2015
RIO DE JANEIRO
INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL

OFFICIAL SELECTION

2015
CINEMED
FESTIVAL CINEMA
MEDITERRANÉEN
MONTPELLIER

OPENING NIGHT

2015
FESTIVAL DU FILM
ITALIEN VILLERUPT

MENTION SPÉCIALE
DU JURY

2016
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
ROTTERDAM

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72a MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE D'ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA DI VENEZIA

COPPA VOLPI

Per Amor Vostro (Anna)

A film of great contrasts, made up of blinding light, of solar skies but also shadows. Between these two worlds, torn between opposing forces, Anna starts a real revolution in her life.

Regia Directed by Giuseppe M. Gaudino /feature film/prod. Gaundri, Buena Onda, Eskimo, Figli del Bronx, Bea Product. Co., Minerva Pic. Group, with MiBAC, Rai Cinema, Les Films des Tournelles, CNC ( Centre National du Cinéma)/ 1h 49m/ Dig.2K/2015/ Italy, France Discover...

SPECIAL
JURY AWARD

18° RASSEGNA DEL DOCUMENTARIO
LIBERO BIZZARRI PRIZE

"CITTA' DI IMOLA" AWARD

BEST ITALIAN FILM

59° TRENTO FILM FESTIVAL

67a BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

OFFICIAL SELECTION

'ORIZZONTI' COMPETITION

By these straits to die (Cartography of a passion)

The perseverance, excess and suffering in the life and works of the explorer, filmmaker and photographer Alberto Maria De Agostini (1883-1960) arbitrarily reinvented.

Regia Isabella Sandri & Giuseppe M. Gaudino / creative documentary / prod. Gaundri in collaboration with Ministry of Culture, Piedmont Doc Film Fund/ 93 min. / HD, DCP / Italy / year of prod. 2007-2010 /year of distribution 2011 / TV acquisition RAI Radiotelevisione italiana Discover...

Stories of Arms and Little Heroes

A documentary film shot in Afghanistan on the life of a boy who has been orphaned by 'intelligent bombs' who makes something of his life thanks to writing and books, thanks to culture: words against bombs.

Regia Isabella Sandri & Giuseppe M. Gaudino / creative documentary / prod. Gaundri in collaboration with RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana / Year: 2003-2008 / 98 min / DV Cam / TV acquisition RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Discover...

CIPPUTI AWARD

BEST FILM ON LABOUR RIGHTS

22° TURIN FILM FESTIVAL

JURY SPECIAL
AWARD

22° TURIN FILM FESTIVAL

Maquilas

‘Maquilas’ on the border factories in the north of Mexico, in Ciudad Juarez, where hundreds of women have been found hacked to pieces, for the most part workers in the ‘maquilas’. It is a lengthy journey into the inferno

Regia Isabella Sandri & Giuseppe M. Gaudino / creative documentary / prod. Fandango in collaboration with Legambiente, RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rome and Genoa Metropolitan Areas / 112 min. / DV Cam, Beta SP / 2004 / Italy Discover...

SPECIAL JURY AWARD

21° TURIN FILM FESTIVAL

The Sand Raft

“The struggle of the Tuareg people of Mali to hold onto their nomadic traditions is the subject of Isabella Sandri’s poignant docu ‘The Sand Raft’." ('Variety')
Special Jury Prize at the 21° Turin Film Festival

Regia Isabella Sandri / creative documentary / prod. Gaundri srl /66 min. / DV Cam, Beta SP / Year 2003 / Italy / TV acquisition RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana Discover...

60th VENICE BIENNALE

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Materiali a confronto. Albania-Italia 1994-2002

A 110 min. creative documentary chosen for the 60th Venice Biennale on the past and present of a corner of the world, a work dealing with images sunk between memory and reality.

Regia Giuseppe M. Gaudino / creative documentary / prod. Gaundri / 108 min. / DV Cam / 2003 / Italy / TV acquisition RAI-RadioTelevisione Italiana Discover...

58° VENICE BIENNALE

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Luisa's Notebooks (from 'I Diari della Sacher')

The story of a housewife who, in order not to go mad, commits her pain to four notebooks. It is also the story of her slow but lucid and life-affirming liberation from a marriage that was suffocating her freedom.

Regia Isabella Sandri / creative documentary / prod. Sacher Film, in collaboration with Tele+ and RAI TRE / 27 min. / DV-Cam, Beta SP / 2001 / Italy Discover...