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On the evening of Saturday 18 March, the Oberdan from Milan, The awards were the 24edition of Looks Elsewhere International Film Festival, the review dedicated to cinema and feminine artistic languages.
Triumphs in the feature film competition At my age I still hiding to smoke the Algerian director Rayhana Obermeyer, while in the documentary competition wins Fire the young Russian rookie filmmaker nadya Zakharova. For the short film competition with other successful Russian film The Edge of Alexandra Averyanova and for #FrameItalia mixed-competitive section dedicated to Italian cinema directed, the audience rewards Babylon Sisters.
These winning films along with the opening film Certain Women of Kelly Reichardt will be replication Appendix Roman Looks Elsewhere 23 and the 24 March a Casa del Cinema (with free admission).

During the two days will be delivered on Lifetime Achievement Award the festival of the 24th edition Liliana Cavani, author of unforgettable films that have marked the history of cinema of all time.
Below all the winners.
NEW LOOKS - International Feature Film Competition

edited by Nicola Falcinella
Jury: Maurizio Di Rienzo, Michaela Guenzi, Barbara TarriconeAward for Best PictureAt my age I still hiding to smoke of Rayhana Obermeyer
For the following reasons: In an intimacy almost paradoxical, women wash, combing, embrace, and sgridano, you yell, you curse, they push, you welcome.
Battle in Algiers, twenty-two years ago: in heterogeneous dynamic claustrophobia of a hammam just for women, femininity becomes engine of bodies, minds, looks, values ​​and characters. In a special day intertwine pride and submissiveness, despair and love, rebellion on edge, that of women, as wet as their soul. A first feature is a play by long success in France, and the environment to the tableaux vivants and interpreted in an extraordinary way to the ability to balance screams and silences with heavy dialogues like tombstones in a whirlwind of secrets and lies in the open air. Women are protected. And men? Males lord it out getting ready for dogma misunderstanding, to break into the world of them denied, to wash the blood sin to be, simply, donna.Honorable mentionsHouse of Others of Rusudan Glurjidze
For the following reasons: For the dramatic aesthetic symbiosis between director rhythmic and pictorial and clear picture, gray vivo between internal desolate, the sounds of nature and the wet countryside and disturbing. A fine story that inscribes the story of two families in a post civil war in which many women, even very young, support the weight of an inexhaustible and infinite pain storytelling, comparison and research.Little Wing of Selma Vilhunen
For the following reasons: For the ability of intergenerational history and on the road to reflect the peculiar social and cultural aspects in the Scandinavian countries and the deepening psychological originality expressed by the effective interpretation of the stars, mother and daughter, in an exchange of roles and emotional time.WOMEN TELL - the international documentary competitionedited by Sergio Di Giorgi, Stefania ScattinaJury: Bruno Bigoni, Alessandra Grilli, Anna Maria PasettiPrize for best documentary

Fire of nadya Zakharova
For the following reasons: The formal aspect of the film has a strong visual impact and a clever and innovative storytelling, using the space and the human figure as a subject of investigation. The long film highlights a precise idea of ​​cinema and a very personal directing style.
Its visual strength, loads the Black and White, with which the film is photographed, of originality not common in a first film made by a young filmmaker. The story is alien to any epic or realistic form, loading the film of a precise suggestion narrative and relying on its remarkable aesthetic form.Special mentionsWhere to, Miss? of Manuela BastianFor the following reasons: For the ability to tell with glossy deep into the difficult struggle of a courageous young woman who struggles every day to empower themselves and be themselves in a society where men govern the destinies of women.The vacuum chamber of Jasna Krajinovic
For the following reasons: For the ability to narrate without rhetoric, remaining strong in intent and in the way of filming, thus achieving a film with great sensitivity and firmness of speech.LOOKS (S)CONFINED - short film competition

edited by Paola Bernardi
Jury: Carlotta Cristiani, Silvia Hitchens, Simone Totola
Prize for best short filmThe Edge of Alexandra AveryanovaFor the following reasons: With lyrical skills and wise use of the medium of film, The edge immerses us in a human condition: the light, the sound, checking the time and the story environment build an organic story, precise and poignant.#FRAMEITALIA – competitive section mixed-directing with the Audience Awardedited by Floriana Chailly e Patrizia Rappazzo

Award for Best PictureBabylon Sisters of Gigi RoccatiSpecial mention #FrameitaliaNoise Victory of Ilaria Galbusera e Antonino GuzzardiYOUTH JURY – NEW LOOKScomposed by students of Master in Communication and Marketing Film Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
Award for Best PictureThe untamed of Caroline Deruas
For the following reasons: The film by French director is particularly striking for the way it manages to combine this event with fantastic tones with art. The attachment to the places represented is evident. Villa Medici becomes the pivot around which the very rich characters, in a dream-like film from the atmosphere in which reality passes through the dream. Remarkable the use of photography and the play of light in contrasts between day and night. In the images in red you see the meaning of life, the passion and death. Jenna Thiam The actress in the role of the photographer who embodies the feminine and artistic power is beautiful and compelling. the music also give the right touch of melancholy to the story. Interesting the way the couple Clotilde Hesme-Tchéky Karyo is the idea of ​​husband and wife in the professional competition and how the batches woman with determination to assert its identity and individuality. Finally, they also note references to Boccaccio's Decameron.YOUTH JURY - LOOKS (S)CONFINEDmade up of the course students History Institutions film of the Faculty of Arts, University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in MilanPrize for best short filmStella Love di Cristina Puccinelli
For the following reasons: A brilliant comedy and balanced from every point of view, effectively putting the scene as, the eyes of a child, what should be a dream factory would seem to be actually illusions factory, It characterized by individuals Machiavellian instincts and the extremely cynical spirit. However there is still someone who believes in dreams and Stella is just that little light that shines in the dark, light that reminds us how important it is to dream, as those who stop dreaming does nothing but pursue a life empty and meaningless.