Berlin 8.15pm/7/15pm GMT
AMERICAN Director Todd Haynes’ jury presented the top award here to filmmaker Dag Johan and producers Yngve Sæther, Hege Hauff Hvattum for ‘Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love))’.
There was a British win in the Sliver Bear Performance award for Rose Byrne in ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You‘ by Mary Bronstein and Andrew Scott won Silver Bear for Best Supporting Actor in the Richard Linklater film, ‘Blue Moon.‘
The Silver Bear Grand Jury Award went to ‘The Blue Trail‘, by Gabriel Mascaro, while the Silver Bear Jury went to ”The Message I Die Nachricht‘ by Iván Fund. The Silver Bear for Best Director was awarded to Huo Meng ‘Living the Land‘.
Romanian Radu Jade won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for the film, ‘Kontinental ’25‘. The Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution was presented to the filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović and her team behind, ‘The Ice Tower‘.
The Jury chairman this year was Haynes and he was supported by Nabil Ayouch, Fan Bingbing, Bina Daigeler, Rodrigo Moreno, Amy Nicholson, Maria Schrader.
Chinese star Bingbing caused quite a stir on her Red Carpet entry with many excited fans in the public section.
All the above awards were presented this evening in the main Berlin Palast cinema – earlier ‘Lesbian Space Princess‘ by Aussies Leela Varghese and her partner, Emma Hough Hobbs won the Best Feature Award Teddy Awards, recognising films in the LGBTQIA+ screened at the festival.
We will have more on this film, ‘Letters from Wolf Street’, ‘Village Rockstars 2’ and the fest in general and an overall wrap coming soon!
We haven’t seen any of the above films and these are the English titles from the official awards document.
The festival officially ends tomorrow (February 23) – mainly with screenings from award-winning films – it is also the day of Germany’s General Election and several winners worried about the direction the country may take.
More here: https://www.berlinale.de/en/home.html
The picture is from the world premiere screening of ‘Yunan’ earlier in the festival and in the centre of the picture is Tricia Tuttle, who is the new director of the festival and is known to UK audiences for her similar role at the London Film Festival (LFF).
