The 2008 Rome International Festival Winners
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Two political films emerge the winners at the Rome International Festival today. Resolution 819 by Giacomo Battiato was awarded the The Audience Award for Best Film and Opium War by Siddiq Barmak was awarded The Critics Award for Best Film.
THE AUDIENCE AWARD
The Golden Marc’Aurelio Audience Award for Best Film
RESOLUTION 819 by Giacomo Battiato
[United Nations Resolution 819 guaranteed the safety and protection of the Muslim populations Srebrenica, Bosnia. In July 1985, General Mladic's Bosnian Serb soldiers took the protected area, under the eyes of the completely passive UN troops. Thousands were deported, of which 8000, mostly old people and children, completely disappeared. The International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague sent volunteer French investigator Jacques Calvez to find out what really happened to those people. It is a journey into hell. Jacques faces many kinds of adversity in a country still at war and, alone from the start, is met with hatred and sorrow. He will fight for years to find the mass graves and prove that innocent men were tortured and killed by the criminals lead by Karadzic and Mladic.]
THE AWARDS ASSIGNED BY THE CRITICS’ JURY
A jury, composed of Edoardo Bruno, Michel Ciment, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Emanuel Levy, and Roman Gutek, assigns the Marc’Aurelio Critics’ Award in three different categories:
The Golden Marc’Aurelio Critics’ Award for Best Film
OPIUM WAR by Siddiq Barmak
[In a far mountainous place after Taliban regime in Afghanistan, two American soldiers - one white officer and the other an African-American soldier - are lost after their helicopter had crashed. The soldier waits for a chance to run away from the officer while the wounded officer coerces the soldier with a pistol to carry him around. The two are in discords but they need each other to survive in the hostile land. When they cross the poppy field, the two soothe the pain from the hurt, fatigue and dread from the war by licking the substance of the poppy capsules. They soon notice armored personal carriers (APC) with a white flag in the middle of the poppy field, a symbol of Taliban. With nothing much in their hands, they begin attacking the vehicles. But what they find inside in the APCs is an Afghan family living inside...]
Alicenella città Under 12 Prize for Best Film (ages 8 - 12)
MAGIQUE! by Philippe Muyl
Alicenella città Over 12 Prize for Best Film (ages 13 – 17)
SUMMER by Kenneth Glenaan
The Silver Marc’Aurelio Critics’ Award for Best Actress
DONATELLA FINOCCHIARO for Galantuomini by Edoardo Winspeare
The Silver Marc’Aurelio Critics’ Award for Best Actor
BOHDAN STUPKA for Serce na dloni (With a Warm Heart) by Krzysztof Zanussi
SPECIAL MENTION:
A CORTE DO NORTE (Northern land), by João Botelho
AIDE TOI , LE CIEL T’AIDERA (With a Little Help from Myself) by François Dupeyron
THE ACTING AWARDS
The Golden Marc’Aurelio Acting Award to Gina Lollobrigida
The statuette for the Golden and Silver Marc’Aurelio Awards to be assigned by the third edition of the International Rome Film Festival was expressly designed for the Festival by Sinisca, internationally renowned artist, made in 9 copies. Sinisca’s association with the cinema is long-standing, and several paintings he created for films will be exhibited on the evening of the awards ceremony.