“This film is the best example of the Berlinale means today, in February 2016.” It was with these words that Meryl Streep, president of the jury, awarded the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin Film Festival Fuocoammare , Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary about the crisis of refugees on Lampedusa. A film “urgent, imaginative and necessary” in the actress’s words, that “requires taking place in front of us and stirs our involvement and our action.”
But also a film that fits no surprises in the line “politics” involved, a festival that lived many years in the shadow of the Wall. Upon receiving the award, the Italian director (already winner of the Golden Lion in Venice for Sacro GRA in 2013) dedicated his film to “those whose travels hope never arrived in Lampedusa” and the inhabitants of island “for 23 years open their hearts to those who come there.”
it was the Golden Bear was announced since the film was then shown at the beginning of the event, given the constant presence of the crisis refugees on the front pages of the newspapers and activist vocation of Berlin – the festival including this year placed boxes in all festival venues, encouraging viewers to contribute to helping those seeking refuge in Europe. The delivery of the awards ceremony, on Saturday night, had given signs that, with two awards in the short film competition to go to movies about refugees ( Anchorage Prohibited , Taiwanese Chang Wei Yang, and the Man Returned , the Lebanese Mahdi Fleifel).
Soon after, however, the Golden Bear for short goes to one of two Portuguese films in competition, Balada a Batrachian Leonor Teles, playful exploration in ten minutes for superstition, misunderstanding and xenophobia towards the Roma, the subject of superstition to put dishes of frogs at the doors of shops to keep out Gypsies. In the words genuinely surprised the young filmmaker – born in 1992, is the youngest winner ever of a Golden Bear, Roma by the father – “I never thought that a film as silly could win an award like this.” Even silly the movie has nothing
And suddenly the question:. Due to the presence of War Letters Ivo Ferreira in the main competition, will be going repeat 2012? The year John Salaviza won the Golden Bear for the short Rafa and Miguel Gomes premium Alfred H. Bauer for a film that “opens new perspectives for film art” by Tabu ? After all, that’s not what happened: the Alfred Bauer was for eight hours of The Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery of Lav Diaz (premium Filipino filmmaker dedicated to “all those who believe that cinema can change the world “) – and the second short Leonor after Rhoma Acans (awarded at IndieLisboa and Vila do Conde 2013) stood as the only Portuguese film to leave Berlin in 2016 with premium
the jury of the main competition – composed, as well as Meryl Streep, actress Alba Rohrwacher by photographer Brigitte Lacombe, the director Malgorzata Szumowska, the actors Clive Owen and Lars Eidinger and the critic Nick James – known “divide bad for the villages “with some elegance, a year in which the official competition has not fulfilled many of its promises. The Bosnian Danis Tanovic repeated with Death in Sarajevo the Grand Jury Prize three years after An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker ; the new film adapts a piece of French thinker Lévy and questions the future of the European project from the open wounds in the Balkans, taking advantage of the centenary of the First World War. France’s Mia Hansen-Løve won the achievement award for L’Avenir, thanking Isabelle Huppert in the role of a teacher who sees her life crumble in slow motion.
the Danish Trine Dyrholm was best actress in the Commune Thomas Vinterberg, about a couple who form a Community authority in Denmark in the 1970s, and Majd Mastoura Tunisian best actor in the title role of Hedi , Mohamed Ben Attia, about a young Tunisian corseted by their routine life, a film that also received the award for best first feature film awarded by a separate jury.
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