The Magna Graecia Film Festival rewards the courage to tell the human being in its deepest bond: the one with the origins. The best work of the 2025 edition is “Familia” by Francesco Costabile. The story that dug the soul of the public in the evenings of the event was able to convince the director to the director from the director from Cosenza a clear victory.
A mature direction is that of Costabile that convinces for stylistic consistency in a narrative that mixes with drama drama and introspection. A consecration for the author of “Un Female”, already appreciated for his ability to investigate the southern soul with visual power and narrative sensitivity. To accompany the success of the film also the victory of Barbara Ronchi as the best leading actress, awarded for her intense performance, emotionally calibrated and full of shades. The actress gave face and voice to a complex female figure in a reality that moves between silences, choices and fragility.
The prize for the best direction went to Gianluca Jodice for “La Déluge – the last days of Marie Antoinette”, a visionary and disturbing work that has affected for formal architecture and the precision with which the languages of historical cinema and psychological drama is handled.
Among the actors, Yuri Tuci is imposed, awarded for his interpretation in “Life as adults”, a film that he tackles the theme of the transition to adulthood lightly and depth with lightness and depth. A vibrant, ironic and authentic character his who conquers how he moves among the emotional registers of the film. The best script award went to Enrico Audenino and Valerio Mastandrea for “despite”, the film that reflects sharpness on contemporary fragility. The special mention of the Festival goes to “Black” by Giovanni Esposito, urban fairy tale with sweet and sour tones that surprised for his visual poetics and the delicacy with which he faces social and moral issues. Esposito, known to the general public for his actor career, confirms here an interesting directorial talent, awarded for the originality of the approach and the strength of history.
In the international section, the most voted film was “The Mohican” by Frédéric Farrucci, a work that mixes social and introspection report. Special mention for the interpretation of Enric Audquer, protagonist of the film “The master who promised the sea” by Patricia Font, for a magnetic and moving interpretation that has left its mark on the public and critics. The prize for the best documentary goes to “No More Trouble: what remains of a storm” by Tommaso Romanelli, while the Giuseppe Petitto Prize symbol of civil cinema goes to “The boy from the pink trousers” by Margherita Ferri.
Thus falls the curtain on the edition that spanned between music, talk, films and meetings in which the international juror Rocio Morales leaves the image that conquers the public. «Get back here is like going home – he said from the Soveratheus stage – I walk with my girls and my mother between authentic faces and places. Calabria is not afraid of being herself. I loved her for this ».
