2006 Miami Film Festival Awards

2006 Miami Film Festival: March 2–12, 2006

Set in a Spanish village in the mid-1970s — during the last months of General Franco’s life — Santiago Tabernero’s Life in Color depicts the travails of a 13-year-old boy (Junio Valverde) and his family as both the boy and Spain itself go through dramatic and lasting changes.

Dramatic Features – Ibero-American Cinema Competition: Vida y color / Life in Color (Spain), by director Santiago Tabernero

Special Grand Jury Mention: 7 Vírgenes / 7 Virgins (Spain), by director Alberto Rodríguez

Special Grand Jury Mention: Cidade Baixa / Lower City (Brazil), by director Sérgio Machado

Documentary Features – World & Ibero-American Cinema: En el hoyo / In the Pit (Mexico), by director Juan Carlos Rulfo

Special Grand Jury Mention: GITMO – The New Rules of War (Sweden), by directors Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh

Special Grand Jury Mention: La casa de mi abuela / My Grandmother’s House (Spain) by director Adán Aliaga

Dramatic Features – World Cinema Competition (tie): Anklaget / Accused (Denmark), by director Jacob Thuesen, and Sauf le respect que je vous dois / Burnt Out (France), by director Fabienne Godet

The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize: Mistrz / The Master (Poland), by director Piotr Trzaskalski

Audience Awards:

World Dramatic Feature Competition: Anklaget / Accused (Denmark), by director Jacob Thuesen

Ibero-American Dramatic Feature Competition: Anjos do sol / Angels of the Sun (Brazil), by director Rudi Lagemann

World & Ibero-American Documentary Feature Competition: The Refugee All Stars (Guinea/Sierra Leone/USA), by directors Zach Niles and Banker White

Miami Encuentros Prize: União Fraterna / Fraternal Love (Brazil), by Laís Bodanzky

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