A-listers such as Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren and Steven Spielberg celebrated the Berlinale film festival's first full-format, 11-day programme since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
The Berlin film festival awards its top prizes on Saturday, including the Golden Bear for best picture, after a star-studded run that highlighted freedom struggles in Iran and Ukraine.
The Berlinale, alongside Cannes and Venice, is among Europe's top cinema showcases. This year in its 73rd edition, the festival marked the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine with a focus on Ukrainian cinema. Several films from Asian directors are among the top contenders, including "Past Lives", a continent-spanning love story by Korean-Canadian first-time filmmaker Celine Song.
"Although one might feel weary in advance to hear 'Suzume' is yet another anime in which a young person is enlisted into a struggle to save their family/hometown/Japan/the world, this one's a keeper," the HollywoodChinese director Liu Jian also premiered an animated film at the festival, the semi-autobiographical "Art College 1994".
"Arthouse audiences worldwide should respond to the pathos, breadth and humanity of a film that takes a while to build but, when it does, never loses its grip," said Screen Daily.The film on Saturday picked up two independent jury prizes ahead of the main awards, from the Guild of German Art House Cinemas and the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper.
"Afire" from German director Christian Petzold, about a group of friends whose holiday retreat to the Baltic coast goes horribly wrong, also won praise.
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