The Berlin International Film Fest commenced on Feb 11 .The festival's opening film "Tuan Yuan" (Apart Together) was attended by the festival’s jury president Werner Herzog plus a starry guest list from across European and Asian cinema.The fest concluded on 21 February. Here are the list of winners in major categories......
1. Golden Bear for Best Film" Honey "
Dir : Semih Kaplanoglu
Country:Turkey
Honey is the last installment of director Kaplanoglu's autobiographical "Yusuf Trilogy",The trilogy runs in reverse chronological order and Honey explores Yusuf's early childhood. In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life. His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, threatening his livelyhood.A bizarre accident kills the father.
2.Silver Bear - Grand Jury Prize"If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle "
Dir : Florin Serban
Country : Romania
The film focuses on an incarcerated young man who finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern.He takes her as a hostage shortly before he is to be released from the youth detention center.
3.Silver Bear for Best DirectorDir :Roman Polanski
Film: "The Ghost Writer "
Country :France
Synopsis:When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident.a former .Also a British cabinet minister accuses Prime minister Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA.As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA—and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind.Based on Robert Harris Novel 'The Ghost'.
Trivia :Director Polanski, who could not come participate in the awards ceremony for reasons by now known to all, sent an ironic message through one of his producers: "Even if I could come, I wouldn't. Because the last time I went to a festival to accept an award, I ended up in jail."
Earlier due to Polanski's arrest, the film's post-production was briefly put on hold, but he resumed work from house arrest at his Swiss villa.
4.Silver Bear for Best Screenplay"Apart Together"
Dir : Wang Quan'an
Country : China
The film touches on the themes of autumnal romance, bittersweet memory and self-sacrifice. Ling Feng , a civil war veteran who fled to Taiwan after Mao’s Communist revolution half a century ago. Now a newly widowed pensioner, he returns to the mainland with a Taiwanese tourist group with a secret scheme to rekindle his youthful romance with Qiao Yu’e , his great lost love and the mother of the son he has never met. The low-key family drama that follows finds history repeating itself, more as farce than tragedy, with flashes of lyricism and dry humour. Set in an increasingly globalised and modernised Shanghai.
5.Silver Bear for Best ActorGrigory Dobrygin
Film: "How I Ended This Summer "
Country :Russia
Synopsis :One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar station on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean. A day up here in the far north lasts weeks, since the sun never sets during the summer at this high latitude. This used to be an important research station but, Sergei, an experienced meteorologist and Pavel, a high school graduate, are now the only inhabitants. Soon a ship will arrive to pick up the two men. For Sergei this will mean the end of a sojourn that has lasted several years. He is anxious about returning to his wife and child on the mainland. And then one day Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren’t communicate to Sergei. Pavel does everything he can to keep the message from Sergei, in the hope that the ship’s arrival will relieve him of this particular task. Fear, lies and suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere.....
6. Silver Bear for Best ActressKoji Wakamatsu
Film : "Caterpillar"
Country :Japan
Synopsis :Durin the Second Sino-Japanese War, in 1940, Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home as a honoured and decorated soldier... but deprived of his arms and legs lost in battle in mainland All hopes, from the villagemen and women to close family members, turn to Shigeko, the Lieutenant's wife: she must honour the Emperor and the country in setting an example for all by fulfilling her duty and taking care of the 'god soldier'.But the war hero turns out to have been a wife-beater and rapist when wearing civilian clothes.
sources: Wikipedia,the guardian.
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