The win comes six years after Jude received the Silver Bear for the historical drama Aferim!.
The international jury that handed the awards in the main competition was made up of six directors who previously won the Berlinale’s grand trophy, including Romanian Adina Pintilie, the 2018 winner for Touch Me Not.
“The Golden Bear goes to a film which has that rare and essential quality of a lasting art work. It captures on screen the very content and essence, the mind and body, the values and the raw flesh of our present moment in time. Of this very moment of human existence. It does so by provoking the spirit of our time (i.e., zeitgeist), by slapping it, by challenging it to a duel. And while doing that, it also challenges this present moment in cinema, shaking, with the same camera movement, our social and our cinematic conventions. It is an elaborated film as well as a wild one, clever and childish, geometrical and vibrant, imprecise in the best way. It attacks the spectator, evokes disagreement, but leaves no one with a safety distance,” the jury said in a statement.
The trophies will be presented at a gala set to take place in June.
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