Two more independent awards were given today

Published 27/04/2026

During today’s screenings, the Museo etnografico trentino San Michele Award and the Amelia de Eccher Award – for women in cinema and the mountains – will be presented.

Two more of the fourteen indipendent awards offered by associations or partner organizations of the Festival, awarded by independent juries, will be presented today.

The Museo etnografico trentino San Michele award, established for the film best documenting the traditions and customs of mountain people with ethno-anthropological documentary accuracy it has been attributed to Pestiferus Lupus by Luca Jankovic and Ludovico Serra (Italy/2025/54′). This is the motivation of the jury, chaired by Ezio Amistadi and composed of Armando Tomasi and Luca Faoro: «“I get the feeling that some people think the mountains should become a museum, a park for visitors to come and see. But that’s not the case. We live here all year round. It is our home.” The words of the parish priest in the small community of Forno reveal the profound meaning of the film, in which the return of the pestiferus lupus becomes a symbol and metaphor for mountains that cannot be reduced to an idealised world constructed and cultivated elsewhere». The award will be presented during the screening, scheduled at Cinema Modena, Auditorium 1, at 4:15 pm in the presence of the directors.

The Amelia de Eccher Award – For women active in film and mountains is an award established by Riccarda de Eccher – In memory of Amelia de Eccher, for women on both sides of the camera. In this edition of the Trento Film Festival, the winner is Fémene by Elena Goatelli (Italy/2026/61′): «The jury unanimously awards the prize to director Elena Goatelli for her documentary Fémene, which impressed the jury by placing women of different generations at the heart of a narrative full of both information and emotion, exploring the condition of women in the mountains of Trentino and within Italian society. These intimate and personal micro-stories come together to form a collective narrative in which the political subjectivity of women emerges clearly, through themes ranging from education, family and gender relations to abortion, employment and economic dependence, offering a perspective that is delicate, sensitive and ironic, yet never superficial», wrote jurors Linda Cottino, Bruna Proclemer, and Ingrid Runggaldier. The award will be announced at 6 pm at the Supercinema Vittoria, during the Cincontri event with Elena Goatelli and some of the protagonists in attendance, introduced by Elena Tonezzer of the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino.