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AWARD CELEBRATION
Student Jury
Saturday 14, April
Sala Convegni / Palazzo Ducale
Urbino / Italy
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Documentary Competition
Main Award
Boli Bana
Simon Coulibaly Gillard
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Boli Bana
Simon Coulibaly Gillard
Belgium
2017 | 01:00:00
Au plus profond de la brousse, serpente une longue caravane de zébus. Lancés dans une transhumance de plusieurs mois, quatre jeunes garçons: Ama, Ousséni, Hassan et Lela ont quitté leur famille, décidés à offrir de meilleures pâtures à leur troupeau . Guidés par ces enfants, nous vivons un voyage diurne dans les paysages du Burkina Faso, puis, lorsque tombe la nuit, nous partageons les peurs et les désirs de ces enfants Peulhs. Le film nous propose alors un second voyage, plus sédentaire, celui des jeunes filles restées au village. Sans pudeur, nous vivons les rites qui jalonnent leur jeunesse jusqu’à leur maturité. Auprès de cette famille Peulh, nous découvrons leurs gestes quotidiens, leurs caractères et leurs croyances, nous explorons au plus proche ce mode de vie unique, pastoral et nomade.
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Jury Statement :
Interesting vision of life in a specific African tribe. Wonderful photography and eloquent documentation. This documentary has succeeded to make known and understand life first of all of the youngest members of the tribe and almost to create a link with them or at least to represent them authentically.
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Documentary Competition
Signs Award
Dusk Chorus - Based on Fragments of Extinction
Alessandro D'Emilia, Nika Saravanja (David Monacchi) |
| The Signs Award for Documentary honors films, which express in a
surprising way sensible and perturbing aspects of reality. |
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Dusk Chorus - Based on Fragments of Extinction
Alessandro D'Emilia, Nika Saravanja (David Monacchi)
Italy
2017 | 1:02:00
Follow the eco-acoustic composer David Monacchi on his quest to register a pure continuos 3D soundscape in the far away forgotten world of Ecuadorian primary rain-forests. A unique experience of listening to the imprints of the disappearing sonic heritage of millions of years of evolution.
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Jury Statement :
This documentary was chosen for the peculiar exposure of the theme of extinction, focusing the attention completely on the sounds of the forest.
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Documentary Competition
Night Award
The Eternals
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
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| The Night Award for Documentary honors films, which represent reality
in an ambivalent and enigmatic way, avoiding stereotypes of
representation and simple conclusions. |
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The Eternals
Les Éternels
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Belgium, France
2017 | 1:15:00
We call those who suffer from the melancholy of eternity, eternals.Convinced that death cannot triumph over their lives, they believe thatthey are doomed to wander in anticipation of the day when they will befreed from their existence.This film is a story of wandering and fleeing, on the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan...
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Jury Statement :
Interesting narrative mode, this documentary has perfectly managed to transmit the sense of melancholy of eternity.
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Documentary Competition
Edward Snowden Award
Muhi - Generally Temporary
Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander, Tamir Elterman
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| The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensitive, (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future. |
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Rina Castelnuovo-Hollander, Tamir Elterman
Israel, Germany
2017 / 1:26:00
For the past seven years Muhi, a brave and spirited boy from Gaza has
been living in an Israeli hospital, the only home he has ever known.
Caught between two homes and two peoples, Muhi is unable to return to
Gaza. He is raised in paradoxical circumstances that transcend
identity, religion and the conflict that divides his world. His time
at the hospital is running out and Muhi now faces the most critical
choices of his life.
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Jury Statement :
A poignant documentary showing us the difficulties of the life of a disabled child and its family worsened by the war, a convincing report on health conditions in the Middle East. This documentary was able to empathize and move the jury.
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Director Statement :
We thank you for this honor which belongs to Muhi from Gaza who is caught in the unlucky vice of politics. Sheltered but trapped, Muhi deserves better than what he's been through and still awaits him. Grateful ! Muhi's film team
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Short film Competition
Main Award
Vanities
Vinícius Cardoso
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Vanities
Vanitas
Vinícius Cardoso
Brazil
2017 | 0:06:00
In Bosch's hell, she was condemned to look at her own reflection. Forever. Condemned by her vanity, she is vanity. Spirit that wanders through the darkness of the Garden of Earthly Delights. She is vanitas. The Latin noun means "emptiness" and "vanity." And it also refers to the "vanitas" paintings of the Middle Ages. A type of symbolic work of art from northern Europe and the Netherlands, from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which seem like a morbid artifact, but act as a reminder of the ephemerality of life.Memento mori, or "remember death". A poignant message from Art comes to this film. Because today we do not share pains and failures. And so vanity is the price to be paid. Such a move made vanity a virtue, no longer the capital sin of pride. Bringing among its characteristics immortality. We are the civilization that put death aside. Therefore, the idea of this work is to exhort the spectator to consider mortality. Pondering about death is, paradoxically, pondering about life and temptations. Observing ignorance about false values, this dancing spirit warned that "our vices and horrors, dishonorable passions, wild, blind, dangerous irrationalities, our unconfessable impulses ..." has an end. This is the drama.
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Jury Statement :
Chosen for the theme treated in a poetic way and for its ability to kidnap and charm the viewer. The Caravaggesque inspiration and the wordless dialogue between the two bodies are particularly appreciated.
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Director Statement :
Vanitas incorporates the role of art, while addressing a theme that refers to a minority, and creating a visual language that points the viewer to catharsis when seeing two bodies. It is an honor to have accompanied two stunning artists interpreting such a powerful message and it is with joy that I see my film reverberating with its beauty in different parts of the world.
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Short Film Competition
Signs Award
Gaze
Farnoosh Samadi |
| The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject o in an original, convincing and surprising way. |
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Gaze
Negah
Farnoosh Samadi
Italy, France
2017 | 0:14:28
On her way back from work a woman witnesses something happening in the bus and she has to decide if she reveals it or not.
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Jury Statement :
Chosen for his ability to empathize the spectator and put him in a state of tension for all the duration of the film.
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Short Film Competition
Night Award
In A Month
Jonas Kærup Hjort
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| The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and
complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,
which keeps mind and consideration moving. |
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In A Month
Jonas Kærup Hjort
Danemark
2017 | 0:30:00
In a factory in the middle of nowhere a group of workers are waiting, indefinitely. Every full moon a telephone rings. Always with the same message: Be patient. We are on our way.
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Jury Statement :
Enigmatic and fascinating, a successful unconventional investigation of the human and social condition.
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Director Statement :
Thank you so much for The Night Award! I am honored to receive an award that recognizes filmmakers as myself. I try to keep a constant curiosity in the work I do throughout the proces so that I am able to investigate the work even after it is done. This award is a great motivator to continue this journey.
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Short Film Competition
Edward Snowden Award
Lunch Time
Alireza Ghasemi
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| The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensitive, (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future. |
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Lunch Time
Alireza Ghasemi
Iran
2017 | 0:15:00
A 16 year old girl has come to the hospital to identify the body of her mother. The people in charge at the hospital – due to her young age – won’t let her into the morgue and ask her to bring her guardian instead. However the girl insists that most of her family is in jail for criminal activities. Finally after her insistence they agree to let her into the morgue...
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Jury Statement :
It exposes to the public different but all important issues, among which the condition of the woman, of violence and of poverty. The jury appreciated the attention to detail and images with a strong visual impact.
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