2006 Marrakech Film Festival Awards Winners
The 2006 Marrakech Film Festival came to a close last night, Dec. 9.
Dominik Graf’s German drama Der Rote Kakadu / The Red Cockatoo, a love story set in 1961 Dresden, starring Max Riemelt and Jessica Schwarz (above), won the Étoile d’Or for best film. Riemelt, for his part, received the best actor award.
The Grand Jury Prize went to Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean’s political drama Hirtia va fi albastra / The Paper Will Be Blue, about a soldier who changes sides during Romania’s bloody 1989 revolution.
French-Senegalese actress Fatou N’Diaye won the best actress award for her performance as a Rwandan waitress falling in love right the time of the Hutu genocide in Robert Favreau’s Canadian drama Un dimanche à [...]
by Andre Soares | December 10, 2006
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Tags: Daniel Auteuil, Dominik Graf, Fatou N'Diaye, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Julie Gayet, Marrakech Film Festival, Max Riemelt, Susan Sarandon, The Paper Will Be Blue, The Red Cockatoo
2005 European Film Award Winners
Michael Haneke’s compelling and quite disturbing Caché / Hidden was the big winner at the 2005 European Film Awards held this evening in Berlin. The psychological-political thriller was chosen best film, in addition to wins for director Haneke, actor Daniel Auteuil (above, with Juliette Binoche), and a best editing award for Michael Hudecek and Nadine Muse.
Berlin Film Festival winner Julia Jentsch won the best European actress award for her superb portrayal of one of the young leaders of the anti-Nazi German resistance in Sophie Scholl – Die Letzten Tage / Sophie Scholl – The Final Days. Jentsch also won the Jameson People’s Choice Award, and so did Sophie Scholl’s director, fellow Berlin Film Festival winner Marc
Rothemund.
Orlando [...]
by Andre Soares | December 3, 2005
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Tags: Daniel Auteuil, European Film Awards, Film Awards, Hany Abu-Assad, Hidden, Julia Jentsch, Juliette Binoche, Michael Haneke, Paradise Now, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
European Film Awards 2005
2005 European Film Awards
2005 European Film Award winners: Berlin on Dec. 3, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: Axel Schmidt / Action Press
Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche in Hidden
EUROPEAN FILM
BRØDRE (Brothers), Denmark/UK/Sweden/Norway
Directed by Susanne Bier
Produced by Zentropa Entertainments14 ApS., Two Brothers Ltd., Sigma Films Ltd., Memfis Int. AB, Fjellape Films
* CACHÉ (Hidden), France/Austria/Germany/Italy
Directed by Michael Haneke
Produced by Les Films du Losange, Wega Film, Bavaria Film, BIM Distribuzione
DON’T COME KNOCKING, Germany
Directed by Wim Wenders
Produced by Reverse Angle Production GmbH, Reverse Angle International GmbH, Arte France Cinéma
L’ENFANT (The Child), Belgium/France
Directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Produced by Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, RTBF, Scope Invest, Arte France Cinéma
MY SUMMER OF LOVE, UK
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Produced by Apocalypso Pictures
SOPHIE [...]
by Andre Soares | December 3, 2005
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Tags: Bero Beyer, Daniel Auteuil, European Film Awards, Film Awards, George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck, Hany Abu-Assad, Hidden, Julia Jentsch, Michael Haneke, Paradise Now, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
