Berlinale 2022, Carla Simon’s ‘Alcarras’ won the coveted Golden Bear for Best Picture at the Berlin Film Festival. This was announced by the jury of the Festival, led by Hollywood director M Night Shyamalan. The film tells the story of the daily struggles of a group of peach farmers in Spain, and how workers are pushed to the edge of their existence. Eighteen works were in contention for the Golden Bear as best film.
‘Leonora Addio’ by Paolo Taviani won the Fipresci prize in Berlin. The jury of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique for the competition of the 72nd Berlinale, composed of René Marx (France), Anna Maria Pasetti (Italy) and Hsin Wang (Taiwan), awarded the prize to Paolo Taviani with the following motivation: ” Guided by the free spirit of Pirandello’s genius, the director mixes poetry, melancholy, but also irony, fantasy and joy to tell us the mysteries of life, death and memory “.
The only Italian title competing at the Berlinale, ‘Leonora Addio’ tells of the daring adventure of Pirandello’s ashes and the eventful journey of the urn from Rome to Agrigento, up to the troubled burial that took place fifteen years after his death. And to close the film, Pirandello’s latest story written twenty days before his death, ‘Il chiodo’. The film will be released in theaters on February 17, distributed by 01 Distribution.