Vita gazette – “Palm trees and power lines,” the story that unfolds from the encounter between a seventeen-year-old and a man twice her age, director Jamie Dack’s debut film, was awarded as best film at the 40th Torino Film Festival.

The jury made up of Nella Banfi, Fabio Ferzetti, Mike Kaplan, Fernando E.Juan Lima and Martina Parenti chose it.

Here are all the winners of the 40th Torino Film Festival

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION

Best film / Best film (€18,000) a/to:

PALM TREES AND POWER LINES di/by Jamie Dack (USA)

Special Jury Award (€7,000), a/to:

RODEO /by Lola Quivoron (France)

Best Actress / Best Actress, a/to:

JULIE LEDROU /for the film RODEO di/by Lola Quivoron (France)

Best Actor / Best Actor a/to:

JOJO BAPTEISE WHITING and/and LADAINIAN CRAZY THUNDER/

for the film WAR PONY by/by Riley Keough and/and Gina Gammell (USA)

Best Screenplay / Best Screenplay a/to:

PALM TREES AND POWER LINES di/by Jamie Dack (USA)

Special mention to:

NAGISA /by Takeshi Kogahara (Japan)

INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Best Film I WONDERFULL / Best Film IWONDERFULL (6,000 €) a/to:

RIOTSVILLE, USA by Sierra Pettengill (USA)

Special Jury Award / Special Jury Award a/to:

WHERE IS THIS STREET? OR WITH NO BEFORE AND AFTER by João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata (Portugal/France)

Mention to:

CORSINI INTERPRETS IN BLOMBERG Y MACIEL di/by Mariano Llinás (Argentina)

And

ELSEWHERE STARTS HERE AND IT’S HAPPENING di/by Darik Janik (Australia)

ITALIAN DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Best film / Best Film (€6,000) a/to:

BODY OF DAYS di/by Santabelva (Italy)

Special Jury Award / Special Jury Award a/to:

N’EN PARLONS PLUS by/by Cecile Khindria, Vittorio Moroni (Italy)

SPACE ITALY | ITALIAN SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Best Short Film / Best Film (€2,000) a/to:

SIRENS di/by Ilaria Di Carlo (Germany/Italy)

Special Jury Award / Special Jury Award a/to:

OLD TRICKS di/by Edoardo Pasquini, Viktor Ivanov (Italy/Bulgaria)

Special mention / mention to

RETREAT by/by Gianmarco Di Traglia (Italy)

CRAZIES | COMPETITION

Best Film / Best Film a/to:

HUESERA by Michelle Garza Cervera (Peru/Mexico)

Mention a/special mention a/to

Greta Santi for her performance in PANTAFA

CHANNEL AWARD

Best film / best short film Italian Short Film Competition

OLD TRICKS di/by Edoardo Pasquini and/and Viktor Ivanov ACHILLE VALDATA PRIZE – Jury of readers of “Torinosette”

Best film/ best film International Feature Film Competition

PAMFIR by Dmytro Sukholytkyy – GANDHI’S EYEWEAR AWARD

Awarded by the “Sereno Regis” Study Center (Turin) to the film that best interprets Gandhi’s vision of the world

a MANODOPERA – INTERDIT AUX CHIENS ET AUX ITALIENS by Alain Ughetto

INTERFEDI AWARD

Award for the respect of minorities and for secularism, awarded by the Interfedi Jury

DREAMS LIVE IN THE TREES by Marco Della Fonte

HOLDEN SCHOOL AWARD

Best screenplay /best screenplay | International Feature Film Competition

WAR PONY by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell.