BERLIN -- Tuya's Marriage, by Chinese director Wang Quan'an is the surprise winner of this year's Golden Bear for best film at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival.
The story of a Mongolian sheepherder forced by encroaching industrialization to abandon the steeps for the city, the film stars Yu Nan. It was picked from among 22 In Competition films in what most observers called the best Berlinale lineup in years.
Accepting the golden statuette from jury president Paul Schrader, Wang Quan'an said he could not imagine a better gift for Chinese New Year.
"When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people's dreams." he said. "This film made my dreams come true."
German actress Nina Hoss won the best actress Silver Bear for her bravura performance as an East German woman trying to escape unemployment and a violent husband by fleeing to the West in Christian Petzold's well-received Yella.
"I was sure it was going to go to Marianne Faithfull," said a clearly surprised Hoss, referring to the British pop icon who was widely tipped to win for her performance in Irina Palm as a woman who turns to a job in a sex club to pay her grandson's hospital bills.
Another surprise was the best actor Silver Bear, which went to Argentina's Julio Chavez for his role in Ariel Rotter's The Other.
Chavez's subdued performance as a man who takes on a new identity after his father dies and his wife becomes pregnant, won over this year's jury which included actors Gael Garcia Bernal, Willem Dafoe, Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi, veteran German actor Mario Adorf and Danish film editor Molly Malene Stensgaard.
The Other also won the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix.
The best directing Silver Bear went to Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar for his drama Beaufort, about the last Israeli military unit to leave Lebanon in 2000.
U.S. films didn't go home entirely empty-handed, with Robert DeNiro's CIA drama The Good Shepherd winning a special Silver Bear for the film's ensemble performance, which included DeNiro, Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie.
David Mackenzie won a Silver Bear for the use of music in his film Hallam Foe, the story of a young boy investigating the suspicious nature of his mother's death.
The story of a Mongolian sheepherder forced by encroaching industrialization to abandon the steeps for the city, the film stars Yu Nan. It was picked from among 22 In Competition films in what most observers called the best Berlinale lineup in years.
Accepting the golden statuette from jury president Paul Schrader, Wang Quan'an said he could not imagine a better gift for Chinese New Year.
"When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people's dreams." he said. "This film made my dreams come true."
German actress Nina Hoss won the best actress Silver Bear for her bravura performance as an East German woman trying to escape unemployment and a violent husband by fleeing to the West in Christian Petzold's well-received Yella.
"I was sure it was going to go to Marianne Faithfull," said a clearly surprised Hoss, referring to the British pop icon who was widely tipped to win for her performance in Irina Palm as a woman who turns to a job in a sex club to pay her grandson's hospital bills.
Another surprise was the best actor Silver Bear, which went to Argentina's Julio Chavez for his role in Ariel Rotter's The Other.
Chavez's subdued performance as a man who takes on a new identity after his father dies and his wife becomes pregnant, won over this year's jury which included actors Gael Garcia Bernal, Willem Dafoe, Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, Hong Kong producer Nansun Shi, veteran German actor Mario Adorf and Danish film editor Molly Malene Stensgaard.
The Other also won the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix.
The best directing Silver Bear went to Israeli filmmaker Joseph Cedar for his drama Beaufort, about the last Israeli military unit to leave Lebanon in 2000.
U.S. films didn't go home entirely empty-handed, with Robert DeNiro's CIA drama The Good Shepherd winning a special Silver Bear for the film's ensemble performance, which included DeNiro, Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie.
David Mackenzie won a Silver Bear for the use of music in his film Hallam Foe, the story of a young boy investigating the suspicious nature of his mother's death.
- 2/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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