The heart of the Berlinale – esslinger-zeitung.de

Berlin – The rousing refugee drama “Fuocoammare” won the Berlinale first time in decades a documentary the Golden Bear. Italian director Gianfranco Rosi (51) dedicated the award 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. 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. The Berliner Festspiele showed in its 66th edition aware many films that deal with current policy issues.

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best Actress, the famous Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (43) was 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 Milosci”) also directed

For the eight-hour marathon work “. A Lullaby to the Sorrowful mystery “(roughly translated: A Lullaby for the painful secret). it was the Alfred Bauer prize for innovative film art

in total, at the unusually meaty Festival in eleven days more than 400 watch movies, 18 were running in international competition. A large contingent of Stars, led by US-Beau George Clooney, caused a stir. Even before days more than 300 000 Karten were sold. Yesterday the Berlinale went with an open house at the end.