Berlin 2007 Articles

Yu Nan in Tuya's Marriage "When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people's dreams. This film made my dreams come true," remarked Chinese director Wang Quan'an upon accepting the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear for his rural drama Tuya's Marriage, a portrait of the social and environmental costs of China's unbridled economic growth. In Tuya's Marriage, a woman (Yu Nan) living [...]

2007 Berlin Film Festival Awards 2007 Berlin Film Festival: February 8–18, 2007 Berlin 2007 Winners   International Competition Golden Bear for the Best Film: Tu ya de hun shi / Tuya's Marriage by Wang Quan'an Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix: El Otro / The Other by Ariel Rotter Silver Bear – Best Director: Joseph Cedar for Beaufort Silver Bear – Best Actor: Julio [...]

Peeping jane Marianne Faithfull tries to see if there's a best actress Silver Bear awaiting her on the other side of the glory hole. In The Guardian, Geoffrey Macnab interviews Marianne Faithfull, whose Irina Palm, the story of a woman who becomes a sex worker in order to get money for her sick grandson, was screened at the Berlinale: "Irina Palm is far less voyeuristic [...]

Goodbye Bafana by Bille August At Berlin's Cinema for Peace charity event attended by Richard Gere, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lee, and Bob Geldorf this past Monday, a one-minute segment from a short video by Sergiu Matei was shown. Matei's film depicts a Sept. 30, 2006, incident in which Chinese border police opened fire on Tibetan refugees attempting to flee the country. Gere, a relentless Tibet [...]