The winners of the 17th edition of agreements @ DISMISSIONS – International Short Film Festival
Giulio Mastromauro with his short film “Inverno” won the two main awards, for best short film and best direction, of the national section of the seventeenth edition of agreements @ DISMISSIONS – International Short Film Festival in Naples. “In a world where there is a need for truth, therefore for feeling, for memory, for passion, this is all that we find in a moving way, especially passion, in this short film, “Winter”, with the fantastic support of all the actors, all bearers of “truth”, up to the smallest and most wonderful of these actors, Christian Petaroscia”.
The jury recognized the short film for its masterful cinematic language, content, and refined direction. The film recounts the pain of Timo, the youngest child in a community of Greek carnies. This pain emerges in the enchanting performance of young Christian Petaroscia, who, with his gaze and his silent, visceral silence, is able to catapult the viewer into his "Winter," the winter of his soul. The film also received the cash prize of one thousand euros, donated by the FCRC – Film Commission of the Campania Region.
The Neapolitan event, directed by Pietro Pizzimento and Fabio Gargano, was held in hybrid form: online in November of last year on the international platform Festhome TV and the awards ceremony was held in person on July 9, 2021 at the Corte dell'Arte di Foqus in Naples, and ended with considerable public success and considerable appreciation from industry insiders.
The jury president was editor Giogiò Franchini accompanied by the jurors, the 2021 Nastro d'Argento actress Teresa Saponangelo and the director, Lamberto Lambertini.
The first prize in the Campania section of this edition went to the short film “Scannasurice” by Giuseppe Bucci, a play based on the famous play of the same name, written by Enzo Moscato and performed by Imma Villa, “for the purity of the gaze in telling the need to grow and find a place in the world while dealing with the weight of conditioning. The jury intended to reward the author's sincerity of intent and her creative intent”. The film's production was awarded a cinematographic crane kindly offered to the winner by ASCI, a Neapolitan film school. The protagonist of “Scannasurice”, Imma Villa, was awarded the prize as
best actress, “for the strength and selflessness with which she faces her characters, evoking the theatrical dimension, as the place from which everything starts and takes shape”.
Best actor of the 17th edition of accordi @ DISACCORDI, according to the jury, was Pier Giorgio Bellocchio for his intriguing performance in “Il ritratto” by Francesco Della Ventura with the motivation “Realism is the engine that turns it on, the angularities and inscrutability of the human soul, reflections of a path, which lead to the creation of an always credible character”.
The artistic direction of the festival also thanked the “Fondazione Fare Cinema” chaired by Marco Bellocchio and directed by Paola Pedrazzini, for the kind collaboration offered to this edition.
The award for best editing, established by AMC – Association of Film and Television Editors for the festival accordi @ DISACCORDI, with the jury composed of the president, Giogiò Franchini and Osvaldo Bargero and Alessandro Giordani, went to Corrado Iuvara for the film “Gas station” by Olga Torrico, “the editing in parallel between the dream world and the reality of the live, gives a decisive and fantastic support to the dynamics of the protagonist's thought. The authorship of the dream editing leads to the ending with lightness and to a right closing time. Editing as a second writing of the film”.
In the animated short film section, the first prize went to the short film “La grande onda” by Francesco Tortorella, “for the evocative power of the graphic line and for the courage to represent in a fairytale-like way tragic historical events that have nothing of the fairytale”.
“La scuola nella foresta directed by Emanuela Zuccalà is a little gem that has the merit of making us aware of terrible stories in magnificent worlds far away from us through the magnifying glass of Cinema used in an expressive way like never before” motivation of the jury for the best documentary of this edition of accordi @ DISACCORDI.
The first prize in the international section went to the short film “Anna” by Dekel Berenson, which has won multiple awards at major international festivals, “for its ability to tell, in 16 minutes of never banal images, the hope and desperation of a small town in eastern Ukraine devastated by war.
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From the opening among the dangling quarters of meat that Anna classifies and butchers, to the end in a suburban nightclub where Anna and other women, including her sixteen-year-old daughter, are exposed, classified and examined by American men looking for foreign wives, the film stages the broken dreams and needs of two different and distant cultures. The director has the talent of a deep gaze and a delicate irony”.
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