And here are all winners.
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
The Jury of the International Feature Film Competition of the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), Inês de Medeiros (Portugal), David Gordon Green (USA), Luca Guadagnino (Italy), Ron Mann (Canada), awards the following Prizes:
LANCIA Prize for Best Film (20,500 Euros) to:
HONOR DE CAVALLERIA
by Albert Serra (Spain, 2006, 35mm, 102’)
a moving, elegant, courageous filmic stand, a stunning cinema debut.
Special Jury Prize ex aequo to:
HONOR DE CAVALLERIA
by Albert Serra (Spain, 2006, 35mm, 102’)
THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE
by Todd Rohal (USA, 2006, 35mm, 96’)
the Special Jury Prize underlines the amazing performances of the two actors Lluís Carbó and Lluís Serrat in Honor de Cavalleria and the tour de force of the entire cast of The Guatemalan Handshake. The two Spanish actors offer so much with so little; and a collection of moments of strangeness and sadness is brought to life by the natural and authentic performances of the entire American cast.
Prize for Best Director to:
THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE
by Todd Rohal (USA, 2006, 35mm, 96’)
for Todd Rohal’s talent; he is an extremely talented filmmaker, and his vigorous language and cutting humor have created an anarchical and human world.
DOC 2006 COMPETITION
The Jury of the DOC 2006 Competition of the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of Anton Giulio Mancino, Corso Salani, Fabiana Sargentini, awards the following Prizes:
unanimously
PERSOL DOC 2006 Prize
Best Italian Documentary (10,000 Euros) to:
ELIORAMA
by Maicol Casale and Alberto Momo (Italy, 2006, Betacam, 40’)
for the formal rigor with which it expands the specific theme into an idea of the architecture of the viewpoint.
Two special PERSOL Prizes (2,500 Euros each) awarded
unanimously to
perryfarrell
by Giovanna Sonnino (Italy, 2006, Beta SP, 70’)
for the courage, the sincerity and the self-irony with which the director portrays herself and the expressive urgency of a feeling.
with a majority decision to
UN’ALTRA STORIA
by Marco Battaglia, Gianluca Donati, Laura Schimmenti and Andrea Zulini (Italy, 2006, MiniDV, 90’)
for the ability to let the human and meek human dimension of a courageous and exemplary woman emerge from the fabric of official politics.
ITALIAN COMPETITION
The Jury of the Italian Competition of the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of Francesco Brocani, Andrea Pastor, Carola Spadoni, awards the following Prize:
PERSOL Italian Competition Prize
Best film or video (2,600 Euros; 3,850 Euros in technical services offered by Unistudio, Torino) to:
SUICIDIO DI UN PARAPLEGICO 2 DI 10
by Francesco Guttuso (Italy, 2006, Betacam, 10’)
a film in which tap dancing becomes a dazzling metaphor and the vibrant driving force of a device that has been set off to mock and resist, with life and with death.
The Jury would also like to mention the films:
ROI DU SILENCE
by Francesco Di Loreto and Beppe Giacobbe (Italy, 2006, BetaSP, 15’)
RITRATTO DI FAMIGLIA
by Carlo Cagnasso (Italy, 2006, BetaSP, 5’)
REGIONAL COMPETITION
The Jury of the Regional Competition of the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of Piero Basso, Alessandro Giorgio, Irene Mariatti awards the following Prize:
Best Film or Video (2,600 Euros in laboratory services offered by Blue Gold, Milan; 1,300 Euros in technical services offered by Unistudio, Torino) to:
FUORI FUOCO
by Ernaldo Data e Daniele Salaris (Italy, 2006, DVD, 28’)
for the awareness demonstrated in the editing and live recording, with which the two authors document three contemporary stories document with efficiency and simplicity.
