Monday, February 21, 2005

AFTER THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2005

My personal awards for the Berlin Film Festival:
BEST FILMS: Sorstalanság (Fateless), Paradise Now, In Good Company
BEST DIALOGUE: Patrick Marber in Asylum
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Kong que (The Peacock)
BEST FEMALE LEAD: Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl - die letzten Tage)
BEST MALE LEADS: Michel Bouquet (Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars), Marcell Nagy (Sorstalanság)
BEST EXHIBITION: Stanley Kubrick
BEST COMEDY: Hitch
BEST GERMAN FILMS: Gespenster, Sophie Scholl - die letzten Tage
BEST FINNISH FILMS: Brasileirinho, Eläville ja kuolleille
THE MOST MOVING MOMENT: Imre Kertesz and Marcell Nagy presenting Sorstalanság in Berlinale-Palast, next to the former Hitler headquarters
There was a profile and an identity to the main series of the Berlin Film Festival. It was openly and inspiringly political. The horror of the past was faced in several films as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the victory over Fascism. Both Rwanda films (Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April) connected this theme to the present. Also Kinsey has an important subterranean connection to these matters.

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