(from Rome Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Stefano Sica and Valentina Vignoli – Photos are published courtesy of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma)
Paola Cortellesi fills up at the box office and at the Festival!
Starting from the last edition, the Rome Film Festival has been officially recognized as a Competitive Festival by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations).
Following, all awards given on Saturday 28 October, during the awards ceremony which took place at 17 at the Sala Petrassi of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone.
PROGRESSIVE CINEMA COMPETITION
The jury chaired by the actor, director and producer Gael Garcia Bernal and composed by British director Sarah Gavron, by the director, sceneggiator e Finnish poet Mikko Myllylahti, by the French actor and director Melvil Poupaud and by the Italian actress and director Jasmine Trinca, He has assigned the following awards:
– best Picture: TOLL (TOLL) di Carolina Markowicz
– Grand Jury Prize: UROTCITE NA BLAGA (BLAGA'S LESSONS) di Stephan Komandarev
– Best direction: JOACHIM LAFOSSE by A silence (A Silence)
– Best actress – “Monica Vitti” Award: ALBA ROHRWACHER for My Hair Hurts
– Best actor – “Vittorio Gassman” Award: HERBERT NORDRUM per Hypnosen (The Hypnosis), the film received the Ugo Tognazzi Special Mention
– Best Adapted Screenplay: ASLI ÖZGE per Black Box
– Special Jury Awards (proposed by the President to be chosen from the screenplay categories, photography, editing and original soundtrack):
ASHIL (ACHILLES) in Farhad Delaram
THERE IS STILL TOMORROW by Paola Cortellesi which received the BNL BNP Paribas Special Mention for Best First Film, also the Audience Award (REVIEW)
THE MONK AND THE GUN di Pawo Dorji of Tea
BEST FIRST FEATURE BNL BNP PARIBAS
A jury chaired by the filmmaker Paolo Virzì and composed of the French producer and distributor Adeline Fontan Tessaur and the playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan awarded the Best First Film Award BNL BNP Paribas (choice among the titles of the Progressive Cinema Competition sections, Freestyle e Grand Public), al film COTTONTAIL at Patrick Dickinson (REVIEW)
Furthermore, two Special Mentions for Best First Film BNL BNP Paribas were also awarded to the films C'È ANCORA DOMANI by Paola Cortellesi already mentioned and AVANT QUE LES FLAMMES NE S'ETEIGNENT (AFTER THE FIRE) at Mehdi Fikri.
BEST COMEDY – “UGO TOGNAZZI” AWARD
A jury chaired by the French actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and composed of the Italian director and screenwriter Alessandro Aronadio and the Italian screenwriter Lisa Nur Sultan awarded the “Ugo Tognazzi” Award for Best Comedy (choice among the titles of the Progressive Cinema Competition sections, Freestyle e Grand Public), al film JULES on Marc Turtletaub
The Special Mention of the “Ugo Tognazzi” Award was also awarded to ASTA KAMMA AUGUST and HERBERT NORDRUM for Hypnosen (The Hypnosis).
SIAE CINEMA AWARD
Last May the call for the SIAE Cinema Award was launched, which goes to the project with the best screenplay - written by a screenwriter under 35 of Italian nationality or permanently resident in Italy - for the creation of a first or second work. Recognition of the value of 150 thousand euros is intended for the Italian production that will make the film based on the winning screenplay. The projects were evaluated by a jury composed of screenwriter Nicola Guaglianone, the film producer Carlo Cresto-Dina and the composer Pivio who awarded THE FIRST SON by Mara Fondacaro
The following awards had already been awarded during the festival:
– Lifetime Achievement Award to ISABELLA ROSSELLINI and SHIGERU UMEBAYASHI
– Progressive Lifetime Achievement Award to HALEY BENNETT and CAMILA MORRONE
While the Lazio Region awarded the “Lazio Terra di Cinema” prize to JULIETTE BINOCHE