Asia titles made a strong showing on awards night in Berlin, which was celebrating its own success. A record 330,000 tickets had been sold over a day before the festival concluded – confirming its place as the world’s largest film festival.
Chinese noir is not a huge genre but, in the shape of Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice, it took the Berlinale’s top honour, the International Jury’s Golden Bear for Best Film, along with the Best Actor gong for lead Liao Fan.
