Berlinale 2017 winners

According to the News afsanehezendegimedia, the Hungarian film “On Body and Soul” won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The film, directed by Ildiko Enidi, also won the FIPRESCI Prize and the World Church Award at the festival.
Enidi had previously won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989 with the film “My 20th Century”
On the last night of the Berlin Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize went to the film “Felisty” directed by Alan Gomis. Meanwhile, the Alfred Bauer Silver Bear is awarded every year at the Berlin Film Festival to a work that opens a new perspective on the art of cinema. This award was given at the 67th Berlinale to the film “Footprints” by Agnieszka Holland

Aki Kaurismäki, a renowned Finnish filmmaker who announced on the sidelines of the Berlin Film Festival that he would no longer make films, won the Silver Bear for Best Director for his film “The Other Side of Hope

The Berlin Film Festival is considered the largest film festival in the world in terms of public attendance, with half a million people attending and over 300,000 tickets sold

Austrian actor Georg Friedrich won the Silver Bear for Best Actor for his role in the film “Bright Nights,” and Kim Min-hee won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film “Alone at Night on the Beach.l

The script for “Extraordinary Woman” won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlinale for Sebastian Lillo and Gonzalo Maza. The Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution went to Dana Bonescu for the editing of “Ana, Mon Amour

The jury, consisting of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julia Jentsch, Diego Luna, Olafur Eliasson, Dora Bosco Frati, and Wang Quannan, chaired by Paul Verhoeven, selected the winners of this year’s Berlinale awards

Meanwhile, Carla Simon won the festival’s Best First Film award for her film “Summer 1993,” and the Goldschütte Award for Feature Documentary was awarded to “Ghost Hunt,” directed by Raed Anzuni

While Diego Costa Amarante’s “Little Town” won the Silver Bear for Best Short Film, the Audi Short Film Award went to Karam Hossein’s “Death Street,” and the Silver Bear for Short Film Jury Prize went to Esteban Aranguiz-Jullin’s “Dreaming in the Meadow