Berlinale 2020: Three prizes have been conferred upon the new projects by Onur Saylak, Simon Jaquemet and Veerle Baetens. The 17th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (22-26 February) has handed out its three awards after an extensive series of more than 1,500 individual meetings involving almost 600 participants. This year’s selection brought together 36 new feature-film projects (see the news). Turkish director Onur Saylak received the prestigious Eurimages Co-production Development Award for his project There Are Two Kinds of People in This World, which follows the president’s visit to a coalmine during Ramadan to attend a dinner with the miners. When the mine collapses, trapping him, some miners and a journalist, tensions begin to rise, as some of the survivors either worship or hate the president. Written by Hakan Günday, the project was presented at the Co-Production Market by Turkish producer Nadir Öperli for Liman Film, and received the...
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