Winning Short Movies

Lunge
Lunge

Jury Prize

Lunge

Lunge

  • Director: Negar Hassanzadeh
  • Country: Iran
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: drama

There is a problem for an Iranian fencer at the world fencing championships. The Iranian team will not allow her to play her next match Because if she loses, she will face the Israeli team and the Iranian team will not be allowed to compete with the israeli. She opposes the team's order. She is sure that she will win this match.

Free Market
Free Market

Jury Prize

Free Market

Free Market

  • Director: Giuseppe Cacace
  • Country: Italy
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: comedy

Paolo is on trial at a call center. He has the time of a phone call to convince the elderly Nando to give him his credit card details.

Categories Winning Short Movies

Dark Globe
Dark Globe

Special Jury Mention

Dark Globe

Dark Globe

  • Director: Donato Sansone
  • Country: Italy
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: animation

Human beings have become a war machine, an unstoppable element of destruction of everything around them. Is there still hope for the future or are we in an endless nightmare?

 

In Our Hands
In Our Hands

Special Jury Mention

In Our Hands

In Our Hands

  • Director: Camillo Sancisi
  • Country: Italy
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: animation

In 1983, a Lieutenant in command at an early warning base receives an alarm from the satellite defense system. Five nuclear warheads are directed towards his territory. The attack is unexpected, but the data appears reliable. The protocol is clear: should he initiate a deadly retaliation? Based on a true story.

 

Children of the Lake
Children of the Lake

Special Jury Mention

Children of the Lake

Children of the Lake

  • Director: Mohammad Alimoradi
  • Country: Iran
  • Year: 2022
  • Genre: documentary

The "Children of the Lake" is a documentary portraying the dire consequences of Lake Urmia's gradual drying on Zinatli village's people. A once-vibrant region now battles cancer and denial from officials while preserving dreams on the salt flats.

 

The Book of Mario
The Book of Mario

Special Jury Mention

The Book of Mario

The Book of Mario

  • Director: Daniel Chamorro
  • Country: Spain
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: documentary

Mario wants to lead a normal life but can't help but make it extraordinary.

 

Special Prizes

Family Portrait
Family Portrait

Special Jury Mention

Family Portrait

Family Portrait

  • Director: Lea Vidakovic
  • Country: Croatia
  • Year: 2023
  • Genre: animation

As Austro-Hungary teeters on collapse, Andras and his daughter are taken aback by the visit from Andras' brother, Zoltan, who comes accompanied by his large family.

 

Our Jury

Federico Greco

Filmmaker, teacher and essayist. He has written and directed 4 feature films, 2 horror and 2 documentaries, several documentaries for RAI, shorts and mockumentaries.
He has published for Lindau and La nave di Teseo and is author of the OttolinaTV column ‘Desaparecinema’.

Bianca Cambiaso

Passionate about cinema, writing and drawing, graduated in SAVS from Unipi. Volunteer at Cineclub Arsenale and member of the film selection team of Idromeno Independent Film Festival in Scutari.

 

Matteo Cossi

Director, producer and lecturer in directing at the Accademia Cinema Toscana, he has participated in international productions and realised works between Italy and New York combining writing, music composition and film direction.

 

Sara Lorenzelli

Student in Communication Sciences in Pisa.

Veronica Neri

Teacher in Media Ethics at the Department of Civilisation and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa. He deals with the ethics of emerging technologies, with particular reference to the image and artificial intelligence.

 

Abramo Tesoro

Film and communication enthusiast. President of the association Trame Indipendenti.

Elisa Torsiello

A film critic for Movieplayer, Everyeye, Sentireascoltare, she holds the criticism course at the Arsenale cinema in Pisa.

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