At the end of the event the verdicts of the juries and the public are far apart. On the one hand they win CHACO Daniel Incalcaterra and Fausta Quattrini and THE HOUSE OF QUEEN Francesco Fei, while the audience awards MELEE Francesco Corona and LIFE IS BUT A DREAM Margaret Pescetti with AWARD IMDb.
It ended the 59th edition of the Festival of Peoples to guide Alberto Lastrucci with the screening of the documentary GENESIS 2.0 Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev (Switzerland, 2018, 113’) which tells an incredible story from remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, where some hunters seek the tusks of extinct mammoths. White price of gold has never been higher. The fangs hunters find a mammoth carcass surprisingly well preserved. These findings also recall a group of genetic scientists: They want to resurrect the mammoth extinct like in Jurassic Park. The resurrection of the mammoth would be the first event of the next big technological revolution. The man becomes Creator: two zero point Genesis.
The screening was preceded by a prize giving ceremony with different verdicts between public and jurors. In particular, the Juries have thus expressed.
The INTERNATIONAL JURY composed by Filipa Reis (Portugal), Stephan Riguet (France) Biljana Tutorov (Serbia) He has awarded the following prizes:
GIAN PAOLO PAOLI AWARD FOR BEST FILM to ANTROPOLOGICO WHEN THE WAR COMES in Jan Gebert (Czech Republic, Croatia, 2018) with Reason: This film has made us uncomfortable, allowing us to open our eyes to the dangers – Once again – we are running today. The inability to face reality lucidly, It allows fascist ideas of establishing itself as acceptable models.
PRIZE FOR BEST SHORT LAS NUBES Juan Pablo Gonzales (USA, Mexico, 2018) with Reason: The director has found an elegant and minimalist way to get to the heart of the story of the protagonist's life that slowly unravels over the course of the journey.
PRIZE TO THE BEST featurette ROMAN NATIONAL Gregoire Beil (France, 2018) with Reason: Using movies shared on the network, The director builds the characters of his film in a surprising and wise way, providing an original anthropological interpretation of contemporary Western society.
AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM at CHACO Daniele Incalcaterra and Fausta Quattrini (Argentina, Italy, Switzerland, 2018) with Reason: The particular point of view of directors gives this film an enduring relevance. Through an investigative approach and a skillful art of cinema, the film is a political framework, testing the acquired opinions on the concept of solidarity.
The JURY CINEMAITALIANO.INFO, composed by Stefano Amadio, Antonio Capellupo, Carlo Griseri and Simone Pinchiorri has being assigned the following awards:
AWARD CINEMAITALIANO.INFO - CG ENTERTAINMENT to THE QUEEN OF HOUSE Francesco Fei (Italy, 2016) with Reason: "A generational film about a small world, a contemporary fairy tale by the rhythms of the Orphic Songs Dino Campana, a hymn to life and to a place that will never be the same ".
The JURY AWARD "CAPTIVE" composed by Raffaella Conti (Toscana Film Commission), Camilla Toschi (Toscana Film Commission – Those Of The Company) and Marta Zappacosta (Toscana Film Commission – Those Of The Company) He awarded the prize "CAPTIVE" to Pentcho Stefano Cattini (Italy, Great Britain, 2018) with the following Justification: "For bringing to the attention of all a little-known story but of great impact and relevance. A fine example of how the documentary will tell stories, capture the attention and arouse emotions even at a wide audience ".
AWARD FROM ANOTHER LOOK
The films presented in the International Competition and Italian Competition compete for the Prize “The gaze. The challenge of dialogue between cultures and religions” Sangalli awarded by the Institute for the History and Religious Culture of Florence.
MEZIONE SPECIAL AWARD “The gaze” The PENTCHO di Stefano Cattini (Italy, Great Britain, 2018) with Reason: "Because this year we are in the year anniversary of the shameful Italian racial laws, and eighty years away that shame seems to us Italians all still very close, and indelibly. Accompany, how does the film, a group of Jews in Central Europe through a river along a long and hostile sea but savior, until an obscure village in Calabria, It does not help to compensate the shame and to repair the damage, but at least serves as a warning that the solidarity, friendship, love are, Now and then, the only anchors of salvation against racism, hatred, ferocity ". Which gets two awards.
The prize “LOOK THE OTHER” He went to SRBENKA di Nebojsa Slijepcevic (Croatia, 2018) with Reason: "Being Italian German French; be Slovenian Croatian Serbs, Muslims, Christians or Jews, Does this make sense, differences exist and must be valued. Something will mean even be 'European', e, more, be humans. cohabitation, more or less peaceful, between different ethnic groups and religions is, always, a fact of humanity, As a matter of fact. In this film a 'national' and European drama the day before yesterday is reflected in the eyes of a frightened girl who inadvertently brings on his shoulders the weight of a tragic past. In a game of mirrors she seems to identify with her contemporary murdered thirty years ago. But we want to say, and tell us, that killed a teenager dead is neither Serb nor Croat, neither French nor Italian, but simply an act unworthy of all humanity?”.
PREMIO MYMOVIES
The IMDb PRIZE FROM THE PUBLIC By Category Italian Competition, a majority of votes received, It was awarded to MELEE Francesco Corona (Italy, 2018).
The IMDb PRIZE FROM THE PUBLIC for the International Competition category, a majority of votes received, He was assigned to LIFE IS BUT A DREAM Margaret Pescetti (Italy, Palestina, 2018).