Winners at the 16th Stockholm International Film Festival
by Andre Soares
The Bronze Horse for Best film at the 16th Stockholm International Film Festival was awarded to Juan Diego Solanas’s Nordeste (Argentina / Spain / France / Belgium). Tackling child trafficking, poverty, and social injustice, Nordeste revolves around the meeting of two women from disparate backgrounds: a single mother from Argentina’s impoverished northeast, and an affluent Parisian who arrives in Buenos Aires in order to adopt a baby. According to the festival jury, Nordeste was selected because it is "a film that is remarkably mature in everything from theme, vision and execution. It has the firm courage to ask difficult questions, without feeling the need to answer them for us, without ever straying from the path into cheap sentimentality or shock values." The film’s two female stars, Carole Bouquet and Aymará Rovera, tied for the Best Actress Award. Vincent D’Onofrio was chosen Best Actor for the U.S.-made Thumbsucker, and Scotland’s Annie Griffin won the Best Screenplay Award for Festival. Best First Film Award went to Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know.
Taika Waititi’s Sons of Tû: The God of War was chosen the Best Short Film because "in eighteen minutes [the film] develops more story, builds more characters and creates more human emotion than most feature films ever hope to do in two hours." Canadian director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence) was given the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award, while American director Terry Gilliam received the Stockholm Visionary Award.
Complete list of winners at the 16th Stockholm International Film Festival
Independent Spirit Awards 2005 Nominees
Press release: Sundance Film Festival 2006 Lineup
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