Official collateral award · Venice Film Festival
Edipo Re Inclusion and Sustainability Award
A recognition for cinema that chooses an inclusive and sustainable gaze, both human and environmental, and for the power of stories that deserve to reach the screens.
An award for cinema that includes
Four pillars that describe the vision, the method and the impact of the Edipo Re Award.
The citation
The Award was created to support the distribution in Italian cinemas of works of high artistic and cultural value, able to spread an inclusive and sustainable gaze, both human and environmental.
The selection
The award goes to a film selected from 12 titles chosen by the artistic direction, from 4 sections in competition at the Venice Film Festival: International Competition, Orizzonti, Settimana Internazionale della Critica and Giornate degli Autori.
The juries
The Award is granted by a jury of 3 intellectuals and artists selected for each edition. Since 2023 the official jury has been joined by the youth jury.
The architecture
The winning film is premiered in 4 Italian cities (Milan, Rome, Siena, Palermo, Naples) with the support of MYMOVIES, in collaboration with leading cultural institutions.
The editions
Juries and award-winning films, edition after edition, from 2018 to today.
2026 Edition
2026 Jury
Lorenzo Maragoni
Comedian
Monir Ghassem
Comedian
Marco Ripoldi
ComedianYouth Jury: Ca' Foscari 2026
Caterina Castagna, Davide Forcolin, Donatella Ottoboni, Gaia Diurisi, Michele Franchetto, Rebecca Anna Malagoli, Sofia Santoro
2025 Edition
2025 Jury
Eleonora Marangoni
Writer
Valerio Mieli
Director
Motta
SingerYouth Jury: Ca' Foscari 2025
Diletta Coluccia, Tiziana Laurelli, Livia Mele, Elisa Messina, Andrea Opicini, Leonardo Pilat, Giulia Rosada, Linda Soligo, Alessandro Tommasi
La voix de Hind Rajab
Beyond being a beautiful film, it is a work that at this moment goes beyond any single off-the-cuff judgement. We left the screening as if leaving a collective funeral, and it was the same for everyone in the room. The film confronted us with our own powerlessness, and it did so with unsettling simplicity and through original, compelling means of expression.
Silent friend
The film reworks and updates everything we think we know about the relationship between humankind and nature. It is astonishing, for what it looks at and for the way it looks at it. A secular liturgy in which science and wisdom, heart and knowledge merge in the name of something higher: the hope for a new communication between beings, the search for a new meaning of humankind's presence on this earth.
Straight circle
A story that manages to open a space for critical reflection on a system of violence and oppression that traps the individual in predetermined roles. Only through the experience of the other are we shown a path to liberation, despite the weight and the historical responsibility of each side. The film stands out for a staging that makes full use of the potential of cinematic language and opens up to many interpretations.
2024 Edition
2024 Jury
Francesca d'Aloja
Writer
Federica Di Giacomo
Director
Esmeralda Calabria
Film editorYouth Jury: Ca' Foscari 2024
Davide Lorenzo Bignotti, Francesca Cerchiari, Chiara Guarino, Anita Incastori, Marta Pancino, Stefano Patrone, Emma Sist
El Jockey
A film that addresses the theme of identity and its many facets through an original and deeply symbolic imagery and a search for innovative language. Its surreal and at times grotesque register illuminates themes such as mutation, transformation and rebirth, embodied by a one-of-a-kind protagonist.
Sugar Island
A film halfway between fiction and documentary, a crossroads of social, political, gender and historical concerns, with universal power.
2023 Edition
2023 Jury
Carlotta Vagnoli
Writer
Caterina Guzzanti
Actress
Alberto Malanchino
ActorYouth Jury: Ca' Foscari 2023
Vittoria Caporali, Sofia Coppola, Beatrice Grasso, Isabel Musoni, Matilda Stefanini, Matteo Tonelli , Mattia Giusto Zanon
Io Capitano
Garrone turns migration into a story of people and not of numbers, allowing us to come into direct contact with the language, the life and the culture of its protagonists, without ever romanticising them. The role of a captain is to leave no one behind.
Evil Does Not Exist
For the delicacy with which it addresses the relationship between humans and nature, and for the elegance in portraying the everyday life of a community whose story becomes universal.
2022 Edition
2022 Jury
Elena Stancanelli
Writer
Filippo Timi
Actor
Chiara Civello
Singer-songwriter
Saint Omer
Writing of spare perfection tells, with the power of a Greek tragedy, of the unbreakable thread that binds a mother to a daughter.
2021 Edition
2021 Jury
Paolo Giordano
Writer
Lucia Mascino
Actress
Giovanni Truppi
Singer-songwriter
Vera sogna il mare
Krasniqi gives shape to painful personal material without giving up the vitality of storytelling, building the moving portrait of a woman.
The Stranger / Al Garib
It manages to portray a double marginality, that of a people and that of an individual, with details of elegance and clarity that stay in the memory.
2020 Edition
2020 Jury
Annaelena Benini
Literary critic
Esther Elisha
Actress
Ra di Martino
Visual artist
The Man Who Sold His Skin
For the completeness of the storytelling and for its irony, for the ability to show the world from different planes and perspectives. War, flight, the cynicism art can have in recounting tragedies, and the freedom to choose one's own destiny.
2019 Edition
2019 Jury
Giuliano Battiston
Reporter
Giuseppe Piccioni
Director
Sandra Piccolo
Actress
Corpus Christi
For the surprising expressive power and the ability to hold together tragic tones and comedy, with a character who embodies the coexistence of guilt and redemption, faith and pretence.
2018 Edition
2018 Jury
Costanza Quatriglio
Director
Emanuele Trevi
Writer
Alex Majoli
Photojournalist, former Magnum director
Still Recording
For the expressive power and the ability to hold together tragedy and life, in a direct and necessary testimony.
