This film dramatizes powerfully conflicts associated with family life and living in Iran. It addresses its subject-matter with equality, respect, and sincerity. Its themes include parent-child relationships, separation, ethical decision-making, justice, and religious commitment. Its power is strengthened by the Director’s invitation to the viewer to engage with suggested solutions. It maintains creatively tension throughout, and never loses the integrity of its individual themes. The film communicates different moral viewpoints effectively in a realistic, and culturally sensitive way.
61st Berlin International Film Festival
10.02.2011 to 20.02.2011
Berlin
(from left): Dietmar Adler, Julienne N. Munyaneza, Peter Shehan, Asghar Farhadi, Babak Karimi (actor), Lothar Strüber, Gabriele Carunchio (Jean-Michel Zucker missing)
Auszeichnungen der Ökumenischen Jury
Nader and Simin, a Separation
Nader und Simin - eine Trennung
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2011
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2011
This film informs forcibly about a son taking responsibility for his actions in a family caught in a vendetta culture in Albania.
Invisible
Lily und Nira
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2011
This film deals with women’s rape - a major and frequent social problem of physical and mental trauma. It shows with empathy, and brilliant psychological relevance, the complex feelings and behaviour of two victims who meet by chance. They try to overcome the long-lasting sequelae from which they are suffering. Through the generosity, the energy, and the talents of the Director and her two actresses, this first feature film is based on real facts. It shows the successful fight for women’s rights and dignity.
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2011
This film depicts forcefully the rage and despair about the injustices and the abuse of human rights remaining in Chechnya after the Russian withdrawal.
Familiar Grounds
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2011
This film is structurally original in showing how "accidents" can alter human relationships. It is innovative in drawing warm and human comic moments out of an alienated world where relationships are fragile. Its dialogue is sparse and well-controlled, and the soundtrack integrates very effectively with the film's visual imagery.
An Angel in Doel
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2011
This documentary shows sympathetically how urban development and globalization affect individuals in an aged community in Antwerp, Belgium.
