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Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop's documentary Dahomey, which examines the complicated points surrounding the return of antiquities looted by Europe to Africa, has gained the highest prize on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition.
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 on Saturday.
Diop mentioned the award “honors not solely me however the whole seen and invisible neighborhood that the movie represents”.
Al Jazeera's Dominic Kane, reporting from Berlin, mentioned the documentary “confronts a problem that has been on the forefront of many individuals's minds, not solely within the movie world however throughout Europe.
“Didahomy Benin focuses on the bronze and the wrestle to return these bronze medals. The entire idea of restoration, Kane mentioned, is what director Mati Diop talked about when accepting his award, the Golden Bear, on the competition.
South Korean arthouse favourite Hong Sang-soo captured the Runner-up Grand Jury Prize for A Traveler's Wants, his third collaboration with French display legend Isabelle Huppert.
Hong, a frequent competition visitor, joked as he thanked the jury, “I don't know what you noticed on this movie.”
French author Bruno Dumont accepted the third-place jury prize for The Empire, an area battle of excellent and evil in a French fishing village.
Dominican filmmaker Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias gained finest director for Pepe, his mysterious docudrama depicting the ghost of a hippopotamus owned by the late Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar.
Marvel movie star Sebastian Stan gained the Silver Bear for finest efficiency for his function within the American satire A Totally different Man.
Stan performs an actor affected by a genetic illness known as neurofibromatosis, which causes disfiguring tumors, who’s cured by a groundbreaking medical remedy.
The Romanian American star known as it “a narrative that isn’t solely about acceptance, identification and self-truth, but in addition about disfigurement and incapacity – a subject that has lengthy been ignored by our personal prejudices “.
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Emily Watson of the UK gained the Greatest Supporting Efficiency Silver Bear for taking part in the merciless mom in Small Issues Like These.
The movie, starring Cillian Murphy, is about one in all fashionable Eire's greatest scandals: the Magdalene laundry community of Roman Catholic penitentiary workhouses for “fallen ladies”.
She paid tribute to “the lives of hundreds of younger ladies ruined by the collusion between the Catholic Church and the state in Eire”.
German writer-director Matthias Glasner acquired the Silver Bear for Greatest Screenplay for his semi-autobiographical tragic comedy, Dying. The three-hour tour de drive options a few of the nation's high actors portraying a dysfunctional household.
The Silver Bear for Excellent Creative Contribution went to cinematographer Martin Gschlacht for the chilling Austrian historic horror movie, The Satan's Bathtub. It tells the story of depressed ladies within the 18th century who dedicated homicide earlier than being hanged.
A separate Berlinale Documentary Prize was given to the Palestinian-Israeli activist group No Different Land, about Palestinians displaced by Israeli troops and settlers within the occupied West Financial institution.
“Whereas accepting the award, the 2 individuals most concerned on this movie – one Israeli, one Palestinian – each spoke concerning the want for a right away ceasefire, and this concept has been raised by many others – some award recipients, (and ) ) Some individuals are presenting awards,” Ken mentioned.
Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Ngoc Lan's Qu Li By no means Cries gained the Greatest First Characteristic award. The movie tells the story of a girl who returns from Germany to Vietnam with the ashes of her estranged husband.
The Greatest Brief Movie award went to Argentina's Francisco Lezama's 'An Odd Flip', a few museum safety guard who predicts the rise within the worth of the greenback with a pendulum.
The Berlinale, because the competition is understood, ranks alongside Cannes and Venice amongst Europe's high cinema showcases.
Final yr, one other documentary, Golden Bear, was from France, On the Adamant, a few floating day-care middle for individuals with psychiatric issues.