“Triangle of Sadness” is the big winner at the European Film Awards. In Reykjavik, Iceland, director Ruben Östlund’s comedy won Best European Film of the Year, as well as winning awards in several other major categories, including Best Director and Best Screenplay. The film tells of a voyage that ends differently than planned.
Zlatko Burić won best actor. In “Triangle of Sadness” he plays one of the main characters, an entrepreneur who, on board a cruise ship, argues with the communist captain, among others, about capitalism.
The Luxembourgish actress Vicky Krieps won the prize for best actress. She was honored for her role in the drama “Corsage”, in which she can be seen as Empress Sisi. Krieps joined via video and said she wanted to dedicate the award to all women in the world who should be seen and heard. The German actress Meltem Kaptan was also nominated. The comedienne from Cologne accordingly went away empty-handed.
The European Film Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the industry. The approximately 4,400 members of the Film Academy were able to vote on the winners in a number of categories, similar to the Oscars in the USA.
“The Perfect Boss” with actor Javier Bardem was awarded best comedy. The award for the best documentary went to “Mariupolis 2” by Mantas Kvedaravičius. The Italian Marco Bellocchio (“Exterior Night”) was honored for innovative storytelling, the Palestinian director Elia Suleiman (“Watering the Lemon Tree”) for his commitment to world cinema. Film producers from Ukraine were also honored.
Honored by Trotta for her life’s work
The German director Margarethe von Trotta was honored by the European Film Academy for her life’s work. The 80-year-old was touched in her acceptance speech and recalled that so far only a few female directors have received this award. Von Trotta began her career as an actress, for example in films by Volker Schlöndorff and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In the early 1970s she was drawn behind the camera – at a time when women were still rarely directing. The film academy announced in advance that she had become one of the leading directors of European auteur cinema.
She received a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in the early 1980s for her film Die bleierne Zeit. She also made films about Hannah Arendt, Hildegard von Bingen and Rosa Luxemburg. Your new film is supposed to tell about the relationship between the writer Ingeborg Bachmann and the writer Max Frisch.
A video message came from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Your climate protection program European Green Deal received a sustainability award. The European Film Prize is usually awarded alternately in Berlin and another European city. Last year the drama “Quo Vadis, Aida?” about the massacre in Srebrenica was awarded the best European film of the year.