Maryna Vroda's film "Stepne" won
the Trieste Award at the 35th edition of the Trieste Film
Festival, focusing on Central-Eastern European cinema. Set in
Ukraine, the film tells the story of Anatoliy, a man who returns
home to care for his mother. What convinced the jury, composed
of Anca Puiu, Ivan Salatić, and Lenka Tyrpáková, was "the
melancholic representation of the life of a disappearing
country, of pain and vanished hopes, rendered at the same time
with sweetness and authenticity."
The event, which ended yesterday evening after nine days of
screenings, was organized by the Alpe Adria Cinema association
and included meetings, book presentations, workshops, social
events, and guided tours.
The Alpe Adria Cinema award, given by the jury composed of
Graziella Bildesheim, Dmitrij Gluščevskij, Vladan Petković, goes
to 1489 by Shoghakat Vardanyan, a documentary focusing on the
disappearance of Soghomon Vardanyan, 21 years old, who was about
to complete his compulsory military service when the
Nagorno-Karabakh war broke out, in 2020. Her sister Shoghakat
decided to film the research carried out by her and her parents
with her phone: a job that, for the jury, "is a no-frills and
raw punch in the stomach."
"Land of Mountains" by Olga Kosanović - a short film about
the life of a Serbian father who immigrated to Austria and his
little daughter - was awarded the Tsff Shortsva for its
"incisiveness and sensitivity," explained by the jury (Sarah
Pennacchi, Ilija Tatić, Anne-Sophie Vanhollebeke).
Among other awards, the Corso Salani Award 2024 goes to Lala by
Ludovica Fales; the Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa
to the documentary "Between Revolutions" by Vlad Petri;
Cineuropa to "Without Air" by Katalin Moldovai; the Youth Area
Project Jury of the Municipality of Trieste to "The sea in
between" by Lun Sevnik.
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