The winners of the 18th edition of the RIFF \u2013 Rome Independent Film Festival on the New Cinema Aquila directed by Fabrizio Ferrari have been announced.<\/p>\n
Our jury that has had the important task of decreeing the winners this year was made of Ukrainian journalist and film critic\u00a0Nadia Zavarova<\/strong>, the German consultant for international festivals\u00a0Bernd Brehmer<\/strong>, the Romanian journalist and writer\u00a0Tatiana Covore<\/strong>, the American-Argentine musician and journalist\u00a0Diego Petrecolla<\/strong>, together with the Italians: the composer\u00a0Stefano Ratchev<\/strong>, the scriptwriter and director\u00a0Salvatore Basile<\/strong>, the actor and director\u00a0Vincenzo Alfieri<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The jurors awarded the winners in the presence of Luca Bergamo, Deputy Mayor of Rome and Alessandro Haber, who has always been interested in independent cinema and present at the RIFF this year with the documentary \u201cM\u00e0t Sicuri the last Diogene\u201d.<\/p>\n RIFF Award Best Film 2019 for the International Feature Section is\u00a037 Second<\/strong>\u00a0of the Japanese director Hikari, with the following motivation: \u201cJapan. In a world that seems to be hundreds of miles away from the European life, the film offers in a delicate and touching way, evergreen topics: trying to position itself in a competitive society \u201c.<\/p>\n Like last year, the Award for Best Documentary, Italian and International, is an award given by the audience. RIFF Award for the best international documentary \u00a0goes to \u201cDave Grusin: Not Enough Time<\/strong>\u201d by Barbara Bentree on the Oscar-winning composer of Tootsie, The graduate and Milagro among others. Best Film is “37 Seconds” by Hikari – For International Documentaries winner is “Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time” by Barbara Bentree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[170,162,171,163,173,164,165,174,166,172,175,176,167,168,169],"class_list":["post-23763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-berlinale-en","tag-cannes-en","tag-cinecitta-en","tag-cinema-en","tag-festa-di-roma-en","tag-festival-en","tag-international-en","tag-med-film-fest-en","tag-opera-prima-en","tag-riff-en","tag-riff-roma-en","tag-roma-film-fest-en","tag-sundance-en","tag-tiff-en","tag-toronto-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
FIlm \u201cPastrone<\/strong>\u201d wins RIFF Award for best Italian Documentary by Lorenzo De Nicola, the director of \u201cCabiria\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"