Today humanity has descended into an immense labyrinth built on a global scale. In front of us is the monster: we cannot confront him with the ways he himself used; we must render him harmless aware of our ability to create new methods that avoid wars and put an end to those still in progress. Pistoletto begins the text of his book The Third Paradise  (Marsilio 2010) with these sentences: “It was March 2003, when Bush and Blair, supported by numerous governments, declared pre

The Adonella Marena  Award is given to the film that best deals with environmental and sustainable development issues.The relationship with nature, with other animals and with the planet in general is one of the most conflictual and enduring in the history of human beings: a relationship that has undergone in the last century an even more pronounced dynamic of domination and exploitation.Anthropocentrism and an attitude of defiance, the urge to defeat, tame or bend the enviro

Armonia Mentis Award - an award from the Sinestesia Cultural Association, celebrates cinematic works that explore the journey to inner peace with depth and sensitivity. This award seeks to focus attention on the individual journey of resolving inner conflicts as a foundation for addressing and transforming external ones, promoting a vision of peace that begins from within. With a focus on fiction that inspires personal reflection and inner growth, the award aims to honor shor

The idea behind the award is to promote filmmaking that deals with issues related to peace: the denunciation of injustice, dialogue between parties, mediation processes, creative and nonviolent conflict resolution. Our societies are becoming more and more aware that there is no future in conflicts that use violence as a solution; there is no future in the persistence of policies of exploitation and oppression; there is no future in cultural, religious, racial discrimination;