On Saturday evening at the Berlinale Palast, have beed announced winners at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival. At this edition, the festival opened with Rebecca Miller’s latest She Came to Me, starring Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig, Brian d’Arcy James, and Anne Hathaway. Actress Kristen Stewart headed the international competition jury of five women and two men. This year’s Honorary Golden Bear was handed to Steven Spielberg. ‘20,000 Species of Bees’ star Sofía Otero becomes the youngest-ever winner of Berlin’s Silver Bear for best leading performance. Berlin was the first major film festival to introduce gender-neutral acting awards. The German trans actress Thea Ehre took the Silver Bear for best supporting performance, in Christoph Hochhäusler’s transgender crime romance Till the End of the Night.
Here is the full list of winners:
Golden Bear for Best Film
On the Adamant dir. Nicolas Philibert
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
Afire, dir. Christian Petzold
Silver Bear Jury Prize
Bad Living, dir. João Canijo
Silver Bear for Best Director
Philippe Garrel for The Plough
Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance
Sofía Otero for 20,000 Species of Bees, dir. Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s
Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance
Thea Ehre for Till the End of the Night, dir. Christoph Hochhäusler’s
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Music, dir. Angela Schanelec
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Cinematographer Helene Louvart for Disco Boy, dir. Giacomo Abbruzzese
Encounters Awards
Best Film
Here, dir. Bas Devos
Best Director
Tatiana Huezo for The Echo
Special Jury Award (ex aequo)
Samsara, dir. Lois Patiño/Orlando, My Political Biography, dir. Paul B. Preciado
GWFF Best First Feature Award
The Klezmer Project, dirs. Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann
Berlinale Documentary Award
The Echo, dir. Tatiana Huezo
Berlinale Short Film Awards
Golden Bear Best Short Film
Les chenilles, dirs. Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany
Silver Bear Jury Prize
Dipped in Black, dirs. Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch
