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French film wins golden bear
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A FRENCH production "Intimacy" has been awarded the Golden Bear For Best Feature at the 51st International Film Festival of Berlin, which closed on Sunday.
It is also the first European film to win the highest prize at the Berlin film festival since 1995.
The film also won a Silver Bear for best actress and the "Blue Angel" prize for the director, Patrice Chereau.
Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic", widely expected to walk away with top nod the Golden Bear, took only the best actor prize for Benicio Del Toro.
Chinese director Wang Xiaoshuai's "Beijing Bicycle" took the Grand Jury Prize. Both of its leading actors also took the Piper Heidsieck New Talent award. The other Chinese-language film in competition, Taiwanese helmer Lin Cheng-sheng's "Betlenut Beauty", walked off with director kudos as well as the Piper Heidsieck New Talent Award for lead actress Angelica Lee Sinje.
The festival's best-selling and most-buzzed about competition title, Lone Scherfig's "Italian for Beginners", took the Jury Prize. Both "Italian" and "Beijing Bicycle" were picked up for US distribution, the former by Miramax, the latter by Sony Pictures Classics.
The only other Golden Bear, a prize for best short film, was awarded to "Ame Noire" from Canada.
(SD-Agencies)
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