For the unusual capacity to translate, in a lively and consistent way, in spite of a limited budget, the grotesque and hallucinated imaginary of cartoon into a convincing and full of visual suggestions cinematographic tale.

For the winding structure of a tale that is able to create, with ability, an atmosphere of thrilling and subtle sensuality.

For the effective narrative solution with which he has been able to fuse together reality and fiction, mental uneasiness and imagination, cinema and society.

For the visual research that accompanies and supports the anticonventional testimony of a complex and difficult daily life experience.

Taken from a real fact, the author has elaborated the story with a great directing talent, and, within a few minutes, has been able to build, through a never banal narrative structure, an homage to cinema and, above all, an homage to the myth of cinema.

For the originality of the trait and the irony used to face this theme.

For the educational value and the effectiveness of the texts, for the participation and for the difficult choice of not using any archive material.

For the psychological intensity and the depth of a portrait of human relationships.

An essay on isolation presented through imaginatively crafted, intersecting stories, depicting human frailties, and told with a well defined sense of humour.

For the tasty and sarcastic portrait of a byproduction of the showbiz world, caught in some of its most trash shapes.

For the elegance of the scenes and the sensitive and measured interpretation of Lou Castel.

For the radicalism of the language that, through innovating technologies, explores new narrative possibilities.

For his extraordinary humanity and creative energy that picture one of our less conformist and full of personality artists.

For its successful attempt to realize a small dramatic portrait of one man's destiny.

A thoughtfully worked out, multi-layered story, with an aesthetics that touches both our hearts and our minds.

For the author's capacity to offer an extraordinary richness of themes and references to an actual reality of the working world. Immigration, alienation, cultural identity to belong to, these are told in 12 minutes with a narrative charming rhythm, full of nuances, that is what making a film means. The jury wants to point out an evaluation difficulty because the selection takes place among short films and long features.

For the semplicity, the poetry and the genuineness of a tale made with a very little budget, that is able to pick not only the political difficulties, but also the ethical ones, during a period of transition between past and present.

For the suggestion of the subject and the self-confidence while imagining a place of unusual metaphysical melancholy

For the poetry used to narrate a simple but universal story.

For the representation of a choice complexity.

For the courage in the choice of the subject and for the language used to handle it. We think there is an audience for this film and that this prize will help to find it.