Competition for the Best Asian Feature Film 2006

Jury
Valentina Carnelutti (actress); Wilma Labate (film director); Giacomo Marramao (philosopher); Lidia Ravera (writer, script writer, journalist); Giovanni Spagnoletti (cinema professor, director Pesaro Film Festival)

City of Rome Award – Best Asian Feature Film 2006

Khoonbazi - Mainline
by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Mohsen Abdolvahab (Iran)

Motivation:
Representing the nevrotic emotions and the existential problems of the middle class, the film conveys with great expressive intensity a glimpse of the contemporary Iranian society, through an always measured style and an effective aesthetic quality.

Special Mention

Kubrador - The Bet Collector
by Jeffrey Jeturian (Filippine / The Philippines)

Motivation:
For the extraordinary sismographic capacity of portraying a social situation through the sorrowful character of a woman.

Competition for the Best Documentary 2006

Jury
Mara Chiaretti (documentary film maker); Carlo Laurenti (sinologist, documentary producer); Alessandra Vanzi (actress)

City of Rome Award – Best Documentary 2006

Buddha’s Lost Children
by Mark Verkerk (Paesi Bassi /The Netherlands)

Motivation:
For the extraordinary capacity with which he has led us, through a subject that overlaps with many others, to create an empathic connection with creatures usually confined to silence.

Special Mention

Total Denial
by Milena Kaneva (Bulgaria-Italia)

Motivation:
For the commitment and the courage to give voice to the drama of the Burmese people.

Special Mention

Indonesian Cinema
by Maurizio Borriello (Italia)

Motivation:
For the pioneering contribution in fostering the knowledge about Indonesian cinema, a cinema which is not well known in Italy as well as abroad.

Audience Award 2006
To the feature film, in and out of competion, most voted by the audience

Ostrov vozro_d_nija
The Island of Rebirth
by Rustem Abdrashev (Kazakhstan)