'Milk of Sorrow' wins top prize at Berlin Film Festival

By: Our Staff Reporter | February 15, 2009, 12:50 pm |
Peruvian director Claudia Llosa's Milk of Sorrow, the magic-realism-tinged story of women suffering the effects of the long battle between Peru's government and Shining Path terrorists, won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Argentinian director Adrian Biniez's debut Gigante (about a supermarket security guard obsessed with a late-night cleaner) shared the runner-up Silver Bear prize with German director Maren Ade's Everyone Else. The latter film's star, Birgit Minichmayr, won best actress honors, while Sotigui Kouyate took best actor for the British film London River (about the aftermath of the London terror bombings).

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