Berlinale winner: political awards

The winners of the 58th International Film Festival

Director José Padilha (M.) with festival director Dieter Kosslick (l.), Jury president Constantin Costa-Gavras and producer Marcos Prado (r.)

Gold for director José Padilha and his "Tropa de Elite" (Elite). The film shows the brutal fight of a special unit of the military police against the drug mafia in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. After the premiere in autumn 2007, Brazilian media director Padilha accused, his film has fascist features. "My film shows how extreme violence comes in. He shows it to criticize it, we do not glorify anything," Padilha countered.

Best movie

In his home is "Tropa de Elite" a blockbuster. More than 2.5 million Brazilians saw the movie in theaters, previously 11.5 million pirated copies. Only for the second time in the history of the Berlinale did the Golden Bear to a movie from Latin America.

Best actress

Sally Hawkins

Your movie is called "Happy-Go-Lucky", An apt motto for Sally Hawkins, The British actress was overjoyed and very touched when she gave the Silver Bear for the best actress was allowed to take.

Sally Hawkins plays in "Happy-Go-Lucky" Mike Leigh, the cheerful elementary school teacher Poppy, who always thinks positively and tries to make a smile to their friends and fellow human beings in the day. Not always easy in an unfriendly, fast-moving and anonymous world ...

Best Actor

Reza Najie

Reza Najie is the only professional actor in the Iranian movie "Avaze Gonjeshk-Ha" ("The Song of the Sparrows") by Majid Majidi. For his presentation he got the Silver Bear as best actor.

In "The Song of the Sparrows" plays Reza Najie the father of three, Karim, who works on an ostrich farm. His existence wavers when one of the valuable animals escapes and he is blamed for it ...

Grand Prize of the jury

Errol Morris

"Standard Operating Procedure": Errol Morris' work on human rights violations in the former Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad has been handed down Grand Prize of the jury.

Twelve photos from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad changed the war in Iraq in April 2004 and had serious consequences for the US self-image. They showed how Iraqi prisoners were humiliated and tortured by American soldiers. The army personnel assigned as prison staff had taken the pictures themselves. Errol Morris approaches in "Standard Operating Procedure" the meaning of these images by examining the photos in their context.

Best director and best music

Paul Thomas Anderson

Two Silver Bears do not make a Golden one yet: Paul Thomas Anderson, Director of "There Will Be Blood", seemed almost a little disappointed that this time for him "only" one Silver bear for the best director and not - as in 2000 in the case of "Magnolia" - the Golden Bear for Best Picture. As a consolation he got another one Silver Bearfor a outstanding artistic achievement, Was awarded to the music in "There Will Be Blood," for which Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead is responsible. Do not be sad, Mr Anderson, at the Oscars they will certainly shine in the end.

Paul Thomas Anderson "There Will Be Blood" tells the story of US oil magnate Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) in less than three hours.

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Best script

Wang Xiaoshuai

The Silver Bear for the best screenplay went to the Chinese movie "Zou You" ("In Love We Trust") by director Wang Xiaoshuaiwho also wrote the screenplay.

In "Zou You" 5 year old hehe gets leukemia. Only a bone marrow transplant can save them, but neither father nor mother can be considered donors. The parents decide to father another child who would be predestined to donate. But that is not easy: The two are divorced for a long time and live in new relationships ...

Alfred Bauer Prize

Fernando Eimbcke

In memory of the founder of the festival every year is the Alfred Bauer Prize awarded for a feature film that opens up new perspectives on film art. Lucky winner this year: the Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke.

In his movie "Lake Tahoe" tells Fernando Eimbke from the odyssey of a young man who causes an accident after the death of his father in his car. In search of spare parts for the car, he encounters different people who help him face the death of his father.

Best first film

Director Kumasaka Izuru with producer Keiko Araki

When best first film has been "Asylum - Park and Love Hotel" the Japanese director Kumasaka Izuru excellent.

At the center of the movie "Asylum - Park and Love Hotel" stands Tsuyako. Even though she looks cool and reserved to the outside, she is the soul of the Hound Hotel, which she has been running alone since her husband disappeared many years ago. Schoolchildren, young parents and retirees from the neighborhood provide a change in their everyday routine, making them use the idyllic roof of the house in the middle of Tokyo like a park ...

Independent Juries Award Ceremony | Berlinale 2018 (May 2024).