Award ceremony

The recording of the Award ceremony is available on Youtube.

The award ceremony of the second edition of the Urban Visions film festival took place online, in the same way as the first edition. LOOP Barcelona participated in the ceremony with a recorded video message.
The ceremony was also attended by some of the jury members. For this second edition juries were coordinated by Luisa Bravo (City Space Architecture) and included artists, film-makers and acclaimed scholars and urban experts.

For the category “A-Place / Migrants, refugees and displaced communities”, City Space Architecture invited Taher Abdel-Ghani, film-maker and urban researcher, Egypt to join the jury.

For the category “A-Place / Resilient communities”, City Space Architecture invited the following experts to join the jury:
-    Jacek Ludwig Scarso, Reader, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
-    Gloria Aura Bortolini, journalist and film-maker, Italy
-    Nicholas Loder, Architect and Chair of New South Wales Branch Committee of the Australasian Housing Institute, Australia
-    Angel Martin, Architect, La Salle Barcelona, Spain (from the A-Place network)
-    Vija Viese, Researcher and designer, ID-up Urbanisme Paysage, France

For the competition “A-Place / Migrants, refugees and displaced communities” City Space Architecture received 26 submissions and shortlisted 12 films to be included in the final selection and to be screened on the online platform with free streamings during the days of the festival.

The jury assigned the following awards:

First prize: “Bataclan” by Emanuele Aldrovandi.

Motivation of the jury: A surreal interpretation of the contemporary Parisian urban capitalism with captivating performances and excellent directing.

Honorable mention: “The Flying Donkey” by Marco Piantoni.

Motivation of the jury: The film presents a multi-layered urban complex of Mauritania at a quite critical time. It takes the audience from the very past to an uncertain future.

For the competition “A-Place / Resilient Communities” City Space Architecture received 29 entries and shortlisted 12 films to be included in the final selection and to be screened on the online platform with free streaming during the days of the festival.

The jury assigned the following awards:

First prize: “What makes us weaker, makes us closer” by Nicola Zambelli

Motivation of the jury: A captivating visual representation of the heart of the community that provides a glimpse of the ideal city that we long for—where neighbours care for one another, help each other out, and value the community above personal grievances. In the context of an unprecedented pandemic, we mustn’t underestimate the importance of engaging in such essential bottom-up initiatives and raising awareness of the social, spatial, cultural, and economic topics they address.

Honorable mention: “River Town” by Zhandong MA

Motivation of the jury: The beauty and sensitivity of the visual communication of the film is especially valued. With practically no dialogue lest the attentive look at the landscape and the urban and social environment, it is possible to move and transmit the harsh reality portrayed.

Honorable mention: “The Largest Group Portrait in the World” by Marco Ceraglia.

Motivation of the jury: The film (and the initiative) tackles the pressing issue of shrinking cities in a proactive, creative, and multidisciplinary way, by using art and photography as tools of shining the light on the individuals and their communal identity in the face of the dehumanising census statistics. The story recounts an amazingly human experience, by building up the tension to that one important moment—the click—that will live on in history.

A few days after the end of the second edition of the Festival, City Space Architecture announced the winners of the Audience awards, which were decided by an online votation made available on the streaming platform.
For the category “A-Place / Migrants, refugees and displaced communities”, the award went to:

“I can’t stay here anymore” by Daniele Ricci and Alessio Morello

For the categroy “A-Place / Resilient Communities”, the award went to:

“What makes us weaker, makes us closer” by Nicola Zambelli.