Berlinale 2024 Honors: Mati Diop’s Doc ‘Dahomey’ Wins Golden Bear
by Alex BillingtonFebruary 24, 2024Source: Berlinale
The 74th Berlin Movie Event (additionally referred to as Berlinale in your area) has actually covered its 2024 run adhering to 2 weeks of testings, with a large event once again in Berlin on Saturday night, introducing the champion of the Golden Bear (Goldener Bär) for Finest Movie. That leading reward from this year was offered to yet an additional fascinating French docudrama, this labelled Dahomey, routed by Mati Diop (of the movie Atlantics formerly). It complies with the trip of 26 ransacked imperial prizes from the Kingdom of Dahomey displayed in Paris, currently being gone back to the initial home of Benin in Africa. A French docudrama additionally won the Golden Bear in 2014, also. Is this the warm pattern currently? The celebration additionally granted Sebastian Stan for Finest Efficiency; in addition to Martin Gschlacht for Finest Cinematography in the movie The Adversary’s Bathroom (Des Teufels Bad) – the most recent from the Austrian co-directors of Goodnight Mother and The Lodge formerly. The remainder of the honors are instead uninspired, yet not unusual for this fest. Continue reading for the complete checklist of Berlinale 2024 champions listed below.
Below are the leading honors at the 74th Berlin Movie Event. For the complete checklist consisting of shorts browse throughBerlinale de.
Golden Bear for Best Movie Dahomey, routed by Mati Diop
Silver Bear Grand Court Reward A Vacationer’s Requirements (Yeohaengjaui pilyo), routed by Hong Sangsoo
Silver Bear Court Reward The Realm (L’Empire), routed by Bruno Dumont
Silver Bear for Finest Supervisor Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias for guiding Pepe
Silver Bear for Finest Leading Efficiency Sebastian Stan in A Various Guy, routed by Aaron Schimberg
Silver Bear for Finest Sustaining Efficiency Emily Watson in Little Points Like These, routed by Tim Mielants
Silver Bear for Finest Movie Script Matthias Glasner for Perishing (Sterben), additionally routed by Matthias Glasner
Silver Bear for Impressive Artistic Payment Martin Gschlacht for the cinematography in The Adversary’s Bathroom (Des Teufels Bad), routed by Veronika Franz & & Severin Fiala
Scenic View Target Market Honors Memories of a Burning Body (Memorias de un cuerpo que arde), dir. by Antonella Sudasassi FurnissNo Various other Land, routed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
That’s a cover onBerlinale The primary global court at the 74th Berlin Event consisted of starlet Lupita Nyong’ o (as head of state), Brady Corbet, Ann Hui, Christian Petzold, Albert Serra, Jasmine Trinca, and Oksana Zabuzhko. Congratulations to every one of the champions! Once more, great deals of political choices and unanticipated movies showing up on this honors checklist. I’m not exactly sure why this maintains occurring with Berlinale … something concerning the court and honors constantly appears off. Also if there are a couple of excellent movies in the competitors, they never ever wind up winning a lot. That claimed, I rejoice to see Sebastian Stan winning for A Various Guy – among the much better movies in the competitors line-up, and among the very best efficiencies of 2024 until now. I do not also remember Emily Watson remaining in Little Points Like These, which is why it feels like such a weird option … I disliked Pepe, missed out on The Realm, and missed Passing away since it’s 3 hours long. A lot of the various other movies in the competitors were not great, and my leading court choice would certainly’ve most likely been A Various Guy anyhow. My coworkers additionally commended Langue Étrangère, My Favourite Cake, and Nepalese movie Shambhala (enjoy the trailer). Very few of these will certainly wind up with much of a life past Berlinale anyhow. Oh well. Forward to the following celebration.
