Golden Bear for Brazilian film

This weekend, the Berlin International Film Festival concluded with its awards ceremony. Christina Tilmann approves the jury's decision to give its top prize to José Padilha: "Taken together, the Golden Bear for 'Tropa de Elite' [Elite Troop] and the jury prize for 'Standard Operating Procedure' turn this into a kind of Nobel Peace Prize of film. Things could be worse for a film festival. The audience drives this trend. ... The curious, engaged audience: this, too, is a Berlin speciality, as opposed to the rather industry-fixated festivals of Cannes and Venice. Politically aware, eager for experimentation, sometimes also capable of suffering. Dieter Kosslick does well by a public that affects the mood of the festival as much as the stars do, by not feeding them with dime-a-dozen American movies."

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