‘Io Capitano’ and ‘C’è ancora domani’ win major prizes at the Italian David di Donatello Awards

Matteo Garrone’s Oscar-nominated drama Io Capitano about the odyssey of two young African men who decide to leave Dakar, Senegal, to reach Europe, and the feminist drama of Paola Cortellesi It’s ancora domani (There is still tomorrow) were both the big winners of the 69th David di Donatello Awards in Italy.

Io Capitano won prizes for best film, director, producers, editor and cameraman, among others.

While accepting the director’s statuette, Garrone explained that the story’s protagonists were also co-directors, while giving the floor to Mamadou Kouassi, an Ivorian activist who inspired the film. Kouassi called for an end to deaths at sea and in Palestine.

It’s ancora domani won six Davids out of 19 nominations, including best directorial debut, actress, non-supporting actress, screenplay and audience award. The film marked the directorial debut of actor Paola Cortellesi, who also stars in it. It’s ancora domani was shot in black and white and riffs on Italy’s neorealist past, albeit from a contemporary angle of female empowerment.

Justine Triet Anatomy of a fall won the award for best foreign film.

Experienced Italian stage and film actress Milena Vukotic, who has worked with Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel and Andrei Tarkovsky, has won a special David.

Pop culture journalist, author and TV personality Vincenzo Mollica also won a Special David.

The career honor went to Giorgio Moroder.

The Davids, the Italian equivalent of the Oscars, were held at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome.