Berlinale awards Iran’s 'Wind and Fog'
The 61st edition of Germany’s annual Berlin Film Festival has awarded Wind and Fog, directed by Iranian filmmaker Muhammad-Ali Talebi.
The film won the annual festival’s CINEMA fairbindet Prize which is awarded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development to a “film that addresses a global issue and encourages discussion in an extraordinary way - whether climate change, migration, education or human rights violations.”
Wind and Fog depicts the destructive effects of war on people’s lives through the enchanting story of a boy who has lost his mother during the Iraq-Iran war and has become deaf and dumb as a result of explosions and heavy bombardments of the eight-year battle.
The film “employs captivatingly beautiful images from the north of Iran to show how a young boy returns to reality,” the jury said.
Berlianle’s 2011 Ecumenical Jury members were Gaston Kabore, Ernst Szebedits, Ina Paule Klink and Gerda Meuer.
The 61st edition of Berlin Film Festival was held from February 10 to 20, 2011.
This year’s Golden Bear Award went to Iran’s Nader and Simin: A Separation directed by Asghar Farhadi. The film also won Silver Bear awards for the cast of Farhadi’s family drama, and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Prize.
The prize is awarded by 12 readers of the daily newspaper Berliner Morgenpost.
This year’s Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Prize jury members were Renate Amann, Gerd Bocher, Anne-Sylvie Konig, Inga Maubach, Maik Niedermaier, Katayun Pirdawari, Katrin Rettel, Nils Sager, Sabine Seidel, Ulf Spengler, Stephanie Weber and Gabriele Wischmann.
Source: presstv.ir
