Montreal World Film Festival 2006 Winners
by Andre Soares
Eiji Okuda’s Nagai Sanpo / A Long Walk, a Japanese drama about an old man (veteran Ken Ogata) who goes out for a long stroll with a mysterious little girl, and Carlos Diegues’s O Maior Amor do Mundo / The Greatest Love of All, the story of a dying Brazilian man (José Wilker) searching for the identity of his biological mother, shared the Grand Prix of the Americas at the Montreal World Film Festival, which came to a close yesterday. Nagai Sanpo also won the International Film Critics’ FIPRESCI prize and the Ecumenical Prize.
The Special Jury Prize went to Yang Yazhou’s Chinese drama Snow in the Wind, about a country girl so in love with the movies that she marries a film projectionist. Hans Peter Moland was chosen Best Director for the Norwegian drama GymnaslÁ¦rer Pedersen / Comrade Pedersen, which revolves around Marxism, romance, and sex. Edin Hadzimahovic received the Best Screenplay Award for Warchild, a German/Slovenian drama about the Bosnian war directed by Christian Wagner.
The Best Actor was Filip Peeters for his performance as an innocent man sent to prison in Morocco in the Midnight Express-like De Hel van Tanger / Hell in Tangier, while the Best Actress was Ni Ping for Snow in the Wind.
Honorary awards were given to actors Bruno Ganz, Rémy Girard, and Bulle Ogier.
Full list of winners at the 2006 Montreal World Film Festival
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