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| Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion Photo: Courtesy of Giornate degli Autori |
The prize comes with a cash purse of €20,000 to be split between the director and the film's international distributor.
The jury said: “A film that portrays the solitude of the present, holding together an intimate dimension and a political charge, inviting us to think about labor, immigration and privilege through a delicate mise en scène built on small gestures rather than big events. The personal and the collective, fiction and documentary, history and present time merge into a single breath. We left the cinema deeply moved, by a sadness and a spirit of rebellion that do not oppose one another, but coexist, as two faces of the same disorientation.”
The Europa Cinemas label prize was awarded to Une Femme Aujourd’hui by French director Robert Guédiguian. It charts what happens when a high-powered executive is assaulted at a work event. The jury noted it "powerfully intertwines the intimate and personal with the political and social, using its protagonist’s experience to explore the broader position of women in contemporary society and family life".
The People’s Choice Award went to Balcanica, about an Afghan orchestra conductor and his son forced to flee after music is outlawed, directed by Nicola Sorcinelli. It received 76% of the audience vote.
