Mare Mediterraneum
Feature Film Finalist 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA A demonstration of the need for encounter between all cultures and continents. A look that, by approaching the other, allows us to recognise a ‘we’ that makes us greater.
Author: Pepa BO
My Neighbour Yuan
Finalist Short Film 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing a clear example of how our limited consciences can function, if they conform to simplistic narratives that seek easy culprits for their complex problems. But all these prejudices can be broken when someone approaches another and feels the human in him as well.
Two Hearts
Short Film Finalist 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing a clear example of the acceleration of changes that human beings are experiencing, who do not want to be conditioned by any ties, not even “natural”. A change that is difficult to digest by the older generations, who are out of step with what they lived as “normal”. This is an example that can help to overcome these barriers with the affection and closeness that it exudes.
Give It Back
Finalist short film of the section centers of higher education.
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing an example with a fiction that conveys a reality among young people, but that we can find everywhere: Sometimes we miscalculate the supposed benefits that can bring us to be with the dominant group, against the betrayal that we do to ourselves by not acting according to what we feel as really valid. But there can always be a moment of reflection, of inner sincerity that brings us back to the coherence that makes us strong.
Encounters d’exili II
Medium-length film FINALIST 7 FICNOVA 2024.
FICNOVA recognises this film for providing an inclusive approach to the need to learn in order not to repeat the personal and social disasters caused by the imposition of a few on others.
The Last Coffee
Finalist Short Film 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing a fictionalization of a reality that we can all experience when, moved by the suffering of others, we seek the strength and inspiration to help them. Sometimes that inspiration comes in different forms.
Green Autumn
Finalist Short Film 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing an example of the changing process of women’s liberation, in which generations succeed one another, opening new barriers all over the world.
Blacks’ afternoon tea
Finalist short film in the higher education section.
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing an unprejudiced look at racial discrimination, in which the location of vindicating diversity is made manifest. It seems that the serious problem is for those who consider themselves superior or inferior to others because of their skin color, because they have forgotten who they are on the inside.
Truth in the Blood
Finalist Short Film 7th FICNOVA 2024.
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing a demonstration effect of how human intention leaps over any barrier or impediment, opening new possibilities for the future. The faith in the positive struggle of courageous grandmothers is capable of mobilizing all the resources at their disposal to transform the world.
Out of the Abyss
Short Film Finalist 7th FICNOVA 2024.
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing a demonstration effect of how to resist and get out of the spiral of violence with internal coherence, giving non-violent responses. An example capable of saving many lives, and that opens the hope of many young people with no future.
Who are the freaks ?
Short Film Finalist 7 FICNOVA 2024 Primary and Secondary Schools Section
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing an original and vindicating look at each person, within the context of children’s discovery and learning. A learning in which we tend to simplify everything, putting little signs to things, guided by stereotypes of “how one should be” and “how things should be” that complicate our lives.