Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)
Six past winners of the Golden Bear, the Berlinale’s top prize, Zoomed in at noon, European time, to announce that they had decided to award the 2021 Golden Bear to Radu Jude’s
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. In a statement read by Nadav Lapid (
Synonyms, 2019), the jury, whose other members are Ildikó Enyedi (
On Body and Soul, 2017), Adina Pintilie (
Touch Me Not, 2018), Mohammad Rasoulof (
There Is No Evil, 2020), Gianfranco Rosi (
Fire at Sea, 2016), and Jasmila Žbanić (
Grbavica, 2006), explained that Jude’s film “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.”