(Finance) – “SHTTL“, signed by the Argentine director Ady Walter, is the winning film of the “FS Audience Award”assigned this afternoon to the Rome Film Festival. The film was the most voted by the spectators among 16 films competing in the “Progressive Cinema – Visions for the world of tomorrow” competition.
The FS Groupled bymanaging director Luigi Ferrarisagain this year it was official sponsor of the Rome Film Fest and put up for grabsfor the audience in the hall, 20 Trenitalia Gift Cards with a value of 50 euros each. The actor and director Valerio Mastandrea and Luca Torchia, Chief Communication Officer of the FS Group presented the award to the film “SHTTL” during the official award ceremony at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone.
“We are very happy to have contributed to give voice to the public who chose SHTTL, directed by Ady Walter, as the winner of the FS Audience Award – he said. Luca Torchia, Chief Communication Officer of the FS Group – The FS Group, in addition to accompanying Italians every day to discover cities and villages and connect territories with each other, brings people closer to the world of art and culture, in all its forms and manifestations. The support of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane at the Rome Film Fest is a further demonstration of this mission and the commitment of the whole Group to ensure, together with the mobility of people and goods, also that of their ideas, culture and of the civil and social values of the country “
“SHTTL” (the shtetl, in Yiddish, was the typical Jewish village spread in Eastern Europe until the Second World War) was chosen from a selection of films made in 18 different countries and with different characteristics: from thrillers to crime, from road movie to dystopias, passing through comedies, fiction, history, biographies, black and white and colors. “SHTTL” (109 ‘), was shot between France and Ukraine and is set in 1941. The Argentine director Ady Walter uses the sequence shot and black and white (even if the space-time continuity is broken by color flashbacks) as tools to lower the viewer into the reality of a Jewish world, between philological reconstruction and allusion to the present. Speaking Yiddish is an international cast, including Saul Rubinek (“The Unforgiven”), who is acting in this language for the first time. The village was completely rebuilt 60 kilometers from Kiev.