Amarcort Film Festival 13th edition - Rimini (italy) - from 24th November to 13th December, 2020

These are the winners of Amarcort Film Festival 13th edition.

"Un Felliniano nel Mondo" Award

Milo Manara
Thanks to the journalist and common friend Vincenzo Mollica, in 1987 was born the collaboration with Federico Fellini.
"The great riminese Maestro, to whom Manara dedicated a short story, Senza Titolo, was for Milo of great inspiration, especially with 8 e ½. After their meeting, Fellini asked him for illustrations for a screenwriting which he published on Corriere della Sera, titled Viaggio a Tulum, which will become a comic book. With Fellini, the collaboration continues then with Viaggio di G. Mastorna, detto Fernet, which should have been published in serial on the magazine Il Grifo, curated by Mollica himself. The first story was published on number 15 during summer 1992 but sadly didn't continue. In this gallery are just some of the illustrations that Manara dedicated to his relationship with the director and his films." (Source: www.milomanara.it)

Amarcort Section

Best Short 2020
Una mujer completa by Ceres Machado
The jury commended the participants on the high standard of the films submitted for this year's edition of the Amarcort Film Fesitval. The jury felt that the winning film treated a very original concept, maintained consistency in the credibility of the characters portrayed, achieved an excellent tehcnical level and had a very strong narrative quality. The winner of the Grand Jury Award of the Amarcort Film Festival 2020 is Una Mujer Completa from Spain.

Mention
May I have this seat? by Tabish Habib
The jury felt that there was a film that deserved a special mention in the festival. This film although seems to be simple delves into many complex issues that form today's social fabric – issues of gender stereotypes, status and social media. The film is MAY I HAVE THIS SEAT? From Pakistan.

"Fellini" Mention
The appointment by Alexandre Singh
The award goes to the director Alexandre Singh, undoubtedly a visionary artist. In this short film, he created a very rich visual world by playing with screenwriting, performance, sound and graphic design.

Critic Jury Award
Exam by Sonia K. Hadad
Because it narrates, like the language in a psychological thriller, a sexist society that discriminates and offends the women's freedom, even when power is female. Excellent, with Sonia K. Hadad's dry direction, the performance by the young protagonist, Sadaf Asga.

Critic Jury Mention
L'âge tendre by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri
From France, a story of restless and edgy teenagerhood and of a mother-daughter relationship as intense as complicated, that the sensitivity of the director Julien Gaspar-Olivieri and the extraordinary vitality of the performers Noée Abita and Marie Denarnaud transform in a small gem of dramatic, psychological and social comedy.

Best Italian Short Movie
L'attesa by Angela Bevilacqua
For the maturity and sensitivity demonstrated in handling a drama of our times, with a tight climax of an eloquent sequence shot, it conjugates the claustrophobia of the unit of time and space to the likelihood of a tragic performance, returning the emotional impact of a news and the possibility to identify in the everyday life of a society in continuous transformation: the winner of Best Italian Short is L'Attesa by Angela Bevilacqua.

Popular Jury Award
Moon drops by Yoram Ever-Hadani
All the audience jury was impressed by a large portion of the short films, for the issues addressed, the ability to synthesize, for the scenic solutions, the originality of the story, for the society and historical cross-section offered with generosity. Choosing a winner was not easy, given the high quality of the films. The winner is Moon Drops: poetic, with exquisite screenwriting, beautiful realization, magic realism which applies to all dreamers, the artists of today's world. When everything is agreed, words are not needed. Chaplinian, dreamlike, romantic and original, a beautiful and clean story of home.

Youth Jury Award
Ape Regina by Nicola Sorcinelli
Ape Regina was evaluated as best short film because, according to us, it is technically egregious in realization, with themes of actuality treated in a tangible way, innovative and not obvious.

"il Pataca" Award to Best Performance
Winnie Soldi in NAM by Niccolò Corti.

Rex Section

Best Short Animation Movie
Song Sparrow by Farzaneh Omidvarnia
The winner is Song Sparrow for the strength of a story which unfolds between horror and hope, a story very well told and of stringent relevance, and for the high-level animation, of great visual and emotive impact.

Mention
Lost & Found by Andrew Goldsmith, Bradley Slabe
The special mention goes to Lost & Found for the great professionality of an animation with a very high quality in technique and artistry, capable to express effectively a constructive and poetic story.

Aldina Section

Best Short Movie of Category
Tres pisos by Manuela Blandon Restrepo
"Tres pisos" is a tightrope walking of rare efficiency, which conjugates the storytelling with a perfect mastery of pictorial language, chromatic and photographic. The violence of the action is powerfully leveled with pressure and space, sound and time performed on the audience. The result is an amount of impact that breaks on the stillness of the fixed gaze, with an effect of rare and vivid strength.

Mention
Lefty/Righty by Max Walker-Silverman
Lefty/Righty is cinema, border cinema, epic cinema, symbolic cinema, of interior gazes, words not spoken, deafening silences. Evocative cinema, wide-ranging, with a warm atmosphere. A cinema that, itself, makes you say, "I want to come too". That a young director already has this kind of wide-ranging vision is already a victory: a victory of the new cinema.

Gironzalon Section

Best Experimental Short Movie
W by Stelios Koupetoris
The winner is "W": a punch in the stomach, delicate, full of tenderness and bitterness at the same time. The short film is able, from the very beginning, to make the audience feel deep the necessity to listen to something true, even if difficult to accept, like many other truths. Each person should feel this urgency. "W" is able to speak to the conscience and soul of each one of us, in a way that today has been lost, with the ingenuity and delicacy of a child, who places us in front of a real monster.

Fulgor Section

Regione Emilia-Romagna Award
Il fagotto by Giulia Giapponesi
The jury, unanimously, decided to award the first prize to the short film "Il fagotto" by Giulia Giapponesi. Giulia was able to combine the extreme rigor and the formal accuracy, particularly evident in the very successful setting with no time and in a soft and geometric photography with pastel tones, to an uncommon directorial sensitivity which she had in handling the theme of maternity and low birth rate in the West. The director was very effective in subtly making the dystonia of a world victim of an authoritarian government.

Mention
L'estasi di Oleg by Francesco Selvi
For the sophisticated use of the ironic tone, applied both to the screenwriting and the visual language, for the evocative definition of the characters, the excellent black and white photography, we award The Ecstasy of Oleg with the jury's honorable mention.

Miranda Section

Best Short Movie of Category
Roberto by Carmen Córdoba González

Gradisca Section

Audience Award - Ex Aequo
More Love, Less Plastic by Lorenzo Degli Angeli

Audience Award - Ex Aequo
Coast by Özkan Bal

Home Made Movie Section

Best Short Movie of Category
Freeride skiing at home by Philipp Klein Herrero

Cantarel Section

Best Short Movie of Category
Way Home by Tine Kluth
All of us jurors appreciated this video, wery well connected to the song, which is also interesting, for the care to the smallest details, and because it inspires an emotion which is often not represented: the tenderness. Moreover, the setting between the planets, the lonely explorer, the characters and plants, create a suggestion that reminds the timeless book The Little Prince: this enriches this work with also a cultural valor.

Mention
TIM by John Grammatico
This video, which we jurors considered a little bit more pop than the others, struck us in the ending in particular: it is surprising and has a great emotional impact; it invites, with delicacy and sensitivity, to have the courage of being ourselves and express our feelings; for these reasons, it deserves a mention.