He WINS THE POCKET OF GOLD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY "THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER" OF BENJAMIN BARRESE THAT WINS EVEN THE SPECIAL MENTION WIF - WOMEN IN FILM, WHILE THE AWARD GOES TO THE PUBLIC SIGNUM "FREEDOM FIELDS" OF naziha Arebi

Announces winners of the thirteenth edition of SalinaDocFest – the Narrative Documentary Festival (11-14 September) He founded and directed by Giovanna Taviani. The jury, It composed of directors Branko Schmidt and Nicolas Philibert and photographer Francesco Zizola, Tasca D'Oro awarded the prize for best documentary at the death of my mother of Benjamin Barrese

For the following reasons: “Truffaut said that the film breathe through their defects. The film that we have decided to reward is a fine example, and he has deeply touched us. It is a film that asks questions about the images and questions on identity and memoria.Questa edition of the SDF is devoted to the theme of resistance, and we think – explain the jurors – that cinema should resist the world we live in where everything must be visible. Cinema should show and hide in order to build our gaze. We decided, unanimously, to give the prize to the death of my mother of Benjamin Barrese, which questions the image of women in our society and who invites us to witness a double conflict: one between the filmmaker and protagonist of the story (his mother), and at the same time the ambiguity of a woman who wants to be filmed and simultaneously want to deny access to its image”.

The protagonist of the documentary Benedetta Barzini, mother of the director. The first major Italian top model in the '60s, musa in Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Irving Penn e Richard Avedon. Feminist activist, a 75 years, tired of the roles, You want to leave everything to reach a distant place where disappearing. Troubled by this project his son Benjamin begins to film her, determined to pass down the memory.

My mother's disappearance also won a special mention WIF – Women in Film, attributed by a jury of Kissy Dugan, President WIF, actress Valentina Carnelutti and director Antonietta De Lillo. The mention is aimed at reward documentary that most contributes to a reflection on the status of women in the cinema, and it has been assigned with the following motivation: "A film is a melee between mother and child, between author and subject, that is laid bare in a generous and refined act of love. It is a vital comparison, which outlines the portrait of a woman is not ideological but instinctively emancipated, fighting convention renewing the extreme and painful attempt to avoid ambiguity prevailing. A woman, and mother, that is not sparing neither to itself nor to reality, as the author, his son, confirming there with her, that beauty is not in the aesthetic value but in the ethical principle. In a battle between the desire to give and the need to separate, the protagonists build an intimate and urgent dialogue on the oppression of the image memory, and life itself, in a film whose shape, rich in unusual and surprising narrative devices, coincides in an effective and brave with its deepest content ".

The Signum Audience Award goes to Freedom Fields director of Anglo-Libyan Naziha Arebi. The documentary, which it was presented for the Sicilian, It follows three women and their football team in the post-revolutionary Libya over five years while in the country looming civil war and the utopian hopes of the Arab Spring begin to fade. An intimate film about hope, the struggle and sacrifice in a land where dreams seem a luxury. A love letter to the sisterhood and a hymn to the power of the team.