The Norway Dreams (Dreams) by Johan Haugerud, he has won the Golden Bear of the 75th Berlinale. With this film, Haugerud closes his trilogy initiated with Sex (2024) and continued with Love, also from 2024. On this occasion, its protagonist is a 17 -year -old girl who falls in love with her teacher. When he writes the story of his encounters, as bold as introspection, his mother and grandmother will have to face, first, if what is told is real; Then, why they did not find out what was happening, and, finally, in the face of a brilliant text, if it is worth publishing it using grandmother’s editorial contacts, poet. And how it will affect everyone to make public, even through a literary work, a delicate love.
Dreams It plays, therefore, with several formats: the tenderness of the thoughts and experiences of the protagonist; On the other hand, the surprise and humor born of their relatives, and in their closing section with a reflection on reality and fiction, about how each person lives in a different way sentimental events. The movie, hypnotic, would fascinate if you didn’t hurt the entire initial part with the narrative in voice in off of the protagonist. However, he knows how to play very well with the balance between author cinema and attractive film for the general public.
The jury’s grand prize was received by the Brazilian The last blue, by Gabriel Mascaro, a steady vision of how the economy is primed with the elderly, a destination towards the nothing that the protagonist rejects, Tereza, 77. The jury award, a silver bear that means being the third best film in the competition, Argentina obtained it The message, From Iván Fund, a wonderful film made with very few resources. On stage, Fund recalled that the Argentine government has ended investments in local cinema; that’s why The message It has been finished with Spanish production.
The silver bear at the best direction was obtained by Chino Huo Meng for his work in Sheng xi zhi di. In the Berlinale, as it begins to happen in most of the great festivals, there is no gender difference in the interpretation awards. The prize for the best leading interpretation was for Rose Byrne, for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, in which the actress does not separate a second from the camera (on stage, Byrne confessed overwhelmed). The award for best secondary interpretation was received by Andrew Scott, for Blue Moon, in which composer Richard Rodgers embodies very tightly: the British sent a video with his speech.
A fun Radu Jude, who already won this festival in 2021, picked up the award for best script for Continental ’75, what He has filmed in 10 days and with an iPhone, another satirical punch against capitalism that its country appears and, for extrapolation, Europe. The Romanian recalled that this Saturday the 125th anniversary of the birth of Luis Buñuel was fulfilled, and therefore he reported a conversation between Spanish and Nicholas Ray, when he praised his incredible films, Buñuel replied that he could also do them in that format of economy Guerrillas, and Ray confessed that it was impossible, because in Hollywood it rises up and uploading the budgets of each film. I would never get that freedom. “We have to resist that madness of money,” said Jude, who finished Not a recreation of The triumph of will, de Leni Riefenstahl ”.
The last silver bear, although the first one that was announced, because reading was made in the opposite direction of the importance of the awards, was that of outstanding artistic collaboration for the French Lucile Hadžihalilović and her team for The ice tower, which has created another of its oppressive atmospheres in a fairy tale that wraps another fairy tale.
Last year, the best documentary award was received by the now Oscar candidate No Other Land, And the speech of its creators, the Palestinian Basel Adra and the Israeli Jew Yuvak Abraham, protesting the situation that the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip live today, caused an earthquake whose replicas still felt in this edition. In 2025 he has won Holding clay, by Brandon Kramer, who focuses on Liat Beinin’s family, kidnapped in his Kibutz by Hamas on October 7, 2023. His father is an American citizen and will fly to Washington to ask for help with the sister and son of Liat. However, Yehuda, the Patriarch, defines itself as a pacifist and criticizes the policy of the Government of Israel; He prefers the path of reconciliation, although he swams against the tide of the geopolitical situation. On stage, Kramer thanked the Beinin family to let them “count their experience with all their complexity, and tell their drama while fighting to maintain their values.” And he pointed out: “Documentaries can help us meet as human beings and achieve peace.”
In a gala held with great speed, not at odds with the spectacular stage, where the use of screens had been squeezed, there was also a memory of the Spanish tourist stabbed in the Berlin Memorial to the Holocaust, less than a kilometer from the palace of the festival of the festival of the festival of the festival of the festival of the festival where projections are developed.
Finally, Sorda, From Eva Libertad, she has been very well stopped from her projection in the German capital. In his section, Panorama, there was no jury, so the only prize considered official in that section was that of the public, which is fair that the Spanish film has achieved. The reception of the spectators and the criticism has been very positive. In addition, he has won the award for best film in Panorama of Cicae Art Cinema, which delivers the International Confederation of Art and Essay Film.