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The international film community reacted with outrage to the arrest of Mohammad Rasoulof, Jafar Panahi and Mostafa Al-Ahmad, as Tehran accelerates its clampdown on dissent.

The Berlin Film Festival has awarded its first ever gender-neutral acting prize to Maren Eggert. The new award, which was announced by the festival last August, means both male and female actors now compete in the same category. German actress Eggert won for her performance as a museum researcher in the sci-fi comedy, Im Your Man. Berlins decision to merge the categories could have a knock-on effect on other film award …

Maren Eggert accepted the award for best actor, in the German event's newly mixed gender category.