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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.”
Little Girl Review: A Trans Girl Grows Into Herself in a Lovely, Light-Filled Documentary Little Girl Review: A Trans Girl Grows Into Herself in a Lovely, Light-Filled Documentary
Veteran French docmaker Sébastien Lifshitz is in top form in a transgender character study that pitches familial strength against community resistance.
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Near the beginning of “Little Girl,” the camera sits quietly in on a ballet class for second-grade girls. Among them is seven-year-old Sasha Kovac, in a dark T-shirt and tights that contrast starkly with the other girls’ papery white dresses. She moves gracefully but warily, her eyes more on her fellow dancers’ movements than her own, her arms threatening to break expressively free but not quite achieving liftoff. An instructor brusquely tells Sasha to stop watching the others, but it’s easy to see why she can’t: She seems to be palpably outside this class, looking for a way in.
Fred Bailif's Swiss drama 'La Mif takes top honors in Berlin 2021 Generation sidebar, with a special mention for Dash Shaw's animated feature 'Cryptozoo.'
Annemarie Jacir s Gaza Drama Wins Top Berlinale Co-Production Market Award
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Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s Gaza-set drama “The Oblivion Theory” has won the top prize at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
Presented by Paris-based Incognito Films and Berlin’s One Two Films, the film is based on José Eduardo Agualusa’s novel “A General Theory of Oblivion,” although the book’s story has been moved from Angola to Palestine during the First Intifada, the sustained protests by Palestinians against Israel occupation that lasted from 1987 to 1993.
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The film centers on an American woman who accidentally gets stuck in an apartment in Gaza at the outbreak of the protests, becoming an unlikely witness and survivor in a country in the midst of massive upheaval.