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Best Latin American Film of 2006. This special prize of FIPRESCI will be presented to Brazilian filmmaker Karim Ainouz and his film Suely in the Sky. 

Jury members were Mario Naito (Cuba), Jorge Jellinek (Uruguay), Jorge Morales (Chile), Marcelo Janot (Brazil) and Diego Lerer (Argentina). Karim Ainouz will receive the prize on March 17, at the closing ceremony of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina. 

"Here we are facing a fiction that came to us almost as a documentary, opening our eyes to real people not yet translated in cinematographic clichs to an easy explanation of the drama they are living", writes Jose Carlos Avellar