THE WINNERS OF THE 18TH EDITION

FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
The jury: Roberto Campagnano, Denis Valič e Maciej Karpinski

The Trieste Prize for the Best Feature Film in Competition (5,000 eur) has been assigned unanimously to:

DER FREIE WILLE (THE FREE WILL) by Matthias Glasner, Germany, 2006
The motivation of the Jury:
“The film tells, with dramatic incisiveness and without any compromise, the story of a man who is slave of his own nature, forced to live outside any social context. The film director does not indulge into easy solutions and preserves an objective detachment, helped by two extraordinary actors”.

The Jury also assigns unanimously a special mention to:

Z ODZYSKU (RETRIEVAL) by Sławomir Fabicki, Poland, 2006
“for the dilemma it presents: to what extent can the human being betray his own education and his traditions in order to achieve the goal he has set himself? Can he go along a bad road with the best of intentions?”

SHORT FILM COMPETITION
The jury: Maurizio Di Rienzo, Ivan Karl e Thomas Woschitz

The “Fondazione Mediterraneo” Prize for the best short film in competition (2,000 eur) goes to:

LAMPA CU CĂCIULĂ (The Tube With a Hat) by Radu Jude, Rumania, 2006
“For the sincere way everyday life is portrayed in a country which has become part of the European Union but it has just started to struggle for the European way of living. It is a small story about small characters whose names will not be remembered but the mature direction of the film is something not to forget.”

Special mentions go to:

TIR (TIR - Shooting Gallery) by Radoy Nikolov, Bulgaria, 2005
“For the human and political impact of a symbolical, tragic everyday story which can take place everywhere else and not just in the European outskirts.”

And

10 INSECTS TO FEED by MASBEDO (Nicolò Massazza, Jacopo Bedogni), Italy, 2006
“For the really impressive and metaphorical combination of cinematography, editing, sound and body work which are so different from all the other short films of the competition section.”

DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION
The jury: Federico Jolli, Costanza Quatriglio e Dinko Tucaković

The international Jury of the Documentary Competition Section wishes to point out the high quality of the selection.
The “Alpe Adria Cinema” Prize to the Best Documentary in Competition (2,500 eur) has been assigned unanimously to:

BORTGLÖMDA (Forgotten) by Agnieszka Lukasiak, Sweden, 2005
“For telling the story through the point of view of the two young protagonists, and for the narrative taste where pain and fear are shown with no rhetoric through their journey… which is also the journey of the film director and of the spectator”.

The Jury assigns also two special mentions to:

KANIKULY (The Holiday) by Marina Razbezhkina, Russia, 2005
“For the subject glorifying the positive sense of life which reminds us also the best Flaherty (i.e. Nanook of the North)

and to:

POD OTKRYTIM NEBOM (Under the Open Sky) by Arman Yeritsian, Russia, 2005
“Because it is a radical and a poetical film on the thin line separating life and death”.

AUDIENCE AWARDS

 Feature film
1. Karaula
2. Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii
3. Magic eye

Short film
1. Lampa cu caciula
2. A doppio filo
3. Pomiedzy
 
Documentary
1. Karneval
2. A story of people in war and peace
3. Pod otkrytm nedo