Personalities from the world of the cinema and culture are invited by the Festival Directors to be members of the Official Juries for the competitive sections (some of the well-known names that have been on the jury include Omar Sharif, Wole Soyinka, Gabriele Salvatores, Silvio Soldini, Sergio Rubini, Danny Glover and Tahar Ben Jelloun). The total prize money of the Festival is euro 41,000.
The public is also invited to vote for the feature films in the "Windows on the World" Competition, using the cards distributed in the foyers of the cinemas. The film receiving the greatest number of votes is awarded the "Public's Prize".

OFFICIAL PRIZES

eni Prize for the Best Feature Film "Windows on te World" Competition

The Official Jury of the "Windows on the World" Feature Film Competition - Inge Feltrinelli - President, Isabella Ferrari and Ahmed Maher

awarded a Special Mention

For the courage with which she shows the harshness of the trafficking of women forced into prostitution through two female characters of great and unusual intensity
to:
La mosca en la ceniza, by Gabriela David

For having told us her painful personal story with a lean, modern and never rhetorical film language and for the extraordinary work done with the vvery young actress who plays her in the film

The eni prize for the Best Feature Film goes to :
Une vie toute neuve, by Ounie Lecomte

The Prize was awarded by : Dr Massimo MONDAZZI - Director of Planning of the exploration and production division, eni
15.000 Euro

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Credito Artigiano Prize for the Best African feature film

The Official Jury of the Competition for the Best African Film is made up of Maurizio Porro - President, Cristina Battocletti and Barbara Sorrentini

Already known to the public for Satin rouge, Tunisian director Raja Amari imposes in a style which is nurtured on realism but does not completely overlook surreal aspects and overtones of magic in opposing different logics and hemispheres. The story of the three women who live secluded from the world, of which we glimpse the luxurious appeal in the old mansion but also the nightmares and injustices, is a journey through a generation and an unhappy awareness that is not afraid of attaining madness and is best expressed in a story where the women, always united, are in control of their fate by opening a curious eye, that of the cinema, on reality.

The Prize goes to :
Dowaha, by Raja Amari

The prize was awarded by Mr. Onorino Toppio - Representative of the Commercial Department of the Credito Artigiano
7.500 Euro

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Lombardy Regional Council Prize for the Best Documentary Windows on the World Competition

The members of the Official Jury of the "Windows on the World" Documentary Competition are Elisa Marincola - President, Nicolas Feodoroff and Federica Masin

The jury found it very hard to choose, due to the excellent level of all the films in the competition.
After a lengthy and arduous reflection, it awarded ex aequo the prize to two films written in very different ways but which have in common an interpretation on several levels and the ambition to relate history through the fates of individuals. Both directors use the present: in one case, observation becomes the witness of the future; in the other, conditions of a possible future are the recovery and transmission of a painful past told with gravity and lightness at one and the same time.

The Lombardy Regional Council prize goes ex aequo to:
Zahra, by Mohammad Bakri
and
Un conte de faits, by Hichem Ben Ammar

The prize was awarded by Dr. Roberto RONZA - Delegate of the President for international relations
6.000 Euro

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eni Prize for the Best Short Film

The members of the Official Jury of the Competition for the Best African Short Film are Elisa Marincola - President, Nicolas Feodoroff and Federica Masin.

Acknowledging the great diversity of the short films in the competition, which interrogate the multiplicity of the cinema, the jury makes a mention of a first film by a young Algerian filmmaker, Retour, vers un point d'équilibre, which shows a promising sensibility for the cinema.

