The Commission has chosen from among 160 entries: these are the titles that will be voted on by the Jury of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano a first time, from 1 to 14 March, to identify the five candidates, and then choose the winner. A shortlist of passionate and unconventional films with a history, chronicle and biography, a balance between generations and genres, with three female directors in the selection: the Jury can now view the films on David’s video platform.
The ten works that will compete for the David di Donatello – Cecilia Mangini 2022 Award for best documentary have been selected. This was announced by Piera Detassis, President and Artistic Director of the Accademia del Cinema Italiano – Premi David di Donatello in agreement with the Board of Directors composed of Francesco Rutelli, Carlo Fontana, Nicola Borrelli, Francesca Cima, Luigi Lonigro, Mario Lorini, Domenico Dinoia, Edoardo De Angelis, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Giancarlo Leone.

These are the titles chosen by the special commission for documentaries composed of Guido Albonetti, Pedro Armocida, Osvaldo Bargero, Raffaella Giancristofaro, Stefania Ippoliti, Betta Lodoli, Pinangelo Marino and Giacomo Ravesi:

Atlantide by Yuri Ancarani
Dal pianeta degli umani by Giovanni Cioni
Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore
Futura by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher
Il palazzo by Federica Di Giacomo
La macchina delle immagini by Roland Sejko
Los Zuluagas by Flavia Montini
Marx può aspettare by Marco Bellocchio
Onde radicali by Gianfranco Pannone
Rue Garibaldi by Federico Francioni

The Academy’s Jury will vote for the first time to identify the five candidates for the award and will then decide the winner of the David for Best Documentary, which last year was named in memory of Cecilia Mangini, who died in Rome in 2021, a tireless investigator of reality and an unforgettable pioneer and outsider of Italian cinema.

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