BERLIN, Feb 25 (Reuters) – “On the Adamant”, a documentary a few floating daycare centre in Paris for adults with psychological sickness, clinched the Berlin Movie Competition’s Golden Bear award on Saturday.
Its director Nicolas Philibert mentioned he was deeply touched by the jury’s determination to award the Berlinale’s prime prize to a documentary reasonably than a piece of fiction.
“That documentary may be thought-about cinema in its personal proper touches me deeply,” he mentioned. “For 40 years I’ve at all times fought for it to be seen as a lot.”
Shot over three years, the movie follows life at a daycare centre aboard The Adamant, a barge moored on the suitable financial institution of the Seine, the place sufferers and carers work together in ways in which break with what Philibert sees because the dehumanisation of psychiatry.
“Sufferers in psychiatry are at all times stigmatised … and at all times thought-about via the prism of violence and I wished to reverse the cliche and present how human they’re,” he mentioned on the pink carpet after his movie gained.
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“I hope it can assist to awake the consciousness of society.”
The competition’s Silver Bear for greatest main actor went to Sofia Otero, who performs an eight-year-old transgender little one in “20,000 Species of Bees”.
“It’s uncommon to see somebody convey so many feelings however stay easy and shattering,” mentioned jury president Kristen Stewart. “Particularly in performances given to us by a toddler.”
Reporting by Thomas Escritt; Writing by Miranda Murray; Enhancing by Alexander Smith
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