2024 Berlin Film Festival Winners List

“Dahomey”

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DahomeyFrench-Senegalese director Mati Diop’s documentary “” won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.

This multifaceted documentary essay explores the return of the looted royal treasures of the African Kingdom of Dahomey from Paris to the current Republic of Benin in November 2021, and explores the complexities of the more culturally developed Benin people. We are investigating the reactions. Much better than the first century when these crafts were not present.

Diop made a direct political statement as he took to the stage to accept the award, shouting, “I support Palestine!”

Chairman of the Jury, Oscar Winner 12 years of slavery and black leopard Actor Lupita Nyong’o announced the Golden Bear winners from the Berlinale Palast stage on Saturday night. Nyong’o was the first black and first African to serve as president of the Berlinale jury.

Dahomey It is the second African film to win the top prize at Berlin, after Mark Dornford-May’s South African opera play. Please breathe umfehumuro (U Carmen Ekaelica) 2015.Picked up by art house streamer Mubi Dahomey The deal announced Friday covers North America and much of the world.

Dahomey Also, the following two consecutive documentaries won the Berlin Golden Bear Award: About Adamant Last year from French film director Nicolas Philibert.

Hong Sang-soo, a regular on the Berlinale Awards stage — he won back-to-back Silver Bear awards in 2020 (The woman who ran away), 2021 (introduction) and 2022 (novelist movies) — We made it into a quartet on Saturday and won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Award. Traveler needs. This project marks the brand’s third collaboration with French star Isabelle Huppert. in other countries (2012) and claire’s camera (2017).Fine cuts are selling well Traveler needs Internationally.

The Best Director award went to Dominican director Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias. pepe, an unclassifiable mashup of documentary and fiction about hippos brought to Colombia by drug lord Pablo Escobar. (The film’s narration is done by Hippo.) His science fiction parody of Bruno Dumont empire“”, sold by Memento International, won the Silver Bear Jury Award.

MCU alumnus Sebastian Stan won the Berlin Silver Bear Award for Best Leading Role for his role in Aaron Simberg’s twisted New York-set fable. another manIn the film, he plays a man who undergoes radical plastic surgery and begins to question his own identity.

“This is my first European film festival,” Stan said. “For a little boy from Romania, it means so much to me. Thank you.” A24 Production another man And we are releasing it within the state.

Emily Watson won Best Supporting Actor for her role as a fearsome nun in Tim Meerants’ Irish-set drama alongside star Cillian Murphy. small things like this. FilmNation is handling international sales for the film.

In a nod to the political controversy over the Gaza war that has overshadowed much of the film discussion at this year’s Berlinale, the international jury awarded special documentary awards to: There is no other land. Directed by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers, the project is a sobering look at the Israeli government’s attempts to expel Palestinians from the rural village of Masafel Yatta in the occupied West Bank. There is no other land It was screened in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar section and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. Two of the film’s directors, an Israeli and a Palestinian, took to the stage and called on the “powerful people in this room” to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and to “stop the occupation” of the West Bank by Israel. At least one director said Germany should stop supplying weapons to Israel.

Juliana Rojas won Best Director at the Encounters Awards Cidade.campowinner of Best Film in the Encounter category, Ben Russell and co-director Guillaume Caillot similarly used the Berlinale stage to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. direct action. “We are against genocide,” Russell said.

Two of this year’s key favorites: Matthias Glasner’s German melodrama starben (dead) and devil’s bathAustrian horror film. good night mama Directors Veronica Franz and Severin Fiala both took up Silver Bear. Glassner won the award for best screenplay. devil’s bath Cinematographer Martin Guschlacht took home the trophy for “Outstanding Artistic Contribution”. Match Factory sells: starben Worldwide with playtime processing devil’s bath.

This is the fifth and final Berlinale to be artistically directed by Carlo Chatrian, who will step down at the end of this year along with Berlinale managing director Mariette Rissenbeek, and be replaced by former London Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle. He will take over the dual role.

Winner of the 74th Berlinale

Golden Bear Award for Best Film

Dahomey director.matti diop

Silver Bear Jury Grand Prize

Traveler needs director.Hong Sang Soo

Silver Bear Jury Award

empire director.Bruno Dumont

Best Director Silver Bear Award

Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias pepe

Best Leading Performance Award Silver Bear Award

Sebastian Stan another man

Best Supporting Actor Silver Bear Award

emily watson small things like this

Best Screenplay Silver Bear Award

Matthias Glasner starben (dead)

Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution

Director of photography: Martin Guslacht devil’s bath

Best movie award

direct action Teachers.Guillaume Caillou, Ben Russell

Best Director Award

Cidade.campo director.Juliana Rojas

Special Jury Award (formerly aequo)

The great yawn of history director.Ariyal Rusti It will always rain director.Chiu Yang

GWFF Best Feature Award

Ku Li doesn’t cry director.Pham Ngoc Lan

Berlinale Documentary Award

There is no other land Teachers.Yuval Abraham, Basel Adla, Hamdan Baral, Rachel Scholl

Berlinale Short Film Award

Golden Bear Best Short Film

strange turn director.Francisco Lezama

Silver Bear Jury Award

Remnants of a hot day Director Zhang Wenqian

A previous version of this story misidentified actress Emily Watson as Emma Watson.