63rd Venice International Film Festival

Italy, August 30 - September 9 2006

The jury

Nguyen Trong Binh (France), Eva af Geijerstam (Sweden), Julie Rigg (Australia), Ramiro Cristobal Muñoz (Spain), Jerzy Plazewski (Poland), Günter Jekubzik (Germany), Kata Anna Váró (), Sandra Perovic (), Charles-Stéphane Roy (Canada)

Awarded films

The Queen by Stephen Frears
(UK, 2006, 103 mins)
When The Levees Broke - A Requiem In Four Acts by Spike Lee
(USA, 2006, 255 mins)

Reports

Chamber Music, Sculpture and Still Lives By N. T. Binh by Nguyen Trong Binh
The Terror: Terrorism and film 2006 By Julie Rigg by Julie Rigg
The Decline of the American Empire By Günter H. Jekubzik by Günter Jekubzik
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a biopic! Or is it? By Eva af Geijerstam by Eva af Geijerstam
Mysteriously Floating across Dark Channels By Sandra Perovic by Sandra Perovic
The Fine Art of Reigning By Kata Anna Váró by Kata Anna Váró
A Masterpiece By Ramiro Cristóbal by Ramiro Cristobal Muñoz
World Trade Centre… or not really? By Jerzy Plazewski by Jerzy Plazewski
Sense of loss regained in Darroussin's first-directed film By C.S. Roy by Charles-Stéphane Roy

At the 63rd Venice Mostra, our jury awarded two films. The prize for a film in competition went to the acclaimed The Queen by Stephen Frears, in which Helen Mirren (who received the Best Actress Prize from the main jury) stars as Queen Elizabeth II. The prize for a film in the Orizzonti or Critics’ Week sections went to Spike Lee’s four hour-long documentary about New Orleans devastated by hurricane Katrina: When the Levees Broke – A Requiem In Four Acts.