. The individual identity of each character is levelled out – exactly as a figure that has been drawn without any depth – on his/her own role inside the machine-society, coinciding eventually with the service that he/she offers, without losers or winners. The technical performance is flawless and the rhythm is functional and organic to the course of the story.
“El Empleo” encountered favour for its simplicity and lucidity, at the same time ironic and bitter, with which it is able to suggest a critical look on our present.

- AUDIENCE AWARD

MAN OS 1 / EXTRAORDINATEUR by Roland Seidel + Achim Stiermann

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