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14th Slovakian ArtFilm Festival 2006 Awards
The winners were announced on July 1, 2006.
Blue Angel Awards Best Director: "For imaginatively taking the pulse of the changing political climate in China during the early 1980s as mirrored in the lives of a family longing to return to Shanghai after a lengthy exile in the provinces with the fate of the 19-year-old daughter hanging in the balance." Grand Prix Art Film for Best Performance: "For poignantly mirroring the dilemma of a transvestite trying to maintain a sense of dignity whose only support is the daily television soap." Best Cinematographer: "For brilliantly capturing in pictorial detail the mood of the Soviet Union in the crucial year of 1957, when young people on the Baltic Sea border sought to fulfill their dreams of a new life with more freedom."
Jury: Head of the Jury John Irvin, director, United Kingdom; Richard Blech, film critic and historian, Slovakia; Ron Holloway, film critic and publicist, US; Zoltán Kamondi, director, Hungary; Antonín J. Liehm, film critic and publicist, Czech Republic; Jirí Stránský, writer, scriptwriter, and playwright, Czech Republic; Katarína Šulajová, director, screenwriter, and actress, Slovakia; Živko Zalar, cinematographer, scriptwriter, Croatia
Golden Camera Award: Director Andrzej Wajda and screenwriter/director Dušan Hanák
Artefacts Prix Art Film for Best Short Film: "For its one-shot narrative, precisely orchestrated, at a failed border-crossing by asylum seekers in a field as dawn is breaking." Prix Art Film for Best Documentary: "For its moving statement on the mistreatment of women publicly accused of cohabitating with the Germans in 1944 in a newly liberated Paris." Prix Art Film for the Best Animated or Experimental Film: "For its inventive style of puppet animation in a hilarious satire on art in Paris and Russia at the end of the 19th century."
On the Road Prix Art Film for the best creator or creators of the best student
film: "For the director's skillful handling of a multi-layered story of love, longing, and pain as experienced through the eyes of a sensitive 14-year-old boy in his relationships with his older sister, a young girlfriend, and the neighborhood toughs. A brilliant student film by a promising directorial talent."
Non-Statutory Awards Award of the Mayor of the City of Trencín: "For her moving performance of a sensitive woman caught in the web of a sterile marriage in the claustrophobic atmosphere of 1912 Paris." Award of the Mayor of the City of Trencianske Teplice: "For portraying the struggle of a talented but injured gymnast to rebuild his life far from Hungary as the coach of another rebellious youth on a Canadian team." Award of the Artistic Director of the Festival "For his guiding hand in the films of talented young filmmakers as exemplified in three films in the On the Road section: Melodrama by Filip Marczewski, Behind the Fence by Marcin Sauter, and the omnibus film The Silence by six young directors."
Don Quijote Prize: "A story about two lost people, dealing with existential questions, which could happen in the real life. This chamber-drama located in closed rooms gives a touching view of a meeting between two lifestyles and mentalities. It is marked by outstanding but realistic acting performance, by which the actors display the difficulties in attempts of mutual understanding." Special Mention: " A very funny and well-made animation, full of ideas, giving us a new way of looking at the modern art history." Slovakian ArtFilm Film Festival Site
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