After the award ceremony at the MAXXI, The sixteenth edition of Asian curated by Italo Spinelli. Movies divide the Jury and Audience awards Brillante Mendoza. It ended in Rome the sixteenth edition of Asian, film festival directed by Italo Spinelli, that from 20 al 28 November presented at the MAXXI- National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome feature films, documentaries and short films from Indonesia, Philippines, China, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel. The two juries and the public have so decreed awards, delivered during the final day just to MAXXI, here they are with their motivations:
Jury Prize - Best Picture (Equally)
A MIDSUMMER’S FANTASY Jang Kun-jae
For having told a dream with style and poetry. The idea of filming the imagination of an author and the necessary confrontation with research, make the original film because it is measured with one of the toughest stories to tell, the Film. Backed by two excellent actors, the author takes the viewer, with elegant and unpretentious hand, the mysterious world of the staging.
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OBLIVION SEASON Abbas Rafei
For the dramatic spiral of his work, that is in the face / landscape of a woman the privileged battlefield of a war fought every day, where the male abuse lurks in every corner of the city of Tehran, restored to its frenetic sound pulse, while the violence of the gesture is mixed, until they merge, with the word love. A cinematic tale that never stumbles in rhetoric, delineating an unexpected way to the conquest of freedom.
Jury Prize - Best Documentary (Equally)
DEJIDE di ZUO GEHE
A film where nature, for our incredibly hostile eyes, cadence the story of a Mongolian family living herding and will be forced to lose the harmony that characterized their culture.
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SIGH d TEXT KAYA
For the ability to return the hardness of the work in the mine through an essential language. The film gives us an understanding of a marginal world and the inhumanity of an extreme job.
Audience Award - Best Picture
TAKLUB of SHINING MENDOZA already awarded by the jury in Cannes Ecumenicale.
Audience Award - Best Documentary
MY LOVE, DON’T CROSS THAT RIVER The JIN MO-joung
But they could win other films as admitted by both juries. Such as the film by Israeli belly ache TIKKUN.
As confirmed by Italo Spinelli the next edition It will also be hosted in Berlin in the spring of 2016.
