Berlin Film Festival: Romanian Film Takes Top Prize
NY Times excerpt
David Gordon Green won best director for “Prince Avalanche,” a buddy comedy starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. And best screenplay went to Jafar Panahi and Kamboziya Partovci for one of the most talked-about films in the competition, “Closed Curtain,” a confessional, self-reflexive drama about an artist and his demons. It is the second movie, after “This Is Not a Film” (2010), that Mr. Panahi has made in defiance of a ban on filmmaking by the Iranian authorities.