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The ten works that will compete for the David di Donatello - Cecilia Mangini Award have been selected 2022 for the best documentary. This was announced by Piera Detassis, President and Artistic Director of the Academy of Italian Cinema - David di Donatello Awards in agreement with the Board of Directors composed of Francesco Rutelli, Carlo Fontana, Nicola Borrelli, Francesca Cima, Luigi Lonigro, Mario Lorini, Domenico Dinoia, Edoardo De Angelis, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Giancarlo Leone.
These are the titles chosen by the special commission for documentaries composed by Guido Albonetti, Pedro Armocida, Osvaldo Bargero, Raffaella Giancristofaro, Stefania Ippoliti, Betta Lodoli, Pinangelo Marino and Giacomo Ravesi:
– ATLANTIDE at Yuri Ancarani (film profile)
– FROM THE PLANET OF HUMANS by Giovanni Cioni (film profile)
– ENNIO by Giuseppe Tornatore (film profile)
– FUTURE by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher (film profile)
– THE PALACE by Federica Di Giacomo (film profile)
– THE MACHINE OF THE IMAGES OF ALFREDO C. by Roland Sejko (film profile)
– THE ZULUAGAS di Flavia Montini (film profile)
– MARX CAN WAIT by Marco Bellocchio (film profile)
– RADICAL WAVES by Gianfranco Pannone (film profile)
– RUE GARIBALDI by Federico Francioni (film profile)
The Academy Jury will vote for the first time to identify the five or so candidates for the prize e, subsequently, will decide the winner of the David for the best documentary that last year was named in memory of Cecilia Mangini, disappeared in Rome in 2021, tireless investigator of the real and unforgotten pioneer and outsider of Italian cinema.
“This selection - the Commission declares in a note - was born from the vision of 160 works, ten more than those presented for the David 2021, already growing by 50 titles with respect to 2020. This confirms the growing interest in the David di Donatello Awards and the gradual, constant growth of documentary production, even in a pandemic period. It was therefore even more difficult to arrive at a selection of solos 10 titles, in which we have however identified the different souls of documentary cinema, a reflection of the vivacity of authors who interpret the cinema of reality in the most diverse forms. Ten films that reflect in our opinion the multiplicity of national documentary production and represent a good generational and gender balance, with three female directors in the selection. A look that combines works with the work on archives and on the history and chronicle of the country with others of a more autobiographical nature, with less conventional routes, sometimes even stinging, on an increasingly complex contemporaneity. Documentary films all united by the search for an engaging dialogue, passionate, also provocative, with the viewer ".