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The Future Film Festival has ended. This twentieth edition has been a rich one. Thirty-three feature films have been screened in the various categories, ten feature films in competition for the Platinum Grand Prize and ninety-five short films. In addition, the Virtual Reality Contest took place, with ten videos in competition, two out of competition and a special Virtual Cinema Heritage Showcase.

The Homage to Isao Takahata has been one of the main events of the Future Film Festival, which in 1999, during its first edition, brought the Studio Ghibli films and series to Italy for the first time. The Festival dedicated a large retrospective and a round table to the great Japanese Master.

Let's move on to the awards:

Franco La Polla Award. This year's was the seventh edition. The Jury, after careful reflection, decided not to award the prize to any of the participants in the competition. Both Silvia Albertazzi, member of the Jury, and Future Film Festival hope to award the prize next year.

FFFABULOUS & FFFANTASTIC Prize. The jury was composed of the Future Film Festival's supporters, which every year we sincerely thank for the trust they put in our events. The winner was the feature film The Breadwinner, by Nora Twomey (Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg, 2017). This film deals with a harsh issue with deep realism creating an excellently balanced visual power, as opposed to narrative refinement and evocative scenarios. It manages to keep the viewer's interest alive with a screenplay that remains compelling to the end.

Future Film Short - Audience Award. The audience voted for the short films in competition during the Festival evenings, awarding Simbiosis Carnal by Rocìo Alvarez (Belgium, 2017).

Future Film Short - Jury Award. The jury, composed by Swan Bergman, Stefano Amadio and Andrea Baricordi assigns two special mentions to the short films: Xian by Roxane Campoy, Pauline Ledu, Myriam Belkheyar, Gwenaelle Bavoux (France, 2017), for showing the power of animation that becomes a medium of innovative narration, combining past and future, and Reruns by Rosto (Holland, France, Belgium, 2018). Reruns confirms the mastery of the integration of mixed techniques, using an original and unusual poetic.
The award for the best short film was assigned to Inanimate by Lucia Bulgheroni (England, 2018), for being able to use the techniques of animation, enlightening and combining them with the unsolvable existential doubt.

Platinum Grand Prize. The jury, composed of Giorgio Tonelli, Luca Genovese, and Filippo Porcelli has assigned a special mention to The Wolf House (La casa lobo) by Leòn and Cocina (Chile, 2018), for the expressive-narrative research and its strong visual impact.
The Platinum Grand Prize is awarded to Window Horses, The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming by Ann Marie Fleming (Canada, 2017), for its deeply emotional atmosphere expressed through sophisticated and concise graphics which take the audience to a journey of discovery and unexpected growth.

Virtual Reality Contest. The jurors Saverio Iacono and Antonella Guidazzoli award the prize to Rone VR by Lester Francois (Australia, 2018).

We would like to thank the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Bologna, Bologna Estate, Bologna Fiere, Fondazione MAST, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Cineteca di Bologna, MAMbo and ECIPAR.
Thanks to the University of Bologna, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, the Japan Consulate-General in Italy, Cineca, Acantho and all media, cultural and technical partners.

Thanks to all the guests and jurors of the Future Film Festival 2018, the audience, all the supporters, the staff and the volunteers.

The next meeting will be in Piazza Maggiore for "Sotto le stelle del cinema" (Under the Stars of the Cinema), where we will present a special tribute to Isao Takahata.

Future film Festival 2018 (Bologna, may 29th  - june 3rd), dedicates its deserved homage to the recently disappeared Isao Takahata, showing his great works as a film director.

Takahata, master of animated cinema and co-founder of the Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki, was able to go from his debut pure adventure, The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun, to the typical japanese intimism of Only Yesterday (Omoide Poro Poro), passing through Grave of the Fireflies, a melting, realistic and tragic war movie, ending his career with his absolute masterpiece, characterized by an extremely delicate and emotional stroke, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, summary of an entire artistic life.

Here are all the movies we'll be projecting on the big screen:

The Great Adventure of Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968)

Panda! Go, panda! (1972)

Gauche the Cellist (1982)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Only Yesterday (1991)

Pom Poko (1994)

My Neighbours the Yamadas (1999)

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

The movies will be complemented by a roundtable involving Takahata's work. We'll give you the details soon.

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Future Film Festival partecipated at the Venice Film Festival with the 19th edition of the Future Film Festival Digital Award, confered by our Official jury to the best movie of the selection among the ones which utilized Animation, special effects and / or the new technologies.  

The winner of the 19th Digital Award is The Shape of Water by Guillermo Del Toro.

A Special Mention of the Jury went to Gatta Cenerentola by Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone.

The jury was composed by the following journalists:

Arianna Finos, La Repubblica; Titta Fiore, Il Mattino; Rocco Giurato, mondofilm.it; Giuseppina Manin, Il Corriere della Sera; Lee Marshall, Internazionale; Gabriele Niola, Wired; Cristiana Paternò, Cinecittà News; Francesca Pierleoni, ANSA; Roberto Silvestri, Hollywood Party; Boris Sollazzo, Rolling Stone.

The Digital Award will be consigned during the 20th Edition of Future Film Festival, Spring, 2018  

All the Winners of Future Film Festival Digital Award

2016    Arrival di Denis Villeneuve

2015    Anomalisa di Charlie Kaufman e Duke Johnson

2014    Birdman di Alejandro Inarritu

2013    Gravity di Alfonso Cuaron

2012    Bad 25 di Spike Lee

2011    Faust di Aleksandr Sokurov

2010    Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame di Tsui Hark

2009    Metropia di Tarik Saleh

2008    The Sky Crawlers di Mamoru Oshii

2007    Redacted di Brian De Palma

2006    Inland Empire di David Lynch


2005    La Sposa Cadavere di Tim Burton

2004    Collateral di Michael Mann

2003    Zatoichi di Takeshi Kitano

2002    Blood Work di Clint Eastwood

2001    A.I. Intelligenza Artificiale di Steven Spielberg

2000    Time and Tide di Tsui Hark

1999    Hakuchi: the Innocent di Makoto Tezka

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