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Shadows Festival 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
30 JUNE - 8 JULY 2006

One of the world's oldest and largest film festivals, held in the Czech spa town

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Karlovy Vary Film Fest site Opening night: TIME
Closing night: CONFETTI
2006 AWARDS...
Crystal Globe:
SHERRYBABY
Jury Prize: CHRISTMAS TREE UPSIDE DOWN and BEAUTY IN TROUBLE
Audience Choice: OTHER WORLDS
Documentary: LIFE IN LOOPS and IN THE PIT
Critics Prize: FROZEN CITY
Karlovy Vary Film Fest site Director: Joachim Trier (REPRISE)
Actress: Maggie Gyllenhaal (SHERRYBABY)
Actor: Andrzej Hudziak (SEVERAL PEOPLE, LITTLE TIME)
Eccumenical Prize: DESTINY
Independent Camera Prize: PLAY
East of the West Award: MONKEYS IN WINTER
Don Quixote Prize: REPRISE
Europa Cinemas Prize: FROZEN CITY
Outstanding Contribution to Cinema: Andy Garcia, Robert K Shaye, Jan Nemec
T H E   F I L M S
12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST (Porumboiu, Rom)
13 TZAMETI (Babluani, Geo)
3 NEEDLES (Fitzgerald, Can,)
AHIMSA STOP TO RUN (Liawsirikun, Thai)
AHLAAM (Al-Daradji, Iraq)
ALONG THE RIDGE (Stuart, It)
AMERICAN GUN (Avelino, US)
AN ANGEL OF THE LORD (Strach, Cz)
ANGEL-A (Besson, Fr)
ARIDO MOVIE (Ferreira, Br)
BABA’S CARS (Edholm, Swe)
BEAUTY IN TROUBLE (Hrebejk, Cz)
BEST WISHES! (Kotik, Cz)
BIG RIVER (Funahashi, Jap)
BLINDED ANGELS (Carlsen, Den)
BLOCKADE (Loznitsa, Rus)
BLOOD (Escalante, Mex)
BLUE CHA CHA (Cheng, Tai)
BONDS OF BLOOD (Cieslar, Cz)
BOTHERSOME MAN (Lien, Nor)
BROTHERS OF THE HEAD (Fulton/Pepe, UK)
BUBBLE (Soderbergh, US)
THE CAIMAN (Moretti, It, France)
CATTLE CALLERS (Rocha, Br)
CENSORSHIP (Mikulskis, Lit)
CHRISTMAS TREE UPSIDE DOWN (Cherkelov/Zhivkov, Bul)
CINEMA, ASPIRINS AND VULTURES (Gomes, Br)
CITIZEN DOG NAKORN (Sasanatieng, Thai)
THE CITRILLO’S TURNS (Cazals, Mex)
CLIMATES (Ceylan, Tur)
CLOSE TO HEAVEN (Svatek, Cz)
A COCK AND BULL STORY (Winterbottom, UK)
CONFETTI (Isitt, UK)
CROSSROADS CAFE (Wosiewicz, Pol)
EL CUSTODIO (Moreno, Arg)
DAM STREET (Li, Chn)
DAVE CHAPPELLE’S BLOCK PARTY (Gondry, US)
DESTINY (Pereira, Arg)
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON (Feuerzeig, US)
THE DOG POUND (Zas, Uru)
DREAMING BY NUMBERS (Bucchetti, Ned)
EDMOND (Gordon, US)
EVE & THE FIRE HORSE (Kwan, Can)
EVIL (Noussias, Gr)
THE EXPERTS (Coma, Cz)
FAMILY FRIEND (Sorrentino, It)
FAMILY LAW (Burman, Arg)
FC VENUS (Tena, Fin)
THE FINE ART OF LOVE (Irvin, UK)
FIRST LOVE (Hanawa, Jap)
FLANDERS (Dumont, Fr)
FLYING WORDS TOWN (Diosi, Slvk)
FOREST OF THE GODS (Puipa, Lit)
FOUR STARS (Vincent, Fr)
THE FREE WILL (Glasner, Ger)
FRESH AIR (Kocsis, Hun)
FROZEN CITY (Louhimies, Fin)
GAGARIN’S PIONEERS (Manskij, Rus)
GARPASTUM (German, Rus)
GOD WILLING (Chamdin, Swe)
GOODBYE LIFE (Shah-Hosseini, Iran)
GRBAVICA (Zbanic, Bos)
THE GREAT MATCH (Olivares, Sp)
THE GRONHOLM METHOD (Piñeyro, Arg)
HAPPY AS ONE (Jopp, Ger)
THE HAWK IS DYING (Goldberger, US)
HOLIDAY MAKERS (Vejdelek, Cz)
HOST & GUEST (Shin, Kor)
HOSTAGE (Guliyev, Aze)
HOTEL HARABATI (Cauvin, Fr)
THE HOUSE OF SAND (Waddington, Br)
HRUBES AND MARES FRIENDS COME RAIN OR SHINE (Moravek, Cz)
I AM (Kedzierzawska, Pol)
IN BETWEEN DAYS (Kim, US)
IN THE NAME OF GOD (Jayaraaj, India)
IN THE PIT (Rulfo, Mex)
INDIAN AND THE NURSE (Wlodarczyk, Cz)
