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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Marrakech Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Marrakech Film Festival Awards
2006 Marrakech Film Festival was held between December 1-9, 2006.
2006 Marrakech Film Festival award winners: Palais des Congrès on December 9, 2006
 

 

L’ETOILE D’OR / THE GOLDEN STAR: Der Rote Kakadu / The Red Cockatoo by Dominik Graf (Germany)
JURY PRIZE: Hirtia va fi albastra / The Paper Will Be Blue by Radu Muntean (Romania)
BEST ACTOR: Max Riemelt for The Red Cockatoo by Dominik Graf (Germany)
BEST ACTRESS: Fatou N’diaye for Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali by Robert Favreau (Canada)
TRIBUTES
Indian actress Kajol Mukherjee-Devgan
Indian actor Ajay Devgan
Moroccan actor Mohamed Majd
Egyptian filmmaker Tewfik Salah
American actress Susan Sarandon
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke
 
Jury: Filmmaker Roman Polanski (president, France / Poland); actress Sandrine Bonnaire (France); actress Maria de Medeiros [...]

by Andre Soares | December 9, 2006   
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