Berlin, Dec 12 (EFE) .- The Danish film “Another round” triumphed this Saturday in the 33rd edition of the European Film Awards, where it received the best film, best director, best actor and best screenwriters.
The story directed by Thomas Vinterberg, which moves between drama and comedy and in which its protagonists experiment with alcohol and different degrees of drunkenness, prevailed over the other films in competition for the best film of the year: “Berlin Alexanderplatz “,” Corpus Christi “,” Martin Eden “,” The painted bird “and” Ondina “.
The European Film Academy awarded its awards from Berlin, in a ceremony without an audience due to the restriction measures imposed by the new coronavirus pandemic and since the virtual event began to announce its awards, it was intuited that the Danish film would be the great winner of the evening.
“Another round” (Druk in its original Danish title), is a story that had already been selected for competition in the last frustrated edition of the Cannes Festival, and also on this occasion it deserved the award for best actor, which Mads Mikkelsen received.
Mikkelsen thus achieves a new recognition after in the last edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival he and his three co-stars jointly won the Silver Shell for Best Actor for this film.
The Danish film shows four friends, teachers with monotonous work and personal lives, who decide to put into practice a theory according to which humans have a blood alcohol deficit of 0.05% and that, when that deficiency is covered , people feel more relaxed, serene, open, creative and courageous.
The Danish film also won recognition from the European Film Academy by winning the screenplay award for the director and Tobias Lindholm.
AWARD TO THE BEST ACTRESS FOR THE GERMAN BEER
German actress Paula Beer was recognized as best actress for her performance in the film “Ondina”, directed by Christian Petzold, a “modern fairy tale” that translates the classic myth of this water nymph to contemporary capitalist Berlin.
The Spanish actress Marta Nieto was a candidate for this award, among others, for her role in “Mother”, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s film.
The British-Irish Mark Cousins won a new award, the one destined to reward cinematographic innovation for “Women make film: a new road movie through cinema”, a documentary produced among others by actress Tilda Swinton.
It is a 14-hour work that reviews the gaze of women on the cinema, with fragments of almost a thousand films that cover almost three decades, with the intention of highlighting the female contribution to the seventh art.
The announcements of the European Film Academy awards began on December 8; The next day it became known as the Spanish films “La tinchera infinita” and “El Hoyo” won two of the awards in the “Excellence” category.
The first, for her makeup and hairstyle, and the second for her special visual effects.
The team formed by Yolanda Piña, Félix Terrero and Nacho Díaz received the first award, in a virtual act, for their work in the film directed by Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga.
Iñaki Madariaga was also distinguished for the visual effects of “El Hoyo”, the film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia.
On the same day, the election of the Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland as president of the EFA was announced, thus closing the long term at the helm of that institution of the German director Wim Wenders, one of its promoters and founder. Both were hosts of the ceremony this Saturday.
Holland, nominated for the Oscars with “In darkness” (“Between shadows”), “Europe, Europe” and “Angru Harvest”, has been a regular presence at the Berlin film festival, where in 2017 he won a Silver Bear with ” Pokot “-” Spoor “-, to compete in 2019 with” Mr. Jones “and exhibit in his this edition” Charlatan “, for which he was a candidate for best director.
THE ANIMATION PRIZE, TO A FRENCH-BELGIAN-SPANISH CO-PRODUCTION
Another of this year’s awards was announced on Friday, the European Animation Prize, which went to the French-Belgian-Spanish co-production “Josep”, by the French director Aurel, who dedicated it to “all the migrants who try to escape from wars, dictatorships and poverty “, as well as” organizations that try to help them. “
This is a feature film set in 1939 and which tells the story of a French gendarme who meets and befriends the Catalan illustrator Josep Bartoli in a concentration camp in France, where Republican refugees fleeing from Franco’s troops were crowded at the end of the Spanish Civil War.
Another French film award was also known on Friday: Emmanuel Courcol’s “The Big Hit”, which won the European Comedy Award; tells the story of Etienne (played by Kad Merad), an actor who leads a theater workshop in a prison with inmates performing Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot.”
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