34th International Film Critics’ Week

Selection Committee

Giona A. Nazzaro (Delegato generale), Paola Casella, Simone Emiliani, Beatrice Fiorentino and Roberto Manassero.

In competition

• Jeedar El Sot / All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein (Lebanon, France, Qatar)
• Partenonas / Parthenon by Mantas Kvedaravičius (Lithuania, Ukraine, France)
• El Principe / The Prince by Sebastian Muñoz (Chile, Argentina, Belgium)
• Psykosia / Psychosia by Marie Grahtø (Denmark, Finland)
• Rare Beasts by Billie Piper (United Kingdom)
• Sayidat Al Bahr / Scales by Shahad Ameen (UAE, Iraq, Saudi Arabia)
• Tony Driver by Ascanio Petrini (Italy, Mexico)

Special event out of competition – Opening film 

• Bombay Rose by Gitanjali Rao (United Kingdom, India, France, Qatar)

Special event out of competition – Closing film

• Sanctorum by Joshua Gil (Mexico, Qatar, Dominican Republic)

SIC@SIC 2018 – The lineup

• Amateur by Simone Bozzelli 
• Ferine by Andrea Corsini 
• Fosca by Maria Chiara Venturini 
• Monologue by Lorenzo Landi, Michelangelo Mellony 
• Il nostro tempo by Veronica Spedicati 
• Los oceanos son los verdaderos continentes by Tommaso Santambrogio 
• Veronica non sa fumare by Chiara Marotta

Special event – Opening short film

• Passatempo by Gianni Amelio

Special event – Closing short film

• Destino by Bonifacio Angius

Grand Prize Venice International Film Critics’ Week – SIAE

• Jeedar El Sot / All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein (Lebanon, France, Qatar)

Audience Award – Comune di Taranto

• Jeedar El Sot / All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein (Lebanon, France, Qatar)

Verona Film Club Award

• Sayidat Al Bahr / Scales by Shahad Ameen (UAE, Iraq, Saudi Arabia)

Mario Serandrei – Hotel Saturnia Award for Best Technical Contribution

• Jeedar El Sot / All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein (Lebanon, France, Qatar)

Award for Best Short Film

• Veronica non sa fumare / Veronica Doesn’t Smoke by Chiara Marotta (Italy)

Award for Best Director

• Il nostro tempo / Our Time by Veronica Spedicati  (Italy)

Award for Best Technical Contribution

• Los oceanos son los verdaderos continentes / The Oceans Are The Real Continents by Tommaso Santambrogio (Italy)