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On the Adamanta documentary a few floating daycare middle in Paris for adults with psychological problems, has gained the Berlin Movie Competition’s Golden Bear award.
Accepting the Berlinale’s prime prize, director Nicolas Philibert mentioned he was deeply touched by the jury’s determination to award it to a documentary moderately than a piece of fiction.
“That documentary will 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 middle 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 strange psychiatry.
“It’s as if we not needed to see the ‘mad’,” he wrote.
“They’re not mentioned besides via the prism of their harmful nature, which is most frequently fantasized.”
“On this extraordinarily devastated context, a spot like The Adamant appears just a little miracle.”
The pageant’s Silver Bear for finest main actor went to Sofia Otero, who performs an eight-year-old transgender youngster in 20,000 Species of Bees.
“It’s uncommon to see somebody convey so many feelings however stay easy and shattering,” jury president Kristen Stewart mentioned.
“Particularly in performances given to us by a baby”.
