Matteo Garrone wins Silver Lion for Io Capitano

Silver Lion for Best Director to Matteo Garrone: the director won the prestigious award at the80th Venice Film Festival for the film Io Capitano, which has already been released in theaters since September 7. The film, which had also won the Leoncino d’Oro award, instituted by AGISCUOLA and promoted by A.G.I.S., A.N.E.C. and David di Donatello - Accademia del Cinema Italiano, tells the contemporary Odyssey of two young boys who face a terrible and adventurous journey through the pitfalls of the desert, the horrors of detention centers in Libya and the dangers of the sea, to reach Europe, the destination of their dreams. Io Capitano is an Italy-Belgium co-production produced by Archimedes and Tarantula.

Young Seydou Sarr, one of the film’s protagonists, is also to receive the Marcello Mastroianni Prize, an award given to a young emerging actor.

“Congratulations to Matteo Garrone. The Silver Lion - award for best director, given to him in Venice, shows all the vitality of our cinema. The nation’s greatest creative industry, capable of taking the Italian imagination everywhere, is experiencing a golden moment that we have a duty to support,” said Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano.

"Truly news that fills one with pride. The awards won by Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano reconfirm the quality and beauty of Italian cinema," added Undersecretary of State for the Ministry of Culture Lucia Borgonzoni. “A great work his tender tale of two teenagers who come across a stark reality that has nothing of the dream they expected. My most sincere congratulations to a director who has been at the center of the scene for years with his successful titles and among the undisputed protagonists of the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival. And congratulations to a young man, Seydou Sarr, who has shown incredible talent. My congratulations then go to all the Italians, award-winners and not, who also made this edition of the Venice Film Festival great.”

Indeed, the parallel sections of the exhibition awarded Enrico Maria Artale’s El Paraíso: Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay and Best Actress to Margarita Rosa De Francisco. Produced by Ascent Film and Young Film, the film is about Julio, who is almost forty years old and still lives with his mother in the house they have near the river in the maritime area of Fiumicino, near Rome. A complex and symbiotic bond that will be upended by the arrival of a young Colombian woman involved with them in drug trafficking. The cast includes Edoardo Pesce, Margarita Rosa De Francisco, Maria del Rosario, and Gabriel Montesi. The film also won the Arca Cinema Giovani award for best Italian film in Venice.

Awarded to Una sterminata domenica, a debut feature by Alain Parroni, the Special Jury Prize Orizzonti. The film is a Fandango and Alcor (Italy), Art Me Pictures (Ireland), Road Movies (Germany) co-production about Brenda, a young pregnant Alex who has just turned 19 and is about to become Kevin’s father; three very young people trying to make their own mark on the world and who, always connected to each other, buzz between the coastal countryside and the eternal city, trying to resist in their own way the inexorable advance of time and heat.

Micaela Ramazzotti’s debut feature, Felicità (Lotus Production), wins the Audience Award - Armani Beauty in the Horizons Extra section. The film tells the story of a crooked family of selfish and manipulative parents, a two-headed monster that devours any hope of freedom for their children. Desirè is the only one who can save her brother Claudio and will continue to fight against everything and everyone in the name of the only love she knows, to pursue a little happiness. In addition to director Micaela Ramazzotti, the cast also includes Max Tortora, Anna Galiena, Matteo Olivetti, and Sergio Rubini.

Horizons also awards a minority co-production: Swedish Mika Gustafson wins Best Director for the film Paradise is Burning, a Sweden (Hobab), Italy (Intramovies), Denmark (Toolbox Film), Finland (Tuffi Films) co-production.

Matteo Garrone wins Silver Lion for Io Capitano

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