feature films – Laceno d’oro awards
Eighty Plus, because It feels like hearing nowadays “As Time Goes by” on aAustrian piano which went through the whole history of disappeared Jugoslavia.
Je suis la nuit en plein midi – Gaspard Hirschi
Knowing is separating, dividing good from evil, true from false. But what happens when a character leaves his story to wander the neighborhoods of Marseille? Hirschi’s Don Quixote embodies “the spirit of the times on horseback,” but it also reveals the story of a world no longer capable of listening to him, yet still in need of heroes. The semi-serious look at the reality of Marseille thus becomes the archetype of a diverse and disenchanted humanity. The work is original, yet entertaining and dramatic. We hope for a revival of the story, set in Avellino.
The film is like the sweet waiting for 79minutes to see the blossom of a plant from a rare ecosystem, a film made by a young director which promise to do the same.
Punku by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero
The film expressed itself through a unique visual language, combining everyday reality with the reality of the spirit world through a fragmented, unconventional structure.
Meteors by Hubert Charuel
Meteors is a melodrama and it is unafraid of being tearful. It is the vivid portrait of a friendship forced to defend itself from visible and invisible enemies. And if addictions are only the visible face of hidden traumas, the problems related to working end up bringing to light a more radical difficulty in social integration. Between great dreams and fragile destinies, the story tells an intimate and engaging story of two characters, drawn with precision and absolutely truthful.
short films – “Gli occhi sulla città”
For its inventive ability to bring into dialogue a testimony unheard by History with a sharp, restless, even sensorially unsettling image, giving substance to an audio document buried in darkness through a raw and powerful image that strives to seek out light, “Gliocchisullacittà” Award goes to Lengua Muerta by José Jiménez.
For the way this film’s “eyes on the city” manage to move beyond the celebration, the carnival, the postcard image of Rio de Janeiro, reaching — in a manner both moving and profound in substance, and graceful and brilliant in form — a hidden trauma that is not only personal. The Special Mention of the Jury goes to Samba infinito by Leonardo Martinelli.
spazio campania – Premio chiara rigione
For its ability to bring movement into the very heart of the urban space, reinterpreting the trauma of the Irpinia earthquake through a lens that binds together people, environment, and objects—united by their existence and thus by the possibility of falling. The world is re-enchanted through the expanding possibilities of cinema, with a gaze firmly turned toward the future yet rooted in a collective memory that has marked an entire generation. A work that explores hybrid frontiers and overturns established rules, reaffirming the unique identity and value of the short film form. Thematic courage and vision restore to cinema its highest purpose: giving shape to our present through imagination.
For the courage to confront stigma head-on and to investigate an inheritance that was never chosen yet clings like a ghost—one that cinema can perhaps finally unmask. The tense relationship between the family ecosystem and the individuality of a single person emerges in the unsaid, and in what can at last be spoken before a camera that becomes a catalyst of truth. A compelling work for its ability to explore the intertwining of past and present in a place shaped by blood and roots, merging documentary and animation with a grounded approach to reconstruction that transforms the personal into the universal.
With this film, Parsifal Reparato takes away the label “Made in Vietnam”. The film contains contrasting yet inextricably linked images: country villages give way to the alienation of the cities, depicting a society driven by young women. Her is a choral and communal voice: each protagonist is different from the others, yet they embody the same destiny. The photography is excellent, and the separation between the documentary and fictional narratives is imperceptible.
A look at African culture in the city of Naples, where emotions such as fear, uncertainty, and the search for origins intertwine. The director creates connections amidst the chaos. Where heroes and victims no longer exist, a large community rich in diverse nuances takes shape. Thus, the search for one’s origins becomes an hymn to equality, to the tune of a music that simultaneously becomes an authentic expression of freedom and identity.
red couch pictures awards
For creating a simple and intense tale, in which two wandering souls traverse borderlands, suspended between loss and the desire for redemption. Their seemingly directionless journey transforms into an inner journey that reveals fragility, longing, and a silent need for encounter.
With understated elegance and poetic power, the film translates deserted suburbs, dilated nights, and marginal spaces into landscapes of the soul, restoring depth and dignity to often invisible existences. As the world around the protagonists gradually thins out, their drift takes on the value of a revelation, a discreet light emerging from the margins.
For its ability to illuminate what usually remains in the shadows and transform an uncertain wandering into an act of authentic humanity, the Red Couch Award goes to Randaghi by Enrico Motti and Emanuele Motti.
50th edition of Laceno d’oro 2025 will take place from 1 to 8 December 2025
The categories of the 2025 contest are Feature Films, Short Films and Spazio Campania.
Works can be submitted until 5 September.
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