Winners
Winners of 2007 Edition
Assigned Prizes
Best Film: Golden Olive-tree
Reason:
Ex aequo to Reprise by Joachim Trier and Warchild by Christan Wagner
REPRISE
For the capacity of telling in an original way an extraordinary love story and for the ability of building up a complex tale, rich in metaphors on life and creation
WARCHILD
For the intensity and delicacy of the glance with which subjects of tragic relevance to the present days are treated. A film of the present which does not fear to face the memory of recent atrocities without abandoning hope.
Special Jury Award
Reason:
A story, told with dramatic tones, on the moral and physical destruction of a human being.
Award as Best Cinematography
Reason:
For the capacity of linking images of clearly dramatic tone to a tragic, moving story.
Award as Best Screenplay
Reason:
For the capacity of linking harmoniously classical narrative elements and fragmented tones.
Prize as Best European Actor (SNCGI Prize)
Reason:
The National Syndicate of Italian Cinematographic Journalists (SNGCI)chaired by Laura Delli Colli, has awarded ex aequo the Prize as Best European Actor to Maria De Mereidos and Antonia Liskova, both protagonists of the Italian film in competition Riparo by Marco Simon Puccioni.
To De Medeiros for the quality of her interpretation which well portrays the drama of a diversity delicately and powerfully expressed. To Liskova for her outlining of a still troubled femininity in search of a full authenticity.
FIPRESCI Award
Reason:
For the capacity of telling in a tragic, ironic way the sorrows and perversions of a family, through the eyes of an adolescent.
Special Audience Award
Reason:
Ex aequo to Reprise by Joachim Trier and Warchild by Christan Wagner.
