FICNOVA – ANIFF; International Film Festival of Active Nonviolence; Humanist space of encounter in the culture of nonviolence. A festival that works to overcome violence and discrimination. A biennial, voluntary and free film festival.
Feature film FINALIST 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA recognises a demonstration effect of how putting the affective feeling towards others at the centre can make even the cruelest characters in history bend. A sample of the invulnerability and courage that a person can experience when living in their unitive centre of coherence
Finalist Feature Film 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA acknowledges bringing us closer to the Mapuche culture, which brings us closer to the search for what is essential in so many other cultures around the world. It shows the need for cultures to be able to live in mutual respect, recognising the enormous loss we experience when we live with our backs to each other.
Feature Film Finalist 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA aims to provide an elevated gaze that encompasses us and broadens our poor, myopic and self-interested gaze, in which we live enclosed. Under the sky of a desert subjected to extreme conditions, courageous human beings stand up and seek to be recognised. If we do not recognise others, we are surely not recognising ourselves.
Finalist Short Film 7 FICNOVA 2024
FICNOVA recognizes this film for providing an inclusive look, recognized in many villages around the world, in which the construction of a dignified life is not understood without the community and the natural environment that surrounds them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.