KODAK SHORT FILM AWARD
The Jury of the Italian Competition of the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of Francesco Brocani, Andrea Pastor, Carola Spadoni, awards the following Prize:
Best Italian short in 35mm or 16mm [3,000 Euros in cinematographic negative film, color or black and white, in 35mm or 16 mm format, winner’s choice] to:
CHRONICLES OF IMPECCABLE SPORTSMANSHIP
by Erika Tasini (Italy-USA, 2006, MiniDV, 7’)
defining it a dissonant educational story for families, a subversive mise-en-scène of games, moods, looks and objects of desire.
CIPPUTI PRIZE
The Jury of the Cipputi Prize of the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of Cesare Annibaldi, Roberto Mania, Claudio Mellana, Valter Musso, Luca Pasquadibisceglie, awards the 2006 Cipputi Prize:
Best film about the working world (2,600 Euros) to:
IL LATO GROTTESCO DELLA VITA
by Federica Di Giacomo (Italy, 2006, Beta SP, 75’)
the film, which was shot in contemporary, real-life Matera, uses irony and lightness as it uses the stories of invented, unauthorized jobs to show the daily life of a community that resists desperation, that doesn’t want to flee from its doubtlessly difficult condition. Paradoxically, the people, who are well characterized, don’t seem depressed or resigned to their working conditions, but on the contrary express an improbable creativity.
The Torino Film Festival awards the Cipputi Award for lifetime achievement to Joaquín Jordá
FIPRESCI PRIZE
The Jury of the Fipresci Prize of the 24th Torino Film Festival, presided over by Peter Keough (USA) and composed of Rich Cline (USA), Magda Mihailescu (Romania), Cristiana Paternò (Italy), Floreal Peleato (Spain) awards the following Prize:
Best Competing Feature Film to:
ZAPISKI PUTEVOGO OBKHODCHIKA - NOTES BY A TRACKMAN
by Zhanabek Zhetyruov (Kazakhstan, 2006, 35 mm, 64’)
for its simplicity, for its ability to show details and for the precision with which it tells a story that is tied to a particular culture and yet is absolutely universal. In only 64 minutes, Notes by a Trackman is a practically perfect film.
The Jury also awards a special mention to:
BLED NUMBER ONE
by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France-Algeria, 2005,35 mm, 97’)
for the natural style, almost borrowed from true life, with which it delves into the painful contradictions of a small community torn by fundamentalism, through the two separate destinies of exclusion and disintegration.
FILMCRITICA “BASTONE BIANCO” PRIZE
The jury of the Filmcritica Bastone Bianco Prize of the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of Edoardo Bruno, Alessandro Cappabianca, Daniele Dottorini, Simone Emiliani, Grazia Paganelli, Bruno Roberti, Daniela Turco, after taking into consideration the films presented in the sections Feature Film Competition, Out of Competition, Detours, Americana, awards the following Prize:
Filmcritica Bastone Bianco Prize for Best Film to:
BROKEN TRAIL
by Walter Hill (Canada, 2006, 35mm, 184’)
for the sign of freedom and the enduring madness of reason.
INVITATION TO THE SCUOLA HOLDEN PRIZE
The Jury of the Invitaiton to the Scuola Holden Prize for the best screenplay among the Feature Films competing in the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of the students of the Master’s degree course in narrative technique, awards the following Prize:
Holden Prize for screenplays ( 1,500 Euros)- The winner is invited to conduct a 3-day workshop at the Scuola Holden to:
THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE
by Todd Rohal (USA, 2006, 35mm, 96’)
because it’s absurdly tragic and aesthetically effective.
The Jury also notes the following 3 films for second, third and fourth place:
ZAPISKI PUTEVOGO OBKHODCHIKA / NOTES BY A TRACKMAN by Zhanabek Zhetyruov (Kazakhstan, 2006, 35mm, 64’)
BLED NUMBER ONE by Rabah Ameur – Zaïmeche (France-Algeria, 2005, 35mm, 97’)
HONOR DE CAVALLERIA by Albert Serra (Spain, 2006, 35mm, 102’)
AURORA PRIZE
The Jury of the Regional Competition of the 24th Torino Film Festival, composed of Piero Basso, Alessandro Giorgio, Irene Mariatti, awards the following Prize:
Aurora Prize for Best screenplay in the Regional Competition (“Optima” sketch pen) to:
L’ULTIMO SPETTACOLO
by Romeo Toffanetti (Italy, 2005, DVD, 9’)
because a screenplay isn’t only made of words, but also of images, emotions, in short – of cinema.
