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'Fascinating! Wacko!" is how Jean-Pierre Rehm, general delegate of the Marseille International Documentary Festival, described Morgan Dews's "Must Read After My Death," the winner of the International Competition's Grand Prix. This first film is also the first American film to be awarded the prize since Frederick Wiseman's "Public Housing" won in 1998.

Marseille is a festival that goes for gutsy gestures, a place for the iconoclastic. This year, a retrospective on the radical American filmmaker Robert Kramer showed his kind of personal documentary, from the way he captured post-Vietnam America in "Milestones" to "Our Nazi," shot on video. Today, many filmmakers find their incendiary matter at the core of family life.

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