“Dahomey”, a documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing the thorny points surrounding Europe’s return of looted antiquities to Africa, received the Berlin movie pageant’s prime prize Saturday.
Kenyan-Mexican Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o introduced the seven-member panel’s selection for the Golden Bear award at a gala ceremony within the German capital.
Diop stated the prize “not only honors me but the entire visible and invisible community that the film represents”.
South Korean arthouse favourite Hong Sang-soo captured the runner-up Grand Jury Prize for “A Traveller’s Needs”, his third collaboration with French display screen legend Isabelle Huppert.
Hong, a frequent visitor on the pageant, thanked the jury, joking “I don’t know what you saw in this film”.
French auteur Bruno Dumont accepted the third-place Jury Prize for “The Empire”, an intergalactic battle of excellent and evil set in a French fishing village.
Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias received finest director for “Pepe”, his enigmatic docudrama conjuring the ghost of a hippopotamus owned by the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.
Marvel film star Sebastian Stan picked up the most effective efficiency Silver Bear for his look in U.S. satire “A Different Man”.
Stan performs an actor with neurofibromatosis, a genetic illness inflicting disfiguring tumors, who’s cured with a groundbreaking medical therapy.
The Romanian-American star referred to as it “a story that’s not only about acceptance, identity and self truth but about disfigurement and disability — a subject matter that’s been long overlooked by our own bias”.
Britain’s Emily Watson clinched the most effective supporting efficiency Silver Bear for her flip as a merciless mom superior in “Small Things Like These”.
The movie, starring Cillian Murphy is about considered one of fashionable Ireland’s greatest scandals: the Magdalene laundries community of Roman Catholic penitentiary workhouses for “fallen women”.
She paid tribute to the “thousands and thousands of young women whose lives were devastated by the collusion between the Catholic church and the state in Ireland”.
German writer-director Matthias Glasner took the Silver Bear for finest screenplay for his semi-autobiographical tragicomedy “Dying”. The three-hour tour de pressure options a few of the nation’s prime actors depicting a dysfunctional household.
The Silver Bear for excellent creative contribution went to cinematographer Martin Gschlacht for the chilling Austrian historic horror film “The Devil’s Bath”. It tells the story of depressed ladies within the 18th century who murdered in an effort to be executed.
A separate Berlinale Documentary Award went to a Palestinian-Israeli activist collective for “No Other Land”, about Palestinians displaced by Israeli troops and settlers within the West Bank.
“Cu Li Never Cries” by Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Ngoc Lan received the most effective first function prize. It tells the story of a girl who returns to Vietnam from Germany with the ashes of her estranged husband.
Best brief movie went to “An Odd Turn” by Argentina’s Francisco Lezama a few museum safety guard who predicts a surge within the dollar’s worth with a pendulum.
The Berlinale, because the pageant is understood, ranks with Cannes and Venice amongst Europe’s prime cinema showcases.
Last 12 months, one other documentary took house the Golden Bear, France’s “On the Adamant” a few floating day-care centre for folks with psychiatric issues.
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