BERLIN (AP) — A Norwegian movie about love, want and self-discovery received high honors on the seventy fifth Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant on Saturday.
A jury headed by American director Todd Haynes awarded the Golden Bear trophy to “Dreams (Sex Love)” by director Dag Johan Haugerud.
Haynes known as it a “meditation on love” that “cuts you to the quick with its keen intelligence.”
The movie focuses on a young person performed by Ella Øverbyer, infatuated along with her feminine French trainer, and the reactions of her mom and grandmother once they uncover her non-public writings. It’s the third a part of a trilogy Haugerud has accomplished prior to now yr. “Sex” premiered at Berlin in 2024, and “Love” was screened on the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant.
The runner-up Silver Bear prize went to Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s dystopian drama “The Blue Trail.” Argentine director Ivan Fund’s rural saga “The Message” received the third-place Jury Prize.
One of the best director prize went to Huo Meng for “Living the Land,” set in fast-changing Nineties China.
Rose Byrne was named greatest performer for her function as an overwhelmed mom within the Mary Bronstein-directed “If I had Legs, I’d Kick You.” Andrew Scott received the supporting performer trophy for taking part in composer Richard Rodgers in Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon.”
The climax of the pageant often called the Berlinale got here on the eve of Germany’s parliamentary elections after a marketing campaign dominated by migration and the financial system.
The nationwide election is being held seven months early, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition collapsed in a dispute about tips on how to revitalize the nation’s financial system.
Efforts to curb migration have emerged as a central problem within the marketing campaign — together with the query of tips on how to deal with the problem from the far-right Various for Germany, which seems to be on the right track for its strongest nationwide election consequence but.
