Winning Short Movies

Breaking News
Breaking News

Jury Prize 2024

Breaking News

Breaking News

  • Director: Ricardo Greenough-Guerreiro
  • Country: Portugal
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: comedy

Breaking News tells the story of Jacinto, a lonely, repetitious and well-groomed gentleman, who is finally,
after many attempts, given the opportunity to appear as a breaking news piece on television.

Little
Little

Audience Prize 2024

Little

Little

  • Director: Meka Ribera, Álvaro G. Company
  • Country: Spain
  • Year: 2023
  • Genre: sci-if

When they are born they are precious, almost perfect. But they grow so fast. I wish there was a way to enjoy that unrepeatable age forever. Petit Toujour combines the latest advances in gene therapy and selective hormone blocking to extend your time with the most beautiful thing you have in the world, your baby.

Categories Winning Short Movies

Ana Morphose
Ana Morphose

Premio del Pubblico Categoria Animazioni 2024

Ana Morphose

Ana Morphose

  • Director: Joao Rodrigues
  • Country: Portugal
  • Year: 2023
  • Genre: animation

A little girl reads herself to sleep. As she dozes off, the physical world starts melting into an alternate reality where the contents of a book rule over the laws of physics.
Ana has to escape being swallowed by the overwhelming accumulation of printed knowledge and find her own space in a world where nothing is what it seems.

Steps
Steps

Premio della Giuria Categoria Animazioni 2024

Steps

Steps

  • Director: Tatiana Moshkova, Marina Moshkova
  • Country: Russia
  • Year: 2022
  • Genre: animation

How many steps does it take for the sullen reclusive Monk to save one little lemon tree?

San Damiano
San Damiano

Premio della Giuria Categoria Documentari 2024

San Damiano

San Damiano

  • Director: Gregorio Sassoli, Alejandro Cifuentes
  • Country: Italy
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: documentary

Damiano, Polish, 35 and homeless, conquers the tallest tower of the ancient walls which overlook the neglected area of Termini station (Rome). Fleeing the ghosts of the past, he faces the violence of the urban jungle like a warrior, but when he sings he reveals his most fragile side.

Void
Void

Premio del Pubblico Categoria Documentari 2024

Void

Void

  • Director: Lorenzo Prattico
  • Country: Italy
  • Year: 2023
  • Genre: documentary

Void is a ten-minute documentary about daily life in Tasiilaq, Greenland. The documentary is based on the testimonies of an inhabitant of the town, who allows us to enter into a social intimacy tainted by alcoholism, stress, violence and off-the-scale suicide rates.

Special Prizes

Varanus
Varanus

Special Jury Mention 2024

Varanus

Varanus

  • Director: Kiarash Bokaeyan
  • Country: Iran
  • Year: 2024
  • Genre: drama

The short film "Varanus" is a drama that tells a story
It is a drama about a hearing-impaired teenage boy who is forced by a man to participate in secret and illegal competitions. But she does not want to do this and tries to get rid of the man.

Purga
Purga

Special Jury Mention 2024

Purga

Purga

  • Director: Gintarė Valevičiūtė Brazauskienė, Antanas Skučas
  • Country: Lithuania
  • Year: 2023
  • Genre: animation

Winter, 1942. Beyond the Arctic Circle, on the uninhabited island of Trofimovsk in the Laptev Sea, deported peoples struggle to survive. This is the place chosen by Soviet authorities to deport vast numbers of inhabitants from the occupied Baltic countries, Finland, Ukraine and elsewhere.

In this harsh, alien landscape, man is a mere speck. Against the backdrop of such majestic isolation, many thousands face the savage indifference and cruelty of nature. Always living on the edge, they must find a way to stay alive.

All experiences depicted are based on the unfaded memories of those who survived.

Our Jury

Michele Sinisi

Actor, theater director, and playwright. For the cinema he acted, among others, in Palazzina LAF by Riondino and Esterno notte by Bellocchio.

 

Luca Cappelli

Editor of documentaries and fiction. His films have been awarded and presented at numerous international festivals including Venice, Sundance and Berlin.

 

Alberto Iorio

Filmmaker and editor. He collaborates with Cinema Arsenale, helping with artistic direction and programming, creating content for social media and reorganizing the Cineclub's audiovisual archive.

 

Roberto Merlino

Artistic Director of “Corte Tripoli Cinematografica”, he was National President of FEDIC (Italian Federation of Film Clubs) for 3 years.

 

Anna Moretto

Student of Cultural Heritage Sciences at the University of Pisa.

Marco Romeo

Marco Romeo is a criminal lawyer by profession and a lover of New Wave cinema and Italian comedy by hobby. Marco is one of the founding members of Trame Indipendenti.

 

Nicola Trabucco

Director, videomaking teacher at the University of Pisa, scientific technician at the Multimedia Laboratory of the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge.

 

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