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Best Film Alice in the City Award goes to “The other son” by Juan Sebastián Quebrada. The award was awarded by a jury of thirty-five children aged between 16 and 19.

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The motivation for the award: “A punch in the stomach for its explosive emotional power. An intense and exquisitely crafted film capable of digging a furrow into the viewer’s deepest soul, provoking a fruitful process of identification. For its original treatment of universal themes such as love, pain and mourning”.

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The Raffaella Fiorella Award for the best Italian film in Panorama Italia goes to Desirè by Mario Vezza. Awarded by a jury composed of Tarak Ben Ammar, Francesco Motta, Ivan Silvestrini, Yle Vianello, Alessandra De Tommasi, Riccardo Milani (Honorary President)

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Reasons for the award – The gaze of Desiré and her companions in the juvenile detention center of Nisida is told with poetic crudeness by the director Mario Vezza, capturing even in the silences all the anger for a denied future. Theater in prison is the only way to escape and expand horizons, but in this case it does not have a linear, obvious, rhetorical path. The strength of this debut is partly expressed in the ability to direct a varied cast, enhancing their performances and working by subtraction”.

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Special Jury Prize to Bangarang by Giulio Mastromauro

Reasons for the award – “The only documentary in competition deserves attention and a special mention for the emotional capacity of having captured the nuances of the experience of the children of Taranto (…). Sometimes confused, they tend to imitate the attitudes of adults and therefore they experience the chaos, the “bangarang” of the title, which the director was able to capture so well. Giulio Mastromauro did not transform it into something else, he did not sweeten it or force the spontaneity of the very young interlocutors. Indeed he was able to take a step back with great incisiveness”

The Hollywood Reporter Rome award goes to “To Leslie” by Michael Morris. Awarded to the best first work in the competition program and out of competition by the jury composed of the Director of The Hollywood Reporter Rome Concita De Gregorio, the journalist Paola Natalicchio, the director Francesca Mazzoleni, the singer Noemi and the actress and director Michela Cescon

The motivation for the award – “Well beyond the story told, a universal theme of our time is exposed here, in filigree. If what changes destiny, starting from the outskirts of the world and in an era so poor in future, is knowledge, obstinacy and effort or luck. (,,,) Winning the lottery is, in every language and in every context, a metaphor for something unpredictable that takes you away from a sealed destiny. (…) A masterly actress performance of extraordinary Andrea Riseborough (…)

Special mention for best actor to Miguel Gonzalez for “The Other Son” with this motivation: “Everyone has their own way of grieving. And it is often complex, different for everyone, sometimes incomprehensible. For the sensitivity and maturity with which he described what it means to start living again after losing the one you love, the best actor award goes to the very young man.”

Special mention for best actress a Mia Mckenna Bruce for “How To Have Sex”, “For having interpreted with profound sensitivity the loneliness of adolescence and the complexity of the discovery of sex, love, consent. Through his eyes he is capable of progressively involving the viewer in an inner journey in the new awareness of a young woman who faces the world”

Special mention for a look at the future for directing to Gianluca Santoni for “Me and the Dry”“For the sign that is already so sure, for the shots that denote personality and a stylistic continuity with the highest tradition of Italian cinema, the Hollywood Reporter mention “A look at the future” goes to Gianluca Santoni for “Io e il rossa” with I hope to continue his research, and look forward to his next steps.”

RB Casting Award to the best young Italian performer Amanda Campana for “Suspicious Mind”. The award is assigned by a jury composed of: Marina Marzotto (producer), Pino Pellegrino (casting director), Stefano Chiappi (agent). The motivation was this: “For her interpretation of her in the film Suspicious Minds by Emiliano Corapi where, in the role of Giulia, she gives the spectator back all the joy, the boldness, the fears and the desperation of the first great love”

The Short Wave Award went, finally, to “Fake Shot” by Francesco Castellaneta: “Things are done first and then they are sung” it is on this maxim that the work of Breazy Eight is based, an emerging artist from the Roman trap scene, a source of inspiration for the members of his crew, the “Sanctuary Commando”, and especially for Emilia, his sister”. The short was produced by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and distributed by Premiere Film

Siae Award to “I apologize” by Francesco Piras, awarded as part of the Shorts Film Days to the best project presented during the Unbox laboratory. With the following motivation: For having presented a project that tells of a healing in an intimate and personal way, treating the theme with cynicism and Pirandellian irony, and for having presented it in a profound and touching way, with a story that speaks of life and of death, and which consequently speaks to all of us.