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) -
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.