After 11 days of appointments dedicated to the big screen, many of which were aimed at paying homage to the great Stefania Sandrelli, yesterday I-Fest 2025 ended, a film event by White Side Group who transformed Castrovillari as one of the Calabrian capitals of international cinema. After the afternoon screenings of the short winners of the International Orizzonti 2025 contest, on the occasion of the screening of the film “Il Suspetto”, the Oscar -winning director Thomas Vinterberg spoke at the Vittoria Theater, who after the chat of the day before with the artistic director Giuseppe Panebianco, brought his greeting to the public also on the occasion of the screening of the closing film, which was part of the retrospective dedicated to him.
The Masterclass of Peter Greenaway at the Cadasta di Campotennese, instead ended with the last of the three gara evenings at the Aragonese Castle, where Panebianco was joined by Miriam Galanti, one of the three young actresses of the CSC (the others were Chiara Vinci and Eva Cela) who in addition to proposing their monologues, also ventured as presenters.
The evening, enhanced by Glauce Valdini’s video contributions, was characterized by the delivery of all the prizes awarded in the context of the Orizzonti Competition, starting with the Special Sisca Prize award awarded by the prisoners of the Castrovillari district house to “The Aquarium” and those of the Feature Film section, for which the juror Isabella Lapalorcia announced the special mention for “Three Days. Of Fish “and the best direction prizes for” Gina “and best feature for” Obraz “, delivered to the director Montenegrino Nikola Vukcevic. The Young 2025 A prize went to little Paolo Calvano while for the shorts the jury awarded the best screenplay award to “I’m not a robot”, the best direction to “Perfectly a Strangeness”, best actor in Santiago Cardelus Ruiz Alberdi for “The swimming pool”. Special mention for best short in “Majoneze”, also winner of the prize for best original soundtrack, while the best short prize and the special jury prize went to “Anuja”.
The evening ended with the awarding of the I-Fest Special Awards to the Serbian director Miroslav Lekic, awarded by the deputy ambassador Milos Stipic, and to the Oscar Thomas Vinterberg, who received recognition from the president of Calabria Film Commission Anton Giulio Grande. The Danish director told the public: “Making a film is a bit like jumping from a cliff without knowing if there is water below or not. Both things have happened to me and both training experiences have been ». He then spent beautiful words for Mads Mikkelsen, protagonist of some of his masterpieces such as “suspicion” and “another day” (winner of the Oscar in 2021) admitting: “When I direct it I feel particularly inspired”. To the final question about how much life changes to win an Oscar, Vinterberg underlined: “A director must keep the prizes behind the shoulders and point the chamber always towards the world and never towards himself”.