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Ok, here is finally my own list with the best films of 2006. As usual, I won't list a Top Ten, but several lists, alongside a complete line-up of all "new" films I saw last year. 
Enjoy.

Best Films of 2006 (in order of preference)

01. Au-del de la haine Beyond Hatred (Olivier Meyrou / France / 2005) [97] 
02. Batalla en el cielo Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas / Mexico, Belgium, France, Germany / 2005) 
03. Cach Hidden (Michael Haneke / France, Austria, Germany, Italy / 2005) 
04. The New World [135min. version] (Terrence Malick / USA / 2005) 
05. Le chiavi di casa The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio / Italy, France, Germany / 2004) 
06. Kaalpurush Memories in the Mist (Buddhadev Dasgupta / India / 2005) 
07. Amour neutre Love Neutral (Pierre Coulibeuf / France / 2005) 
08. "...Es wird jemand kommen der ja zu mir sagt" Ruth (Michael Blume / Germany / 2006) 
09. Mizu no hana Water Flower (Yusuke Kinoshita / Japan / 2005) 
10. In Between Days (So Yong Kim / USA, Canada / 2006) 
11. 46-okunen no koi Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (Takashi Miike / Japan / 2006) [
12. La-bas Down There (Chantal Akerman / Belgium, France / 2006) 
13. Babooska (Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel / Austria, Italy / 2005) 


Then there were films which I probably rated too low when I saw them, and which I need to revisit. The first category is for films that could make it on my best list with a second viewing (the first three will imo become "Classics" in the future). The second one are just films which probably deserve a higher rating.

Need to see again 

01. Il regista di matrimoni "The Wedding Director" (Marco Bellocchio / Italy / 2006) [70] 11.14.06 
02. Invisible Waves (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang / Thailand, Netherlands, South Korea, Hong Kong / 2005) [65] 2.14.06 
03. Le conseguenze dell'amore "The Consequences of Love" (Paolo Sorrentino / Italy / 2004) [71] 11.13.06 
04. (16.) La science des rves "Science of Sleep" [german dubbed version] (Michel Gondry / France, Italy / 2005) [67] 10.15.06 ________________________________________________

01. Babooska (Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel / Austria, Italy / 2005) [72] 2.13.06 
02. Visul lui Liviu "Liviu's Dream" (Corneliu Porumboiu / Romania / 2004) [63] 2.14.06 
03. Sommer '04 "Summer '04" [wrong aspect ratio] (Stefan Krohmer / Germany / 2006) [58] 11.16.06 
04. Lucy (Henner Winckler / Germany / 2006) [58] 2.14.06 
05. Kinetta (Yorgos Lanthimos / Greece / 2005) [45] 2.15.06 


And as always, there are the inevitable number of films which are remarkable and should be seen, but didn't quite make it onto the top list.

Recommended Films 

01. Offside (Jafar Panahi / Iran / 2006)
02. Lenz (Thomas Imbach / Switzerland, Germany / 2006) 
03. Kan shang qu hen mei "Little Red Flowers" (Yuan Zhang / China, Italy / 2006) 
04. Aus der Ferne "From far away" (Thomas Arslan / Germany / 2006) 
05. Profils paysans: le quotidien (Raymond Depardon / France / 2004) 
06. Meninas "Teen Mothers" (Sandra Werneck, Gisela Camara / Brazil / 2005) 
07. Sobhi Digar "Another Morning" (Nasser Refaie / Iran / 2006) 
08. Jane's Birthday Trip (Etienne Kallos / USA / 2005) 
09. Vers le sud "Heading South" (Laurent Cantet / France, Canada / 2005) 
10. Dealer (Benedek Fliegauf / Hungary / 2004) 
11. Dave Chapelle's Block Party (Michel Gondry / USA / 2005) 
12. Les oiseaux du ciel "Birds of Heaven" (Eliane de Latour / France, Ivory Coast, UK / 2005) 
13. Be ahestegi... "Gradually..." (Maziar Miri / Iran / 2005) 
14. Sexo e claustro "Sex and Cloister" (Claudia Priscilla / Brazil / 2005) 
15. Dear Pyongyang (Yong-hi Yang / Japan / 2005)