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Posted : 2021-03-05 21:20 Film director Hong Sang-soo, left, and actress Kim Min-hee / Korea Times file Poster for "Introduction" / YonhapSouth Korean director Hong Sang-soo on Friday won best screenplay at the Berlin International Film Festival for his latest film, "Introduction." At the announcement of this year's winners streamed online, the director's 25th feature film was awarded the Silver Bear prize for best screenplay at the 71st edition of the Berlin fest, which kicked off Monday for its five-day run in an online edition due to the pandemic. The director has won the Berlinale's Silv...

Romanian sex tape satire "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" by Radu Jude won the 71st Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize Friday. The Berlinale jury was made up of six previous Golden Bear winners including last year's laureate, dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who claimed the prize for "There Is No Evil", about capital punishment.

'Homeroom' The new crop of films that screened at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals are evidence that the global pandemic is having an impact on the stories filmmakers want to tell: "The pandemic has just exposed and revealed so many issues that were in our society." The coronavirus pandemic has obviously changed how movies are being made, with the extra costs involved in testing and implementing strict hygienic regimes, and the constant threat hanging over every shoot that a local outbreak or lockdown could shut things down.  But what impact has the once-in-a-lifetime, global experienc...

When a pandemic gatecrashed the Berlin film festival Issued on: 4 min Berlin (AFP) Coronavirus pushed this week's Berlin film festival entirely online, as the industry grapples with new realities and directors harness the drama of the the pandemic. After Cannes was cancelled last year and this winter's Sundance went all virtual, the Berlinale has staged an event unlike any other in its 71-year history. Organisers pushed the event back by a month as the second wave of the virus rages in Germany, cut its length in half to five days and chopped it into two parts. They hope to welcome stars t...

Pandemic cinema: How Berlinale films reflect COVID Most movies at the Berlin Film Festival are set in a coronavirus-free world, but Radu Jude, Denis Cote and Natalie Morales picked up on the past year's vibe. A rare film with masked actors at the Berlinale: 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn' Making a feature film is a notoriously long process. Once the script has been written, productions may spend several years organizing funding before the film is actually shot, and then edited. With specific restrictions changing from week to week, references to the world's pandemic lifestyle in a film cou...