By rousing refugee drama “Fuocoammare” won the Berlinale first time in decades a documentary the Golden Bear. Italian director Gianfranco Rosi (51) dedicated the award on Saturday at a gala in Berlin contacting people on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, where every year hundreds of thousands of refugees seek protection. Jury President Meryl Streep called the film “the heart of Berlin”. . The only German entry in the Competition, the abortion drama “24 weeks”, went away empty-handed
Rosi, three years ago, also honored for a documentary the Golden Lion of Venice, told German in “Fuocoammare” (: fire at sea) in some hard-hitting images from the plight of refugees in the Mediterranean. “At this moment my thoughts go to all those people who have not managed to arrive in Lampedusa – the Island of Hope,” Rosi said before some 1,600 guests at the Berlinale Palast
The Italian Culture Minister Dario. Franceschini commented proud of the award. “This film is shaking the world and reminds us of the need to address the refugee crisis jointly and human,” he explained. Recently Italy in 2012 had received a Golden Bear.
The Berliner Festspiele showed in its 66th edition aware many films that deal with current policy issues. By Friday 25,000 euros for refugees were gathered at the festival. Last year, the persecuted Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won with his tragicomedy “Taxi” the Golden Bear.
As a best actress known Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (43) was on Saturday in Thomas Vinterberg’s film “The Commune “(original:” Kollektivet “) prevail. Best Actor was the Tunisians Majd Mastoura in the history of emancipation “Hedi” (original: “Inhebbek Hedi”). He devoted his bear the “martyrs of the revolution”, he said. “We have no freedom without all the blood they have shed.”
The Grand Jury Prize was given to the Bosnian director Danis Tanovic for “Death in Sarajevo” (original: “Smrt u Sarajevu”). The only 35-year-old French Mia Hansen-Løve won with her film “The Future” (original: “L’avenir”) a Silver Bear for best director. Isabelle Huppert stars as a cool philosophy lecturer
cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing took the award for the best artistic work with the poetic Chinese river Movie “counterflow” (original: “Changjiang Tu”).. The award for best screenplay won the Pole Tomasz Wasilewski, who in his film “United States of Love” (original: “Zjednoczone Stany miłości”) also directed
For the eight-hour marathon work “. A Lullaby to the Sorrowful mystery “(roughly translated: A Lullaby for the painful secret) there was the Alfred Bauer prize for innovative cinematography. “I dedicate the award to all filmmakers who believe that cinema can change the world”, the Filipino director Lav Diaz.
said total were at the unusually meaty Festival in eleven days more than 400 films see 18 running in international competition. A large contingent of Stars, led by US-Beau George Clooney, caused a stir. Even before days were sold over 300,000 tickets.
Jury President Streep got multiple enthusiastic applause, kisses and declarations of love. “We are elated and energetic face of all the great films that we have seen,” she said.
On Sunday the Berlinale went with an open house at the end.
dpa
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