For the ability to merge into film language the poetic, political and historical story, breaking down the barrier between documentary and fiction, the jury awards a Special Mention to:
Atlantiques, by Mati Diop

For the choice of using a genre like the musical, unusual in sub-Saharan cinema, without foregoing the social and individual aspects of the contemporary reality of Senegal,
the eni Prize for the Best African Short Film goes to :
Un transport en commun, by Dyana Gaye

The Prize was awarded by : Dr Massimo MONDAZZI - Director of Planning of the exploration and production division of eni
7.500 Euro

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PREMI SPECIALI

"Città di Milano" Prize awarded by the Milan City Council to the feature film receiving the greatest number of votes from the public

The 2010 Public's Prize goes to :
Une vie toute neuve, by Ounie Lecomte
5.000 euro

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CEM-Mondialità Prize for the Best Short Film
The prize is awarded by a Jury of Italian and foreign pupils from Milan high schools: Omar Esmail, Luam Flezghi, Nouha Jabiri, Noor Khalid, Youssef Lakouacha, Gjyle Metaliaj, Simona Migliavacca, Marica Nicolai, Sara Sasso, Giulia Viscione and Marta Zacchi. The Prize consists of the acquisition of the home video distribution rights in Italy.

Lino Ferracin awarded the prize

The CEM-Mondialità Prize goes to:
Négropolitain, by Gary Pierre-Victor


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SIGNIS Prize (OCIC and UNDA)
The prize is awarded by The World Catholic Association for Communication.

The jury - Giordano Petri, Agostino Bergo and Stefano Gaiga - awarded the prize to:

For being a visceral tribute to a very young talent of surgical subject-matter, forced to operate in the open with the scalpel of a machete. An artist capable of identifying the loss of intrinsic meaning of the violent transmission of an infectious genetic rabble. Ghosts that the West today still cannot face up to are painted in blood-tinged hues pervaded by the aware amazement of a child who is a victim and a redemption of life itself.

A Special Mention goes to Maibobo, by Yves Montand Niyongabo

A fairy-tale-like crystal fortress, where the topicality of the political debate is a necessary universal metaphor on the multiple images of power, which is coloured by madness, compromise and limits when its efficacy is self-referential and no longer for the development of a people, a society… the whole human family. The director shows appreciable and courageous awareness that behind the label of sovereignty there is merely a lone man, clad in weakness, insecurity and fragility. These characteristics, with the help of other individualities capable of being perfected, could become the strong points for a personal and collective redemption.

The SIGNIS Prize goes to : Moloch Tropical by Raoul Peck


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CINIT - CIEMME Prize
The prize consists of the acquisition of the home video distribution rights in Italy for a short film from Africa.
The members of the jury were Massimo Caminiti, Adriana Santolini and Massimo Nardin,

For this solid film, which courageously revives the tradition of musicals, harmonizing the songs with the narration and alternating with a light touch intimate moments with choral parts, and for the directing, which is fresh and rigorous at one and the same time, showing great sensitivity to the thousand colours of Africa, the jury unanimously awards the prize to:

Un transport en commun - Saint Louis Blues, by Dyana Gaye

The Prize was awarded by : Massimo Nardin


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ISMU Prize
The Fondazione Ismu (Iniziative e studi sulla Multietnicità) awards a Prize to the best short film at the Festival with educational value. The Prize consists of the acquisition of the home video distribution rights in Italy and is awarded by a jury of teachers.

The prize was awarded by : Gabry Lessana

The ISMU Prize goes to:
Des enfants dans les arbres, by Bania Medjbar


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CUMSE Prize
The prize consists of the acquisition of the home video distribution rights in Italy for a short film or documentary from Africa and is awarded by a jury of representatives of the foreign communities of Milan and CUMSE volunteers.

The Prize was awarded by : Dr. Roberto Stigliano, President of CUMSE

The CUMSE Prize goes to: Maibobo, by Yves Montand Niyongabo

Inge De Leeuw and Pia Sawhney collected the prize.


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Razzismo Brutta Storia (Racism is a nasty story) Prize
Feltrinelli awards a special prize to the best film in the section on the topics of racism an integration.

Simonetta Agnello Hornby and Carlo Feltrinelli awarded the prize.

The Prize goes to :
La trappola, by Lemnaouer Ahmine