Romantic films prevail at Giffoni kids film fest

(ANSA) - Giffoni Valle Piana, July 27 - A constellation of tormented, romantic, passionate, adventurous, sad and melancholic films won awards from a jury of 3,600 children at the lively 2015 edition of the Giffoni Film Festival under the theme Carpe Diem (seize the day).
    Spanish screen idol and model Rocío Muoz Morales was the face of the festival supported on stage by actors Riccardo Rossi and Sergio Assise.
    The following were the official award winners announced Sunday: Feature films+6: Best film was the Italian "Grotto" directed by Micol Pallucca, 2nd place was "The Amazing Wiplala" by Dutch director Tim Ollehoek.
    Winner of the +10 section was the Belgian "Labyrinthus" by Douglas Boswell, 2nd place was the Danish "The Shamer's Daughter" by Kenneth Kains.
    In the +13 section the German film "Sanctuary" by Marc Brummond, 2nd place "Beatles" by Norwegian Peter Flinth; The +16 winner was the American "All the Wilderness" by Michael Johnson, 2nd "Standing Tall" by the French Emmanuelle Bercot.
    The +18 winner was "Coin Locker Girl" by Han Jun-Hee followed by "Gabriel" by American director Lou Howe. The Gex Doc section winner was the Italian "Forever stars" by Mimmo Verdesca, 2nd the Canadian "All the time in the world" by Suzanne Crocker. In the short film section reserved for children over 3the winner was the French "Captain Fish" by John Banana, the Czech "The wish fish" by Karel Janak won the +6 section followed in 2nd place by the German "The present" by Jacob Frey.
    The +10 section was won by the American "The red hunter" by Alvaro Ron, 2nd was the Italian "Two left feet" by Isabella Salvetti.
    Among special prizes in the +3 section the Italian "The Mods" by Alessandro Portincasa and Antonio Padovan won the "Giotto super Be' Be'", in the +13 the Korean "Thread of lies" by Lee Han took the prize by the young Cinecircoli clubs.
    In the +16 section the French "Young Tiger" by Cyprien Vial won the Don Bosco Educational Award while the English "The falling" by Carol Morley won the British Film Institute Certificate, and in the +18 section the French "Beach flags" and "Fatima" won the Amnesty International Award.
    In the Gex Doc section, the Canadian "All the time in the world" won the aluminium Grifone and the Cial Prize for the environment.
    The artistic Directors of the Giffoni Experience conferred the Bambino Gesù children's hospital prize on the French-Belgian Birds of Passage by Olivier Ringer in competition in the Elements +10 section. The prize was assigned to the film for "having recounted with sensitivity, truth and delicacy the world of children, their dreams and their aspirations; for having re-lit in the eyes of adults the ancient and vibrant flame of infantile effervescence".
    Massimiliano Raponi, the health director of the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome, attended the Giffoni prize-giving ceremony.