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Refresh for latest…: The Berlin Film Festival is unveiling its Competition winners this afternoon following five days of virtual screenings. Given the ongoing pandemic, this year was a hybrid event that included the European Film Market and the competition films being made available only to industry delegates and the international jury from March 1-5. Berlin
film profile], about a sex video complicating the life of a teacher. “It s a film that has that rare and essential quality of a lasting artwork,” read Lapid. “It captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time, of this very moment of human existence. It does so by provoking the spirit of our time by slapping it, by challenging it to a duel. It attacks the spectator, evokes disagreement, but leaves no one with a safety distance.”
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The Berlinale's winner will grab headlines for being a "Romanian sex-tape movie." But Radu Jude's work lives up to Berlin's political reputation, says DW's Elizabeth Grenier.
Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Wins Golden Bear at Berlinale
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize goes to “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” by Ryusuke HamaguchiBrian Welk | March 5, 2021 @ 7:36 AM
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“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,” a modern day satire from Romanian director Radu Jude, won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlinale, or the Berlin International Film Festival.
“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” tells the story of a school teacher who finds her reputation under threat after her personal sex tape is leaked onto the Internet, with her refusing to give into pressure from parents to step down. The film challenges the ideas of hypocrisy and prejudice in our society. The jury for the festival said it had the “rare and essential quality lasting art work.”