BERLIN :'On the Adamant,' a documentary about a floating daycare centre in Paris for adults with mental disorders, won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear award on Saturday.Accepting the Berlinale's top prize, director Nicolas Philibert said he was deeply touched by the jury's decision to award it to a doc
BERLIN :"On the Adamant," a documentary about a floating daycare centre in Paris for adults with mental disorders, won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear award on Saturday.
"That documentary can be considered cinema in its own right touches me deeply," he said."For 40 years I have always fought for it to be seen as much."
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