The films awarded by the Youth Jury and the Adults Jury talk about moods, emotions, feelings, stances with an alternation of voices, sounds, points of view, choosing different languages and styles, such as fiction, documentary, animation, social criticism cinema.

by Oriana Alcaine and Alejandra Márquez, production Enrique Flores

Motivations: The prize for best short film in the professionals section goes to "5 Recuerdos". Starting from the simple everyday event of a forgotten ingredient, the film is able to deal with the universal theme of memory and of the constitutive role which memories have for every man’s identity. "5 Recuerdos" manages to describe all this with interesting metaphors such as “the bag” of memories in which we should all collect our memories in order to be able to find them again, and by means of clear images, bright colors and both original and surprising situations. In short unos: originality, dos: simplicity, tres: spontaneity, cuatro: universality y cinco...?

by Emanuele Faccilongo. Istituto comprensivo “Mons. Savastio”

Motivations: For the strong communicative power of images and music. The very young age of the actors and the extreme simplicity of the scenes don’t limit the emotional participation at all, but make the short film close to an audience of all ages, leading people to think about themes which are never banal, also drawing from them an all but superfluous smile.

by Marcello Stefano Becca

Motivations: For the great introspective ability shown, although only using very few words and by means of interesting and innovative techniques. Being the director very young, the message of the film becomes even deeper, short but straightforward and valuable, using little metaphors which leave room for interpretations by the viewer.

by Beba Gabanelli

(the prize is a Gift Voucher for COMET offered by Europe Direct Emilia-Romagna)

by Romain Goupil (France, 2010)

Motivations: The film deals with interesting topics and offers many cues for reflection The problem of immigration is analyzed from the children’s point of view: we are all Milana.

by Mijke de Jong (The Netherlands, 2010)

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by Francesco Picone

Motivations: The film plays with all the ingredients of “creepy” cinema. Francesco Picone and the group creating the short film A joke of too much make their game of fictions work, with the lights and shadows of the fuzzy images of a mind-blowing and funny parody. An “academic exercise” made with mastery and irony.

a collective work by the triennium classes from Liceo Scientifico Metastasio of Scalea

Motivations: Within a school course on media-education, Regno delle Due Italie, the short film made by one class from Liceo Scientifico Metastasio of Scalea, highlights both the product and the process underlying it: a critical, bitter and authentic work about a condition which forces everyone to think about the “state of things”.

by Alla Kovgan

Motivations: Pure action and movement are the main characters of the short film by Alla Kovgan, who puts the children’s body and games at the center of New London calling. Images chase the children and children chase the images, creating a representation of childhood which is full of esthetic charm and found again vitality.

by the Istituto Comprensivo of Novellara

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by Lorenzo Castiello and Francesco Ruggieri (the prize is a Gift Voucher for COMET)

Motivations: For being willing and able to analyze with no prejudice the diffusion, in Bologna, of tags and graffiti.

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