RomeFilmFest 2006 Winners
by Andre Soares
Kirill Serebrennikov’s Izobrajaya Zhertvy / Playing the Victim, a modernized and darkly humorous adaptation of Hamlet starring Yuri Chursin and Anna Mikhalkova (Nikita Mikhalkov’s daughter and Andrei Konchalovsky’s niece), won the Best Film Award at the 1st edition of the RomeFilmFest this past Saturday, Oct. 21. "This film is a film for Russia and for Russians," Serebrennikov declared. "Because we still believe that cinema can change people’s way of thinking and consciences."
The Special Jury Prize winner was This is England, Shane Meadows’s semi-autobiographical tale of an English teenager who joins a skinhead group in the 1980s.
The festival’s other official prizes went to Italian stage performer Giorgio Colangeli, chosen Best Actor for playing a convict who after many years meets his now adult son in Alessandro Angelini’s L´ aria salata; Best Actress Ariane Ascaride as a woman looking for her father in Robert Guédiguian’s Le Voyage en Arménie / Armenia (which Ascaride co-wrote); and the recently deceased director Gillo Pontecorvo, who received a posthumous career award.
According to the festival’s website, 169 films from 32 countries were screened at the RomeFilmFest and 56,000 tickets were sold.
Full list of winners at the 2006 RomeFilmFest
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