Spanish Drama ‘Alcarràs’ Wins Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival

“Alcarràs” was one of the last Competition titles to unspool at the festival, but emerged as a hot favorite for the Bear following yesterday’s premiere, with unanimous critical adoration for her unassuming but emotionally stirring film, featuring an ensemble of entirely non-professional actors.for its “bristling political conscience [balanced] against its tenderly observed domestic drama.

The second-highest honor, the Grand Jury Prize, went to South Korean helmer Hong Sangsoo for his wry, conservational comedy of manners “The Novelist’s Film” — on which the prolific multi-hyphenate takes solo directing, writing, producing, lensing, editing and scoring credit. He accepted the prize together with his personal and professional partner, Kim Minhee, who takes a leading role in this story of artists working out their creative blockages together.

The Competition winners were rounded out by an Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award for Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s experimental dystopian vision “Everything Will Be OK” and a special mention for Swiss director Michael Koch’s austere Alpine tragedy “A Piece of Sky.” The awards ceremony concludes the press portion of this year’s Berlinale, which was structurally compressed this year due to COVID-19, with all films in the programme premiering in the fest’s first seven days — while the remainder of the event, which ends on Sunday, will be made up of repeat screenings for the public.

Corinne van Egeraat, the lead producer of documentary winner “Myanmar Diaries,” accepted the award on behalf of the ten “very brave young filmmakers in Myanmar,” who had risked their lives to shoot the film in the military-controlled country, and are unnamed for their own safety. Fellow producer Petr Lom said: “We know, we are absolutely certain, that this film will be a weapon, because you filmmakers have taught us that cinema on the side of justice will move mountains.

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