“The greatest tragedy of humanity after the Holocaust.” – So called the Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi (58) the current plight of refugees. ” / p>
His harrowing documentary “Fuocoammare” (translated: fire at sea) on the boat people in Lampedusa has won the Golden bear at the Berlinale on Saturday – as many expected and hoped for. The international jury Oscar winner Meryl Streep sat thus a clear political signal. The much-discussed only German competition entry “24 weeks” went away empty-handed.
Gianfranco Rosi, himself born in Eritrea, told in the hard-hitting film from everyday life on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, arriving at the years hundreds of thousands of people seeking protection. He contrasted idyllic scenes from everyday life of the islanders with moments that show the horror fleeing on small, overcrowded boats. Even before images of real death, he does not shrink. At the award ceremony in Berlin he said: “. At this moment my thoughts go to all those who have not managed to arrive on Lampedusa, the island of hope”
The fact that the jury for the first time for more than 60 years a documentary for the top trophy chose, perhaps also a sign that can be in the face of tragedy images from real life effective, gripping and sustainable as a staged game. “Fuocoammare” also received the film award from Amnesty International and the Ecumenical Jury Prize. Streep called the film “the heart of Berlin”
With the slogan “right to happiness”, the festival had in its 66th edition aware the current issues of war, flight and exclusion prescribed -. Even if the Glitter factor with celebrities such as George Clooney, Tilda Swinton & amp; Co was large
The jury followed the political claim with the grant of its Grand Prix (Silver Bear) at the feature film “Death in Sarajevo”. (Original: “Smrt u Sarajevu”). The Bosnian director Danis Tanovic entangled in stories from the present time to search for assassination in Sarajevo in 1914, which is considered as a trigger of the First World War. This film was the audience also very popular.
When Schauspielerkür a arrivierter Star and a newcomer prevailed. With the election of the popular Danish Trine Dyrholm (43) for best actress, the jury should have been talking to the spectators from the heart. Your role as a late hippie in Thomas Vinterberg’s thoughtful comedy “The Commune” (original: “Kollektivet”) is touching intensity
The young Tunisians Majd Mastoura succeeds in “Hedi” (original:. “Inhebbek Hedi” Mohamed Ben Attia) to reflect the conflict between tradition and renewal in his home with a lot of strength convincing from the state.
For the actresses prices the German duo Julia Jentsch and Bjarne Mädel was also been traded. Your emotional game in the abortion drama “24 weeks” had caused a lot of Gesprächssstoff
But both they as well as the acclaimed for their courage director Anne Zohra Berrached had to do without price blessing -. A downer for German cinema. The highly anticipated, twisted in English Fallada adaptation “Every Man Dies Alone” was already flunked.
Otherwise, seemed the jury trying the widest possible scatter prices in the unusually meaty competition among the nations , Eight of a total of eighteen competition films were honored with an award – almost a bit too much too thinly
For the best director a Silver Bear went to France to Mia Hansen-Løve for woman portrait “The Future” (original:. “L’avenir”) with Isabelle Huppert in the lead role. The not very strong film may have received from the jury a woman now. In total there were only two films by women directors in the race
Very rightly the Alfred Bauer Prize went to the Philippine mammoth work “A Lullaby for the painful secret” ( “A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery”).: the award is intended to promote new perspectives in the art of film. Director Lav Diaz had set new standards with the eight-hour long epic revolution. A large part of the audience did not bring enough seating meat on, the others were heavily inspired by the highly stylized storytelling.
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