Turkish film "Bal" wins Golden Bear
The Turkish film "Bal" a small boy and his father is the winner the 60th Berlinale. Roman Polanski won the Silver Bear for best director for "Ghost Writer".
It was a "very significant results', jury president Werner Herzog: Bal ( honey ) of the Turkish Director Semih Kaplanoglu is the best film of the 60th Berlinale. The story of a little boy and his father, a beekeeper, won the Golden Bear.
The Silver Bear for best director went to Roman Polanski for his film The Ghost Writer . The French-German-British co-production deals with the former British prime minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who wants to publish his memoirs. His ghost writer (Ewan McGregor) feels that he has assumed a dangerous job, as long accused is before the International Court in The Hague because he suspected terrorists is said to have delivered to the CIA.
Producers Robert Benmussa and Alain Sarde took the award on behalf of Polanski. Sarde said he had spoken with the director, who is currently in Switzerland, under house arrest. "Polanski said," Even if I could, I would not come, because last time I went to a festival, I was arrested. "Polanski was the end of September 2009 on the way to Zurich richer Film Festival has been arrested. The reason was an existing warrant of arrest since 1978 by U.S. authorities against Polanski, who have raped more than 30 years in California, a 13-year-old should.
The Grand Jury Prize, also a Silver Bear, presented the actress and jury assessor Renée Zellweger Romanian Florin Serban, director for his film debut If I want to whistle I whistle . The drama about a juvenile offender who takes an extreme decision to allow his younger brother a better life, was also still won the Alfred Bauer Prize. This prize is awarded in memory of the founder of the Berlin Film Festival for a feature film, the horizons of film art opened. The 35-year-old director said he dedicated his film to the children, their mothers have never met. "
winner of the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlinale: the Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu
Best actress was awarded Japan's Shinobu Terajima for her role as wife of a crippled Kriegsveteranan in the film Caterpillar . The director Koji Wakamatsu took the award on behalf of his leading lady who could not even come to Berlin.
The Silver Bear for best actor was awarded this year to two, to the two protagonists of the Russian movie How I Ended This Summer , Grigori Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis. They play two men working together on a polar station in the Arctic Ocean.
How I Ended This Summer was also honored with another Silver Bear for outstanding artistic achievement of the cameraman. On behalf of Pavel Kostomarov took the director Alexei Popogrebsky accepted the award.
The Silver Bear for best screenplay went to the opening film Apart Together Chinese director Wang Quan'an, who also wrote the screenplay. The filmmaker, who had three years ago, the Golden Bear for Tuya's Wedding won told in Apart Together by a couple that was due to the separation of China and Taiwan separated from each other for decades and in age finds. Wang dedicated the film in the city of Berlin: "I wanted to capture in my film a century, a country that is separated, people who are separated," he said at the awards ceremony.
The € 55,000 prize at the highest prize at the Berlinale went to the Best First Film: The Swedish youth drama Sebbe the director Babak Najafi. The film, which ran in the Berlin Youth "Generation", deals with the problems of a 14-year-old boy in a bleak Swedish suburbs.
26 films took part in this year's Berlinale Competition. Overall, at the 10-day film festival nearly 400 productions to be seen from many countries.
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