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BERLINALE 2022 Awards

Carla Simón's Alcarràs bags the Berlinale Golden Bear

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- BERLINALE 2022: In a female-dominated spread of awards, other winners included Claire Denis, Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush and Mutzenbacher

Carla Simón's Alcarràs bags the Berlinale Golden Bear
Carla Simón clutching her Golden Bear for Alcarràs

The 72nd Berlinale ended tonight with an award ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, which saw nine of the eleven official feature-length film Competition and Encounters awards going to women.

Spanish director Carla Simón triumphed, walking away with the Golden Bear for her second feature film Alcarràs [+see also:
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. The award was presented by the president of the jury M. Night Shyamalan who read the following statement: "For its extraordinary performances from child actors to actors in their eighties, for its ability to show the tenderness and comedy of family and struggle, and for the portrayal of our connection and dependence on the land around us, the 2022 Berlinale Golden Bear goes to the movie Alcarràs."

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Simón, who previously scooped two prizes at the 2017 Berlinale via Summer 1993 [+see also:
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, enthused: "I consider myself a daughter of the Berlinale, this truly is my film home. Maybe I should just move here, because every time I come, something amazing happens." After thanking the festival, the jury, her team, and her cast of non-professional actors, as well as her family who, like the characters in the film, grow peaches in the titular Catalan village,  she added: "I would like to dedicate this award to small farming families who cultivate the land every day so that this fruit finds its way to our plates, because their way of doing so, through respecting the land, is probably a form of resistance today."

Korean director Hong Sang-soo nabbed the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for The Novelist's Film. This was his third award from the Berlinale, having won Best Director for The Woman Who Ran in 2020 and Best Screenplay for Introduction last year. The Silver Bear Jury Prize went to the Mexico-Argentina-US co-production Robe of Gems by Natalia López Gallardo.

French director Claire Denis bagged the Silver Bear for Best Director for Both Sides of the Blade [+see also:
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. The Silver Bear for Best Screenplay was awarded to Laila Stieler for Andreas Dresen's Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush [+see also:
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, and the lead actress from the film, Meltem Kaptan, won

the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance. The Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance went to Indonesian actress Laura Basuki for her role in Kamila Andini's Nana (Before, Now & Then).

Finally, Rithy Panh pocketed the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution on account of his conception and realization of Everything Will Be OK [+see also:
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, and Michael Koch’s A Piece of Sky [+see also:
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received a Special Mention.

In the Encounters section, Austria's Ruth Beckermann won the Best Film Award for her documentary Mutzenbacher [+see also:
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, while the Special Jury Award was handed to Mitra Farahani for See You Friday Robinson [+see also:
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. Swiss filmmaker Cyril Schäublin received the Best Director nod for Unrest [+see also:
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.

Myanmar Diaries [+see also:
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, the collective work of ten anonymous filmmakers from the country under military dictatorship, sccoped the Berlinale Documentary Award, while the GWFF Best First Feature Award went to Austria's Kurdwin Ayub for Sonne [+see also:
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.

Last but not least, the Golden Bear for Best Short Film went to another woman: Anastasia Veber, for Trap (Russia/Lithuania).

The awards:

Competition

Golden Bear
Alcarràs [+see also:
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interview: Carla Simón
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 - Carla Simón (Spain/Italy)

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
The Novelist's Film - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)

Silver Bear Jury Prize
Robe of Gems - Natalia López Gallardo (Mexico/Argentina/USA)

Silver Bear for Best Director
Claire Denis - Both Sides of the Blade [+see also:
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]
(France)

Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance
Meltem Kaptan - Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush [+see also:
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interview: Andreas Dresen
interview: Meltem Kaptan
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]
(Germany/France)

Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance
Laura Basuki - Nana (Before, Now & Then) (Indonesia)

Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Laila Stieler - Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Rithy Panh - Everything Will Be OK [+see also:
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interview: Rithy Panh
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]
(France)

Special Mention
A Piece of Sky [+see also:
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interview: Michael Koch
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]
- Michael Koch (Switzerland/Germany)

Encounters

Best Film
Mutzenbacher [+see also:
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interview: Ruth Beckermann
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]
- Ruth Beckermann (Austria)

Special Jury Award
See You Friday Robinson [+see also:
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- Mitra Farahani (France/Switzerland/Iran/Lebanon)

Best Director
Unrest [+see also:
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interview: Cyril Schäublin
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]
- Cyril Schäublin (Switzerland)

Shorts Competition

Golden Bear
Trap - Anastasia Veber (Russia/Lithuania)

Silver Bear Jury Prize
Sunday Morning - Bruno Ribeiro (Brazil)

Special Mention
Bird in the Peninsula - Atsushi Wada (France/Japan)

GWFF Best First Feature Award
Sonne [+see also:
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interview: Kurdwin Ayub
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]
- Kurdwin Ayub (Austria)

Berlinale Documentary Award
Myanmar Diaries [+see also:
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]
- The Myanmar Film Collective (Netherlands/Myanmar/Norway)
Special Mention
No U-Turn [+see also:
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]
- Ike Nnaebue (Nigeria/South Africa/France/Germany)


Photogallery 16/02/2022: Berlinale 2022 - Awards ceremony red carpet: winners and jury

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Carlo Chatrian, Claire Denis, Hadnet Tesfai, Hong Sang-soo, Kim Min-hee, María Zamora, Meltem Kaptan, Andreas Dresen, M. Night Shyamalan, Natalia López Gallardo
© 2022 Fabrizio de Gennaro & Dario Caruso for Cineuropa - fadege.it, @fadege.it, dario-caruso.fr, @studio.photo.dar, Dario Caruso
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