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Just might restore your faith in humanity. TWITTER Maria Speths intimate portrait of an unorthodox teacher and his sixth-grade students, most of them from immigrant families, won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlin. When filmmaker Maria Speth brought her documentary crew to a provincial German school, her goal was "open-ended observation." Observing a classroom where jam sessions and juggling lessons are as likely as instruction in math and grammar, she achieves that and more with Mr. Bachman...

THIS YEAR’S Berlin film festival, with a competition line-up including just three films made outside Europe and a jury consisting entirely of white people, all previous winners of the Golden Bear, offered no representation from Latin America or Africa. It was a markedly Eurocentric, if not incestuous, affair. The Golden Bear prize went to Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by Romanian director Radu Jude, a clumsy and chaotic social satire shot during the pandemic with actors wearing anti-viral m...

Share Filmmaker Radu Jude in 2015. Jude’s satire Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, which won the 71st Berlinale top prize, makes the case that corruption, pettiness and discrimination are more obscene than graphic sex. AFP Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn wins Golden Bear prize at 71st Berlin film fest Sun, 7 March 2021 The 71st Berlin film festival awarded its Golden Bear top prize on March 5 to Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by Romania’s Radu Jude, a satire skewering pandemic-era social hypo...

There’s something to be said for an online Berlin film festival. You don’t have to endure the winter bleakness of Potsdamer Platz, and you can watch a lot more, since you get a full 24 hours into which to cram each day’s crowded viewing menu. Naturally, everyone felt that Covid restrictions were tough luck for the festival’s directors, Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, now in their second year; after 2020’s respectable but low-key debut,...

Berlin film festival 2021 roundup: the most impressive selection in years ‘European art cinema at its most irresistibly playful’: Ani Karseladze in Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Photograph: Faraz Fesharaki/DFFB ‘European art cinema at its most irresistibly playful’: Ani Karseladze in Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Photograph: Faraz Fesharaki/DFFB No glitz, no big screens, no cold… in a modest yet triumphant virtual ed...

As the Berlinale's "Industry Event" comes to an end, the jury has revealed the Golden and Silver Bears winners. The awards ceremony will follow in June.

film profile], about a sex video complicating the life of a teacher. “Its a film that has that rare and essential quality of a lasting artwork,” read Lapid. “It captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time, of this very moment of human existence. It does so by provoking the spirit of our time by slapping it, by challenging it to a duel. It attacks the spectator, evokes disagreement, but leaves no one with a...

Pondering love and loss amid COVID at the Berlinale The Bengali film "Jole Dobe Na" at the Berlinale mirrors the sense of disorientation and loneliness that most of us face, especially those who care for the sick. A still from "Jole": Reading and speaking function as distractions, but also as memories The opening scenes of "Jole Dobe Na" — Bengali for "Those Who Do Not Drown" —  are apocalyptic. The camera moves slowly, visually documenting parts of an abandoned building, its doors and wa...

Berlinales Golden Bear goes to Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Along with Radu Judes Golden Bear-winning film, find out more about the Silver Bear winners of the Berlin International Film Festivals competition. Golden Bear for Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Definitely not safe for work: Its opening scene is a homemade sex tape. But for Radu Jude, finding this material more obscene than societys racism, anti-Semitism and nationalism is whats perverse. The Romanian director had won a Silver Bear ...

The provocative Romanian film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival, capping the truncated 2021 virtual edition of the event. Directed by Radu Jude, Bad Luck Banging is a satirical parable about a teacher who is put up before a tribunal after a sex tape is illicitly leaked on to the internet. In a three-star review, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw described it as “a contemptuous slap at boredom,...