‘Peda’gio’ by Carolina Markowicz triumphs at the Rome Film Festival

2023-10-28 19:10:04

Time.news – ‘Peda’gio (Toll)’ by Carolina Markowicz wins the award for best film at the 18th Rome Film Festival. The award was awarded by a jury chaired by the actor, director and producer Gael Garcia Bernal and composed of the British director Sarah Gavron, the Finnish director, screenwriter and poet Mikko Myllylahti, the French actor and director Melvil Poupaud and the actress and Italian director Jasmine Trinca.

Markowicz’s film, a Brazil/Portugal production, stars Maeve Jinkings, Kauan Alvarenga, Thoma’s Aquino, Aline Marta Maia and Isac Graca. The film is set in Cubatao, a city in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, which boasts an ecological record but is among the most industrialized in Brazil, suspended between the greenery of the countryside and the fumes of pollution.

The contradictory skyline of Cubatao dominates the second film by Carolina Markowicz (author of the very hard ‘Charcoal’, 2022), and within the folds of the city move Suellen, the person responsible for paying the toll on the very busy highway, and her son Tiquinho, a seventeen-year-old passionate about classic divas, who films himself miming their songs, wearing pink sweaters and surrounded by strobe lights. Tiquinho’s performances end up online and Suellen is embarrassed, so she decides to enroll her son in a sexual reconversion seminar. Surreal and everyday, an everyday drama steeped in irony.

The other awards

‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ by Paola Cortellesi wins two important awards, the special Jury prizes (together with ‘Achilles’ by Farhad Delaram and ‘The Monk and The Gun’ by Pawo Choyning Dorji) and the Audience Award.

The Grand Jury Prize goes to ‘Urotcite Na Blaga (Blaga’s Lessons)’ by Stephan Komandarev, with the best director going to Joachim Lafosse for ‘Un silence (A Silence)’. Best Actress – “Monica Vitti” Award goes to Alba Rohrwacher for ‘My hair hurts’, while the one for best actor – “Vittorio Gassman” Award to Herbert Nordrum for ‘Hypnosen (The Hypnosis)’. Best screenplay of the film festival to Asli Ozge for lack Box.

A jury chaired by the filmmaker Paolo Virzì and composed of the French producer and distributor Adeline Fontan Tessaur and the playwright and screenwriter Abi Morgan awarded the Pawarded Best First Film Bnl Bnp Paribas (chosen from the titles of the Progressive Cinema, Freestyle and Grand Public Competition sections), to the film: ‘Cottontail’ by Patrick Dickinson. Two Bnl Bnp Paribas Special Mentions for Best First Film were also awarded to the films ‘C’è Ancora Tomorrow’ by Paola Cortellesi and ‘Avant que les flammes ne s’eteignent (After the fire)’ by Mehdi Fikri.

A jury chaired by the French actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and composed of the Italian director and screenwriter Alessandro Aronadio and the Italian screenwriter Lisa Nur Sultan awarded the “Ugo Tognazzi” Award for Best Comedy (chosen from the titles of the Progressive Cinema, Freestyle and Grand Public Competition sections), to the film ‘Jules’ by Marc Turtletaub. The Special Mention of the “Ugo Tognazzi” Award was also awarded to Asta Kamma August and Herbert Nordrum for ‘Hypnosen (The Hypnosis)’.

Last May the call for the SIAE Cinema Award was launched which goes to the project with the best screenplay – written by a screenwriter under 35 of Italian nationality or resident permanently in Italy – for the creation of a first or second work . The award worth 150 thousand euros is intended for the Italian production that will make the film based on the winning screenplay. The projects were evaluated by a jury composed of the screenwriter Nicola Guaglianone, the film producer Carlo Cresto-Dina and the composer Pivio who awarded ‘The First Son’ by Mara Fondacaro.

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