Chinese movie tops Berlin Film Festival
A Chinese movie, Tuya's Marriage, has captured the Golden Bear award for best film at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival.
The awards ceremony in Berlin on Saturday night capped a week of screenings. About 350 movies were shown during the 10-day festival.
Tuya's Marriage, directed by Wang Quan'an, tells the story of a Mongolian shepherdess who goes in search of a new husband when her own falls sick and she becomes too ill to support him.
German actress Nina Hoss received the award for best actress in Yella by German director Christian Petzold.Hoss, a surprise winner, expressed her own shock.
"My heart's beating like crazy," Hoss said and added that she had expected frontrunnerMarianne Faithful to take home the prize for her performance in Irina Palm.In Yella, Hoss portrays a woman who is haunted by her past as she navigates the ruthless world of business.
Faithful's turn as a middle-class London grandmother who takes a job as a hostess in the city's sex industry to help pay her sick grandson's medical bills hadreceived a lot of buzz during the week.
The best actor prize went to Julio Chavez for his performance in the Argentine movieEl Otro, which also got the special jury Silver Bear. El Otro follows a man who takes on the identity of a dead man.
Meanwhile, the award for outstanding artistic achievement went to the American CIA movie The Good Shepherd directed by Robert DeNiro and starring Matt Damon.
The award winners were selected by an international jury led by U.S. screenwriter and director Paul Schrader.