Leonor Teles wins Golden Bear for Short Film in Berlin – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

Ballad of a Batrachian , the Portuguese director Leonor Teles wins Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlin Film Festival. This is the second short Leonor.

Leonor film was in competition at the Berlinale Shorts beside Freud und Friends, Gabriel Abrantes.

Ballad of a Batrachian is an exploration of the mythology of the Roma community, which continues the work that Leonor won in 2013 Take one prize in the Short Vila do Conde with Rhoma Acans . At the center of this eleven-minute short is practice, common in Portugal, the use of ceramic frogs by the owners of shops and cafes to keep out members of the Roma community who are superstitious respect of frogs. Roma by the father, Leonor wanted to denounce this xenophobic behavior.

In 2012, the Portuguese director João Salaviza was also awarded the Berlin Golden Bear for short film Rafa .

The Golden Bear for Best Feature Film went to the movie Fuocoammare the Italian Gianfranco Rosi, one Italian-French co-production about the situation of refugees on the island of Lampedusa, as a kind of microcosm Europe. It was considered the favorite. The Silver Bear is the Grand Jury Prize – this year chaired by Meryl Streep – was for the film Death in Sarajevo the director Danis Tanovic, a co-production between France and Bosnia-Herzegovina .

the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a film that opens new perspectives was given to the Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery , a work of eight hours of Filipino Lav Diaz, a cool on the history of the Philippines. The jury awarded the prize for Best Director the French Mia Hansen-Love, who presented the competition film L’avenir and the stage thanked the “energy” of his actress Isabelle Huppert.

the Best Actress was the Danish Trine Dyrholm, interpreter of the Commune by Thomas Vinterberg (the Hunt) co-production between Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. And the award for Best Actor went to the Tunisian Majd Mastoura, the film Inhebbek Hedi , who dedicated the award to the Tunisian revolution. The film was also named Best First Work.

He was also given the award for Best Screenplay ( Tomasz Wasilewski by United States of Love ) and the Silver Bear for outstanding Artistic Contribution (Mark Lee Ping-Ling, director of photography of the Chinese film Crosscurrent ).