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Festival dei Popoli

Founded in 1959 by a group of humanities scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, ethnologists and experts in mass-media, the Festival dei Popoli has been working for almost fifty years to promote and study social documentary cinema. Chiefly, the association organizes one of the most important international documentary festivals in Italy. At the same time, the Festival dei Popoli is busy restoring and conserving its archives (including about 10,000 titles, from video to film reels) as well as organizing courses and workshops for aspiring directors and documentary filmmakers.

OFFICIAL JURY
Karim Aïnouz (Brasil)
Christian Baute (Germany)
Leonardo Di Costanzo (Italy)
Tanja Meding (Germany/USA)
Marjane Satrapi (Iran)

PREMIO DEI POPOLI to the BEST FILM

DEFAMATION
by Yoav Shamir (Danimarca/Austria/Israele/USA)

“How is ignorance manufactured into hate? The director invites us to think
with him: with a witty, elegant, intelligent and humorous piece of work, his
movie shows us many layers and angles of what today we can call antisemitism
and how this notion is used politically.“

PREMIO DEI POPOLI to THE MOST INNOVATIVE FILMMAKER

TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT
by Alberto Arce, Mohammed Rujailah (Spain)

"After we watched this film we engaged in a long passionate discussion. This
film never left us.
We want to award the filmmakers for sharing with us an emotional, physical
and stressful experience for being there and witnessing the horrors and
destruction of the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip earlier this year."

GIAN PAOLO PAOLI AWARD for BEST ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM

DEPUIS TEL AVIV
by Naruna Kaplan de Macedo (France)

AWARD FOR DISTRIBUTION by "FONDAZIONE ENTE DELLO SPETTACOLO"

PETROPOLIS: AERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS
by Peter Mettler (Canada)

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LORENZO DE' MEDICI JURY
Jillian Barricelli (Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici)
Claire Burns (Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici)
Ryan Devir (Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici)
Karine Galstian (Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici)
Andrew Mahr (Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici)
Jessica Marantelli (Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici)
Adriano Sgobba (Università di Firenze)

ARSY VERSY
di Miro Remo (Slovak Republic)

"Because of the capability to communicate with innocence and bizzarre irony,
a powerful passion through using a complete and various cinematografical
language."

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PREMIO UCCA “VENTI CITTA'"

JURY
Paolo Bernardini
Barbara Giovino
Mirco Maddalena

THE LANDS OF JERRY CANS
di Paola Piacenza (Italia)

“This film reminds us that the Kurdistan issue is still an open question,
unlike what international observers seem to think.
This is the story of a nation that does not exist, of one of its border
areas, and borders are not only unstable but define other boundaries. This
is one of the many forgotten ‘stories’.
In a still lingering corner of paradise the director’s generous outlook
offers un updated view of History allowing its very protagonists to outline
its features and its memory.
The fallen have mothers who don’t cry. Mothers who voice a story and accept
its course and its epilogue. Can the very lack of despair be regarded as yet
another form of resistance?"

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AUDIENCE AWARD

for the FREE STYLE SECTION

HUMAN TERRAIN
by James Der Derian, David Udris, Michael Udris (USA)

for the SHORT DOC COMPETITION

UPE’
by Rimantas Gruodis and Julija Gruodiene (Lithuania)

for the FEATURE DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

IN PURGATORIO
by Giovanni Cioni (Italy)