The Jury of the 5th Cervino International Film Festival, made up of Stefano Della Casa, Stefano Francia di Celle, Maria Hamorova, Ezio Torta e Krzysztof Wielicki, decided to award the following prizes:

Prize for the Best Film on Mountaineering (2500 euros) awarded by CAI-Clun Alpino Italiano to the film:
La cordée de rêve (France, 2001) directed by Gilles Chappaz, with the following motivation:
For the spontaneity and the immediacy with which such a harduous task is described; so intriguing to attract people to mounteineering. For the way it highlights the passion for mountains as the linking factor between different cultures, enabling to overcome geographical barriers.

Second Prize to the Best Documentary (1500 euros, offered by Focus Himalaya Trave) to the film:
Eldorado di ghiaccio (Switzerland, 2000) directed by Adriano Zecca, with the following motivation:
For the strength and the clearness describing the relationship between a desperate mankind and the surrounding harsh environment. A special mention for the high quality of the photography and the attention given to the description of situations taking place out of the ordinary geographical space and time.

First Prize for the Best Documentary (2500 euros, offered by Sport & Promozione) to the film:
Beserk in the Antarctic (Norway/Denmark, 2000) directed by Kaare Skard, with the following motivation: Because, as a journal, it succeeds in describiing an exceptional endeavour. The theme of the adventurous journey becomes a tool for defining the peculiar features of each single character. For the originality used in the description of such a pioneering attempt, just a little bit of technique, and so much in contrast with he traditional structure of similar productions.

Prize to the Best Film in Gran Prix Category (3500 euros, offered by the Festival) to the film:
Mustang (Slovakia, 2001) directed by Pavol Barabás, with the following motivation: For the realistic approach used in the shooting of one of the last untouched places on the earth, not yet contaminated by the western civilization. The pictures are so attracting that they induce the viewer's reflection on the need to preserve such an environmental, cultural and social peculiarity. For the way it integrates music with images.

First Prize for the Best Feature Film (2000 Euros, offered by the Festival) to :
Avazhayé Sarzaminé Madariyam (Iran, 2001), directed by Bahman Gobadhi, with the following motivation: A poetic, dramatic, sometimes even amusing, tender and touching film, set in a landscape made of haunting mountains. Mountains which represent the peculiar symbol of a nomadic people and at the same time their own universal values. An emotionally-involving film shot with a clear and expressive photography, with the extraordinary character of Mitzra, the old man, still in love, who decides to go back home carryng on his shoulders a little girl, named Senur ("Frontier" ), heading back to a kind of a frontier unknown to us as well as our culture.

5° Cervino International Film Festival
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