INVISIBLE WAVES (Ratanaruang, Thai)
ISOLATED (Marques, Sp)
IT’S WINTER (Pitts, Iran)
JAN KRIZEK SCULPTURES AND BEES (Reznicek, Cz)
JOHNNY WAS (Hammond, UK)
JOSH’S TREES (Entell, Swi)
KHA-CHEE-PAE (Janek, Cz)
KUSSKUSS - YOUR HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON ME (Senn, Ger)
LIFE IN LOOPS (Novotny, Aut)
LIGHTS IN THE DUSK (Kaurismäki, Fin)
A LITTLE TRIP TO HEAVEN (Kormakur, Ice)
LONESOME JIM (Buscemi, US)
LONGING (Grisebach, Ger)
LOOK BOTH WAYS (Watt, Aus)
LOVE SICK (Giurgiu, Rom)
LOVE TALK (Lee, Kor)
LUNACY (Svankmajer, Cz)
MADEINUSA (Llosa, Peru)
MAGIC EYE (Cashku, Alb)
MAN PUSH CART (Bahrani, Iran)
MARRIAGE STORIES, 20 YEARS LATER (Trestikova, Cz)
MEN AT WORK (Haghighi, Iran)
MEZCAL (Ortiz, Mex)
MIDNIGHT, MY LOVE (Jaturanrassamee, Thai)
MONKEYS IN WINTER (Andonova, Bul)
MOUTH TO MOUTH (Runge, Swe)
MY QUICK WAY OUT (Albaladejo, Sp)
NOT OF TODAY (Marek, Cz)
THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE (Harron, US)
THE NOVENA (Emond, Can)
ODE TO JOY (Kazejak-Dawid/Komasa/Migas, Pol)
OFFSIDE (Panahi, Iran)
OTHER WORLDS (Skop, Slvk)
OUT OF SIGHT (Syrkin, Isr)
OVER AND OVER! (Vachler, Cz)
PAVEE LACKEEN (Ogden, Ire)
THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA (Fiennes, UK)
PLAY (Scherson, Chile)
POLUMGLA (Antonov, Rus)
POSEIDON (Petersen, US)
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (Altman, US)
PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS (Maggenti, US)
QUINCEAÑERA (Glatzer/Westmoreland, US)
THE RAFTERS (Janak, Cz)
RAIL YARD BLUES (Gobl/Svejda, Cz)
THE RAILROAD ALL-STARS (Rodriguez, Sp)
REGULAR LOVERS (Garrel, Fr)
RENAISSANCE (Volckman, Fr)
REPRISE (Trier, Nor)
REQUIEM (Schmid, Ger)
RESTART (Sevcik, Cz)
RETURN OF THE POET (Khachatryan, Arm)
THE RIGHT OF THE WEAKEST (Belvaux, Fr)
ROAD TO GUANTANAMO (Whitecross/Winterbottom, UK)
ROOM (Henry, US)
RUNNING ON EMPTY (Akinci, Ger)
RYNA (Zenide, Rom)
SCHNITZEL PARADISE (Koolhoven, Ned)
SEA OF ATTRACTIONS (Klava, Lat)
SEVERAL PEOPLE, LITTLE TIME (Baranski, Pol)
SHERRYBABY (Collyer, US)
SHOOTING DOGS (Caton-Jones, UK)
A SHORT LIFE (An, Kor)
SHUT UP AND SHOOT ME (Agro, Cz)
SKRITEK (Vorel, Cz)
SLUMMING (Glawogger, Aut)
A SOAP (Christensen, Den)
SOMEONE ELSE’S HAPPINESS (Troch, Ned)
SON OF MAN (Dornford-May, SA)
SPORTSMAN OF THE CENTURY (Alexander, Ned)
THE SPOT (Moroz, Rus)
STORM (Stein/Marlind, Swe)
THE SUBSTITUTE (Blanck/Palmgren, Swe)
SWAY (Nishikawa, Jap)
TANGO SALON, CONFITERIA IDEAL (Bokova, Arg)
TAXIDERMIA (Palfi, Hun)
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Reitman, US)
THIS GIRL IS MINE (Wagon, Fr)
TIDELAND (Gilliam, Can)
TIME (Kim, Kor)
TOMORROW MORNING (Novkovic, Ser)
TOUGH ENOUGH (Buck, Ger)
TRANSIT (Rogozhkin, Rus)
TSOTSI (Hood, SA)
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR (Faisst, Den)
TWO PLAYERS FROM THE BENCH (Sorak, Cro)
UNFOLDING FLORENCE (Armstrong, Aus)
THE UNFORGIVEN (Yoon, Kor)
THE VIOLIN (Quevedo, Mex)
VOLVER (Almodóvar, Sp)
THE WAKE (Grammatikos, Gr)
THE WEDDING CHEST (Egen, Kir)
THE WEDDING DIRECTOR (Bellocchio, It)
WELCOME TO NEW YORK (Perut/Osnovikoff, US)
WHEN THE ROAD BENDS (Dellal, US)
THE WHITE MASSAI (Huntgeburth, Ger)
WHITE PALMS (Hajdu, Hun)
THE WILD BLUE YONDER (Herzog, Ger)
WINTER JOURNEY (Steinbichler, Ger)
WRISTCUTTERS - A LOVE STORY (Dukic, US)
A YEAR IN MY LIFE (Duval, Fr)
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