Awarding of three further special prizes
Published 30/04/2024
Today it is the turn of the Ritter Award – Mountain Emotions, the CinemAMoRe Award and the “City of Imola” Award.
On Tuesday 30 April a further three of the fifteen special awards offered by associations or Festival partner organisations and assigned by independent juries will be presented. The prizes will be awarded at the screening of the winning film, directly in the auditorium.
The Ritter Sport – Mountain Emotions Award, established to celebrate the thrill and joy of experiences in the mountains, in the midst of nature, has been awarded to Keep it Burning by Guillaume Broust (Spain, Pakistan/2024/32′). “The film succeeds in presenting the enthusiasm and spirit of adventure guiding Edu Martin, assisted by his brother Alex and his father Novato, in the free ascent of the Eternal Flame, on the southern spur of the “Nameless tower” in Pakistan. It is a story in which the mountaineering challenges and unfavourable weather conditions highlight a family relationship based on trust, respect and love. The amazing footage of one of the most spectacular mountain ranges in the world also contributes to making the film exciting and compelling.” This was the motivation of the jury, made up of Fabio Pasini, Marika Ciaccia, Ludovica Basso (Clorophilla), Marzia Bortolameotti, Silvia and Davide, Elena Marinoni and representatives of the Ritter Sport Italia team. The prize will be awarded at the Supercinema Vittoria at 5 pm.
The CinemAMoRE Award, established by the three international film competitions in Trentino (RAM Film Festival, Trento Film Festival and Religion Today Film Festival) for the best work in the Nearby Horizons sections, goes to Manu Gerosa’s Bambini di Frontiera (Italy/2024/54′). The jury, made up of Andrea Morghen, Claudia Beretta and Michele Bellio, gave the following motivation: “The silent protagonist of the documentary film is the Istituto De Gasperi on Monte Bondone, a special college for “temporary orphans”, which from 1957 to 1996 housed the children of Italian workers who had emigrated to Germany. With the sensitivity typical of the director, interviews and archive footage create a frontier story made up of many different layers of experiences. The voices of the children at the time, today adult men and women, bring back to life a place that is by now abandoned and that for a while they called home.”. Special mention has also been given to Simona Palmieri’s Stanze (Italy/2024/20′). The prize will be awarded at the Cinema Modena in Auditorium 3 at 5 pm.
The “City of Imola” Award, assigned to the fiction or documentary film work that stands out from the others in terms of its artistic and technical quality and emphasis on the underlying values of CAI, goes to Marmolada – Madre Roccia by Matteo Maggi and Cristiana Pecci (Italy/2024/76′). “The vertiginous peaks of the Marmolada’s south face are the setting for the conquest of “Madre Roccia”, a route uncompleted for many years, unique and inaccessible. Four tenacious climbers and four generations side by side, a perfect combination of technique, intuition, imagination, talent and irony. In addition to the pure and exciting sense of vertical adventure, the film also highlights the serious fragility of our natural heritage due to inexorable climate change, also thanks to the testimony of refuge managers from Val Ombretta, fundamental in protecting and preserving the history of the Queen of the Dolomites” reads the motivation of the jury, made up of Tamara Lunger, Mauro Bartoli, Carlo Machirelli, Nicoletta Favaron and Giuseppe Savini. The prize will be awarded at the Supercinema Vittoria at 6.45 pm.
