The audience of the 39th Bergamo Film Meeting awarded May 1 the CGIL Prize (€2000) of the Close Up documentary competition to Lobster Soup by Pepe Andreu and Rafa Molés (Spain, Iceland, Lithuania 2020).
In the film, every morning Krilli prepares the lobster soup from Bryggjan Café, a tiny place in Iceland’s most anodyne village. But now the mountain, the tourists and the lava fields seem to be pushing the whole village into the sea.
fibeThe Prize of the CGIL jury, decided on by the union delegates of CGIL Bergamo (€1,000 ), went to Alt det jeg er/All that I am by Tone Grøttjord-Glenne (Norway 2020).
In the film, Emilie was sexually abused by her stepfather from the age of six until she was twelve, when he was finally convicted and imprisoned. After five years in the foster system, eighteen-year-old Emilie returns to her family home to rebuild a fractured relationship with her mother and younger half-siblings.
A special mention was given to Piece Of The Earth by Maka Gogaladze (Georgia 2019).
Sixteen documentaries were selected for Bergamo’s competitive Close Up section. The festival ran April 24 to May 2.
