Cinema
VINCENT DIEUTRE - 2013
Film Director
Vincent Dieutre lived in New York and Rome before devoting himself to cinema. Author of numerous writings on the link between cinema and contemporary art, he teaches at the film department of the University of Paris VII. As a filmmaker, he explores the "borderline between documentary and auto-fiction".
The Fondazione Mediterraneo awards him this distinction for having created a personal and humanist poetic system, capable of reinventing the writing of the self in solitude, separation and retreat, thus filling the human need to be perceived by the Other in order to feel alive. Dieutre's cinema is first and foremost word, a word that fills and personalises anonymous hotel rooms as well as entire cities.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 05 october 2013
DEDA (ASPETTANDO MAMMA/WAITING FOR MUM) - 2013
best short film of the director Nana Ekvtimishvili (GE) 2011
At the Trieste Film Festival, with whom the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been collaborating since1995, the 2013 Mediterranean Cinema Award for the best short film was awarded to “Deda” (Waiting for Mum) by Nana Ekvtimishvili. The winner is "Deda, Apettando Mamma" of Nana Ekvtimishvili (GE)
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 26 january 2013
APELE TAC, SILENT RIVER - 2012
Best short film by director Anca Miruna Lăzărescu, (DE/RO), 2011
The Mediterranean Cinema Award 2012 was assigned, during the Trieste Film Festival, at the best short-film in contest. Fondazione Mediterraneo collaborates with Trieste Film Festival since 1995. The winner is "Apele tac, silent river", Anca Miruna
Awarding Ceremony
Trieste, 25 january 2012
DER KLEINE NAZI (IL PICCOLO NAZISTA) - 2011
Best short film by director Petra Lüschow Petra Lüschow, GERMANY
Germany, 2010, 35mm, col., 14’, v.o. tedesca
The young German director explores the themes related to the need for dialogue among different cultures and the difficult and controversial relation between individual and power. As every year, the Wölkel family celebrates Christmas with grandmother. But this year something unexpected and shocking takes place: grandmother wants to recall the nazi Christmas of her young age. It is not a big problem, indeed, but it happens that just today they are waiting for a guest from Israel...
Awarding Ceremony
Trieste, 26 january 2011
VARIÁCIÓK (VARIAZIONI) - 2010
Best short‑film by Hungarian director Krisztina Esztergályos, UNGHERIA
Ungheria, 2009, DigiBeta, col., 28´, v.o. ungherese
The award has been assigned to “Variációk” where the young Hungarian director explores sexual relationships, provokes understanding of reality, shows awareness of visual style and talent for a precise cinema language. She shows compassion for her characters without any sentimentalism.
Awarding Ceremony
Trieste, 28 january 2010
LAURA MORANTE - 2009
Actress, ITALY
Versatile and professional actress. She worked with young and famous directors in many Mediterranean Countries: from Italy to France to the Iberian Peninsula, crossing all kinds of movies, from thriller to comedy, always with outstanding results thanks to her personality and her innate artistic gift.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 12 june 2009
FERZAN OZPETEK - 2007
Film Director, TURKEY
For his contribution to the spreading of values of dialogue in the Great Mediterranean, giving a decisive impulse to cultural and social interaction in the Euro-Mediterranean area.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 15 june 2007
YASMINE KASSARUI - 2005
Film Director, MOROCCO
Her film work “L’Enfant endormi” shows the lives of women left alone by their partners and their daily work in the cornfields to nourish their children and the old people of the village. These women are freed and emancipated from the authoritative male figures, they can choose and evaluate their lives affairs in a context that often represents them as the victims of millenary traditions, but that has started a process of cultural renewal.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 16 june 2005
PINO TORDIGLIONE - 2003
Film Director, ITALY
The film work of the Venice Screenings “The Stolen Christmas”, by Pino Tordiglione expresses in the originality, ingenuousness and simplicity of the cinematographic language, the Mediterranean culture and art emphasising, in its contents, the human values.
Awarding Ceremony
Naples, 12 december 2003