Awards for 2015
Prize of the City of Torino
Best Italian Documentary Film
WINNER
Il solengo: Alessio Rigo de Righi,
Matteo Zoppis
A succession of "local rumors" represents the narrative structure of this perfectly made film. The revenge in the creative documentary of the "talking heads" which, like a tragic chorus, introduce us to the story of a solitary and mysterious man, who seems to have disappeared into thin air. The photography and the meticulous soundtrack are fundamental to the success of the entire movie. The surprise finale is unexpected and delightful, the pivot around which the equilibrium of the narration revolves.
NOMINEES
Best International Documentary Film
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Roundabout in My Head: Hassen Ferhani
For the precision, meticulousness and pertinence of the choices, which transform a place of harsh work and death into a series of tableaux vivants full of delicacy, irony and human warmth.
NOMINEES
Best Feature Film
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NOMINEES
Special Jury Prize
Italian Short Film
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La dolce casa: Elisabetta Falanga
For its ability to listen to and dialogue with reality. Because it understands that the "prise de risqué" is the indispensable premise for any gaze with documentary intent.
Italian Documentary Film
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La gente resta: Maria Tilli
For its ability to tell the story of the Resta family, the children's marvelous spontaneity, the women's lives, the men's work, along with a city which experiences with intensity the debate around the factory and the sea. A contextualizing and convincing film which takes the spectator into the most hidden corners of Taranto and transmits with simplicity the fears and hopes of the people who remain.
International Documentary Film
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Gipsofila: Margarida Leitão
A touching and affectionate portrait of the filmmaker's grandmother and her relationship with her granddaughter which illustrates, with superbly faceted humor, stories of conflicts, adventures, ties and misunderstandings between the women of three different generations. With candid sincerity and through a minimalistic, cinéma verité documentary approach, the mature filmmaker Margarida Leitão depicts the emotionally intense moments of happiness and sadness in the life of the women.
Feature Film
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Special Mention
Feature Film
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FIPRESCI Prize
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Les loups: Sophie Deraspe
Les loups is a clear and true journey into territories which still appear unknown. Sophie Deraspe draws the human and environmental relationships with great dramatic power; she transforms the gelid ecological metaphor into a warm family drama, without forcing her point and with sensitivity as a woman and author, creating a film that is both essential and emotional.
Holden Award for Best Script
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Achille Valdata Audience Award
Best Torino Short Film
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NOMINEES
Best Feature Film
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Paulina: Santiago Mitre
For its narrative technique, the powerful and provocative topic it deals with and the psychology of the characters.
Jury Prize
Best Actor
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Best Actress
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Best Screenplay
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AVANTI! Award
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Dustur: Marco Santarelli
For its ability to recount the humanistic foundations of modern constitutions and the contradictions of the democratic process, with a solid and logical cinematographic form, which manages to overcome physical and cultural limits, such as prison, and linguistic and religious superstructures.
AVANTI! Award - Special Mention
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Vincenzo da Crosia: Fabio Mollo
For having brought to light a neglected story of our recent past, with its unexpected consequences that are compassionate, political and poetic. By delicately handling an imposing amount of repertory material, the film draws the spectator into a state of suspension, in its own way magical, regarding the truthfulness of the witnessed facts.
Chicca Richelmy Award
Best Italian Short Film
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Le dossier de Mari S.: Olivia Molnàr
For having transformed the multiplicity of supports and techniques into a point of strength and not of dispersion. For the recognizability and the personality of its gaze and the expressive use of sounds and music. For having shown faith in cinema's ability to transmit emotions and tell stories.
NOMINEES
Gran Premio Torino
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Gandhi's Glasses Award
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Dustur: Marco Santarelli
Quoting from the film: "In order to create a good society, people must relate and consult with each other and act on the basis of their agreements. Don't discriminate on the basis of social position, wealth, fame, religion. For society to develop culturally and morally and be cohesive, we must proceed in accordance with the opinion of the majority, we must be supportive of the weakest classes and the poor, dialogue with them and take their requests into consideration."
Gandhi's Glasses Award - Special Mention
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Paulina: Santiago Mitre
For its refusal to react violently to an aggression; even though offers of compensation and revenge came from different sides, the protagonist turns them down in favor of a personal pathway of comprehension and the search for the truth, even at the risk of not being supported or understood.
Idealisten: Christina Rosendahl
For its example of peace journalism as applied to the denunciation of nuclear hazard, which is often repressed. Even without making sensational gestures, the protagonist becomes a hero in his normal and tenacious search for truth.
Interfedi Award
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Heat Wave: Raphaël Jacoulot
With a clear and dispassionate gaze, it recounts the difficulties of integration and the fragility of interpersonal relationships in a small farming community. The story of an abnormal summer, in which nature is the protagonist and brings out the tensions and conflicts in an event in which lies, hypocrisy and prejudice converge, creating mistrust of someone who is different, who can be nothing other than a victim or an assassin.
Interfedi Award - Special Mention
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Flotel Europa: Vladimir Tomic
An important and praiseworthy film for its power and the way it forces a reflection on what, in a particular context and era, is the actual life of migrants and refugees after they arrive in a safe country. The impossibility of integration, living on a docked ship, and the reality of a life spent waiting for something that might never arrive. These are the themes of a desperate documentary which is also a look to the past and almost a pathway of initiation.
Maria Adriano Prolo Lifetime Achievement Award
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500X Fiat Award
Best Actress
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