For having been able to rewrite, with brilliant visual insight, the hybridizations of the body, characteristic of the genre, with a substance that evolves from a passive tool into intelligence, capable of intertwining with flesh and thought. For having forcefully cut into our present and skillfully inserted itself into a liminal genre, between dystopian science fiction and body horror, without relying on a large production but thanks to a precise use of makeup and costumes, combined with visceral and engaging acting, we award the Best Film Prize of the Extra Sci-Fi Festival Verona to ELSE, by Thibault Emin.