Sfiorarsi wins Naples
The 10th Naples Film Festival was a success this year, and closed with Angelo Orlando’s Sfiorarsi picking up the Vesuvio Award. The winning short films were Francesco Prisco’s Fuori uso and Uno scippo, directed by Alfonso Postiglione, predominantly an acclaimed theatrical actor who was recently seen onscreen in Toni D’Angelo’s Una notte.
Best Documentary went to Simona Tilli’s Missing in New Orleans, while the “Europa – Mediterraneo” competition was won by Amor Hakkar’s French/Algerian The Yellow House [+see also:
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The festival’s most successful events included public Q&As with Milos Forman and Willem Dafoe and an evening dedicated to Toni Servillo. Festival director general Davide Azzolini was more than pleased with this year’s tributes, calling them “an extraordinary event, deserving tributes to an actor and a group of artists who in this moment represent on an international level the city’s highest cultural values”.
The festival was held this year in the Castel Sant’Elmo, a beautiful location that, according to artistic director Mario Violini, “contributed to the success of the 10th edition, which inspires us to plan the festival’s future with renewed enthusiasm”.
(Translated from Italian)
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