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BERLIN – Yes, Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn clinched the Golden Bear at the 71st edition of the Berlinale 2021 film festival. The Romanian film is a striking satire on misogyny in Romania, which all too sadly applies to many other places as well. Starting with a NSFW sex tape, the story sees Emi (Katia Pascariu), a teacher fighting for her job when her husband – why, we never know – posts the video online. It is a startling and inventive film and includes an interlude with a devil’s dictionary of injustice and hatred and a final act of a PTA meeting that descends into a Brechtian deconstruction of prejudice. I have to say it’s also as subtle as a cumshot and its subtitle ‘Sketches for a popular film’ plainly states a self-confessedly patched-together feel.
Just might restore your faith in humanity.
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Maria Speth s 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. Bachmann and His Class, one of the most effortlessly absorbing and deeply encouraging nonfiction films of recent memory.
The Wiseman-esque doc unfolds at an unhurried and richly rewarding pace, introducing us to the industrial town of Stadtallendorf, in central Germany, before zeroing in on Class 6B of the Georg Büchner School, where Speth s friend Dieter Bachmann has been a teacher for 17 years what he laughingly calls my longest relationship. Like the great American documentarian Frederic
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The Berlinale announces the winners of the Generation and Shorts sections
04/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021:
The Fam by Switzerland’s Fred Baillif has received the Generation 14Plus Grand Prix, while Olga Lucovnicova’s short
My Uncle Tudor won the Golden Bear
The Fam by Fred Baillif
The pandemic, express edition of the Berlinale has already started announcing its award winners. After having kicked off its industry and press event on Monday, it’s now turn for the juries of the Generation and Berlinale Shorts sections to announce their verdicts.
Weighing up a selection of a total of 15 feature films, and with one jury for both competitions, owing to the pandemic, the members of the International Jury for Generation – German actress