San Francisco 2006

American filmmaker Ryan Fleck won the Critics' Prize for his debut feature film Half Nelson about an idealistic Brooklyn teacher.

The festival (April 20 — May 4, 2006): www.sffs.org

Details of the prize

Reports:

Independent Spirit. Rainer Gansera searches for the spirit of independant cinema in the New Directors competition and finds it in Ying Liang's Taking Father Home. Read

Recent French movies and North Africa. Luc Chaput observes how the Algerian war and its consequences are at the center of recent French productions: Alain Tasma's October 17 1961, Serge Le Péron's I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed and Philippe Faucon's The Betrayal. Read

Addictions. John Anderson reviews Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson, the film which received our prize. Read

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