UNINT Student Jury Awards

Among the partners of #HeroesIFF21 were the students of the translation and adaptation course at the UNINT University of Rome, who took care of the Italian subtitles of all the feature films presented.

The UNINT boys and girls also formed a student jury that then awarded the UNINT prize to the best international short film.

The jury, after the three days of screenings, chose to award two honorable mentions, for the Russian Silent Space and the Italian Intolerance. These are the motivations of the young student jury:

"Silent Space in our opinion the best among the animated shorts, with a compelling soundtrack and consistent with the action. Excellent animations and we appreciated the happy ending."

"In Intolerance we praise both the choice of black and white, the sound design, and the theme developed. Chapeau to the actors who went out of their way to learn LIS, certainly providing a diverse and engaging experience on every level."

The UNINT winner, on the other hand, is "Teo", which has already been awarded the Best Short Film Award by the international jury.

"Teo confronts us with a dystopian reality that is all too close and verisimilar. With limited use of both actors and acting space, it still manages to fully engage the viewer, thanks to its great empathic charge that leads one to sympathize or not with the characters.

The CGI is well contextualized and of high quality and helps to immerse us in a believable way in a futuristic world.Teo, also thanks to the voice actor, seems real, a real flesh-and-blood character. This short film could very well be the incipit of a sci-fi-dystopian project, with a broader and more developed plot and a deepening of the themes discussed, which are already very well presented."