The Berlinale yesterday handed his Golden Bear “Fuocoammare” the heartbreaking film by Italian Gianfranco Rosi on the plight of refugees who daily risk their lives to reach the island of Lampedusa, tailored to a festival he more than fulfilled its mandate to support the political cinema
the tragedy of a Mediterranean become an immense tomb. – “the greatest catastrophe since the Holocaust” in the words of Rosi- won the top award, while the rest of the honors splashed alert messages to other conflicts of this, in the Balkans and North Africa.
“Smrt u Sarajevu” ( “Death in Sarajevo”), the Bosnian Danis Tanovic and the open wounds in that part of Europe, won the Special Jury Prize, while the Tunisian “Hedi” won the the best First Film and the Silver Bear for his actor, Majd Mastoura with a character plucked from the transformation began with the Arab spring.
the jury chaired by American actress Meryl Streep and stuck to the rules of the Berlinale, the selection of 18 candidates was devoted, with few exceptions, to design a geopolitical map conflicts of this or their roots.
the immigration crisis is dominant theme inside and outside the framework of the festival in the capital of Germany, which in 2015 received 1.1 million refugees, with logistical problems and political tensions that this has led to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“Fuocoammare” is a warning cry from the situation of an island of 20 square kilometers at which they arrived, dead or alive, men, women and children, 400,000 refugees in recent years.
Rosi, who brought up on stage to the doctor of the island on which it bases its story, Pietro Bartolo, triumphed with a film that combines documentary part . and fiction
It was the clear favorite and obtained, in addition to gold, -of several awards from independent juries Amnesty International and the readers of the newspaper “Berliner Morgenpost” among others -.
not surprisingly, neither the Special Jury Tanovic, whose film makes the Hotel Europa in the Bosnian capital in a microcosm of the Balkan cauldron, actively preparing for the anniversary of the bombing Franz Ferdinand of Austria, 28 June 1914, historical trigger for the First World War.
His portrayal of the conflict still in force in that part of Europe also won the FIPRESCI international critics and was returning to a festival where Tanovic in 2013 he won and the Special Jury Prize and Silver Bear for actor Nazif Mujic with “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker”.
La Plata for best actress went to Denmark’s Trine Dyrholm by “Kollektivet” (the Commune), a nostalgic vision of libertarian utopia of the seventies. It is also an indirect tribute to its director, Thomas Vinterberg, representative of a film, Scandinavian, spoiled by the festival.
The Silver Bear to the director of “L’Avenir”, Mia Hansen-Løve it was, conversely, a way to reward your actress, Isabelle Huppert in the role of a woman who, disillusioned with her husband enters other things, seek answers refuge in the interior.
Highlights also the Alfred Bauer ( “a Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery”) the largest Award, in memory of the founder of the festival, the Filipino “Hele Sa Hiwagang hapis”, an award that recognizes the courage of this beautiful film film the history of the competition in Berlin with eight hours.
the gala of the 66th edition of the Berlinale was sober, devoid of long speeches and marked by continuous references to refugees.
the issue has been present throughout the festival, in which at the beginning of each session the audience that when leaving the room could deposit your donation for the refugees at the ballot box placed in cinemas is remembered.
Streep debut as president of the jury and was hailed as the hero of the festival since he stepped on his opening red carpet, on the 11th, until today went back into the Berlinale Palast for the gala Bears.
it was the only worthy leader of an edition of the Berlinale little profuse stardom.
After the show today, tomorrow Berlinale devoted one last day to Day Espectador, a custom the house is a reminder that, unlike what happens in the elitist Cannes, the common public is the sign of identity of the festival
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