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BEST DIRECTOR AWARD — DISTRESS CALL
Kobani International Film Festival
Award Rationale
«Michele D’Anca receives the Best Director award for a rigorous and highly effective conceptual decision: confining the visible action to two emergency operators inside an office while a human catastrophe unfolds far away, heard through a live telephone call but never directly shown.
The off-screen space becomes the film’s most powerful dramatic field. Through voices, interruptions, silences, and the reactions of the two operators, the direction makes the danger aboard the boat immediate and painfully tangible. This restraint avoids spectacle and keeps the film’s attention on human vulnerability, responsibility, and the urgent attempt to preserve life.
By transforming a telephone conversation into the dramatic centre of the film, D’Anca demonstrates precision in staging, performance direction, sound, and emotional perspective. DISTRESS CALL translates a vast humanitarian crisis into an intimate and morally focused cinematic experience, earning its director this distinction.»
PREMIO MIGLIOR REGISTA — DISTRESS CALL
Kobani International Film Festival
Motivazione della Giuria
«Michele D’Anca riceve il premio per il Miglior Regista per una scelta concettuale rigorosa e di grande efficacia: confinare l’azione visibile ai due operatori dell’emergenza all’interno di una stanza, mentre lontano si consuma una catastrofe umanitaria, percepita attraverso una telefonata in diretta ma mai mostrata direttamente.
Il fuori campo diventa lo spazio drammatico più potente del film. Attraverso le voci, le interruzioni, i silenzi e le reazioni dei due operatori, la regia rende il pericolo a bordo dell’imbarcazione immediato e dolorosamente tangibile. Questa scelta di sottrazione evita la spettacolarizzazione e mantiene l’attenzione del film sulla vulnerabilità umana, sulla responsabilità e sull’urgente tentativo di salvare vite umane.
Trasformando una conversazione telefonica nel centro drammatico del film, D’Anca dimostra precisione nella messa in scena, nella direzione degli attori, nel suono e nella prospettiva emotiva. DISTRESS CALL traduce una vasta crisi umanitaria in un’esperienza cinematografica intima e moralmente focalizzata, valendo al suo regista questo riconoscimento.»
2026
Best Director Award — Kobani International Film Festival — Distress Call
Audience Award 2nd place — No Bounds Short Film Festival — Distress Call
"Migrantes Comune di Lenola" Award — Inventa Un Film, LenolaFilmFestival — Distress Call
Best Actor to Michele D'Anca — Vitorchiano Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Cinematography — Vitorchiano Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Sound — Corto Colonna - Festival Internazionale del Cortometraggio — Distress Call
Best FEDIC Award (Italian Federation of Film Societies) — South Italy International Film Festival — The Last Reporter
Audience Award — LAC Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Actress to Nina Pons — LAC Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Short Film — Ruviano International Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Actor to Michele D'Anca — Ruviano International Film Festival — Distress Call
Special Mention of the Jury — Life Beyond Life Film Festival — Distress Call
"Cinema, Spettacolo e Terzo Settore" Jury Award — Festival Internazionale della Cinematografia Sociale "Tulipani di Seta Nera" — Distress Call
Social Commitment Award — CIFF Cittadella International Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Screenplay — Marte Film Festival — Distress Call
2025
Lifetime Achievement Award — Via dei Corti — Independent Short Film Festival
Special Mention Debut Short Film — By The River Film Festival — North Macedonia — Distress Call
Best Short Film "City of Acquaviva Picena Award" — Piceno Cinema Festival — Distress Call
Winner "Giubileo del Mediterraneo" — M2 Filming Experience — Premio Penisola Sorrentina — Distress Call
Journalists’ Award “Premio Aprilia – Edoardo Farina e Giulio Mincuzzi” — Aprilia Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Actor to Michele D'Anca — PIFF Pinerolo International Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Short Film — Social Film Festival ArTelesia — Distress Call
Best Drama — Basilicata International Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Short Film — CIFF Caorle Independent Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Drama — CIFF Caorle Independent Film Festival — Distress Call
Audience Award — Senior Movie Film Festival — Poland — Distress Call
Giury Award 2nd place — Senior Movie Film Festival — Poland — Distress Call
Best Short Film — Corti di Mare Festival — Distress Call
Artistic Direction Award — Apollo Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Actress to Nina Pons — Apollo Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Short Film "Audience Award" — Cine Migrare — Distress Call
Best Italian Actor to Michele D'Anca — South Italy International Film Festival — Distress Call
Special Mention — Briganti Film Festival — Distress Call
Best Actor to Michele D'Anca — Premio Carpine Visciano — Distress Call
Audience Award — A.S.T.O. International Short Film Festival — Distress Call
Honorable Mention — Balkan Cinefest — Albania — Distress Call
Best First Time Director — Vision Film Festival — Distress Call
2024
Best Actor to Michele D'Anca — Punto Di Vista Film Festival — Distress Call
Special Mention of the Jury — FIFF Fano International Film Festival — Distress Call
2023
Vince Award — Vincenzo Crocitti International
Awarded Project — Short Film Call by NUOVO IMAIE — The Last Reporter
Best Screenplay — RIFF Awards — Rome Independent Film Festival — The Last Reporter
Awarded Project — Short Film Call by NUOVO IMAIE — Distress Call
Honorable Mention Short Film Screenplays — Premio Internazionale Letteratura Italiana Contemporanea — Mala Erba
2022
Special Mention — Talent — Picentia Short Film Festival
2015
Award — Film Festival ArTelesia
2014
Award for Excellence in Television Drama — Napoli Cultural Classic
Award for Excellence in Soap Opera — Galà dell’Arte per la Ricerca
Italy Human Rights Award — Free Lance International Press
2013
Domenico Aliquò International Award
Perla del Tirreno Gala Award
2012
Special Award — Centovetrine — European Soap Fan Day
Personality of the Year — Popular Actors — Troisi Festival
2010
“Targa dello Statere” Award — Cinema Calabria
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