Won directors and female directors, almost all young, capable of pouring into animated films, fantasy, feelings and vision of the world with a contemporary look. At the Sardinia Film Festival 2021, the international jury chaired by Roberto Perpignani awarded "How my Grandmother became a chair" by Lebanese Nicolas Fattouh, winner of the "Gran Premio Sardinia Film Festival" for "treating the theme of aging and death with the power of simplicity ".

The winner of the Pino Zac Award for the "Rebel Film" is the mini musical "The deceased", in which the theme of death returns through a comic and sometimes surreal register. The work was created by an Israeli man and woman, Avishai Simchovitch and Keren Or Zelingher.

Five awards to women, including the one dedicated to Fusako Yusaki for the "Film that loves synthesis", won by the Italian Milena Tipaldo thanks to her "A body". Still bodies but embryonic in the intrauterine narration of "I call it home" by Iranian Leila Ahang, which was awarded the Osvaldo Cavandoli Prize, for the best "One-person-film".

From the lively gestation to the fascinating, apparent stillness of "Abandoned village", directed by Mariam Kapanadze (Georgia), Manfredo Manfredi Prize for the “Film that gives space to doubt”. A trait that binds many authors competing at the festival as creators of expressive and experimental languages to be decrypted such as those of the Franco-Colombian Nieto, whose originality was celebrated by the Giulio Gianini prize for "Swallow the Universe" (Ingoia l'Universo).

The Bruno Bozzetto Prize for the “Film that loves animals and nature” went to Sam3's Greek "A sensual pill" (A sensual pill), a quick, evocative and merciless look at the conditions of our planet in the days of the pandemic. While "Dans la nature" (In nature) by the French Marcel Barelli, a comic narration of homosexuality among the different species of fauna present on the planet, received the Guido Manuli Award. Di Manuli had its world premiere "Merry Christmas", a one-minute, cynical and caustic film about the sad Christmas that many children are forced to face.

Another planetary premiere came with "Amricord" ("I remember" in Ferrara dialect), a posthumous work of the late Giovanni Ferrari introduced by his niece Giulia Negretto. Also moving is the memory of Fabrizio Bellocchio, a young animated film enthusiast who received the award for "Film with a social content", won by "The Seine's tears", shot by a collective of French student-directors.