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6 European Film Awards for 3 MBB-funded films!
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Berlin / Potsdam / Reykjavík - Spotlight on European Films! At the 35th European Film Awards ceremony in Reykjavik, three MBB-funded films were awarded a total of six trophies. The main prize of the evening went to Ruben Östlund's MBB-supported satire TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, which was also honoured as Best European Film.
Kirsten Niehuus, Medienboard Managing Director: "Congratulations to the winners of this European film festival! The outstanding and diverse European filmmaking has an enormous creative potential, borne by a common, unconditional will for freedom and democracy. Diversely together – the essence of Europe!
EUROPEAN FILM
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
Direction & Screenplay: Ruben Östlund
EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
MARIUPOLIS 2
Direction & Screenplay: Mantas Kvedaravičius
EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Ruben Östlund - TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Ruben Östlund - TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
EUROPEAN ACTOR
Zlatko Burić - TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
EXCELLENCE AWARD - EUROPEAN SOUND
Simone Paolo Olivero, Paolo Benvenuti, Benni Atria, Marco Saitta, Ansgar Frerich & Florian Holzner - THE HOLE
Congratulations also to director, European, feminist and Berlin-born Margarethe von Trotta for her LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD! Also to Berlin actress Vicky Krieps for the EUROPEAN ACTRESS award in CORSAGE. And to the team of the German Oscar nominee ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT for the EXCELLENCE AWARDS – European Make-up & Hair and European Visual Effects!