Festival cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina ,Milano , which concluded in Milano on 7th of this month , is the only festival in
OFFICIAL PRIZES
- The Official Jury – Windows on the World Feature Film Competition, made up of :Tahar Ben Jelloun – writer –
Best Feature Film
ENI Prize for the best feature film, Euro 15,000
BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME by Hana Makhmalbaf.
“For the great importance of the film both on the artistic and political level. A film on the origins of fanaticism as it has developed in
- The Official Jury - Competition for the Best African Film at the Festival
(The African feature films present at the Festival, without any distinction of category compete for this prize) made up of the journalists
Paola Piacenza –
decided:
Best African Film at the Festival
The
LA MAISON JAUNE by
“La maison jaune by Amor Hakkar is a brilliant example of return cinema, without emphasis and rich in content. A road movie born out of the journey that the director made to his homeland in 2002, it reflects the simplicity of life in small Berber communities.
The visual and narrative language is as immediate as it is effective, strong in genres and archetypes used without cunningness. This allows the audience to make the same journey as the protagonist (who is, not surprisingly, the director) ) and to give in to the same powerful emotion.”
Special mentions
ANDALUCIA by Alain Gomis, Senegal/France/Spain, 2007
Alain Gomis, who is French with a Senegalese father, offers us a perfect example of métisse cinema, an indefatigable reflection in identity and contamination. The vehicle of this almost mystical experience, is the body of the protagonist, Samir Guesmi, an actor of furious power.
Yacine is all of us!
DELICE PALOMA by Nadir
Tenacious, intelligent and human: Madame Aldjeria- Biyouna- is definitely the strongest female figure in this section. Through a performance of rare intensity, the actress, well directed by the director Nadir Moknèche, becomes a metaphor of
- The Official Jury – Competition for Windows on the World Documentaries and African Documentaries, made up of
Dimitri Eipides - Director of the
Windows on the World Documentary Competition
NGWENYA, O CROCODILO by Isabel Noronha,
“For themoving synthesis with which the director unites the artist Malangatana Ngwenya, his world and the history of his country, transforming all the elements of his art into filmic power.”
Special Mentions
CIRCUNSTANCIAS ESPECIALES by Marianne Teleki and Jennifer Maytorena Taylor,
Chile/Usa, 2007
NOUBA D’OR ET DE LUMIERE by
African Documentary Competition
FNAC Prize for the Best African Documentary, Euro 5,000
EN ATTENDANT LES HOMMES by
“For the delicate approach and unexpected and very intimate way on which the director approaches the private space of women, where the absence of men becomes an opportunity to break the taboos of female sexuality and desire.”
- The Official Jury – African Short Film competition
Clarence Delgado – Director -
African Short Film Competition
ENI Prize for the best African short film, Euro 7,500
SARAH by
“A moving film without rhetoric. In the encounter with her daughter who comes to
Special Mention
C’EST DIMANCHE! by
SPECIAL PRIZES
“City of
Euro 7,500
GETTING HOME by
CEM-Mondialità / COE Prize for the Best Short Film
The prize will be awarded by a Jury made up of Italian and foreign pupils from secondary schools in
FOOSKA by Samy Elhaj. Tunisia/Morocco, 2007
“For the realism with which the director reproduced a particular situation of school life and for having been able to show the audience how far appearance and prejudices can often be deceiving.”
Special Mention
C’EST DIMANCHE! by
SIGNIS Prize (OCIC and UNDA)
TERRA SONAMBULA by Teresa Prata, Mozambique/Portugal, 2007
“A man and a child, linked by conflicting friendship, love and mutual respect, caught up in by the bloody civil war that has torn Mozambique apart, pass through these horrors meeting the unforeseen and death on a daily basis.They flee and defeat the intolerable reality by creating, from a diary, real and poetic parallel stories,which feed their desire to hope in the future and cancel the past.Filmed with colourful liveliness, realism and cinematographic skill, the film is supported and enhanced by dialogues full of humanity and poetry.”
Special mentions
IL VA PLEUVOIR SUR
ANDALUCIA by Alain Gomis
SARAH by Khadija Leclère
CINIT – CIEMME Prize
The prize consists of the acquisition of the home video distribution rights of an African short film.
PERCUSSION KID by
“For the universality of the work, which skilfully combines the transfiguring gaze of the small protagonist with the sounds, rhythms, colours and harshness of his land.”
"City of
The prize consists of an invitation (travel and accommodation) at the International Film Festival in
CONFESSION by Daddy
ISMU PRIZE
The Fondazione Ismu (Iniziative e studi sulla Multietnicità) awards a Prize to the best short film at the Festival with an educational value. The prize consists of the acquisition of the home video distribution rights in
C’EST DIMANCHE! by
“In the footsteps of Truffaut, the short film looks at the world of adolescence and some of its universal problems from the inside. The trials and tribulations of the young protagonist are narrated with a skilful and light hand, alternating moments of pure comedy with others in a more serious tone, at times almost dramatic. The original and delicate ending takes the audience by surprise and reverses the facile stereotypes of an authoritarian and violent Arab father. It is well acted, well photographed and skilfully directed.”
CUMSE Prize
The prize consists of the acquisition of the home video distribution rights in
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