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- Pietro Bianchi Award 2022 to Stefania Sandrelli
- The stars of The Son: Jackman, Dern, Kirby
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Italy and the world are on Son of a Pitch’s prize list
Pietro Bianchi Award 2022 goes to Stefania Sandrelli, a longtime protagonist of our cinema and today of the 79. Venice International Film Festival. During the event, Sandrelli talked about her connection with the city and her past:
“THIS RIBBON IS A TRIBUTE TO MY HISTORY AND MY WAY OF BEING, FIRST AND FOREMOST, A CINEPHILE. IN VIAREGGIO, WHERE I WAS BORN, THERE WERE MORE CINEMAS THAN CHURCHES, AND MY BROTHER USED TO TAKE ME TO SEE TWO OR THREE FILMS A DAY OF EVERY GENRE. I AM VERY FOND OF THIS FESTIVAL, TO ITS AUDIENCE AND VENICE. MY DAUGHTER WAS CONCEIVED RIGHT HERE IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLD JANUARY. I LOVE THIS CITY THAT REPRESENTS THE WORLD. SO BEAUTIFUL, IT SEEMS ALMOST SEEN FROM A PAIR OF GLASSES. VENICE IS SO BEAUTIFUL SOMETIMES IT SEEMS UNREAL, IT CONCRETIZES THE DREAM AND IMAGINATION OF BEAUTY.”
The Prize celebrates a long season of Sandrelli’s love affair with cinema on the day of her return to the Festival with Acqua e anice, Corrado Ceron’s debut feature, a special event coming up in Venice Days.
Le parole dei protagonisti di The Son: Jackman, Dern, Kirby
Hugh Jackman: “Come genitori siamo terrorizzati dalle scelte che facciamo per i nostri figli. Io ne ho due, hanno 17 e 22 anni e con loro condiviso la mia vulnerabilità. Essere padre significa anche commettere errori”.
Laura Dern: “Quando ci si sente soli e impotenti, ci si può rivolgere a molti che ci sono già passati. Dobbiamo coinvolgere la comunità nella conversazione sulla salute mentale, anche se a volte ci sentiamo isolati: è la dualità dell’essere umano.”
Vanessa Kirby: “In The Son i personaggi non sono in grado di parlare di ciò che accade dentro di loro: è stata una delle cose più dolorose da interpretare. Florian Zeller è un maestro nel catturare le cose inconsce e represse”.
Italy and the world are on Son of a Pitch’s prize list
There is Italian cinema, and Iran, Kyrgyzstan and Taiwan are among the winners of the 2nd edition of Son of a Pitch, the international competition for short films by directors Under-30. The winners were announced at the Italian Pavilion by Pierfrancesco “Pif” Diliberto and Efa Award-winning editor of La grande bellezza Cristiano Travaglioli. Luisa al mare by Giuseppe Caponio wins the Invisible Territories, Border and Tomorrow Award. Short Mile Shhh! by Shamir Raiapov. Among the 1,000 titles in the competition also won The Pitman by Neja Haji Mirzaei (Best Director), The Only Woman by Ehsan Solgie (Intercultural Award), Shine on Us by Shang-Yan Jiang (Audience Award and Sustainability Award) and Outlaw by Yu-Ching Ling (Future Award).
Emanuele Bucci
