Favorite Undistributed Films Of 2006

[oscar jubis]

The number of quality films available solely at festivals and import dvd seems to grow every year. This year I include a separate list of documentaries.

1) Como Pasan Las Horas/Hours Go By (Ines de Oliveira Cesar, Argentina)
2) Accused (Jacob Thuesen, Denmark)
* O Veneno da Madrugada/In The Evil Hour (Ruy Guerra, Brasil)
* Noticias Lejanas/News From Afar (Ricardo Benet, Mexico)
5) Madeinusa (Claudia Llosa, Peru)
6) Le Couperet/The Axe (Costa-Gavras, France)
* El Viento/The Wind (Eduardo Mignogna, Argentina)
8) Crime Delicado/Delicate Crime (Beto Brant, Brasil)
* Mezcal (Ignacio Ortiz, Mexico)
* The Night of Truth (Fanta Regina Nacro, Burkina Faso)

Runners-Up

A Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo, Korea)
Cafe Transit/Border Cafe (Kambuzia Partovi, Iran)
Las Vueltas del Citrillo/The Citrillo's Turns (Felipe Cazals, Mexico)
Stolen Life (Li Shaohong, China)
Princess Raccoon (Seijun Suzuki, Japan)
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallee, Canada)
Whisky Romeo Zulu (Enrique Pineyro, Argentina)
Everlasting Regret (Stanley Kwan, China)
Vida en Color/Life in Color (Santiago Tabernero, Spain)
Perhaps Love (Peter Chan, China)
The Master (Piotr Trzaskalski, Poland)
Thirst (Tawfik Abu Wael, Palestine)
Green Tea (Zhang Yuan, China)
En la Cama/In Bed (Matias Bize, Chile)
One Night (Niki Karimi, Iran)
Roma (Adolfo Aristarain, Argentina)
El Metodo Gronhold/ The Method (Marcelo Pineyro, Spain)

DOCUMENTARIES

1) Black Sun (Gary Tern, UK)
2) Lover Other (Barbara Hammer, USA)
3) La Dignidad de los Nadies/The Dignity of the Nobodies (Fernando Solanas, Argentina)
4) In The Pit (Juan C. Rulfo, Mexico)
5) Echoes of War (Joop Van Wijk, Netherlands)
* The Giant Buddhas (Christian Frei, Switzerland)
7) GITMO:The New Rules of War (Grandini and Saleh, Sweden)