The Amarcorti jury decided the winners of this edition, while the public and the festival’s youngest fans were in charge of choosing the best film and the best children’s short respectively.
AMARCORTI 2024 – Best Film: Rasti
By Paolo Bonfadini e Davide Morandi
With Spielberg-style poetics and through the creation of a purely fictional character, the film tells a tender love story between a father and daughter, marked by the stubborn desire to be there and manifest themselves at a moment as important as a birthday, which marks the growth of a little girl, and gives meaning to the existences of a family. And just when, on the ridge of a pure and mysterious idea, despair seems to peep out, with the help of a concierge, at first perplexed, then complicit, and conveyed by small light signals, a love perhaps no longer spoken, but still beating strong, finds an original way to manifest itself in the hearts of a man and a woman, for once not just father and mother.
AMARCORTI 2024 – Special Mention: One Body
by Mia Benedetta
For telling, supported by a first-rate cast, through allegory, a dramatically topical issue in a non-rhetorical way. Merging words and images in a dreamlike limbo through which blind violence seeks atonement by fusing victim and perpetrator into a unicum, the work succeeds in restoring, from a point of view that is never banal, the absurdity of the extreme drifts into which toxic loves can result.
AMARCORTI 2024 – Special mention to Lavinia Sannino, Chell’n Cuollo/Impure
by Olga Torrico
For managing to convey with an essential and extremely natural interpretation all the emotional implications and cultural drifts of a coming-of-age, in a context deeply linked to the rural world and its ancestral archetypes.
AMARCORTI 2024 – Special mention to Francesco Gheghi, Mignolo/Little Finger
by Gianluca Granocchia
For being able to embody and convey with extraordinary intensity and immediacy the existential torment of youth, catalyzing the audience’s attention and shaking them deeply. Her performance, within a film that explores the theme of doubles and confronts us in the mirror, forces us to confront the darkest part of our soul.
