史上初の性別問わない「主演俳優賞」にＭ・エッゲルト　ベルリン映画祭

【ベルリンＡＦＰ＝時事】第71回ベルリン国際映画祭で5日、史上初の性別を問わない「主演俳優賞」に、SFコメディー映画『I’m　Your　Man（原題）』で主演を務めたドイツ人のマレン・エッゲルトが選ばれた。（写真は第71回ベルリン国際映画祭の「金熊賞」が贈られるラドゥ・ジュード監督。独ベルリンで）
　同作は、ドラマ「アンオーソドックス」などで知られるマリア・シュラーダー監督の作品。英俳優ダン・スティーヴンスも出演している。
　最優秀作品賞の「金熊賞」は、ルーマニアのラドゥ・ジュード監督の『Ｂａｄ　Ｌｕｃｋ　Ｂａｎｇｉｎｇ　ｏｒ　Ｌｏｏｎｙ　Ｐｏｒｎ（原題）』に贈られた。自身の性動画がインターネットに流出した教師を主人公とする風刺作品。
　またこれに次ぐ「銀熊賞」には、濱口竜介監督の『偶然と想像』が選ばれた。人とのつながりを求める女性たちを描いた３話から成る。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/03/08-13:10）

Romanian sex tape satire Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by Radu Jude won the 71st Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize Friday.
The film skewers pandemic-era social hypocrisy, telling the story of a teacher whose home pornography video winds up on the internet.
Israeli director Nadav Lapid announced the award, saying the movie had the rare and essential quality of a lasting artwork.
The festival, which was held entirely online, also awarded its first-ever gender neutral best acting prize to Germany's Maren Eggert for her performance in the sci-fi comedy I'm Your Man.
In the film by Unorthodox director Maria Schrader, Eggert is a museum researcher who signs up to test a humanoid robot, played by British actor Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey, as a romantic partner.
The runner-up best film gong went to Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi whose Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is made up of three stories of women looking for connection in modern Japan.
Maria Speth's German documentary Mr Bachmann and His Class, about an empathetic teacher on the cusp of retirement who takes his pupils from a range of immigrant backgrounds under his wing, claimed the third-place jury prize.
Hungary's Denes Nagy clinched best director for Natural Light, a harrowing drama about an atrocity committed by Hungarian soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War II.
Prolific South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, who won the Berlinale's best director prize last year, was awarded best screenplay for Introduction about young lovers and their feuding families which was set partly in Berlin.
The Berlinale jury was made up of six previous Golden Bear winners including last year's laureate, dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who claimed the prize for There Is No Evil, about capital punishment.
Five of the members saw the films in person in the German capital in a specially reserved cinema, while Rasoulof watched from Tehran under house arrest.
The festival's organisers hopes to hold a gala awards ceremony in June if pandemic conditions permit.