The Berlinale jury, which stood online, reserved the most coveted award this Friday for a film "as elaborate as it is wild", in his words.
Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, 43, won the Golden Bear in Berlin for his film “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”, an acidic achievement on the hypocrisy of contemporary societies, shot in the midst of a pandemic.
The German Maren Eggert, 47, was awarded the first “non-gender” interpretation prize, indiscriminately rewarding the best actor or actress, set up by the German festival to advance the debates on the 'equality.
This award was presented to her for her role in the German comedy "I'm Your Man", which depicts the algorithmic love between a human-looking robot (played by Dan Stevens, "Downton Abbey") and a hardened single researcher.
Romanian director Radu Jude's film follows in the footsteps of a Romanian high school teacher, whose life is turned upside down by the leak of an intimate video.
This feature film "provoking on the spirit of our time, of our time (...) shakes our social and cinematographic conventions", explained one of the members of the jury, the Israeli director Nadav Lapid.
A multi-minute sequence of amateur porn
"It is an elaborate film but also wild, intelligent and childish, geometric and vibrant (...): it leaves no one indifferent", he added.
Among 14 other achievements, the production of Radu Jude, already awarded a Silver Bear for best director in 2015 for “Aferim!
», Presents itself as an acid social criticism.
Opening with a sequence of several minutes of amateur porn, the story is about a teacher caught by the leak of her intimate video, shot with her companion by Emi, a history teacher in a Romanian high school.
The starting point of this abundant and raw film: Emi's long stroll through the streets of his city, a patchwork of images ranging from archives of the communist dictatorship to romantic allegories, then a mock trial of the teacher in front of parents of students.
The prize for the best secondary performance also went to an actress, the Hungarian Lilla Kizlinger for her role in “Forest - I See You Everywhere” by Bence Fliegauf.