“Kalavria” of Cristina Mantis wins the Naples Film Festival as best film of the competition New Italian Cinemawinning the Vesuvio Award of the 25th edition directed by Mario Violini and organized by WooW and the Institut Français.
“For the subject and little-known places in the Italian cinematographic panoramafor the evocative form adopted, for the cultural and anthropological value that it expresses concerning an ancient land too often simplistically denigrated, for the always revealing characters and for a suggestive and never intrusive photograph. A poetic and evocative film which, through myth, manages to tell the complexity and pain of our contemporaneity. Showing in an unprecedented way a magnificent region, the heart of Greater Greece, humiliated first by crime and the blindness of politics, then also by prejudice and abandonment.
Here is the motivation of the jury composed of the director Romano Montesarchiofrom the actor Nando Paone and the journalist Ilaria Urbaniwho awarded a special mention to “Désiré” by Mario Vezza “for having contributed to highlighting the uneasiness of young people and the question of integration, in view of the expected referendum on the citizenship of migrants, a training story capable of recount the difficulties of growing up immersed in the social disintegration caused by poverty andinability to integrate the latest».
In the SchermoNapoli Courts section, judged by director Enrico Iannaccone, actress Antonella Stefanucci and film critic Ignazio Senatore, the best film was “L’attesa” by Antonello Novellino and Antonio Quintanilla: “With a capacity for synthesis so lucid that it encloses in a few minutes the Beckettian meaning vain waiting as well as an unpredictable turn of events worthy of a textbook. Special mention to “ZO (Zona Orientale)” by Loris G. Nese “for the innovative production language serving a scenario so solid that it makes the images offered tangible”.
The best interpretations are those of Giacomo Rizzo for the short film “Era ora!” by Valerio Manisi (“Indomitable but measured, rebellious and yet lucid, for the interpretation of a soul who makes its passage in a very personal Purgatory its last scene/court”) and that of Anna De Dominicis for “A piedi nudi” by Luca Esposito (“With an interpretation capable of faithfully embodying the whirlwind of fear and desire specific to youth and demonstrating a conscious use of spontaneity in acting”). Here are the verdicts of the juries composed of director Romano Montesarchio, actor Nando Paone and journalist Ilaria Urbani for Nuovo Cinema Italia and director Enrico Iannaccone, actress Antonella Stefanucci and film critic Ignazio Senatore for SchermoNapoli Courts.
To the section winners New Italian Cinema et SchermoNapoli Courts also a cash prize of 2,000 and 1,000 euros respectively for the rental of ARRI cameras, lenses and accessories, thanks to the technical sponsor of the festival CIAK.rent, a Campanian audiovisual services company. “In 25 years, we have celebrated the best of international cinema by welcoming stars like Cate Blanchett, Sigourney Weaver and local figures famous around the world, from Ennio Morricone to Francesco Rosi, including Giancarlo Giannini, Paolo Sorrentino, Pupi Avati, to name just a few. The objective of the festival has always been to highlight the excellences of our city, highlighting new proposals. After a quarter of a century, we are already working on the next edition which will see an evolution of the format with many surprises,” declared Mario Violini during the awards evening in the Salle Dumas in Grenoble.
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