The 60th Berlin International Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of the Chinese Competition film “Tuan Yuan” (Apart Together) in the Berlinale Palast on February 11, 2010. “Yuan” is the latest film by Wang Quan’an, who also participated in the Berlinale Competition in 2007 with “Tuya de hun shi” (Tuya’s Marriage), which won the Golden Bear. “Tuan Yuan” tells the story of a great love, while depicting the …...
- 1/19/2010
- Indiewire
BERLIN -- Tuya's Marriage, by Chinese director Wang Quan'an, was the surprise winner of this year's Golden Bear for Best Film at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival.
The Golden and Silver Bears were presented Saturday night at a gala ceremony at the Berlinale Palast.
The story of a Mongolian shepherd forced by encroaching industrialization to abandon the steeps for the city, Marriage 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 trophy from jury president Paul Schrader, Wang said he couldn't 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, Hiam Abbass and Mario Adorf, producer Nansun Shi and film editor Molly Malene Stensgaard.
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.
American films didn't go home entirely empty-handed, with Robert De Niro's CIA drama The Good Shepherd winning a special Silver Bear for the performance of the film's ensemble, which included De Niro, Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie.
The Golden and Silver Bears were presented Saturday night at a gala ceremony at the Berlinale Palast.
The story of a Mongolian shepherd forced by encroaching industrialization to abandon the steeps for the city, Marriage 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 trophy from jury president Paul Schrader, Wang said he couldn't 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, Hiam Abbass and Mario Adorf, producer Nansun Shi and film editor Molly Malene Stensgaard.
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.
American films didn't go home entirely empty-handed, with Robert De Niro's CIA drama The Good Shepherd winning a special Silver Bear for the performance of the film's ensemble, which included De Niro, Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie.
- 2/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Chinese New Year got off to a spectacular start in Berlin when director Wang Quan'an was awarded the film festival's top honor, the Golden Bear, for Tuya's Marriage. The Chinese movie, which is set in Inner Mongolia, was named on Saturday. A thrilled Wang said, "A very beautiful dream has become reality for me here. Perhaps this is the last glance at the herds people of the region. Ultimately they are going to disappear into the cities. I think that it is important, particularly in this time when the economy is booming, to ponder and reflect on what we're losing." US-born Israeli Joseph Cedar took Best Director for his war drama Beaufort at the film festival, while Best Actor and Actress prizes went to Julio Chavez (The Other) and Nina Hoss (Yella) respectively. Actor-turned-moviemaker Robert De Niro also had a share of the accolades - The Good Shepherd, his drama on the origins of the CIA intelligence service, won for Outstanding Artistic Contribution.
- 2/19/2007
- WENN
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