“Achille Valdata” Audience Prize
in collaboration with “La Stampa – TorinoSette”
The Jury of the “Achille Valdata” Audience Prize, composed of 5 TorinoSette readers (Stefano Carcereri, Roberto Graffi, Paola Mariotto, Gabriele Rosso, Silvia Stola) awards the following Prize:
Best Feature Film to:
ZAPISKI PUTEVOGO OBKHODCHIKA - NOTES BY A TRACKMAN
by Zhanabek Zhetyruov (Kazakhstan, 2006, 35 mm, 64’)
for the lyricism with which it portrays the relationships between three generations with a nostalgic look to the past.
The Jury of the “Achille Valdata” Audience Prize, composed of 5 TorinoSette readers (Flavia Barbato, Giorgia Chiappa, Riccardo Gaeta, Paolo Lombardi, Claudio Tizzani), awards the following Prize:
Best film or video in the Italian Competition to:
PURCHÉ LO SENTA SEPOLTO
by Gianclaudio Cappai (Italy, 2006, 35mm, 18’)
for the ability of the author to look through the eyes of a child to deal with a delicate theme, always maintaining the interest of the spectator.
CINEMAVVENIRE PRIZE
The Jury of the CinemAvvenire Prize, composted of 15 young people from CinemAvvenire, awards the following Prizes:
The “Il cerchio non è rotondo. Cinema per la pace e la ricchezza della diversità”Prize, awarded to a film from the Feature Film Competition to:
MANORO
by Brillante Mendoza (Philippines, 2006, DigiBeta, 75’)
for its choice to exploit the mechanisms of fiction to analyze contemporary Filipino reality, in a voyage of discovery of the local culture that becomes a lucid, deep study of the first stirrings of a new democracy
Best Italian Documentary in the DOC 2006 Competition to:
OLTRE SELINUNTE
by Salvo Cuccia (Italy, 2006, Beta SP, 56’)
for the absolute creative liberty with which the author has reinterpreted archeological documentaries, working on the stratifications of sound and visual materials and demonstrating a mature and incisively political stylistic approach.
AVANTI! PRIZE
The Jury of the Avanti! (Agenzia Valorizzazione Autori Nuovi Tutti Italiani) Prize, composed of Chiara Boffelli, Chiara Borroni, Bruno Fornara, Angelo Signorelli, from among the Italian shorts and documentaries presented at the 24th Torino Film Festival, awards and chooses to be distributed (the winning works will be released in the circuit of the network of film forums and film clubs) the following seven works:
FUORI FUOCO (Regional Competition)
by Ernaldo Data e Daniele Salaris (Italy, 2006, DVD, 28’)
THE BURNING WAKE (Italian Competition)
by Giacomo Cesari (Italy/Scotland/Mexico, 2006, MiniDV, 27’)
NEWS (Italian Competition)
by Ursula Ferrara (Italy, 2006, 35mm, 4’)
ROI DU SILENCE (Italian Competition)
by Francesco Di Loreto and Beppe Giacobbe (Italy, 2006, BetaSP, 15’)
IL LATO GROTTESCO DELLA VITA (DOC 2006)
by Federica Di Giacomo (Italy, 2006, BetaSP, 75’)
UN RACCONTO INCOMINCIATO (DOC 2006)
by Felice D’Agostino and Arturo Lavorato (Italy, 2006, BetaSP, 80’)
THIS IS MY SISTER (DOC 2006)
by Giovanni Piperno (Italy-Kenya, 2006, BetaSP, 62’)
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