Anenge makore makumi matatu mushure mekuhwina yake yekutanga Palme d'Or uye Oscar yeBest Foreign Language Firimu ye "Pelle, the Conqueror" ("Pelle erobreren"), Bille August achange aripo kekutanga muchikamu chepamutemo cheMutambo we. San Sebastian ane «Wakanyarara Moyo» ("Stille Hjerte").
Bill August mumwe wevatungamiriri vanomwe vakahwina maPalmes d'Or maviri, pamwe chete neSweden Alf Sjöberg, weAmerica Francis Ford Coppola, wekuJapan Shohei Imamura, wekuSerbia Emir Kusturica, weBelgians Luc naJean-Pierre Dardenne uye wekuGerman Michael. Haneke, kare kuti muna 1992 akahwina mubairo uyu zvakare we «Zvakanakisa vavariro» ("Den goda viljan").
Director anga aendawo kuBerlinale pazviitiko zviviri achirwira kuhwina Golden Bear, kunyangwe pasina budiriro. «Smilla, chakavanzika muchando"("Smilla's Sense of Snow") uye"Kwaziwai Bafana» ("Goodbye Bafana") vanga vari muchikamu chepamutemo cheBerlin Festival asi havana kuhwina chero mibairo.
Zvino zvasvika Mutambo weSan Sebastian kuedza kukunda vane mukurumbira Goridhe Goridhe ye "Silent Heart", firimu rinotaurira nyaya yezvizvarwa zvitatu zvemhuri inosangana pamwe chete vhiki imwe chete apo amai, vanorwara nechirwere chinouraya, vanoda kugumisa hupenyu hwavo. Izvo zvakagamuchirwa nemunhu wese, mukati memazuva maviri iwayo chinova chimwe chinhu chakaoma kutevedzera.