David, Best International Film Belfast by Kenneth Branagh

(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 29 - Belfast by Kenneth Branagh wins David as Best International Film.

This was announced by Piera Detassis, president and artistic director of the Accademiadel Cinema Italiano - David di Donatello Awards, in agreement with the Governing Council composed of Francesco Rutelli, CarloFontana, Nicola Borrelli, Francesca Cima, Edoardo De Angelis, Domenico Dinoia, Valeria Golino, Giancarlo Leone, Luigi Lonigro, Mario Lorini, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti.

The award will be awarded on Tuesday 3 May as part of the award ceremony live in prime time on Rai 1 from the Cinecittà studios, conducted by Carlo Conti flanked by Drusilla Foer.

    Shot in black and white, Belfast shows the bloody Northern Irish conflict between Catholics and Protestants through the eyes of 9-year-old Buddy, surrounded by his family's affection in a city ravaged by riots and violence.

   It will be the young protagonist of the film, Jude Hill, winner of the Critics' Choice Award, to receive the recognition.

11-year-old Jude Hill is not the first young performer to step onto the stage of the David.

In 1967, Stefano Colagrandee Simone Giannozzi received the David Speciale for their interpretation in Luigi Comencini's Misunderstood, while in 1974, at the age of ten, Tatum O'Neal was Best Foreign Actress for Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon.

In 1992, she is the turn of Giuseppe Ieracitano and Valentina Scalici (David Speciale for Gianni Amelio's The Thief of Children);

the following year, Alessia Fugardi, nominated as Best Supporting Actress for the film Il grande cocomero by Francesca Archibugi,

receives as a gift the David won by Marina Confalone (Best nonprotagonist actress for Daniele Luchetti's The Storm Comes) with the wish for a good future for Italian cinema.

In 2009, Greta Zuccheri Montanari was nominated for Best Actress in the lead for The Man Who Will Come by Giorgio Rights;

finally, in 2021, the young Emma Torre receives the award for the original Improvement of Giuseppe Bonito's Sons, which the Academy awarded to her father Mattia who died in July 2019. (ANSA).