The Invisible Hands wins Giuseppe Becce award for Music at the Berlinale
Here is the full text of the prize announcement:
10° Premio Giuseppe Becce
This Prize is dedicated to the extraordinary figure of Giuseppe Becce (Lonigo/ Vicenza 1877 – Berlin 1973), an Italian composer. It was he who invented the idea of the musical soundtrack, thus enriching German cinema and that of the world as a whole.
The Becce Prize for Music goes to
“The Invisible Hands”
by Marina Gioti and Georges Salameh
(Greece / Egypt 2017)
presented in the Forum Expanded selection.
Between an on the road story, a formation tale and a political documentary, the music in The Invisible Hands is the thread connecting memories, places and people, embodying the melancholia and ecstasy for change.
The Jury
Pietro Coccia (Italy), Cuini Amelio-Ortiz (Argentine /Germany), Elisa Rusca (Italy /Germany), Davide Manelli (Italy), Hector Navarrete (Argentine /Germany), Stefano Vastano (Italy), Walter Rahue (Italy /Germany)
“Premio Becce” prize is an idea of Ugo Brusaporco (Italy) and Alessandro Di Todaro (Germany)