by Redazione Ennesimo Film Festival
A dizzying edition, with over 6 thousand attendees. 50 cinematographic events, 197 short films… but who won? Here are all the winners of the official selection of the ninth edition of Ennesimo Film Festival!
The Official Jury, composed this year of Nora Lakos, Giammaria Tammaro, and 14 members of the Il Terzo Giurato project, has chosen to award the EFF 2024 Jury Prize to the short film DOG DAYS by George Hampshire
For the strength and universality of the language of animation; for the originality in the development of the story, that is as much about love as it is about learning how to let go of the important people in one’s life, even in a symbolic way; and for the effective irony of the staging.
The Ennesimo Official Jury also awarded two special mentions, the first to Tits by Eivind Landsvik
A coming-of-age story from an original viewpoint, capable of showing us how you can rely on freshness and lightness to tackle important themes, such as physical change, the birth of a new friendship, and self-acceptance.
The second mention went to MÅNGATA by Maja Costa
For the importance of the topics that are covered, such as inclusiveness and tenacity in pursuing one’s dreams and personal fulfillment, Mangata takes us on a circular journey that leads the main character to leave the past behind in order to write a new chapter of her own life.
The audience in the theater instead chose to reward the film by Korean author Kim Jun-hyung, a fun vision of a Korean family: Family Toast.
Ruth Earley, casting director and screenwriter, called to choose the Best Performance 2024 award, chose to award the actor Ben Whishaw for his performance as Danny in the film directed by Tom Stuart Good Booy.
The jury of the Artemisia Cultural Club then awarded the Artemisia Prize to the film Nothing holier than a dolphin by Isabella Margara
The Greek language takes viewers deep into the dimension of myth, when a fishermen’s tavern is transformed into the theatrical stage on which the action narrated by a foreign Homer unfolds. On a stormy night, two fishermen go out to sea to cast their nets after days of fruitless fishing, joined by a young man in another boat. Human greed threatens to kill a dolphin caught in the trawl net. But one of the two fishermen gives life and freedom back to the dolphin, who in turn rescues the young fisherman when they are about to drown. The dolphin-woman, symbol of the protection and salvation at sea for the shipwrecked, and at the same time of the fertile female womb from which we come, reminds us how great is the debt that man owes to Nature, Animal Life and Woman. Any abuse of these three constitutes the same crime. In front of the Sacred and Love, no one dare raise a murderous hand!
Scenographic stratagems, language, storytelling, choral acting, and last but not least music as in the myth of the kitharode Arion and the dolphin that saved him, come together in a successful balance that conveys to the audience a message of compelling topicality.
