Mohammed Rasouof's Iranian drama 'There Is No Evil,' a powerful rebuke to the brutal and repressive regime in Tehran, has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival berlinale2020
, a powerful rebuke to the brutal and repressive regime in Tehran, has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival.is the third Iranian film to take Berlin's top prize in the past decade, following Jafar Panahi'sRasouof was prevented from attending the Berlinale, as he is banned from leaving Iran. He is also banned from working as a director. He shotis a bracing portrayal of life in modern-day Iran.
, a seemingly simple tale of a woman visiting old friends but who may have ulterior motives.
Best screenplay honors went to Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo, Italy's answer to the Coen Brothers, for their dark comedyJürgen Jürges took the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic achievement for his lensing of Russian experimental filmThis year, Berlin also awarded prizes for its inaugural Encounters section, a sidebar meant to "support new voices in cinema and to give more room to diverse narrative and documentary forms in the official program."from directors C.W.
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