Hungarian slaughterhouse adore story wins Berlin fest Golden Bear

The play by Ildiko Enyedi, one of 4 womanlike filmmakers in competition, facilities striking scenes in an abattoir set opposite a budding intrigue of dual people who share a repeated dream.

The win noted an dissapoint during a 11-day Berlinale, where a European interloper comedy by cult Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki, “The Other Side of Hope”, had been a odds-on favourite.

Kaurismaki took a Silver Bear for best director.

Enyedi thanked a festival for embracing her initial full-length underline in 18 years though pronounced operative conditions in Hungary were flourishing some-more formidable underneath Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

“We live in a some-more and some-more absurd country, frighteningly absurd country,” she told reporters after a ceremony, while adding that a state film account served as a “sort of island”.

“We can work there during relations freedom, assent and we get veteran support.”

The runner-up jury esteem went to Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis for “Felicite” about a Kinshasa nightclub thespian who has to scratch together supports to compensate for her son’s diagnosis after a critical highway accident.

South Korea’s Kim Min-Hee, a star of Hong Sang-Soo’s insinuate play “On a Beach during Night Alone” about a unsuccessful adore event with a director, won best actress.

And Austria’s Georg Friedrich scooped best actor for his purpose in a German play “Bright Nights” as a anguish father who takes his teenage son on a highway outing by Norway.

‘Fight a dim ages’

Best screenplay went to another favourite of a festival, “A Fantastic Woman” by Chile’s Sebastian Lelio, starring transgender thespian Daniela Vega.

Lelio, assimilated on theatre by Vega, pronounced a film about a thespian fighting for her right to attend a wake of her most comparison partner was a call for toleration in perplexing times.

“We have to quarrel a dim ages with beauty, with elegance, with poetry,” he said.

Best documentary, awarded for a initial time during a festival, was picked adult by Palestinian executive Raed Andoni for “Ghost Hunting”.

The film recreates a scandalous Israeli inquire centre – and has ex-prisoners re-enact practice in a bid to giveaway them of their demons.

“We still have 7,000 Palestinians vital in those jails… They never get a approval as we do,” pronounced Andoni, who also served time behind bars in Israel.

Capping a politically charged year during a festival, US documentary jury member Laura Poitras (“Citizenfour”) pronounced filmmakers contingency mount adult for simple freedoms.

“Yesterday a boss of a United States described a press as a rivalry of a people,” she said, referring to a twitter by Donald Trump on Friday.

“As documentary filmmakers we’re here to contend that we’re a rivalry of nationalism and of exclusion.”

Jury ‘fell in love’

A seven-member jury led by Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct”, “Elle”) and including US thespian Maggie Gyllenhaal (“The Dark Knight”) and Mexican executive and actor Diego Luna (“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”) comparison a categorical prizes among 18 contenders.

Last year, jury boss Meryl Streep gave tip honours to Italy’s “Fire during Sea”, a mural of a interloper predicament on a island of Lampedusa. It is nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary this month.

Presenting a Golden Bear, Verhoeven pronounced a jury “fell in love” with “On Body and Soul”, adding that it was about “two people joining in utterly an extraordinary way”.

The puzzling film facilities Endre and Maria, who by day work in a slaughterhouse though by night have a same dream about a masculine and a womanlike deer nuzzling in a snowy forest.

Endre, a abattoir’s financial director, has a misshapen palm that creates him mortified while Maria, a new peculiarity control inspector, is crippled by prudery and an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Enyedi contrasts a expansion of their attribute and a sparse squabbles during a association with stomach-churning scenes of a cattle firm for a butcher’s hooks.

Film attention bible Variety pronounced a film “blends mournfully elegant caprice with stabs of abdominal beast reality”.