The Silver Bear for Screenplay at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival was awarded to Angela Sanelek’s film “Music”, which was filmed mostly in Greece: in Gythio and Evia. Argyris Xafis and Marissa Triantafyllidou appear among others in the film, which the Greek heretic is an executive producer of. The company of Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis, for the second time in a few months, is at the awards of another major festival after the Palme d’Or won by Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle of Sorrow in Cannes, which was also filmed in Greece.

The Golden Bear for Best Film at this year’s Berlinale was awarded to Nicolas Philibert’s documentary On Adamante, in which a French film veteran takes us on a floating kindergarten for people with mental disorders in the heart of Paris. This is one of the rare occasions when a documentary wins an award at a major festival, but Philibert’s film touched the jury and the audience because it dealt with the issue of mental illness honestly, directly and humanely. The creator himself, accepting the Golden Bear from the president of the jury, Kristen Stewart, said: “Do not forget that crazy people are not always what we think they are.”

The Grand Prix of the Jury was given to the drama Afair, directed by German director Christian Petzold, about four young people relaxing in a dacha on the shores of the Baltic Sea, while forest fires rage around them. The committee also awarded the film The Bad Life by Joao Canillo. The director’s award went to Frenchman Philippe Garrel, who returned to the Berlinale with the family drama The Plow, in which all three of the director’s children (Louis, Esther and Lena Garrel) starred together for the first time.

The first role awards went to Sophia Otero for her performance in 20,000 Kinds of Bees, and the second role went to Thea Ere for her performance in Until the End of the Night. The Silver Bear for Artistic Contribution went to Helene Luvar for Giacomo Ambruzzese’s Disco Boy, starring the brilliant Franz Rogowski.

Angela Sanelek, who was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 2019, has also filmed in our country in the past. In “Music” he refers to the myth of Oedipus.

The film tells the story of a boy who is found in a herd in the Greek mountains and adopted by a couple who do not know their biological parents. As a teenager, he kills a peer for a banal reason and is sent to a reformatory. There, he falls in love with a prison guard, unaware of her true identity. The sequel is as dramatic as Sophocles’ play.

The film co-produced by Germany, France and Serbia starred Aliosa Schneider, Agat Bonitzer, Frida Tarana, Argyris Xafis, Marissa Triantafyllidou, Stamatis Baknis, Eleni Chalastani and others.

Source: RES-IPE