Bologna, September 13, 2026 – There is the most urgent and political cinema. There are the great European and Italian authors. There is the restoration of ‘our’ Cineteca. In short, there is a direct connection between Bologna and Venice. It starts with Naza by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (distributed by the Bolognese I Wonder Pictures and favored for the Golden Lion) which won the Special Jury Prize after receiving over 25 minutes of applause in the theater. Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, it analyzes the systems behind the systematic killing of Palestinian civilians by Israel in the Gaza Strip. Signed by two of the four authors of No Other Land and with director Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest) as executive producer, Naza will soon arrive in theaters: it will be screened in cinemas with a special event from Monday, September 28 to Wednesday, September 30. In addition to the Special Jury Prize, the documentary received several collateral awards, including the Green Drop Award and the Cinema for UNICEF Mention.
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Also Un bon petit soldat by Stéphane Brizé is distributed by I Wonder and won the Best Screenplay Award, written by Brizé himself with Coralie Amédéo and Olivier Gorce. In this film, the director reunited with Alba Rohrwacher after The Opportunites of Love (“you really have a light inside you, you are a genius,” he told her while receiving the award). The work also received the Interfilm Award, the Special Award of the Business Film Prize, and Sorriso Diverso. The Marcello Mastroianni Award for a young emerging actress was given to Malou Khebizi, the protagonist of 15/18 (A place to heal) by Cédric Kahn, also among the I Wonder distributions. In the film, Kahn plays Lucia, a 17-year-old girl who is escorted back by the police to the adolescent psychiatry ward of a public hospital – a place she knows all too well – where she sensitively observes the lives of teenagers dealing with their own fragilities and those of doctors and families trying to open a space for care and even a smile. Here too, the film won several awards, including those from the Red Cross and Lanterna Magica.
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Of the three restorations brought to the festival by the Cineteca di Bologna, The Long Night of ’43 instead won in the Venice Classics section. Directed by Florestano Vancini in 1960 with Enrico Maria Salerno, Belinda Lee, and Gino Cervi, it is “a huge film” for Gian Luca Farinelli, director of the Cineteca. Based on a story by Giorgio Bassani, it won the Best Debut Film Award in 1960 right in Venice. But even today “it shows how Vancini already had in mind his moral attitude towards the history of our country,” Farinelli concludes.
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