Locarno Film Festival 2006 Winners
by Andre Soares
Winners at the 59th Locarno Film Festival were announced at the Swiss mountain resort this past Saturday, Aug. 12.
The (mostly) Swiss-German co-production Das Fräulein won the Golden Leopard for Best Film. Directed by Andrea Staka, Das Fräulein tells the story of three women from the former Yugoslavia, all of whom have sought a new life in Zurich.
The Jury Prize went to Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, which stars Ryan Gosling as a drug-addicted teacher who befriends one of his students, a girl from one of New York City’s rough ghettoes.
Laurent Achard was chosen Best Director for his Le Dernier des fous / The Last of the Crazy Ones (France), a dark tale about a young boy trying to cope with his disintegrating family.
The Best Actor Award was given to Burghart Klaussner for Der Mann von der Botschaft, in which he plays an attaché to the German embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, who befriends a local girl. Amber Tamblyn was chosen Best Actress for her role as a sixteen-year-old girl accused of killing her newborn child in Stephanie Daley.
Great To Be Nominated: Barry Lyndon
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