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Technology, the Berlin Movie Pageant sidebar for kids and youth movies, has introduced this 12 months’s winners unveiling the picks from each the Technology 14plus (for teen and older viewers) and the youth jury for the Technology Kplus (youngsters and tweens) sections.
Sasha Nathwani’s coming-of-age drama Final Swim, about an Iranian-British teen confronting a significant life determination, took the Crystal Bear for greatest movie within the Technology 14plus part, with Kim Hye-young’s It is Okay!, about an orphaned younger dancer , profitable the highest prize for Technology Kplus. Each prizes have been awarded by youth juries of younger filmgoers.
In its assertion, the 14plus jury known as Final Swim “a narrative about the fantastic thing about life and of issues coming to an finish. It’s a movie that doesn’t shrink back from portraying the messy and consuming emotions that may come up when you recognize your desires will not be fulfilled. Nevertheless, it additionally invitations the viewer into the joyful and energetic world of a youngster and her buddies as they rejoice their youth.”
The Kplus jury stated It is Okay! “took us on a humorous and emotional rollercoaster trip with the brave protagonist. We witnessed how two very totally different characters discovered one another and that life should not be dominated by perfectionism. We significantly appreciated the dance sequences, which gave us insights right into a tradition that was overseas to us.”
Lee Re in ‘It is Okay!’
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The part’s worldwide jury — headed by Passages and Love is Unusual director Ira Sachs, alongside Amjad Abu Alala and Banafshe Hourmazdi — gave its Grand Prix for greatest movie within the Technology 14plus part to Philippe Lesage’s Who by Hearth and the highest prize for the Kplus part to Klaudia Reynicke’s Reinas.
Who by Hearth is a Canadian-set drama following two buddies who journey deep into the woods to remain on the remoted property of an acclaimed movie director. Be For Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
Reinas is ready in Peru in the summertime of 1992, the place two sisters are getting ready to flee the nation’s political chaos with their mom and to migrate to the US. They’re pressured to say goodbye to their household, buddies and their nation, but additionally to Carlos, the daddy who has all however disappeared from their lives. The Yellow Affair is promoting Reinas worldwide.
‘Who By Hearth’
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‘Reinas’
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The worldwide jury known as Who by Hearth a “deeply unique movie made by an artist who is not afraid to take possibilities, a piece of cinema that appears each very new and in addition rooted within the historical past of drama, from Chekhov to Bergman, making a exact portrait of a selected social milieu; a movie vigorous’s contradictions – love and hate, maturity and childishness, magnificence and violence; a murals wherein the foibles and failures of grownup life replicate the troubling futures of the younger protagonists.”
The jury praised Reinas for “the appearing, the sunshine, the characters, and the story (all) working in tandem and nice symmetry” to create “a movie of on a regular basis household life that on the similar time offers voice to a rustic, Peru, and its very particular political historical past.”
The total record of Technology winners is beneath.
Winners Technology 14plus
Crystal Bear for the Greatest Movie
Final Swim dir. Sasha Nathwani
Crystal Bear for the Greatest Quick Movie
Cura sana dir. Lucia G. Romero
The Grand Prix of the Technology Worldwide Jury for the Greatest Movie
Who by Hearth dir. Philippe Lesage
The Particular Prize of the Technology Worldwide Jury for the Greatest Quick Movie
Un pájaro voló (A Fowl Flew) dir. Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz
Winners Technology Kplus
Crystal Bear for the Greatest Movie
It is Okay! dir. Kim Hye-young
Crystal Bear for the Greatest Quick Movie
Papillon (Butterfly) dir. Florence Miailhe
The Grand Prix of the Technology Worldwide Jury for the Greatest Movie
Reinas stated. Claudia Reynicke
The Particular Prize of the Technology Worldwide Jury for the Greatest Quick Movie
A Summer time’s Finish Poem dir. Lam Can-zhao