Vienna 2006

"Honor of the Knights" by Albert Serra

The Viennale, a tribune of independent world cinema, showed a carefully picked selection of new films which stand apart from the esthetics of mainstream conventionality. So did the prize-winning, very individual Cervantes-version Honor of the Knights (Honor De Cavalleria) by Spanish director Albert Serra.

Details of the prize
Viennale: October 13 — 25, 2006
Web: www.viennale.at

Reports:

The Long Take. The number of films at this year's Viennale that used the long take as a stylistic device gave Ronald Bergan time to contemplate their effectiveness. Read the report

Battles of Honour and Humanity. Mark Peranson reviews Albert Serra's Quixotic Experiment. Read the review

The Raptures: Nothing is unchangeable. Dominik Kamalzadeh reviews two new German films shown at the Viennale - Stefan Krohmer's Summer '04 (Sommer 04 an der Schlei) and Ulrich Köhler's Windows on Monday (Montag kommen die Fenster) – “a strong sign of a new, self-assured German cinema.” Read the report

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