06/10/2021 - Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’ feature wins the Best Film award, while The Giants receives two distinctions and Small Body gets the Audience Award

Opened by Leonardo Di Costanzo's Venice-selected The Inner Cage [+see also:
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Dedicated to new talent, the competition, judged by a jury composed of Karel Och (artistic director of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival) and directors Francesca Mazzoleni and Laura Luchetti, crowned The Tale of King Crab [+see also:
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The jury awarded the prize for best direction to The Giants [+see also:
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The Best Performance award went to Khadija Jaafari for "managing to maintain the coherence and beauty of a role over the years, without ever losing the soul of a character who is both intense and fragile" in Californie [+see also:
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Finally, it should be noted that Laura Samani's Small Body [+see also:
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The list of winners:

First Film prize
The Tale of King Crab [+see also:
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Best Directing prize
The Giants [+see also:
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Best Performance prize
Khadija Jaafari - Californie [+see also:
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Art Cinema Award - CICAE
The Legionnaire [+see also:
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Youth Jury prize
The Giants - Bonifacio Angius

Annecy City Audience prize
Small Body [+see also:
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(Translated from French)