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Berlin (dpa) – Italian director Gianfranco Rosi has dedicated his Golden Bear to the inhabitants of Lampedusa

The 51st -year-old won with his refugee documentation “Fuocoammare” the main prize at the Berlinale. The people on the island have always been very open to accepting people who had arrived there, Rosi said Saturday evening in Berlin.

The award is for the first time in years on a documentary. “Fuocoammare” (German: Fire at sea) told in some hard-hitting images from the plight of refugees in the Mediterranean. Rosi lived for themselves on Lampedusa, where many people arrive in boats. He wanted to film there soon show, he told after the ceremony. One problem is only that there is no cinema.

“I hope that this film can lead to greater awareness that people are made aware,” Rosi said. He was born in Eritrea itself and came to Italy as a teenager. “We can not look the other way, because we are all responsible,” he warned. Oscar winner Meryl Streep, who was chairman of the jury this year, called his film “the heart of Berlin”.

The 66th International Film Festival showed aware many films that deal with current issues. In Rosis film to see what it meant to lose his home, said festival director Dieter Kosslick after Gala at Potsdamer Platz. Rosi was with in the boats and show us all over again in another way than the known images. “He is much closer.”

The Berlinale, which is this Sunday with an open house at the end, showed more than 400 films. A total of 18 films were in competition – eight of them were awarded. The only German contribution, the abortion drama “24 weeks”, was at the awards ceremony empty-handed. Italy had recently received a 2012 Golden Bear, last year, the Iranian film “Taxi Teheran” by Jafar Panahi was awarded the grand prize.

In addition to the Golden Bear there are many in silver. The Danish Trine Dyrholm was honored as best actress, she plays in Thomas Vinterberg’s “The Commune” (original: “Kollektivet”). A woman who wants to escape the boredom of their marriage by establishing a community

Best Actor was the Tunisians Majd Mastoura in “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”). For best director, the only 35-year-old French Mia Hansen-Løve was “The Future” with her film (original: “L’avenir”) awarded in which Isabelle Huppert plays a cool philosophy lecturer

. longest film of the Berlinale took eight hours “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful mystery” (roughly translated: A Lullaby for the painful secret) of the Philippines Lav Diaz. He won the Alfred Bauer Prize for innovative cinematography. Diaz thanked the Berlinale team that they had taken his film. “It was quite a risk for you The film lasts eight hours..”

Director Kosslick concluded as follows for the eleven-day festival, which also includes stars like US-Beau George Clooney had come: “The films touches people. and they have also determined made to think. ” 500 000. times people had gone to the movies, he said. “That’s a big statement for the art of cinema.”