Metamorphosis (Film) (first feature)
by Michele Fasano
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Salvatore Centoducati, Giancarlo D’Incognito, Francesco Filippi
Roberto Salahaddin Re David
- 24Frame Film Fest 2022: Concorso
- Sardinia Film Festival 2022: Special Mention of Jury
- Sottodiciotto Film Festival 2022: Out of competition
- Cartoons on the Bay 2023: Special Mention of The Jury – Best Director
- Animotion Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- Animaphix 2023: Out of competition
- Horcynus Festival 2023: Out of competition
- Immaginaria Film Festival 2023: Out of competition
- Matera International Film Festival 2023: Special Mention of The Jury – Best Animation
- Dea Open Air International Film Festival 2023: Best Creative Documentary
- Vilnius Allternative International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- Benelux International Film Festival 2023: Honorable Mention Award
- Budapest Movie 2023: Honorable Mention Award
- Istanbul Movie Awards 2023: Competition
- Tbilisi International Animation Festival 2023: Competition
- European Cinematography Award 2023: Competition
- Amsterdam Movie Fest 2023: Competition
- Kotka Human Rights Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- International Art Film Festival 2023: Competition
- Best International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- Docs Without Borders International Film Fest 2023: Mention of Merit
- New York Animation Film Awards 2023: Competition
- Chicago Filmmakers Awards 2023: Competition
- Los Angeles Animation Festival 2023: Honorable Mention
- San Jose Independent Film Festival 2023: Competition
- Montreal Independent Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- Tokyo International Cinema Awards 2023: Special Mention of Jury: Feature
- Beyond Border International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- Gully International Film Festival 2023: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best Animation Director, Best Male Director
- Indian Independent Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- Crown Wood International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- Blue Bird Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- Silver Wings International Film Festival 2023: Best Animated Feature Film
- South Sudan International Film Festival 2023: Best Feature Film, Best International Film, Best Animation Film Director
- C’era una volta… favole al cinema 2024: Out of competition
- Edinburgh Film Awards 2024: Best Animation
- Rotterdam Independent Film Festival 2024: Competition
- Hollywood Film & Animation Awards 2024: Golden Anima: Best Feature Film
- Detroit Independent Film Festival 2024: Competition
- International Animation Festival 2024: Best Animated Feature Film
- St. Louis Film Awards 2024: Competition
- Ashoka International Film Festival 2024: Best Animated Feature Film, Best Animation Director, Best Documentary Film, Best Foreign Film, Special Jury Award
- Better Earth International Film Festival 2024: Best Animated Feature Film
- Rajgir International Film Festival 2024: Best Feature Film, Best Animated Feature Film, Best Animation Director, Best Foreign Film
- Samskara International Film Festival 2024: Best Animation
- The Choise International Film Festival 2024: Best Animated Feature Film
- Asian Independent Film Festival 2024: Best Documentary, Best Animation Film
- Shri Narayan International Film Festival 2024: Best Animation, Best Documentary Film, Special Mention of Jury
- Indo Dubai International Film Festival 2024: Best Documentary
- Saath Jiyo Foundation International Film Festival 2024: Best Feature Film, Best Animation Film, Best Animation Director, Best Foreign Film, Best Special Jury Award, Best Film Of The Year 2024
- Nawada International Film Festival 2024: Competition
- The Buddha International Film Festival 2024: Competition
- Bettiah International Film Festival 2024: Competition
- Sleeping Owl Film Festival 2024: Competition
- Darbhanga International Film Festival 2024: Competition
- 9PM International Film Festival 2024: Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best Animation Film, Best Screenplay, Best Art Director, Best Sound Design, Best Main Producer, Best Executive Producer #1, Best Executive Producer #2
- Kolkata International Filmfare Awards 2024: Best Animated Feature Film, Best Documentary, Best International Feature Film
- Bettiah International Film Festival 2024: Best Animated Film
Inspired by Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s “The Conference of the Birds“, the film tells of a flock of birds traveling in the wake of Hoopoe, towards the Mountain of Kafh, the home of King Simourgh, from which they expect to receive answers to all their questions. Between dream and reality, the birds cross the 7 Valleys. Most of them get lost along the way, except for the 4 of them who will make experience of 4 human being’s life: Monika (Albania), Abdurrahman (Turkey), Jihad (Syria) and Susan (Israel). Characters very different from each other, in terms of age, gender, culture and religion, territory of origin and mythologies, geographical landscapes and historical and psychological backgrounds. However, for the cases of life, but on the basis of their own specific different orthodoxy, it happens that each of them lives simultaneously in two or more religions. Not only “next door”, in an attitude of tolerance, but “living more than one at the same time”. Animated cinema, by way of metaphor, makes it possible to give visibility both to their spiritual commonality, in their absolute cultural difference, and to the antiquity of the wisdom tradition in which this commonality is inscribed: the Religion of Love. In the end, the secret will be revealed only to 6 birds: to the Hoopoe who guides them (but it too must first learn something); to the 4 who have lived the experience of Love of the human characters, plus a sixth, the most unlikely of all. Speaking of “Religion of Love” today might sound “paradoxical”, literally “outside of common opinion”, a trait destined to remain unperceived and not-documentable without specific dramaturgical work. The game between reality and fiction, therefore, on the one hand enhances the perception of meanings as “non-random”, on the other it allows you to play with the viewer’s belief devices, summoned to take a position, to “see” beyond their habits of perception, beyond the prejudices of common sense.