Tekfestival International documentary competition award.

The winners are (ex aequo):

Dr. Zhang by Ruxiang Huang (China)
Promised lands by Fred Florey (Swizterland)
The prize, 1500 is offered by UCCA -  Unione Circoli del Cinema dell'Arci - will be divided between the winners.

Arci/Ucca is a network made from more than two hundreds cinema clubs whose activities range from the organization of reviews and projections to the diffusion of films hard tofind, from the organization of image education courses in the schools to the production of audiovisuals, from the arrangement of meetings with authors to publishing.

The international jury: Sam Green (director - USA); Samir Abdallah (director - France); Monica Maurer (director and festival organizer - Germany); Greta Barbolini (UCCA president - Italy).

The award motivation:
Dr Zhang by Ruxiang Huang

The director tells a moving story with great empathy.
Its protagonist is an extraordinary character - a character with real humanity.
The director's modest experience is more than made up for by her sensitive approach and her striking directorial vision.
Its worth noting that this film is also a powerful critique of bureaucracy.

Promised lands by Fred Florey

The director used a traditional filmmaking approach, yet was able to create a cinematographically striking portrait of the institutional racism of the Israeli State. With a deep and sofisticated touch, the movie describes the constant marginalization of Terabani Beduin tribe. Their condition is a metaphor of exclusion and of the effort to defend one's identity.

Tekfestival national competition award.

The winners are:

The first prize "Antonello Branca" is offered by ACAB (€ 1.000) and AAMOD (15 minutes of archive materials) to

SALOON AL FIDAH
Marco Pasquini, 2006, Italia, 38, Beta SP

The second prize is offered by AAMOD (15 minutes of archive materials) to

MERCANCIA
Andrea Zambelli, 2006, Italia, 20, Dv

The national jury Valeria Adilardi, Maria Martinelli, Antonio Medici has motivated:

This year we decided to award documentaries that we considered strong
projects. Projects that need to be supported in order to be continued.
In these documentaries we appreciated their core idea, the human and political
work behind them, the honest, frank and respectful relationship between the
filmmakers and the characters. Marco's vision and his aesthetic intensity,
Andrea's ability to merge interviews and actions with an almost "trasparent"
camera, their flowing story-telling, gave us courage and emotions.