Andrea Bifulco's 'Corsa abusiva' is the best feature film in the Nuovo Cinema Italia section of the 24th edition of the Naples Film Festival, directed by Mario Violini and organized by WooW with the French Institute of Naples and the contribution of the Campania Region and the Fondazione Film Commission Regione Campania.
The Vesuvio Award was presented at the Grenoble Film Festival "for the story's ability to become a paradigm of the contemporary difficulties of grasping one's destiny and mastering it, skilfully managing the means at hand and managing to exploit the claustrophobic dimension of the car that accompanies us through life to the advantage of the narrative, in courageous dramatic turns that we hope will become the director's hallmark," as stated in the motivation of the jury composed of film critic Alberto Castellano, actor Vincenzo Nemolato, and director Marcello Sannino.
The film, starring Gennaro Maresca, Vincenzo Antonucci, Agostino Chiummariello, Alba Giaquinto and Adriana Serrapica, is about Neapolitan Checco, who works as an illegal taxi driver and breaks his back at any hour of the day or night.
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Special mention for the actress Livia Antonelli for her performance in the film “L'anima in pace” by Ciro Formisano. The Schermo Napoli Corti section was won by the work “Chi spara per primo” by Emanuele Palamara. “For the skill and creativity in using the language and codes of the contemporary western, with reminiscences of the Coen brothers and a female character who is a close relative of Frances McDormand, in a tense and violent huis clos, in a no man's land that could be the Wild West or an American provincial town, and instead is found on a ranch in Campania, transfigured by a cinephile but personal direction, testifying to the universality of cinema and violence, the latter shown with a sense of suspense but without complacency”. thus in the verdict of the jury composed of the director Marco Chiappetta, the actress Cristina Donadio and the film critic Ignazio Senatore.
Special mention for “Buon compleanno Noemi” by Angela Bevilacqua, best actor Nando Paone for “Il mare che muove le cose” by Lorenzo Marinelli, best actress Anna Carla Broegg for “È solo il vento” by Enrico Iannaccone.
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