Istrana, October 26th 2018 – The jury of the 19th edition, composed by Umberto Curi, Marco Segato and Alessandro Cinquegrani, awards the Fiaticorti prize for the best short film to Zona by Iranian director Toofan Nahan Ghodrati, a courageous and compact film that portrays today's Iran through the events of a man who loses himself to the point of becoming an enemy to his loved ones. The director conducts the narration in an essential and convincing way supported by the excellent acting and by a photography that illuminates the protagonist's journey with a realistic and at the same time poetic angle.
The prize for the best performance is awarded to Italian actor Roberto Citran in “Môn clochard” by Gian Marco Pezzoli (Italy). The actor of Paduan origins, Roberto Citran plays a complex character, neither rude nor insensitive, discreet but horribly guilty, and it does it almost without words, chiselling the silences and the daily gestures with the strength of a dry and intense performance, that keeps him constantly on the edge between banality and abomination.
The FiatiVeneti Prize for the best short of the special section, dedicated to the territory where the festival takes place, is awarded to Dimitri Feltrin with the short film “Asfalto#1 – Pensare metà”. Dimitri Feltrin, director from Treviso, is awarded for the strength of the story and for the stylistic and narrative urgency with which it photographs our territory. The personal events of the protagonists collide with the construction of a great public work that compromises a work-life balance built over time with difficulty and determination. The first part of a courageous and necessary project that the jury expects to have further developments.
Among the comedies, the jury awards the Fiaticomici Prize to Axel Courtière with “Belle à croquer” (France). A courageous and original work, aimed at exploring in depth the potential of cinematographic language, supported by an effective irony. The chromatic research, the stylistic innovation, are never the expression of a virtuosity that is an end in itself, but they rather correspond to the purpose of fully exploiting the peculiarities of the cinematographic narration. Also noteworthy is the attempt to bring the work back in line with some avant-garde trends in contemporary art.
The comment of Umberto Curi, head of the jury of Fiaticorti 19 on this edition: «what struck me was the emergence, albeit with different narrative styles, of two thematic groups. The relationship between parents and children, difficult and stormy, sometimes reaching forms of exasperated violence; this rupture of the primary relationship, that between father and son, is a recurring theme in the works of this edition of Fiaticorti and makes us think that maybe it is a real generational crisis of children who no longer recognize themselves in their fathers and fathers who can not be considered such.
The other interesting theme was the issue of immigration in which emerged a certain sensitivity in grasping the peculiarities of the people who come to our country, not just migrants, but people, human beings, with their own problems and their own culture».
The popular jury that has seen the local associations and people passionate about cinema as protagonists, has chosen to award the Spanish film El niño que quería volar di Jorge Muriel. Have participated: Quinto Spazio Giovani, Treviso Incoming, Cineforum Gagliardi, Marathon in the Camp, Team Potter, Associazione La Greppia, Mission Onlus, Reservoir short dogs, Aristide Della Fincha & D'Artefatti, Roberta Mariot, Carolina Cavallin, Stefano Ferello, Federica Favero, Frank Francesco Baruffi & Eros Parisotto, Emanuela Rosti, Roberto Parise, Piermario Chiarellotto, Michele Buba Bonasia & Francesco Bacchion.
The awarding ceremony closes the 19th edition of Fiaticorti that during the month of October brought in town the screenings of 23 international short films, animating the 4 evenings held at Cà Celsi, topped off with the awarding ceremony inside the Cinema Theater of the military airport of Istrana, which for the occasion opens its doors to the citizens and lives the event together with the city as confirmed by the Captain of the 51 Stormo Colonel Massimiliano Pasqua: «hosting the closing night of the nineteenth edition of Fiaticorti means first of all to continue with what has been a very pleasant event for the past few years. This collaboration with the Municipality of Istrana underlines once again how solid and strong is the friendship between the Istrana airport, the local institutions, the associative and entrepreneurial realities of Treviso and the citizens, always attentive and close to the dynamics of our Stormo».
Another edition of Fiaticorti comes to an end, a festival that has now assumed a precise identity and recognizability even compared to similar events, a real pride for a town like Istrana which has just over 9000 inhabitants as declared by Maria Grazia Gasparini, mayor of the Municipality that supports and organizes the festival: «I have watched Fiaticorti grow since its debut twenty years ago. It was born from the idea of a group of young film fans who have cultivated the dream of turning it into an internationally renowned festival as it is today. It is a business card for Istrana that gives us back a slice of reality and important current issues, it is our "window on the world"».
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THE WINNERS
BEST SHORT FILM
Zona by Toofan Nahan Ghodrati – Iran, 2017
A man is brought to court because of a woman with whom he has a relationship that leads to a pregnancy. To verify their claims the woman takes a D.N.A test that reveals a great secret about her life...
BEST PERFORMANCE
Roberto Citran
in “Môn clochard” by Gian Marco Pezzoli – Italy, 2018
Davide is a frustrated teacher who lives with his wife and son in a quiet apartment building in the suburbs. His daily routine is interrupted when one of his neighbours hosts a homeless man in the courtyard of the building. All residents begin to take care of him, since he seems to fill their lives with pure joy, without ever saying a single word. David begins to feel a deep hatred towards tha man and tries to get rid of him, with poor results. In the end, when his wish will come true, the disappearance of the man will have unexpected effects.
FIATICOMICI AWARD
Belle à croquer by Axel Courtière – France, 2017
Oscar Mongoût, a gourmet cannibal, burns with love for his neighbour, the very vegetal Miss Carrot. This passion seems destined to end: she is a vegetarian and he suffers from a total phobia for vegetables. Things change drastically the evening she invites him to dinner.
FIATIVENETI AWARD
Asfalto#1 – Pensare metà by Dimitri Feltrin – Italy, Treviso
Asfalto # 01 is the intimate story of a public event. The construction site of the Pedemontana Highway covers over 95 kilometers of countryside in the provinces of Vicenza and Treviso. The Tonin family, from the village of Riese Pio X, will lose half of their farm, built with many sacrifices. The Pedemontana is about to cross their property, riding the history and the conflicting emotions of this family.
POPULAR JURY AWARD
El niño que quería volar by Jorge Muriel – Spain, 2018
In the Madrid of the 80s, Ivan, a five-year-old boy, is faced with the birth of a new brother. His sister is Dad's favorite, the newborn is mom's favorite. What place does he occupy in this new situation? What if he could fly away and escape?
