‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ Wins the Berlin Film Festival, While ‘The Blue Trail’ Takes Silver Bear
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic The 75th anniversary edition of the Berlin Film Festival drew to a close with tonight’s awards ceremony, as Todd Haynes’s jury awarded the Golden Bear to “Dreams (Sex Love)” — the third film in Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy.
The award brings Haugerud full circle, after premiering “Sex” a year earlier in the Panorama section of the 2024 Berlin Film Festival.
In accepting the prize, the writer-director said, “Write more and read more.” The jury’s second place prize, the Silver Bear, went to Gabriel Mascaro’s “The Blue Trail,” a film that challenges the way society treats its eldest citizens.
Rose Byrne won leading performance honors for her tour-de-force role in Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You.” In a film that swirls like a tornado around Byrne’s performance, the Australian actor plays an overwhelmed mother juggling her work as a therapist and the demands of raising a special needs child.
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