Verona International Film Festival Unveils Award Winners of 2023 Edition.
The Verona International Film Festival concluded its 8th edition last night at the Multisala Rivoli, located right in the heart of the historical city center. The festival team would like to thank all guests for their enthusiasm. A big thank you also to all filmmakers for sending in their work. Out of over fifteen hundred submissions, 23 wonderful films from Italy and around the world made it to the final selection for 2023. Verona International Film Festival is pleased to share with you today the jury results for this year's awards:
Best Narrative Feature Film
Sleeping Close (Italy) by Giulio Pereno
Best Documentary Feature Film
Supertempo (Switzerland) by Daniel Kemény
Best Narrative Short Film
I Am Not The One I Am (Belgium) by Luna Brusselaers Srsen
Best Documentary Short Film
Before Pandemic and War, There Were Bed Bugs and Love! (Lithuania) by Nuruzzaman Khan
Best Animated Film
Inside You (Ukraine) by Erik Sémashkin
Best Experimental Film
Horizont (Switzerland) by Felix Scherer
Best LGBTQ+ Film
Slow Burn Summer (Italy) by Marco Maldera
Best Music Film
Where I'm From (Canada) by Sina Nazarian
Best Italian Film
Story of a Lunch Break (Italy) by Marco Del Mastro
Congratulations!
ABOUT VERONA IFF
A film festival focussing on the complexity of human relationships set in Shakespeare's city of love Verona, Italy. Does it get any better than this? The Verona International Film Festival welcomes films about “relationships” in its broadest, most relative sense of the word. The festival presents films which revolve around relationships in all their different forms whether spiritual, physical, interpersonal, familial, and humanitarian and can even touch upon relationships between nations and political parties. Films can tackle the complexity, ever-changing dynamics, adversity, and multi-faceted aspects pertaining to these different types of relationships.
OFFICIAL SELECTION 2023
Pit Stop (Italy) by Beatrice Piazzetti
Aunt Valeria (Italy) by Marta Specolizzi, Sarah Emilie Lillie Bergen
Heavy Load (Austria) by Tobias Pichler
Before Pandemic and War, There Were Bed Bugs and Love! (Lithuania) by Nuruzzaman Khan
Supurbia (Norway) by Alexander Gudmestad
Story of a Lunch Break (Italy) by Marco Del Mastro
I Am Not The One I Am (Belgium) by Luna Brusselaers Srsen
Inside You (Ukraine) by Erik Sémashkin
Horizont (Switzerland) by Felix Scherer
The Factory (Iran) by Masoud Saadat
Slow Burn Summer (Italy) by Marco Maldera
Supertempo (Switzerland) by Daniel Kemény
Sleeping Close (Italy) by Giulio Pereno
Where I'm From (Canada) by Sina Nazarian
5 Seasons - A Journey (Germany) by Katja Sallay
The Dead Track (Italy) by Antonio Maciocco
The Special Seat (Japan) by Akira Okumura
What Money Can't Buy (Italy) by Carlo Novaga
No New Wave (Singapore) by Ziwei Yao
The Jennie Show - EP4: In the Hotpot Seat (Taiwan) by Superdog, Kevin Lee
Lola vs Ed (Netherlands) by Lars Brinkman
LCAW - Heart Of Glass (Germany) by Nathan Ceddia
Lights Out, Berlin! (Germany) by Dimitris Argyriou