Thessaloniki Film Festival 2006 Winners
November 26th, 2006 by Andre Soares
The top winner at the 2006 edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which wrapped today, was Kim Tae-yong’s Korean drama Gajokeui Tansaeng / Family Ties, about different relationships within a dysfunctional family.
In addition to the Golden Alexander Award for Best Film (worth 37,000 euros), Family Ties won a joint Best Actress award (for Moon So-ri, Goh Doon-shim, Kong Hyo-jin and Kim Hae-ok), while screenwriters Sung Ki-young and Kim Tae-yong shared the Best Screenplay award with Maurício Zacharias, Felipe Bragança, Karim Ainouz for the dramatic comedy O Céu de Suely / Suely in the Sky, the story of a woman (Hermila Guedes) from the Brazilian Northeast who dreams of a better life elsewhere. (Last month, O Céu de Suely won the Best Feature Award at the 2006 Rio de Janeiro Film Festival.)
The Special Jury Prize — the Silver Alexander Award (worth 22,000 euros) — was given to Mona Zandi Haghighi’s Iranian drama Asre Jomeh / On a Friday Afternoon, about a lower-class unwed mother who must reconcile with her rebellious teenage son.
Slawomir Fabicki was chosen Best Director for the Polish drama Z Oszysku / Retrieval, about a young boxer (played by Antoni Pawlicki, winner of the Best Actor award) who becomes attached to a gangster. Z Oszysku is Poland’s submission for the 2006 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award.
This year’s Thessaloniki jury was presided by American producer Christine Vachon.
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