SIEFF 2008: the winners
The Jury attributes the Prize Grazia Deledda for the best film to:
LOSERS AND WINNERS
By Michel Loeken and Ulrike Franke
For its multi-layered construction and in-depth research lasting more than a year, showing an episode of the current globalization process by successfully rendering the controlled clash between German and Chinese industrial workers avoiding then usual polarization of emotional attachment.
Prize for most innovative film to:
ROOM 11, ETHIOPIA HOTEL
By Itsushi Kawase
For its anthropological exploration and minimalist cinematic intervention creating an interface between the space of the room and the outside world of Ethiopian street children.
Price for the Best Film by a Sardinian Director to:
G.I.O.C.
By Marina Anedda
For a well constructed ethnography documenting the loss a cultural heritage as it happens in the present tense communicating a strong sense of empathy toward the community of Stampace in Cagliari.
The Jury, composed of the students of the ISRE Visual Anthropology Workshop, for the Best Film Produced and Set in a Mediterranean Country awards the Prize ex aequo to:
VJESH/CANTO
By Rossella Schillaci
Through a positive combination of audiovisual devices and a particular attention on specific feminine subjectivities, the film argues in an articulate way over the performative and symbolic features of certain socio-cultural events setting traditional singing habits in a context which is dynamically changing both inside and outside its local environment.
YOEL, YISRAEL V’HA PASHKAVILIM
By Lina Chaplin
The film gives an articulate picture of conflicting dynamics in the Israeli-Palestinian context, through a close observation of two families and two different characters who live in the same environment in Jerusalem.
LOSERS AND WINNERS
By Michel Loeken and Ulrike Franke
For its multi-layered construction and in-depth research lasting more than a year, showing an episode of the current globalization process by successfully rendering the controlled clash between German and Chinese industrial workers avoiding then usual polarization of emotional attachment.
Prize for most innovative film to:
ROOM 11, ETHIOPIA HOTEL
By Itsushi Kawase
For its anthropological exploration and minimalist cinematic intervention creating an interface between the space of the room and the outside world of Ethiopian street children.
Price for the Best Film by a Sardinian Director to:
G.I.O.C.
By Marina Anedda
For a well constructed ethnography documenting the loss a cultural heritage as it happens in the present tense communicating a strong sense of empathy toward the community of Stampace in Cagliari.
The Jury, composed of the students of the ISRE Visual Anthropology Workshop, for the Best Film Produced and Set in a Mediterranean Country awards the Prize ex aequo to:
VJESH/CANTO
By Rossella Schillaci
Through a positive combination of audiovisual devices and a particular attention on specific feminine subjectivities, the film argues in an articulate way over the performative and symbolic features of certain socio-cultural events setting traditional singing habits in a context which is dynamically changing both inside and outside its local environment.
YOEL, YISRAEL V’HA PASHKAVILIM
By Lina Chaplin
The film gives an articulate picture of conflicting dynamics in the Israeli-Palestinian context, through a close observation of two families and two different characters who live in the same environment in Jerusalem.
