At the core of the activities promoted by Isola Edipo lies the Edipo Re Inclusion and Sustainability Award, an official collateral award of the Venice International Film Festival.
At the core of the activities promoted by Isola Edipo lies the Edipo Re Inclusion and Sustainability Award, an official collateral award of the Venice International Film Festival.
The motivation:The Award is established to support the distribution in Italian theaters of cinematic works of high artistic and cultural value, capable of promoting an inclusive and sustainable perspective from both a human and environmental standpoint.
The selection:
The award is granted to one film selected from among 12 titles, chosen by the artistic direction, originating from four different sections competing in the current edition of the Venice Film Festival: International Competition, Horizons, International Critics’ Week, and Venice Days.
The juries
The Award is conferred by a jury of three intellectuals and artists selected on each occasion by the artistic direction. Starting from the 2023 edition, thanks to the collaboration with Ca’ Foscari, the official jury will be accompanied by a youth jury composed of seven cinema students.
The architecture
: The Official Jury Award consists of a preview presentation of the winning film in four different Italian cities and support in communication during the film’s official distribution in Italy by MYMOVIES, the most popular cinema website in our country. Each screening is organized in close collaboration with significant cultural institutions to facilitate audience reception.
MILANO: in partnership with La Biennale and Agis
ROMA: in partnership with La Biennale and Anec
SIENA: in partnership with Università degli Studi di Siena
PALERMO: in partnership with Centro Sperimentale
NAPOLI: in partnership with Astra Doc
The film awarded by the Youth Jury will utilize screening spaces managed by several Italian universities, including Ca’ Foscari University itself.
El Jockey by Luis Ortega
“A film that tackles the theme of identity and its many facets through an original and deeply symbolic imagination and an innovative exploration of language. The surreal and at times grotesque tone adopted by director Luis Ortega illuminates themes such as mutation, transformation, and rebirth, embodied by a unique protagonist, the multifaceted jockey played by Nahuel Perez Biscayart. We hope that the same expressive freedom can continue to survive in the uncertain future of Argentine cinema.”
Special Mention – Sugar Island by Johanna Gómez Terrero
“An intriguing film that addresses the rarely represented theme of the historical exploitation of Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic, deprived of fundamental rights. Without overlooking the spiritual dimension inherent in Haitian culture, director Johanne Gómez Terrero’s vision reveals a remarkable visual, allegorical, and sensory power, with skillful direction of the actors.”
Jury 2024
Francesca d’Aloja
Writer
Federica Di Giacomo
film director
Esmeralda Calabria
film editor
Ca Foscari Students Jury 2024
Davide Lorenzo Bignotti, Francesca Cerchiari, Chiara Guarino, Anita Incastori, Marta Pancino, Stefano Patrone, Emma Sist
Sugar Island by Johanna Gómez Terrero
“A film halfway between fiction and documentary, a crossroads of social, political, gender, and historical issues, providing an authentic and touching perspective on the reality of a people reflecting on their past to understand their present, with a truly universal force.
Sugar Island narrates the struggles of a people who, through working their land, seek a personal identity in order to continue their self-determination.”
Io Capitano
by Matteo Garrone
Recognizing that we need this film more than it needs us, we have chosen to award ‘Io, Capitano’ by Matteo Garrone. Set within the contemporary sociopolitical framework, this film portrays – with a gaze free from white saviorism and the pornography of suffering – the unsustainability of human life for those migrating to Europe: millions of bodies each year that in Western narratives are emptied of their individuality and dignity. Garrone succeeds in making migration a story of people, not numbers, allowing us to directly engage with the language, life, and culture of the protagonists, without ever veering into the romanticization and fetishization of a society distant from us. The figure of the captain – from whom the title originates – reminds us of the true meaning this term should have, but which in recent years has been repeatedly betrayed by politics: the role of a captain is, in fact, to leave no one behind. As the Edipo Re Inclusion and Sustainability Award, born precisely on a boat that rescued Istrian refugees in the late 1940s, we find ourselves fully aligned with the political idea that this film carries. . In a historical period where NGOs saving lives in the Mediterranean are criminalized, this film reminds us of how every person deserves the right to asylum and, above all, the right to life, its beauty, and its potential forms.
