Nukleus film

With a precise audiovisual language, El Minero is a work of great narrative rigor. Effective in its structure and with great testimonial value.

Using the short film cleverly as an opportunity to explore film as a medium, Blaž Kutin makes The Final Day of Rudolf Nietsche a radical audio-visual adventure that has been dreamt more than it has been filmed. The author boldly makes use of the seemingly simple postulate, i.e. that film is not only what it shows and says, but also what it holds back and conceals. This way, he gives the viewer the freedom to find their own way into the story of the everyman, guided by the allusion to the great philosopher.

Prize from the Jury MicroCosmo of the Verona prison. Faced with the truth, one cannot hide, in the historical evidence as in the individual experiences that determine it. Knowledge with awareness does not allow for loopholes, on pain of inner suffering; a need for pacification emerges even accepting the price of disadvantages in the immediate. It is a path that begins with recognition of the victims. They wait to be honored, recognized in their dignity. This film leads to linger on the unsolved matters carried inside for some time, both as individuals and as a community. We need to explore our own private wars in order to develop our conscience and put ourselves on the line to build peace: this is liberation. In Rudar, the father's sense of human and emotional responsibility is renewed and takes on new forms in the social commitment of a daughter. And right there, they recognize each other. The path of consciousness from interiority leads to constructive action, for a possible new beginning.

The Bertani Winery Prize from the public

Special Prize of the Cassa Rurale Vallagarina for the best film about the Alpi. From the bowels of the mountains emerge individual and collective stories that open up old wounds, in a land that has never dealt with its history. The mountain becomes a therapy for pain and a source of redemption.

Italian: “Per l’articolata e ambiziosa configurazione strutturale, l’attualità dei temi affrontati (messi in scena con intensità), le scelte linguistiche e l’efficacia altamente drammatica di alcune sequenze”.

Eno življenje v tisoč življenjih, ena zgodba v tisoč zgodbah. Svež in izviren impresionistični kolaž in avtor, ki je naredil izstopajoč film tudi brez klasične naracije. Vesna za najbolj izvirni avtorski prispevek.

The jury consisting of Karin Schockweiler (Eurimages Luxembourg representative), Kim Yutani (Sundance IFF) and Meinolf Zurhorst (ARTE/ZDF) was "moved by this poetic film that evokes the basic conditions of mankind". It decided to give the Eurimages Lab Project Award @ KVIFF amounting to €50,000 to this film "for its visually striking and sensory jouney through the secrets, memories, and imagination of the human race".