20th Fribourg International Film Festival

Germany, March 12 - March 19 2006

The jury

Borislav Andjelic (Serbia), Janine Euvrard (France), Alberto Ramos Ruiz (Cuba), Maria Teresa Oleksiewicz (Poland), Walt Vian ()

Awarded films

Gradually... by Maziar Miri
(Iran, 2006, 81 mins)

Reports

"Be With Me" The Enthralling Art of Minimalism By Borislav Andjelic by Borislav Andjelic
"Dear Father, Quiet, We're Shooting" Face to Face with Conscientious Objectors By Janine Euvrard by Janine Euvrard
"Taking Father Home" Farewell, my little village By Alberto Ramos by Alberto Ramos Ruiz
A Brief Festival History The Cultural Richness of the Third World By Walt R. Vian by Walt Vian

The Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland introduces for a European public the Third World Cinemas from Africa, Asia and Latin America. It celebrated its 20th anniversary with a retrospective remembering the outstanding film events of its history. Two competitive sections, of feature films and of documentaries, presented an overview of recent tendencies in Third World filmmaking. The critics forming our jury awarded Gradually… (Be Ahestegi…) by Iranian filmaker Maziar Miri as best film.