Winners 2024
Kristian Xipolias with his short film Via delle Rose 36, won the prize of the national section and also the prize for best director of the 21st edition of accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival in Naples.
The artistic jury awarded the short film because “Via delle Rose 36 has a seemingly simple and straightforward story that shows the ‘intricate complexity of everyday needs and the often vain effort aimed at realizing dreams.
And the narrative that proceeds on essential but equally evocative lines revealing the depth of feelings with a poetics that is both sober and totalizing at the same time.”
Recognition with Special Mention was given to Free Market by Giuseppe Cacace “For having pilloryed, with intelligence and irony, the inhuman ways in which capitalism aggravates our lives and the lives of the most fragile.”
The Neapolitan festival, directed by Pietro Pizzimento and Fabio Gargano, was held Nov. 11-17, 2024 entirely at the FOQUS Art Court in Naples with the screening of one hundred and forty-one short film finalists and meetings with the authors of the works submitted. On the jury this year as president is actress Cristina Donadio, accompanied by jurors director Edgardo Pistone and journalist Francesca Saturnino.
Sapiens? by Bruno Bozzetto won the Animation section of accordi @ DISACCORDI – 21st edition with the motivation “The richness of a master of the animation genre, it develops through irony and critical capacity with brilliant boards and symphonic music, pushing, like the best classics, to a reflection on the human condition.”
The first prize in the Campania section went to the short film Api by Luca Ciriello: “Api is a vivid and precious lunge inside adolescence, Ciriello proves once again that he knows how to look for and tell stories. This time he delivers a portrait of a small tribe of almost-adults whizzing around on the three wheels of bees in the shadow of the Aosta mountains and the steel mill.”
Best Actor of the 21st edition of accordi @ DISACCORDI for the artistic jury was Giacomo Rizzo with the short film Era Ora! by Valerio Manisi “For his total experimentation and the mix of genres and acting modes with which he told such a delicate and outdated story.”
The award for best national actress of the 21st edition of accordi @ DISACCORDI went to Nunzia Schiano in Shanghai by Mariadiletta Coco and Andrea Bifulco “Award for the ability to tell a universe made of multiple facets through the power of ‘expression and silence.”
The award for best documentary instead went to Valery Alexanderplatz by Silvia Maggi “A raw tale that traverses a personal history to narrate an ‘era. A story of tolerance and inclusion.”
Nothing Special by Efrat Berger won the International accordi @ DISACCORDI section – “A surprising work both for the technique and language used and for the ironic and profound way of dealing with a complex issue such as the care of the elderly.” and also took home a main prize Cara Alice by Gabriele Armenise for the environmental-themed section “For depicting with poetic rawness the private and collective drama of a city and a community, of the lives of dignity trampled on in the name of private profit in the silence of institutions.”
The audience awarded its prize to the film Luca, out of sync by Alessandro Marinaro.
The award for best editing, established by AMC – Associazione Nazionale Montaggio Cinematografico e Televisivo for the festival accordi @ DISACCORDI, was renewed again for this year, with the jury composed of jurors Brunella Perrotta, Edoardo Aleandri, Enrico Giovannone, Simone Lardieri and Simone Veneroso; the editors Raffaele Iardino, Mario Leombruno for the short film Kvara – una storia d’amore e pallone went the 2024 edition prize. Special mention of the AMC jury instead went to editor Alessandro Marinaro for the short film Luca, out of sync.
accordi @ DISACCORDI – International Short Film Festival in Naples is organized by the Movies Event association with the contribution of the Campania Region through the Regional Fund for Cinema and Audiovisual. The Festival has the international partnership of the Canadian Italian Contemporay Film Festival, the valuable collaboration of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Production, the National Short Film Center, the Association of Italian Film Festivals and the German, French and Belgian national film promotion agencies.