The company of Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis is for the second time in a few months at the awards of another major festival after the Golden Palm won by Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sorrow” at Cannes
The Silver Bear for Screenplay of the 73rd Berlin Film Festival was awarded to Angela Sanelek’s film “Music”, which was shot for the most part in Greece, Gytheon and Evia. Argyris Xafis and Marissa Triantafyllidou appear among others in the film, in which the Greek Heretic is the executive producer. Thus the company of Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis is for the second time in a few months at the awards of another major festival after the Golden Palm won by Ruben Ostlund’s “Triangle of Sorrow” at Cannes, which was also filmed in Greece. While our country is emerging as one of the most competitive film destinations for major international co-productions.
The Golden Bear for best film at this year’s Berlinale was awarded to Nicolas Philibert’s documentary “On the Adamant”, in which the veteran French filmmaker introduces us to a floating day care center for people with mental disorders in the heart of Paris. It is one of the rare times that a documentary receives an award at a major festival, but Philibert’s film moved the jury and the audience because it raised the issue of mental illness with honesty, directness and humanity. The creator himself, accepting the Golden Bear from the president of the jury, Kristen Stewart, said: “Don’t forget that crazy people are not always who we think.”
The Jury’s Grand Prize went to German Christian Petzold’s Afire, a dramedy about four young people vacationing in a summer cottage on the Baltic Sea while forest fires rage around them. The committee also awarded the film “Bad Living” by Joao Canillo. The Director Award went to France’s Philippe Garrel, who returned to the Berlinale with “The Plow”, a family drama in which all three of the director’s children (Louis, Esther and Lena Garrel) star together for the first time. The awards for first role went to Sofia Otero for her performance in “20,000 species of Bees” and second role to Tea Ere for her participation in “Till The end of the night”. The Silver Bear for Artistic Contribution went to Hélène Louvard for Giacomo Ambruzzese’s ‘Disco Boy’, starring the excellent Franz Rogowski.
One of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema, Angela Sanlek, who in 2019 was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlinale, especially loves Greece, she has filmed in our country in the past and in “Music” she deals with the myth of Oedipus .
The film tells the story of a boy who was found in a herd in the Greek mountains and adopted by a couple without knowing his biological parents. As a teenager, he kills a peer for a trivial reason and is sent to the reformatory. There he falls in love with a prison officer, unaware of her true identity. The sequel is as dramatic as Sophocles’ play. The director, however, prefers an elliptical narrative with minimal dialogue, influenced by the films of Robert Bresson. It is a poetic film with many symbolisms that may initially alienate you, but as soon as you enter its universe, it seduces you.
The film, co-produced by Germany, France and Serbia, stars Aliosa Schneider, Agat Bonitzer, Frida Tarana, Argyris Xafis, Marissa Triantafyllidou, Stamatis Baknis, Eleni Chalastani and others.
Source :Skai
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