For its essentiality and its balance between humour and lightness, for its care for details and for the narrative conciseness with which it represents "the joke of life".

For its freshness and its good cinematography style operation while describing a city.

For its human sensitiveness, for the humbleness of intelligence, for the tenderness and respect in its looking at the characters, and for its capacity in not transmitting a sensation of death even if it is a "last moment".

For its personal look, expressing a wise capacity of observation.

Through an extraordinary use of sequence-shots, the film turns the typical narrative dramatics of a robbery into a funny reflection on the relationships between sexes.

For its striking narrative synthesis, for its poetical abstractness, and for its language freshness.

For the originality of the character in its combining techniques with self-irony.

For its structure originality and for the way it plays with time concept. It cuts down the dramatics with humour in a chain of small accidents to reach a totally unexpected ending.

It's a delicate reflection about adolescence uncertainty, expressed with a clean and incisive style. The end seems to suggest with irony that playing is the best way to face the future.

For its confirmation of the values of the great Iranian Cinematography School.

An unusual film in Italian Cinema, made with love together with our Nigerian fellow-citizens.

For having made a meaningful group portrayal with some very extraordinary dramatic solutions.

For its original and strongly ironic ways to portray all aspects, human, social and cultural, of a crisis in a factory town.

For its cleverness in following many characters and situations within a small epic of daily and ordinary life.

For its capacity to tell a story of daily surviving in a essential and not rethorical way.

For its facing the problem of our country's lack of interest in reading, in a very simple and original way.

Notwithstanding the exiguity of the means, she has been able to transpose Japanese cartoons into cinematography images, developing an original idea in a very coherent way. Tied with Parole per dirlo - dalla parte delle bambine (1997).

For her capacity to let different generations of women relate with each other, saving, for the young ones, the memory of feminist battles, in a tender and ironic way. Tied with Manga (1997).

For its vision of Russian society today and its sense of urgency and strong characterization.

For its incisive and ironic portrayal of middle class family life in Western society.