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Bear trophies for the upcoming 71st Berlinale film festival are displayed during a media tour at the Noack foundry in Berlin. - The 71st Berlin film festival wraps up on March 5, 2021 after a pandemic-era edition unlike any before, with the awarding of its Golden Bear best picture prize and its first "gender neutral" acting gongs. The later, shorter, all-online Berlinale which started on March 1, 2021 replaced the usual 11-day star-studded extravaganza normally held in February. Critics watching the movies on their laptops said that for all the lack of red-carpet glamour, it was a vintage year for the main selection of 15 films, with few duds and a clutch of gems. Credit: AFP Photo
The Romanian director Radu Jude's 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn', a sexually explicit dark comedy of the everyday aggression experienced by a female teacher in contemporary Bucharest, won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear award.
Judges hailed the film, starring Katia Pascariu as the teacher whose private sex tape is leaked, triggering a witch hunt by parents of the children at her school, as a "lasting artwork" that had an important message to convey about the Zeitgeist.
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