WINNERS 2020

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BEST SHORT FILM

HOLY FAMILY

Margarida Lucas

Portugal – 2019

“For having been able to tell a distressing story with delicacy and lightness, also thanks to the expressive versatility of the performers, skillfully mixing the pseudo-dramas of everyday life with the most merciless tragedy.” – The jury

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GRAND JURY PRIZE

SAKHISONA

Prantik Narayan Basu

India – 2017

“For having made a film, an anthropology treatise and a prayer at the same time, intervening on the viewer’s perception with a sort of black and white shamanic elegy. There is flesh, spirit, death, dance: that’s all you need.” – The jury

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HONORABLE MENTION

COMMUNITY GARDENS

Vytautas Katkus

Lithuania – 2019

“For having been able to tell through the off-screen and the unspoken, the incommunicability of the father-son relationship within the empty and superficial routine of a community that no longer knows how to live in the present of its emotions.” – The jury

She Runs

YOUNG JURY PRIZE

SHE RUNS

Qiu Yang

China – 2019

“For having been able to create a direct empathic relationship with the young audience that manages to identify with the protagonist and with her extreme desire for freedom and escape.” – The young jury

La Grande Onda

BEST CALABRIAN SHORTFILM

LA GRANDE ONDA

Francesco Tortorella

Italy – 2019

“For having painted a disastrous land with disturbing atmospheres, animating the oppressors and oppressed who live there with great precision.” – The jury

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BEST DIRECTOR

Qiu Yang

She Runs

China – 2019
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BEST SCREENPLAY

Margarida Lucas

Holy Family

Portugal – 2019
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BEST ACTOR

Beat Wittwer

Still Working

Switzerland – 2019
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BEST ACTRESS

Cláudia Jardim

Holy Family

PORTUGAL – 2019
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BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Mehul Bhanti

Sakhisona

India – 2017
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BEST EDITING

Frederik Vandewalle

Da Yie

Ghana – 2019
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BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Nursalim Yadi Anugerah

REWILD

Indonesia – 2019

Despite the short film was out of competition, the jury all in agreement with the artistic directors have decided to award the prize to Nursalim Yadi Anugerah for the high artistic value of his music.