China takes Berlin Bear

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".