"Turkey's 'Bal', Polanski wins top prizes at Berlin film festival
English.news.cn 2010-02-21 06:18:59 FeedbackPrintRSS
BERLIN, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- 'Bal '(Honey) from Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu on Saturday won the Golden Bear, the highest prize awarded for the best film at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, also known as the Berlinale. Roman Polanski won the Best Director Silver Bear for 'The Ghost Writer.'
'Bal ', one of 20 movies competing for the 60th anniversary Berlinale's top honours, tells the story of a boy searching for his lost father. Trying to make sense of his life, he lives in the wildest, most remote area of the eastern Black Sea region, where modern life has not yet penetrated. In reaction to the award Kaplanoglu told German television channel '3sat' that it is the first time a Turkish film took the top prize at the Berlin film festival since 1964, whose meaning he has not fully grasped."
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