Dear Readers,

we are pleased to present a new initiative from MEDIA Salles: the creation of a jury of female exhibitors. It has been designed to provide a thoughtful consideration of the sensitivities and interests of female moviegoers, but also to provide an opportunity for discussion among women who manage or program cinemas.

We believe that when jurors get together to choose the best film - for themselves and for their audience - to justify their choices, to discuss and even disagree, at the same time they find a great opportunity to exchange experiences and expertise. That's why, since the first edition, we've wanted the jury to bring together people with diverse backgrounds and roles, and we believe we've hit the right path.

In this issue, we're also taking a trip to Berlin to share another insight from Cinema Vision 2030.

As always, we hope you enjoy the reading,

Elisabetta Brunella
Secretary General of MEDIA Salles

The Women Exhibitors' Choice - The Jury by MEDIA Salles

MEDIA Salles has just created a new jury that has the distinctive feature of being made up of women involved in the management and programming of movie theatres.

The Women Exhibitors' Choice - The Jury by MEDIA Salles will collaborate with important festivals in Italy and abroad, bringing a specific look that combines sensitivity to womens’ cinema and attention to the audience of theatres.

The jury will make its debut on the occasion of the Sguardi Altrove Film Festival (Milan, Italy) which, this year in its thirty-second edition, once again puts in the foreground the promotion and dissemination of female-directed cinema and the interest in cinematographies far from the usual distribution patterns.

The Jury

Cinema Beltrade, Milano - Monica Naldi, President

Cinema Astra, Como - Grazia Villa

Cinema Incontro, Besnate (VA) - Monica Piacentini and Cinzia Ciardiello
 

"Sguardi Altrove" International Women's Film Festival: the first Women Exhibitors' Choice award goes to "Sudan, remember us"

29 March 2025

The winning film, well beyond the conventional limits of simple documentation, succeeds in a surprising and virtuous synthesis, as sometimes the best cinema can do, of different artistic forms.

The staging of the struggles of an entire generation of young people through their songs, their murals, the interposition of their bodies, the intense dialogues, the creativity of their actions and the strength of their relationships, expresses great poetic and political energy.
The film ranges between different levels and moments with the harmonious rhythm of a poem, reaching its peak when it focuses on the young women protagonists of a struggle that is also feminine and feminist.

For all these reasons, together with the recognition of the value of denunciation of the work and the merit of spreading knowledge of an often forgotten reality, our jury has decided to award “Sudan, remember us”, by director Hind Meddeb.