La Iranian film «Nader and Simin, a separation» has been the great winner of the Berlin Film Festival 2011 by taking the Golden Bear for the best film and also winning the prizes for the best male and female performance.
The Silver Bear has been for the Hungarian film «The Turin Horse» and, also, it should be noted that the Spanish film «Also the rain», directed by Iciar Bollain, winner of 3 Goya Awards, has won the Audience Award for the best film in the Panorama section of this Festival.
El complete record of the Berlinale 2011 below:
- Golden Bear: Nader and Simin, a separation from Iranian Asghar Farhadi.
- Silver Bear, special jury prize: A Torinoi Lo (The Turin Horse), by Béla Tarr (Hungary).
- Best Director: Ulrich Köhler for Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness) (Germany).
- Silver Bear for the best male performance: set of actors from Nader and Simin, a separation.
- Silver Bear for the best female performance: set of actresses by Nader and Simin, a separation.
- Best Screenplay: Joshua Marston and Andamion Murataj for The Forgiveness of Blood. (Albania)
- Best First Feature: On Ice by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (USA).
- Prize of the International Federation of Critics (Fipresci). A Torinoi Lo, by Béla Tarr.
- Audience Award for the Panorama section: Also the rain, by Iciar Bollain (Spain).