Grbavica Articles

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men Much has been said about the absence of a front-runner for this year's Academy Awards. Be that as it may, one film is clearly the favorite among the myriad film critics' groups in the United States. Directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men has been chosen the top film of 2007 [...]

There weren't many surprises at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival awards. One of this year's favorites, Jasmila Zbanic's Grbavica, the story of a 12-year-old girl (Luna Mijovic, above, hugging Mirjana Karanovic) who discovers that she is the end result of a Bosnian war crime — namely, rape — was awarded the Golden Bear for best film. Also on the political side, Michael Winterbottom and Mat [...]

2006 Berlin Film Festival Awards 2006 Berlin Film Festival: February 9–19, 2006 2006 Berlin Film Festival Winners Photos: © Berlinale 2006   Golden Bear : GRBAVICA, by Jasmila Zbanic Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix 2006 (ex-aequo): EN SOAP / A SOAP, by Pernille Fischer Christensen, and OFFSIDE, by Jafar Panahi Silver Bear – Best Director : Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, THE ROAD [...]

Moritz Bleibtreu in The Elementary Particles (top); Sandra Hüller in Requiem (bottom) More on the Berlin International Film Festival: Four German films will be screened in the Official Competition. They are: Oscar Roehler's literary adaptation Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles; Hans-Christian Schmid's exorcism drama Requiem; Matthias Glasner's Der Freie Wille / The Free Will, the story of a convicted rapist who is freed after 12 [...]