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GIFFONI EXPERIENCE 2016 - 15.24 July

     
ELEMENTS +3
     

Gryphon Award - Best Short Film
 
CROCODILE by Julia Ocker (Germany)

     

Special Prize GIOTTO SUPER BE-BÈ AWARD





 
SISSY’S DREAM by Fabrizio Gammardella (Italy)
Reasons: For the delicacy in dealing with such a complex topic which is disability among children through a narration that, with emotionally involving graphic animation and sound design, leads the viewer to the little protagonist’s world, rich in tranquility and spectacular dreams. For the ability in reminding us that limits are often just mental barriers built up by adults.
     
ELEMENTS +6
     

Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film

 
THE WILD SOCCER BUNCH – THE LEGEND LIVES! by Joachim Masannek (Germany)

     

Gryphon Award - Best Short Film

 
REAL STRENGHT by Svend Colding (Denmark)
     
     
The artistic director has assigned the following awards, based on the results of the jurors votes:    
     

Feature Film 2nd Place

 
ZIP & ZAP AND THE CAPTAIN’S ISLAND by Oskar Santos (Spain)
     

Short Film 2nd Place

 
ALIKE by Daniel Martinez Lara, Rafa Cano Méndez (Spain)
     
ELEMENTS +10
     

Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film
 
NELLY’S ADVENTURE by Dominik Wessely (Germany)
     

Gryphon Award - Best Short Film
 
ZOMBRIELLA by Benjamin Gutsche (Germany)

     

Aluminium - Special Prize CIAL AWARD








 
HANG IN THERE, KIDS! by Laha Mebow (Taiwan)
Reasons: The film "Hang in there, kids!" is about the long journey of three kids, raised in an isolated tribe in the mountains and the woods, who decide to set out on their own in order to help their beloved teacher, living on a wheel chair, fulfill her dream. Along their journey they will discover that nature which have help and freed them, would always be a reliable ally, even when leaving their world to reach the big city. This film is awarded the CIAL prize for the Environment, especially for the poetic and concrete approach the director has used to highlight the relationship between the motherland and the youngest members of a small community.
     
     
The artistic director has assigned the following awards, based on the results of the jurors votes:    
     

Feature Film 2nd Place
 
TSATSIKI, DAD AND THE OLIVE WAR by Lisa James-Larsson (Sweden)

     

Short Film 2nd Place
 
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN by Katja Benrath (Germany)
     
GENERATOR +13
     

Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film
 
FANNY'S JOURNEY by Lola Doillon (France/Belgium)

     

Special Prize CGS AWARD "Percorsi Creativi 2016"











 
FOG IN AUGUST by Kai Wessel (Germany)
Reasons: Because the film, set as the others in the Nazi Germany, focuses on a less-known, but still controversial aspect: the one concerning euthanasia programs for minors and disabled people. Inspired by a true story, it underlines the universal importance of respect for other people’s life and the dangerousness of dehumanizing ideologies willing to manipulate life in a selective way. The screenplay does not portray the easy scheme dividing good characters from evil characters, on the contrary it highlights human fragility, always victim of the 'Banality of Evil'. The most thoughtful meanings are conveyed by a direction enhancing young actors interpretation and expressiveness, also through essential dialogue and a measured use of evocative sound. Thanks to the striking contrast between the indoor and outdoor cold-and-hot chromatic tones, a climate of tragedy appears, leaving nevertheless a narrow opening for hope.
     
     
The artistic director has assigned the following awards, based on the results of the jurors votes:    
     

Feature Film 2nd Place
 
FOG IN AUGUST by Kai Wessel (Germany)

     
GENERATOR +16
     

Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film
 
THE VIOLIN TEACHER by Sérgio Machado (Brazil)

     

Special Prize "VITE CORAGGIOSE" - BAMBINO GESÙ HOSPITAL AWARD
(The prize was awarded by GFF artistic direction)


 
THE VIOLIN TEACHER by Sergio Machado (Brazil)
Reasons: For the courage, strength and determination of the protagonist in creating his own destination against all odds.
     
     
The artistic director has assigned the following awards, based on the results of the jurors votes:    
     

Feature Film 2nd Place
 
MY NAME IS EMILY by Simon Fitzmaurice (Ireland)

     
GENERATOR +18
     

Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film
 
URBAN HYMN by Michael Caton-Jones (United Kingdom)

     

Gryphon Award - Best Animated Short
 
BLIND VAYSHA by Theodore Ushev (Canada)

     

Gryphon Award - Best Fiction Short
 
BEAUTIFUL by Alessandro Capitani (Italy)

     

Special Prize AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD (animated shorts)








 
FENCES di Natalia Krawczuk (Poland)
Reasons: For having put emphasis on the topic of rights for freedom and on the consequences that its limitations imply in such a historical moment in which more and more barriers are being erected. Barriers, just like boundaries, prevent from deeply getting to know those we see as different, even only because of the adherence to an approved way of thinking which is often induced by misleading mass politics. However, once the "fences" from the film title are removed, one understands that diversity is essentially fake, daughter of a society made wicked by politics of fear and adverse to the idea of hospitality. A society ready to implode under the burden of its own closure.

     

Special Prize BLASTEEM AWARD (fiction shorts)




 
BEAUTIFUL by Alessandro Capitani (Italy)
Reasons: For telling the story of one of the worst evils of society directly and effectively. Our daily lives falls apart behind a door or a webcam through which everyone tells their own story hoping to be accepted.
     
     
The artistic director has assigned the following awards, based on the results of the jurors votes:    
     

Feature Film 2nd Place
 
CHICKEN by Joe Stephenson (United Kingdom)

     

Animated Short 2nd Place
 
THE STEINWAY by Massimo Ottoni (Italy)
     

Fiction Short 2nd Place

 
BALCONY by Toby Fell-Holden (United Kingdom)

     
GEX DOC
     

Gryphon Award - Best Feature Film

 
REAL BOY by Shaleece Haas (USA)

     

Special Prize AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AWARD








 
DREAMING OF DENMARK of Michael Graversen (Denmark)
Reasons: For the director’s capacity and discretion of telling a story making us aware of the difficulties of being an asylum seeker in today’s Europe. For being able to make the fully wish of living the ordinary life of many young people who with great courage and extreme difficulties reach Europe and see themselves rejected due to slow red tape which does not take into account the rights of minors, once they have become adults. For the choice of telling a true story where it is easy to identify oneself with the protagonist and feel his same emotions. We dedicate this prize to Wasiullah, the protagonist of the film, hoping to see his life dreams someday fulfilled.
     
     
The artistic director has assigned the following awards, based on the results of the jurors votes:    
     

Feature Film 2nd Place

 
DREAMING OF DENMARK by Michael Graversen (Denmark)