Cinema: 70th Berlinale crowns Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof

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The Berlinale, animated by a renewed management team, did not fail in its reputation of political festival by rewarding at the end of its 70th edition once again the Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof.

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It had already been awarded in Cannes in 2017 for Un homme Integré . The filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof is this time rewarded in Berlin for a film on the death penalty, seen by the executioners and the victims, There is No Evil , which wins the Golden Bear. An award for a film on a taboo subject, awarded to the Iranian director who is prohibited from leaving his country and filming since his previous feature film which had also earned him a prison sentence. Iranian filmmakers are also regularly rewarded in Berlin since in 2015, Jafar Panahi won the Golden Bear with T axi Tehran , succeeding Asghar Farhadi in 2011 for A Separation .

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Another award-winning film, that of the American Eliza Hittman, Never rarely sometimes always , crowned with the Silver Bear. He follows in the footsteps of a teenage girl, Autumn, who goes to New York to have an abortion. Another sensitive subject.

Documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh was awarded for his documentary "Irradiated" at the 70th Berlinale on February 29. REUTERS / Annegret Hilse

Among the other films rewarded by the jury chaired by the British comedian Jeremy Irons, the French duo Benoît Delépine-Gustave Kerven with Erase history a comedy about our digital habits (Special silver bear for the 70th edition of the festival) and in another register, Irradiated by the Cambodian documentary maker Rithy Panh , prize for the best documentary, which confronts the viewer with poignant images of Hiroshima and the Shoah.

The South Korean Hang Sang-soo was finally crowned best director for The Woman Who Ran , with his favorite actress Kim Min-hee. Other prizes, those of the Italian Elio Germano and the German Paula Beer, rewarded for their respective roles in Hidden away , the portrait of a marginal Italian painter and Undine , aquatic fable by Christian Petzold.

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The prize list of the 70th Berlinale

Golden Bear for Best Film, There is no Evil by Iranian Mohammad Rasoulof
Grand Jury Prize, Silver Bear: Never Rarely Sometimes Always by the American Eliza Hittman
Silver Bear for Best Director: Hang Sang soo for The woman who run (South Korea)
Silver Bear for Best Actress: German Paula Beer in Christian Petzold's Undine
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Italian Elio Germano for Hidden away ( Volevo nascondermi )
Silver Bear for Best Artistic Contribution: Jürgen Jürges for DAU Photography . Natasha by Ilya Khrzhanovsky and Jekaterina Oertel
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay: Favolacce ( Bad Tales ) by Fabio and Damiano D'Innocenzo (Italy)
Silver bear marking the 70th anniversary of the Berlinale: Erasing the history of Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kerven (France)
Best Documentary Award: Irradiés by Rithy Panh (France)

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