Berlinale 2009

I'll keep posting some awards and festivals  butnot many as they are countless but I'll do it when feeling in festival's mood.

This time I'll post about Berlin Film Festival.  The awards were annouced yesterday night. There is a list of great films to have a look.  This year's most important award (The Golden Bear) was awarded to a Latin American film and director!! Well done! It is her second film and apparently it's really a great job (what else can you expect from someone with such a beautiful name!!)

Golden Bear for Best Film:

La Teta Asustada (The Milk Sorrow) by Claudia Llosa, Peru-Spain

Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Priz

Alle Anderen (Everyone else) by Maren Ade, Germany

Gigante by Adrian Biniez, Argentina-Uruguay-Germany-Spain

Silver Bear for Best Director:

Asghar Farhadi for Darbareye Elly (About Elly), Iran

Silver Bear for Best Actress

Birgit minichmayr in Alle Anderen (Everyone else), Germany

Silver Bear for Best Actor

Sotigui Kouyate in London River, UK

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution

for the Sound-Design of Katalin Varga, Romania-UK-Hungary

Silver Bear for Best Script

for The Messenger, USA

Alfred Bauer Prize

Adrian Biniez for Gigante, Argentina-Uruguay-Germany-Spain

Andrzej Wajda for Tatarak (Sweet Rush), Poland

Just one last word to mentioned that Tilda Swinton is the Jury President of The International Jury of the Berlinale 2009.