| AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS |
The Italian Film Festival USA believes that the audience's judgment of films is very important. Thus, we provide our spectators with a ballot before each film where they rate the feature films from 1 to 5 stars (5 being the highest). After the film screening, the ballots are collected and an average rating is calculated. At the conclusion of the festival, the film with the highest score is announced as winner of the Best Feature Film Award.
The spectators select the best short film presented in the Short Film Program. |
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| FEATURE FILM WINNERS: |
| 2024 |
Grazie ragazzi (Thank You Guys) by Riccardo Milanii |
| 2023: |
Aspromonte, la terra degli ultimi (Aspromonte, Land of the Forgotten) by Mimmo Calopresti |
| 2022: |
Il bambino nascosto (The Hidden Child) by Roberto Andò, Spring Edition; L'ombra del giorno (Shadow of the Day) by Giuseppe Piccioni, Autumn Edition |
| 2021: |
10 giorni con Babbo Natale (When Mom Is Away... With the Family) by Alessandro Genovesi, Autumn Edition; Va' Sentiero: Alla scoperta del Sentiero Italia (Va' Sentiero: Discovering the Grand Italian Trail) by Andrea Buonopane, Winter Edition |
| 2020: |
La dea Fortuna (The Goddess of Fortune) di Ferzan Ozpetek, Autumn Edition; L'uomo che comprò la luna (The Man Who Bought the Moon) di Paolo Zucca, Spring Edition |
| 2019: |
Quanto basta (As Needed) by Francesco Falaschi |
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| 2018: |
Tutto quello che vuoi (Friends by Chance) by Francesco Bruni |
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| 2017: |
Un paese quasi perfetto (An Almost Perfect Town) by Massimo Gaudioso |
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| 2016: |
Noi e la Giulia (The Legendary Giulia) by Edoardo Leo |
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| 2015: |
Il capitale umano (Human Capital) by Paolo Virzì |
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| 2014: |
La migliore offerta (The Best Offer) by Giuseppe Tornatore |
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| 2013: |
Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese |
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| 2012: |
Benvenuti al sud (Welcome to the South) by Luca Miniero |
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| 2011: |
18 anni dopo (18 Years Later) by Edoardo Leo |
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| 2010: |
Si può fare (We Can Do That) by Giulio Manfredonia |
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| 2009: |
La giusta distanza (The Right Distance) by Carlo Mazzacurati |
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| 2008: |
Rosso come il cielo (Red Like The Sky) by Cristiano Bortone |
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| 2007: |
Alla luce del sole (Come Into The Light) by Roberto Faenza |
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| 2006: |
I cento passi (The Hundred Steps) by Marco Tullio Giordana |
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| 2005: |
La meglio gioventù (The Best of Youth) by Marco Tullio Giordana |
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| SHORT FILM WINNERS: |
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| 2024: |
Il mare che muove le cose (The Sea That Moves Things) by Lorenzo Marinelli |
| 2023: |
Briciole (Crumbs) by Rebecca Marie Margot |
| 2022: |
Una nuova prospettiva (A New Perspective) by Emanuela Ponzano, Spring Edition |
| 2021: |
Come a Micono by Alessandro Porzio, Autumn Edition;Verdiana by Elena Beatrice and Daniele Lince, Winter Edition |
| 2020: |
Il primo giorno di Matilde (Matilde's FIrst Day) by Rosario Capozzolo, Autumn Edition; Krenk by Tommaso Santi, Shorts at Home |
| 2019: |
Il mondiale in piazza (The World Cup in a Square) by Vito Palmieri |
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| 2018: |
Il tratto (The Line) by Alessandro Stevanon |
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| 2017: |
Bellissima (Beautiful) by Alessandro Capitani |
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TWENTIETH EDITION 
