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Comment: Obvious Winner – “Fuocoammare”

So all had expected: The 66. Berlinale goes with the expected winner to the end. The Jury has made the right decision. Also because with this price politics and art combines, says DW editor Jochen Kürten.

Almost exactly five years ago in Tunisia, what the world today under the name Arabellion knows: the revolt of many people in the Region, first in North Africa, and later in the countries of the Middle East, against obsolete structures of power, oppression, and Staatswillkür. Its origin took this “Arab spring” in Tunisia. Then came especially to Egypt and Libya in focus. In Syria broke out, a terrible civil war that continues today and the world in suspense. Europe and especially Germany are due to the constant stream of refugees directly affected.

In Tunisia, it all began, the refugees have the Arabellion to a global Problem – so you could get that to Happen is significantly reduced to a common denominator. Exactly this development, the Berlinale now with their prices shown.

For the first time since 1951 wins again a documentary

The Golden bear at the 66. Edition of the festival went to the Italian documentary “Fuocoammare”, the refugee misery in front of and on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. The prize for the best debut in the Berlin film festival went to “Inhebbek Hedi” by the Tunisian Director Mohamed Ben Attia. Also got its lead actor Majd Mastoura the Silver bears for best male actor.

Two choices to be welcomed, because on the one hand, on filmästhetischen criteria are based, above all, but also on political. How would one have to “Fuocoammare” pass? When the Italian Film Director Gianfranco Rosi (pictured above) on the first festival weekend ran and the viewers in the last twenty tremendously dreary minutes on the canvas, saw what the everyday news broadcasts, to hide the Dying of the refugees, as was most evident: Here was a hot candidate for the Golden bears.

“Fuocoammare” exceeds limits

DW-cultural Affairs editor Jochen Kürten

Of course, it is always a little unfair to artistically ambitious feature films, and if a documentation with all its opportunities says: Look, this is how it looks in the world, so is the bitter reality, very close in front of your doorstep to die, people! Any feature film, especially that of a private problem of a well-off Western European makes, there can be only badly.

But “Fuocoammare” has the bear deserves. Because he’s also a Film that is through the Medium of thoughts. And because it is a movie that exceeds the limits. “Inhebbek Hedi from Tunisia, the possibilities of the motion picture uses, and in Berlin with two important prizes, also for the other kind of cinema.

It is a quiet and thoughtfully told Film that shows how a single person up any resistance against expectations. The boy Hedi (Majd Mastoura) is against traditional family structures to defend themselves, against the conventions of society, against what many young Arab men are expected to do. This makes “Inhebbek Hedi” quite excellent, especially because he is not extreme, religious case, makes.

Berlinale international film festival combines art and politics

The Berlinale will always be – in contrast to the other major Festivals in Cannes, Venice and Toronto – as the politischste Festival referred to. It has the Berlinale in the past few years, often not easily made. There were movies in the center, under the burden of their message had collapsed. Movies, whose theme was more important than its aesthetic force and the then but with the prices were considered.

In this year, two films were awarded, have earned it. And the two cornerstones of the recent history of the world the movies bring, the related to each other. The Berlinale has thus art and politics, Aesthetics and moral message in an ingenious way combined.

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