The Ceremony Award will be held on Tuesday 5th December at 8.30 p.m. at the Auditorium in Piazza della Libertà, Bergamo, and the jury consisting of Luigi Musini (film producer), Lorenzo Rossi (researcher and editor of Cineforum magazine), Omar Pesenti (director and screenwriter), Giada Mazzoleni (film producer and teacher) and Giorgia Goi (producer and distributor), will be awarded the Ermanno Olmi Prize along with a special mention awarded to the most significant work concerning “The Human Being and Time”, a reflection on the relationship of the human being with time, a theme that Ermanno Olmi explored in various aspects throughout his film production. Olmi has dealt with the relationship of the individual with family history and collective history, the bond with the heritage of the places of birth and belonging; he has recounted the harmony with the rhythms of nature and the bewilderment that humanity and individuals experience when this is broken.
During the evening the four finalist works of the competition will be screened and at 10.00 p.m. a tribute will be paid to Ermanno Olmi with his short film Dialogo tra un venditore di almanacchi e un passeggiere (Italy, 1954), conserved and restored by CSC – Archivio Nazionale Cinema Impresa (Ivrea), courtesy of Edison, and the Bergamo premiere of the docufilm Il primo sguardo (2009) by Marco Manzoni.
Free admission. Info at info@premioolmi.it
Dialogo tra un venditore di almanacchi e un passeggiere by Ermanno Olmi (Italy 1954, 10′)
A brief exchange of words between an almanac seller and a passer-by, his potential customer, about the year to come. While wishing for a better year, or at least one as good as any of the past twenty, they both end up agreeing that they would not choose any of the past ones and that chance has treated everyone badly so far.
Il primo sguardo by Marco Manzoni (Italy 2009, 54’)
In this impassioned interview, Olmi talks about cinema and life and the human values that have animated his works. The conversation starts from the crisis of contemporary man, which for Olmi is not only economic and ecological, but a global crisis that also affects the field of values. His story then unfolds between significant life experiences and profound existential reflections, starting with some of his most appreciated films – L’albero degli zoccoli, Cantando dietro i paraventi, La leggenda del santo bevitore, Il mestiere delle armi, Centochiodi, Torneranno i prati. Ermanno Olmi, a great man of cinema, a master of humanism who speaks to contemporary man.
