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Imaginaria Awards – 2024

By 26/08/2024September 6th, 2024No Comments

Main Competition - International Short Film

The international jury composed by Xavier Kawa-Topor, Christian Arnau, Eric Rittatore has decreed the following winners:

Best Animated Short Film

SWEETER IS THE NIGHT (Plus douce est la nuit)
Fabienne Wagenaar
(France, 2024, 18’25)
Anteprima Nazionale

Finally, this Jury unanimously agreed: “for the mature and effective management of the pictorial technique in describing a colonial microcosm now in decomposition, in which disarmed occupants seem already reduced to faded snapshots and almost indifferent to the now ex-subjugated, claiming their independence also through graphic and plastic arts that compose a silent and unequivocal ‘j’accuse’ against racism and slavery. If the lush and implacable Nature seems to swallow every destiny, a glimmer of future hope is suggested by redeeming the Conradian ‘heart of darkness’ through the only force capable of making human beings take the evolutionary leap of mutual understanding: Love.

The jury would like to underline the extremely high quality, as well as the technical and stylistic variety, of the competing works, which made it even more difficult to choose a single winner and made it necessary to award at least four special mentions.

Honorable Mention

PAPILLON (Butterfly)
Florence Miailhe
(France, 2024, 15’)

Yet another confirmation of the mastery with which the Author manages to transform personal stories into universal, imaginative and emotional apologues: authentic pictorial fairy tales in their best expressive and intellectual form.

Honorable Mention

LA VOIX DES SIRENES
Gianluigi Toccafondo
(Italy, 2023, 19’40)

An Odyssey from the point of view of the sirens, fascinating and disturbing, like every authentic tale. Toccafondo’s unmistakable style becomes powerfully ‘immersive’, making us really perceive the consistency of the sea, the joy, pain and fear of the characters, the taste of ripe fruit and the arcane power of music.

Honorable Mention

SUPERSILLY
Veronica Martiradonna
(France, 2024, 9’)

If Tex Avery and Bill Plympton had met to tell a story of painful yet ironic personal maieutics, they would probably have created something very similar to this work which, with notable stylistic maturity, manages to entertain, involve and make you think without ever falling into pathos.

Honorable Mention

THE MEATSELLER
Margherita Giusti
(Italy, 2023, 17’)

Excellent example of the increasingly fertile relationship between Animation and Documentary, a work that literally restores flesh and blood to the oral story of one of those thousands of ‘argonauts‘ who, yesterday as today, embarked towards the unknown in pursuit of a mirage or a hope. Flesh as a language, medium, metaphor, instrument of emancipation or possible rebirth. A film that bites you inside.

Graduation Short Film and Music Video Competition

The Graduation Short Film and Music Video Jury composed bySofia El-Khyari, Joana Fresu de Azevedo, Pierpaolo Di Camillo has decreed the following winners:

Best Graduation Short Film

MINUS PLUS MULTIPLY
Chu-Chieh Lee
(UK, 2023, 4’10)

For the great skill with which he is able to pass through different animation techniques. To tell a very personal story, of self-discovery after a great crisis, constantly maintaining a powerful and recognizable sign.

Best Animated Music Video

IN A TIME WARP
(Shuteen Erdenebaatar)
Anh Tú Nguyen
(Germany, 2023, 6’30)

For the skill with which a flow of images born from listening to music is shown. Which links abstraction and dream suggestions in a continuous creation of undeniable artistic value. Capable of expanding musical suggestions and resonating with the soul of the spectators.

Honorable Mention

FIORE MIO (Andrea Laszlo De Simone)
Viola Mancini
(Italy, 2023, 3’54)

For creating a poetic short film that blends with the music and amplifies the sense of wonder. This effect is achieved thanks to a particular and laborious technique that perfectly combines real objects and drawings made in a dreamy shade of blue.

Honorable Mention

MONSTERS (Coline Rio )
Iulia Voitova
(France, 2023, 3’54)

For the great delicacy with which he is able to show human fragility in the face of feelings and the beauty of drawings made on sheets left almost entirely white but lit up by the presence of simple drawings full of colour and warmth.

Children Short Film Competition

The Kids Jury composed by Filippo Panessa, Mattia Turi, Sara Longo, Francesco Suglia, Paolo Laghezza, Raffaella Pesole, Manuela Narracci, Flavia Cicorella, Paola Sportelli, Serena Aquilino, Francesco Gasparro, Alessandro Darconza, Silvia D’Accolti, Alessia Campanella, Fabio Basile, Micaela Amenduni, Emma Lasorella, Emma Daddabbo, Aurora Pace has decreed the following winners:

Best Children's Short Film

ECLISSI
Giulia Iaquinandi
(Italy, 2023, 5’56)

For the story, for the simplicity of the narrative and for the drawings

Honorable Mention

HEAD IN CLOUDS
Rémi Durin
(2023, France, 10’33)

For the music and the delicacy of the colors