RED LINE 2024
The winners of the 2024 edition of RED LINE International Film Festival are:
The award for Best Feature Film goes to SUPPRESSED
JURY’S MOTIVATION. A psychological puzzle that, piece by piece, reveals a complex picture of suppressed emotions. Beautifully structured, with a superb cast, this is a story of love in all its aspects: joy, despair, generosity, jealousy, possession. At the centre, a man who cannot bear to live with the complications of a serious accident. Circled around by doctors and a trinity of women – his wife, his lover, his mother – he becomes a prison in his own body.
Life, we see, is complicated, but so is the business of dying. He becomes, literally, an anatomy of love, with all its demands and contradiction. The question is, will he be allowed the gift on an ending?
The award for Best Documentary goes to A GOLDEN LIFE
JURY’S MOTIVATION. A scene from Dante’s Hell. Thousands of men and young boys descending into the dark bowels of the world in search for gold. Filmed over four months in Burkina Faso by Boubacar Sangaré, we are immediately immersed in this parallel society, a life of nothing but hope. Home is a makeshift cabin or tent. Generators and drills never stop, belching toxic fumes. Landslides of mud waiting to bury those below. Day is night, night is day. And yet, the camera’s view is clean, honest, tender – a marvel, as if seen through the innocent eyes of a child. It’s the normality that strikes us. The director’s technical ability to adapt is astonishing, reminding us of Rossellini’s great talent for capturing the unexpected.
The award for Best Short Movie goes to OUR MALES AND FEMALES
JURY’S MOTIVATION. A body lies on a table, ready to be washed before burial. A mother and a father in grief, complicated by the identity of their child. Him? Her? The confusion comes with anger, the wounds of prejudice. Filmed in Jordan, this is an invitation for tolerance, to leave behind the noisy polemic about gender identity and instead to offer dignity to every human being. Every frame is a beautiful composition of emotions. Every silence speaks volumes. This is eleven minutes and four seconds of unforgettable, perfect film-making.
