ELEMENTS +6 | ||||
Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film |
CARLITOS AND THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME by Jesús del Cerro (Spain) |
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Gryphon Award - Best Short Film |
FISHING WITH SAM by Atle S. Blakseth (Norway) |
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Audience Award |
CARLITOS AND THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME by Jesús del Cerro (Spain) |
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Aluminium Gryphon - Special Prize CIAL AWARD (Aluminium Wrapping Consortium) |
THE MISSING LYNX by Raúl García Sanz, Manuel Sicilia Morales (Spain) Reasons: For the socio-environmental value that this film expresses in a simple and direct way, through an attractive and lively language. "The Missing Lynx" was awarded by kids of CIAL Environment Jury, as well as the technique and the design with which it was realized, and for idea at the heart of screenplay: to communicate to the little ones the respect for the environment and for animals, it doesn't means to speak about boring issues, on the contrary a funny approach gets in to develop new citizens for the future, more careful and more conscientious. |
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ELEMENTS +10 | ||||
Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film |
A TIME TO LOVE by Ebrahim Forouzeh (Iran) |
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Gryphon Award - Best Short Film |
MY LAST DAY OF WAR by Matteo Tondini (Italy) |
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Audience Award |
A TIME TO LOVE by Ebrahim Forouzeh (Iran) |
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GENERATOR +13 | ||||
Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film |
BROKEN HILL by Dagen Merrill (USA/Australia) |
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Gryphon Award - Best Short Film |
SEE YOU by Jesper Waldvogel Rasmussen (Denmark) |
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Audience Award |
HOW TO SURVIVE... MYSELF? by Nicole van Kilsdonk (The Netherlands) |
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Jury Grand Prix |
ACCIDENTS HAPPEN by Andrew Lancaster (Australia/United Kingdom) Reasons: For the great technical and scenographyc technique, for the extraordinary performers e to reveal the unpredictable ability of the death to affect all at any time, the quality jury awarded the feature film "Accidents Happen". |
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Special Prize CGS AWARD "PERCORSI CREATIVI 2009" |
NO HARD FEELINGS! by Yves Hanchard (France/Belgium) Reasons: Because it underlines how, through constant commitment and literary passion, you can establish yourself and follow in your father's footsteps. The theme of research of father-son relationship, topical also for new generation, is done engagingly through the stories and characters structure. |
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Special Prize CGS AWARD |
BROKEN HILL by Dagen Merrill (USA/Australia) Reasons: For the originality with which director raises important questions for kids, like the music narrative and the profoundness of father-son relationship. Very ingaging the use of a very creatic filmic language, close to sensibility of us that are young. |
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The artistic director has assigned the following awards, based on the results of the jurors votes: | ||||
Feature Film 2nd Place |
IT'S NOT ME, I SWEAR! by Philippe Falardeau (Canada) |
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Feature Film 3rd Place |
GLOWING STARS by Lisa Siwe (Sweden) |
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GENERATOR +16 | ||||
Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film |
MY SUICIDE by David Lee Miller (USA) |
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Gryphon Award - Best Short Film |
THE GROUND BENEATH by René Hernandez (Australia) |
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Audience Award |
MY SUICIDE by David Lee Miller (USA) |
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Jury Grand Prix |
MY SUICIDE by David Lee Miller (USA) Reasons: For the eclecticism and the innovation of the choice and the employment of film technique, for the strong impact and the emotional, that make this film, a real journey into the human mind, complex and toghether with a clear message. With the use of sarcasm and satire, it expresses the perfect criticism of our society and of the effect that it has on us. A chaos reflection which constantly lies in the psyche of adolescents. A film that, talking about the issui of suicide, take the spectator to understanding the value of human life. |
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Special Prize AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD |
SKIN by Anthony Fabian (United Kingdom/South Africa) Reasons: For having addressed with originality the painful and serious issue of apartheid; for pay specific attention to discrimination against women, that are without the possibility of self-determination and victims of awful abuses and pains; for draw attention on how deep social lacerations can be caused by prejudice and passive acceptance of an imposed cultural model, and for draw attention on how a dangerous propaganda based on diffidence and be afraid of the other could lead to discrimination, racism, inequality and violence; finally, for explain how the brave choice of a woman to defend her dignity needs to set an example for those who believe that respect of human rights ignores place of birth, ethnicity, gender and social status. |
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Special Prize ARCA CINEMAGIOVANI AWARD |
ONCE UPON A TIME IN RIO by Breno Silveira (Brazil) Reasons: For a screenplay that has managed to link different issues like love, class differences, social injustice and family relationships. For describe to us the world of favelas and its violence in a realistic and brutal way, through characters overladen with contradictions, that are continuously confronted with a choice between good and evil. |
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Aluminium Gryphon - Special Prize CIAL AWARD (Aluminium Wrapping Consortium) |
SKIN by Anthony Fabian (United Kingdom/South Africa) Reasons: The desire for freedom and indipendence, the feeling that happines could be conquered also thanks to a perfect relationship to nature, and the undeniable quality of this film, from the start convinced all our jurors of CIAL Environment Jury to award this film that tells how nature and its wonderful beauties could help us young people to research our identity. The main players of "Skin", indeed, haunted for their love by Sandra's family, get help and find comfort in a non-hostile nature, but rather 'friend' and close. |
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Crystal Gryphon - Special Prize CAMPANIA BANK AWARD |
A YEAR AGO IN WINTER by Caroline Link (Germany) Reasons: For a deep insight of the main characters' personality and of the difficult development of their relationships. |
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Special Prize MY MOVIES AWARD |
MY SUICIDE by David Lee Miller (USA) Reasons: For the cruel report of the show and media manipulation, of social prudery and conformity, "My Suicide" is a rarity in the contemporary cinema, because takes on important issues constitutive of the modern society with frankness, sincerity and with a language without rhetoric and moralism: the adolescential concern, the nihilism ever more present between kids, the hypocrisy, the solitude, the connection with sexuality, the death taboo. |
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Special Prize BEST MUSIC SCORE AWARD by Music Conservatory of Salerno |
THE GREATEST by Shana Feste (USA) Reasons: The soundtrack in this film accompanies the narration adapting to emotional developments of protagonists with elegance and grace. In some parts the melody have a central role, and supports the great emotional of this film extending possibilities for interpretation. The succesion of notes can express emotions that dialogues alone could not achieve. In this film we clearly recognize that unique feature that connects cinema and musica in an indissoluble link we all know. |
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The artistic director has assigned the following awards, based on the results of the jurors votes: | ||||
Feature Film 2nd Place |
ONCE UPON A TIME IN RIO by Breno Silveira (Brazil) |
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Feature Film 3rd Place |
THE GREATEST by Shana Feste (USA) |
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TROUBLED GAZE | ||||
Short Film |
LEAP DAY by Giovanni Esposito, Francesco Prisco (Italy) |
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