The 14th edition of i Castelli Animati ended on November 29, 2009 with the announcement of its awards.

Grand Prize
LIFE WITHOUT GABRIELLA FERRI, Priit and Olga Parn, Estonia
A complex, sensual and heart-wrenching film, full of humanity and hope, which conveys poetically the power of love and the ability to be born again to a new life.

Special Jury Prize
WALLACE & GROMIT: A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH, Nick Park, United Kingdom
Because it’s always a pleasure!

Best First Film
ALMA, Rodrigo Blaas, Spain
For the high quality of production. A touching film, without imperfections, a quality even more appreciated in a first work.

Best European Film
LES ESCARGOT DE JOSEPH, Sophie Roze, France
A beautiful film which teaches children that growing up also means opening ourselves to others.

Best Italian Film
IL RE DELL’ISOLA, Raimondo Della Calce
A touching story with a strong message about what children expect from their parents. One of the best films for children at the Festival.

Best non-narrative Film
VIDEOGIOCO, Donato Sansone, Italy
For the masterful use of a unique technique.

Special Mentions
INK, Justine Wallace, Australia
For the courage to tell an intimate story. Graffiti becomes animation, with a wonderful sound track.

LEONARDO, Jim Capobianco, USA
For the way in which humour is used to attract children to art and culture.

BIRTH, Signe Baumane, USA/France
For the courage to tell, without prejudice, the tormented story of a young woman facing maternity.

Audience Prize
IL RE DELL’ISOLA, Raimondo Della Calce, Italy
Fabrizio Bellocchio Prize For Social Content
PIERCING 1, Liu Jian, China
For the desire and courage in producing, as an independent author, a film about emargination, discrimination, corruption and violence, typical of capitalist, consumer societies which, too often, forget their own history and culture. A harsh way of life where there is no space for the consideration and integration of those less fortunate.

Fabrizio Bellocchio Special Prize
RECORDARE, Leonardo Carrano and Alessandro Pierattini, Italy
For the high quality of the work, using unusual images set to the music of Mozart: the emotion of the final generous gesture of a man condemned to death – the donation of his body to medical science.

Italian Schools Of Animation Competition
Grand Prize
SBAM, Enrica Casentini, Filippo Foglietti, Lorenzo Latrofa, Antonella Principe, Fabio Santomauro, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Animazione

Special Jury Prize
LA RELIQUIA RIVOLTOSA, Giovanna Lo Palco, Pamela Poltronieri, Giulia Rivolta,
Francesco Tagliavia, Stefano Tambellini, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Animazione
For daring to choose a traditional subject, treating it in a humorous way using animation effectively in an attractive mix of graphics, words and sound.

Special Mention
I DUE RE E I DUE LABIRINTI, Mike Bacchin, Federico Gaggero, Elisa Groli, Sebastiano Le Noel, elisa Pelizzoni, Valentina Picili, Istituto Europeo di Design di Milano
A graphic re-visitation of the oriental imaginary world between tradition and contemporaneousness.

Fabrizio Bellocchio Prize
I DUE RE E I DUE LABIRINTI
An elegant professional work which shows the high level of the young animators, a reality rather than a promise of the Italian panorama.

I Castelli Animati - Repubblica XL Web Competition
Grand Prize
AGASOGO TELIVEREK NEW GENERATION, Andrea Falbo
For the rich maturity of the graphics, which promotes the work to the level of a real artistic, creative and innovative film.

Audience Prize
AGASOGO TELIVEREK NEW GENERATION, Andrea Falbo

Musicanimata Competition
Grand Prize
LADY, Marco Pavone
Joint winner with
PORPORA, Tommaso Cerasuolo

Special Mention
SKATE, Sonia Cucculelli

Virus Prize
Assigned by the satirical column in l’Unità, national daily newspaper
THE LADY AND THE REAPER, Javier Recio Gracia, Spain
For the irreverent way in which a politically and ethically controversial question is addressed: the right to live or die.