Entertainment News | Norwegian Drama 'Dreams ' Takes Top Prize at the Berlin Film Festival
Get latest articles and stories on Entertainment at LatestLY. A Norwegian film about love, desire and self-discovery has won top honours at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
Berlin, Feb 23 (AP) A Norwegian film about love, desire and self-discovery has won top honours at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.
A jury headed by American director Todd Haynes awarded the Golden Bear trophy to “Dreams (Sex Love)” by director Dag Johan Haugerud.
Haynes called it a “meditation on love” that “cuts you to the quick with its keen intelligence”.
The film focuses on a teenager played by Ella Overbyer, infatuated with her female French teacher, and the reactions of her mother and grandmother when they discover her private writings. It's the third part of a trilogy Haugerud has completed in the past year.
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“Sex” premiered at Berlin in 2024, and “Love” was screened at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
The runner-up Silver Bear prize went to Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro's dystopian drama “The Blue Trail”. Argentine director Ivan Fund's rural saga “The Message” won the third-place Jury Prize.
The best director prize went to Huo Meng for “Living the Land,” set in fast-changing 1990s China.
Rose Byrne was named best performer for her role as an overwhelmed mother in the Mary Bronstein-directed “If I had Legs, I'd Kick You”.
Andrew Scott won the supporting performer trophy for playing composer Richard Rodgers in Richard Linklater's “Blue Moon.”
The climax of the festival known as the Berlinale came on the eve of Germany's parliamentary elections after a campaign dominated by migration and the economy.
The national election is being held seven months early, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition collapsed in a dispute about how to revitalize the country's economy.
Efforts to curb migration have emerged as a central issue in the campaign — along with the question of how to handle the challenge from the far-right Alternative for Germany, which appears to be on course for its strongest national election result yet. (AP)
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