The winners were awarded at the Berlin Film Festival
The jury of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival awarded the winners. The main prize - "The Golden Bear" was given to a melodrama from Hungary called “ On Body and Soul ” ("On Body and Soul"). The action of the picture, and therefore the novel of the main characters, takes place in a slaughterhouse. Aki Kaurismaki, the Finnish director for the movie "The Other Side of Hope", which is about Syrian refugees, was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director. The Grand Prix of the Berlin Festival was awarded to director Alain Gomis from Senegal, who presented the drama "Felicite", which tells the story of a resident of Kinshasa who is trying to cure her seriously ill child. The Berlinale's acting awards went to Korean Kim Min-hee, who starred in On the Beach at Night Alone, about the romance of a girl and a married man, and Australian Georg Friedrich, who played the main role in the movie "Bright Nights" by German director Thomas Arslan, dedicated to the difficult relationship between his father and his son who grew up without his participation. The Grand Prix of the international jury was awarded to a joint German-Ukrainian project called "School No. 3", which tells about the everyday life of schoolchildren in Donbass. The Topic of Article: The winners were awarded at the Berlin Film Festival. |