Jury 2023
Carlotta Vagnoli
Writer
Caterina Guzzanti
actress
Alberto Malanchino
actor
Ca Foscari Students Jury
Ca Foscari Students Jury
Vittoria Caporali, Sofia Coppola, Beatrice Grasso, Isabel Musoni, Matilda Stefanini, Matteo Tonelli , Mattia Giusto Zanon
Evil does not exists
by Ryosuke Hamaguchi
For the sensitivity with which the film addressed the relationship between humans and nature, eliciting strong empathy towards the characters. For the elegance in portraying the everyday life of a community, whose story becomes universal as it exemplifies the power dynamics present in our contemporary world.
The film demonstrates that reality cannot be reduced to a mere duality of good and evil, but instead aims to capture its complexity. Each of the depicted characters, beyond their individual traits, is a product of their own context, and the encounter becomes crucial for raising awareness and expanding perspectives. The young jury awards the Inclusion and Sustainability Edipo Re Award to “Evil Does Not Exist” by Ryosuke Hamaguchi.
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Alice Diop
A very clean script tells, with the power of a Greek tragedy, the inseparable and scary thread that binds a mother to a daughter. A crime, a trial, an exciting look at femininity torn apart by the clash between two cultures. Women are chimeras of a ferocious world that offers no way out.
2022 Jury
ELENA STANCANELLI
Writer
FILIPPO TIMI
Actor
CHIARA CIVELLO
Singer
Vera dreams the sea
Kaltrina Krasniqi
In Vera dreams the sea, Kaltrina Krasniqi manages to give shape to a painful personal matter, without ever renouncing the vitality of the story. She builds the moving portrait of a woman, who appears to us just as her name suggests, true, both in her initial difficulty and in her redemption. A common life which, as it happens in the cinema, becomes memorable for all of us.
The stranger / Al Garib
Ameer Fakher Eldin
Al Garib succeeds in the feat of narrating a double marginality, that of a people and that of an individual who is respectful of his own people. The details on which Ameer Fakher Eldin concentrates, due to their elegance and the clarity of the images, remained intact in our memory after many hours, still days after watching it, and we are sure that they will last a long time.
Jury 2021
PAOLO GIORDANO writer
LUCIA MASCINO actress
GIOVANNI TRUPPI singer
The man who sold his skin
Kaouther Ben Hania
Reason
For the completeness of the story and for the irony, for the ability to show the world from different levels and different points of view, thanks to the paradox that makes all problems more profound.
War, escape, but also the cynicism that art can have in telling the tragedies of others, and the freedom of human beings to choose their own destiny.
The man who sold his skin is a complex, entertaining and liberating film, which deserves to make its big way in cinemas around the world.
Jury 2020
ANNAELENA BENINI Literary criticism
ESTHER ELISHA Actress
RA DI MARTINO Visual Artist
CORPUS CHRISTI
Boze Cialo
Reason
For its surprising expressive force and its ability to keep together tragic and comedy tones. With a character who embodies the original coexistence, inevitable in everyone’s life, of guilt and redemption, good and evil, faith and simulation, deception and truth.
Jury 2019
GIULIANO BATTISTON Reporter
GIUSEPPE PICCIONI Director
SANDRA PICCOLO Actress
Still Recording – Lissa Ammetsajjel
Saaed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub
For the surprising expressive force and ability to hold together tragic and comedy tones. With a character that embodies the original presence, inevitable in the life of all, of guilt and redemption, good and evil, faith and simulation, deception and truth.
Jury 2018
COSTANZA QUATRIGLIO director
EMANUELE TREVI writer
ALEX MAJOLI photoreporter MAGNUM director
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