Golden Kinnaree Winners at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival
by Andre Soares
Deepa Mehta’s controversial Indo-Canadian production Water, which depicts the plight of Indian widows during the Gandhi era, has won the Golden Kinnaree for Best Film at the 2006 Bangkok International Film Festival. In 2000, while making the film in India Mehta received death threats from Hindu radicals, and was thus forced to abandon production for several years. Five years later, she resumed working on the film in Sri Lanka. Water, a sizable box-office hit in Canada, has been nominated by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for nine Genies, including Best Film and Best Director.
Other winners at the Bangkok Festival were Best Director Park Chan-Wook for Chinjeolhan geumjassi / Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Best Actor Presley Chweneyagae for his thug with a heart in the Academy Award nominated Tsotsi, and Best Actress Felicity Huffman for her (truly outstanding) performance as a pre-op transsexual in Transamerica.
Princess Ubol Rattana gave Catherine Deneuve the Lifetime Achievement Award. Deneuve took part in a Q&A session following a screening of one of her greatest films, Jacques Demy’s sublime 1964 musical Le Parapluies de Cherbourg / The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
List of the British Academy of Film 2006 nominees
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