WINNERS

ALLAHU AKBAR
Directed by Farhat Qazi & Farhan Alam | Pakistan 2019

For the ability with which she tells us about the strength of women who do not yield to the destiny chosen for them by the prevailing culture, but fight for their daughters and for themselves, to affirm the right to education, the freedom to choose if and who marry, to experience childhood and adolescence, as, everywhere, every young woman has the right to choose. The certainty is that “whoever is afraid dies every day and whoever is not afraid dies only once” and survives forever.

FARIBA TALEBI for the Film “HE WENT” Directed by Mehdi Esmaeili | Iran 2019

For the ability of mimicry that makes non-verbal language an unequivocal and excellent tool and that indicates how art can challenge any prison, allowing us to fly high but stay with our feet on the ground.

CELESTEDirected by Ben Hackworth | Australia 2019
Soundtrack by Jackson Milas & Antony Partos

Because even illness and death, in this way of conceiving the inevitable and necessary consonances, become an opportunity to come to terms with one’s own truth and make peace with one’s fear, with the censorships and silences that often ensue and choose to approach the obligatory passage for everyone with as much dignity as possible, having the grace of being listened to by those you love and to find in the sounds of nature the ideal lullaby for the longest dream.

“MOUNTAINS, SUN AND LOVE” Directed by Michael Poghosyanl | Armenia 2019
Cinematography by Ruben Gasparyan

For the ability to show us how the image, by returning to man his paradise of nature, is capable of healing the wounds of the heart and sowing life by erasing every nightmare from the past.

LIGHTING Directed by Cristina Isoli | UK 2018

For the ability with which it demonstrates how women use not only their hearing to communicate. But they are conductors of vibrations especially when love touches their heart. Because the music, which the ears cannot hear, vibrates beyond the eardrum and, through the circuits of inventive initiative of a man in love, reaches directly to the heart muscle.

ANACRONTE Directed by Raúl Koler | Argentina 2019

For the ability with which he takes us into a dream that is not only the chromatic and technical one but which embodies hope. In fact, everyone is saved by reacting to the darts of life fired by fate in different ways. Some succumb, landed by unexpected events or pains, while others choose to make their dreams come true by transforming difficulties into a resource and to give life and the future a new opportunity.

CLEAN HANDS Directed by Michael Dominic USA 2018 | 98′

Filmed over the course of seven years (2011-2018) in Nicaragua, Clean Hands is a feature film that tells the extraordinary and compelling story of the Lopez family who survived against the backdrop of Central America’s largest garbage dump, La Chureca. It tells about the family, the extreme poverty, the hope and innocence of children, the rescue and salvation and the challenges we all face. A slice of life that is rarely seen.