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 Tuya's Marriage, a Chinese film about a woman and her life supporting her family in Inner Mongolia, has won the Berlin Film Festival's top honour, the Golden Bear.
This follows the Golden Lion win for Still Life - also from China - at Venice in September 2006. Accepting the award, director Wang Quan'an said he could not imagine a better gift for Chinese New Year.
Glasgow based Sigma Films' Hallam Foe picked up Best Music for a soundtrack featuring Franz Ferdianand. The awards were announced on Saturday evening as the 11-day festival headed towards its conclusion.
BEST FILM (Golden Bear)
- "Tuya's Marriage", a Chinese film about a woman's struggle to support her son and sick husband on the Mongolian steppes.
JURY GRAND PRIX (Silver Bear)
- "The Other" ("El Otro"), an Argentinian film directed by Ariel Rotter about a man going through a mid-life crisis.
BEST DIRECTOR (Silver Bear)
- Joseph Cedar for "Beaufort", about Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 after 18 years of occupation.
BEST ACTOR (Silver Bear)
- Julio Chavez, Argentinian actor in "The Other".
BEST ACTRESS (Silver Bear)
- Nina Hoss, German actress starring in "Yella", about a woman who struggles to break with her past.
OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION (Silver Bear)
- Ensemble cast of "The Good Shepherd", the CIA drama directed by Robert De Niro.
BEST FILM MUSIC
- "Hallam Foe", British film directed by David Mackenzie starring Jamie Bell as a social outcast and voyeur.
BEST FIRST FEATURE
- "Vanaja", an Indian film about the daughter of a fisherman in the south of the country.
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE*
- "I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK", a comedy by South Korean director Park Chan-wook starring Asian pop superstar Rain.
NOTE - *The Alfred Bauer prize is awarded to a work which "takes the art of film in a new direction".
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