(ANSA) - TRIESTE, JAN 23 - Albania, Croatia and Hungary won
the 30th edition of the Trieste Film Festival according to the
public. The movies 'Delegacioni' by Albanian director Bujar
Alimani (best full-length film); 'Chris the Swiss' (best
documentary) by Anja Kofmel and 'Last Call' by Hajni Kis (best
short film in competition) won the Osiride Brovedani Foundation
Award. The names of the winners in all the categories of the
festival were presented yesterday at the Teatro Rossetti in
Trieste by the two artistic directors, Nicoletta Romeo and
Fabrizio Grosoli, who made an initial assessment of the event
that will continue until January 25 at the Teatro Miela. The
festival recorded increasing audience numbers and ''a number of
supporters that has been growing constantly since the first
edition'', Romeo said, opening the venue. The National Union of
Italian Film Critics awarded Matteo Garrone's 'Dogman' 'best
Italian film' prize, whereas they awarded 'Hidden thread' by
Paul Thomas Anderson, 'the best international film' prize. The
award ceremony was attended by Marcello Fonte, leading actor of
'Dogman', Palme d'Or in Cannes, who received the prize.
The films that won awards voted for by audience were 'My home in
Lybia', by Martina Melilli (Corso Salani supported by Parovel
2019 (euro 2,000), 'Ruben Brandt the collector' by Hungary's
Milorad Krstic (SkyArte Award). 'Chris The Swiss' by Anja Kofmel
won the Balkan and Caucasus Observatory Best Documentary Award,
Milco Mancevski was awarded the Eastern Star Award 2019,
dedicated to personalities who were able to open a bridge
between Eastern and Western Europe. Sarajevo Festival Director
Mirsad Purivatra won the ''Cinema Warrior-Cultural Resistance
Award'', and Serbian director Zelimir Zilnik won the CEI
(Central European Initiative) Award 2019 (3,000), whereas
'Teret' (Load) by Ognjen Glavonic won the Cineuropa Award. A
jury made up of 18- to 35-year-olds, members of youth
associations, awarded 'Delegacioni' , film by Bujar Alimani, the
Pag Prize. (ANSA).
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