For its strong aesthetic quality, the courage and tenacity of its activist message, and for its faith in the power of cinema to change the world.

We wished to award the prize to an unprecedented and courageous entry on a subject unusual for documentary, and classic in scholarly texts: L'OROGENESI is striking for its ironic and serious treatment of the mythical birth of Italian civilization. A revisiting of History through arbitrary but revealing fragments, it intelligently plays with archaism and anachronism in word and image. Playful insolence masterfully incarnated.

Form and content pull at one another, sucking us into their mystery. Is it déjà vu?

Tied with OK, Enough, Goodbye (2010).

Tied with 17 Girls (2011).

We have decided to give the special Jury Award to a film that enables us to look behind the scenes of an institution that most of us think we know. With rigor and curiosity, the directors stick to their clear cinematographic vision and chosen structure. Their long takes that were shot throughout one year uncovers the microcosm of the airport and its people of those who just pass through and of those who are always there.

Transparent in its confusion, real in its inadequacy.

For the intelligence and ambition of its vision of the world of work, for the power of its extremely modern meditation.

We want to mention FREAKBEAT for the revival, the humour of a disappeared world, where hopes were so different and freedom seemed to be possible.

A painful and beautiful arrow, piercing our memory.

In a piece about the First World, whose motor suddenly stopped, workers stay home and no longer sell their products. In a small town in the depths of Québec, covered day and night by a thick layer of snow, Sébastien Pilote makes us experience the most serious crisis of capitalism through the eyes and heart of a single extraordinary character, an elderly car salesman - a symbol of the industrial revolution, the oldest and best of them all. In the emotional derangement that overwhelms the salesman, we recognize all the labors and adjustments in the sense of the value of labor that were imposed by the crisis: what fills the affective void, what you lose and never thought you would, what kills you, what saves you...

An important film set in the heart of Québec, against the background of the current financial crisis. The main protagonist is the frozen snow that seems always to be blocking people, feelings, and things. The film represents with limpidity of imagination and rigor of narrative the delusion of a man who believes he can save himself on his own, protected by the System and at the mercy of its unavoidable rules.

An essential and Becket-like film, that balances on a centerline drawn from nothing to nothing in the Icelandic desert populated by female ghosts.

For its ability to capture a mostly inaccessible reality through a rigorous yet always compelling style.

For the esthetic taste and the choice to create a complete work.

For the portrayal of the experience of immigration into our country, showing aspects of struggle, resistance, and social redemption, and for the moving gaze that delicately delves into the characters' intimacies.

For the attention given to a small village where women reclaim the right to a life of dignity.

Maria Helene Bertino, Dario Castelli and Alessandro Gagliardo For the visible unveiling of a real world that is otherwise lost.

Despite having to contend with location shooting, we see in this project the desire to execute a precise aesthetic style based on the accurate choice of architectural forms in outdoor environments, and by the use of alternating bands of green and red in the interior decor. The set designer's work shows the desire not to go overboard in the use of colors or exaggerated forms, and the careful characterization of the indoor environments in the choice of furnishings. The result is a perfect synthesis of the entire art department - set design, cinematography, and costumes - all of which, the critical viewer can clearly see, followed a well-defined chromatic theme.

For the ability of representing the capacity of overcoming the interpersonal conflicts and the social conventions through empathy, solidarity, free commitment without prejudices; for the cohesion and the balance of the direction and for the introspective softness given by the interpreters.

For the attention dedicated to the relationship as cure and for the search of integration between humanity and nature.

For approaching the theme of the death penalty and the violence of the prisons with sobriety, witnessing the absolute value of life.