Berlin Film Festival celebrated its 70th anniversary this year, and it was truly an event to remember. The prestigious festival came to an end this weekend, and the Golden Bear went to the There Is No Evil director Mohammad Rasoulof.
This poignant drama consists of four interact stories that explore “the crucial themes of moral strength and the death penalty” in Rasoulof’s home country of Iran.
The list of major winners at the festival also included Eliza Hittman, who collected Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and Hong Sang-soo who was awarded the Silver Bear for best director for her work on The Woman Who Ran.
The 70th Berlin International Film Festival took place from February 20th to March 1th, with Jeremy Irons serving as the president of the jury.
FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT 2020 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL:
GOLDEN BEAR BEST FILM
There Is No Evil, dir: Mohammad Rasoulof
SILVER BEAR GRAND JURY PRIZE
Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Hong Sang-soo, The Woman Who Ran
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS
Paula Beer, Undine
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR
Elio Germano, Hidden Away
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST
SCREENPLAY
Bad
Tales, dirs: Damiano & Fabio D’Innocenzo
SILVER BEAR FOR OUTSTANDING
ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION
Jurgen Jurges for the cinematography in DAU. Natasha
SILVER BEAR SPECIAL PRIZE OF
THE 70TH BERLINALE
Delete
History, dirs: Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kerven
ENCOUNTERS
BEST FILM
The
Works And Days (Of Tayoko Shiojiri In The Shiotani Basin), dirs: CW
Winter and Anders Edström
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
The
Trouble With Being Born, dir: Sandra Wollner
BEST DIRECTOR
Cristi Puiu, Malmkrog
Matías Piñeiro, Isabella (Special Mention)
BERLINALE DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Irradiated,
dir: Rithy Panh
Notes
From The Underworld, dirs: Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (Special
Mention)
GWFF BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD
Los
Conductos, dir: Camilo Restrepo
Naked
Animals, dir: Melanie Waelde (Special Mention)
GOLDEN BEAR BEST SHORT FILM
T,
dir: Keisha Rae Witherspoon
SILVER BEAR JURY PRIZE SHORT
FILM
Filipiñana,
dir: Rafael Manuel
SHORT FILM AWARD
Genius
Loci, dir: Adrien Mérigeau
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED
Prizes of the Ecumenical Jury
There
Is No Evil, dir Mohammad Rasoulof (Competition)
Father,
dir: Srdan Golubović (Panorama)
Zero,
dir: Kazuhiro Soda (Forum)
FIPRESCI
Undine,
dir: Christian Petzold (Competition)
The
Metamorphosis Of Birds, dir: Catarina Vasconcelos (Encounters)
Mogul
Mowgli, dir: Bassam Tariq (Panorama)
The
Twentieth Century, dir: Matthew Rankin (Forum)
