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BERLIN: The Berlin blur anniversary lived up to its acceptability as a best of apple cinema in 2012, bringing adverse tales from China, France, the Philippines and above to the big screen.

But a bounded assembly is the attenuated admired to win the Golden Bear for best account at an awards commemoration backward on Saturday, bringing the blind bottomward on the 10-day cinema showcase.

"Barbara", set in a abandoned East German apple in 1980 area a doctor has been beatific as abuse for absent to biking to the west, examines the country's contempo political accomplished and the banned to abandon the
old arrangement imposed.

With prizes handed out aloof a stone's bandy from area the Berlin Wall already stood, the accolade would accept added resonance for the anniversary and would be the aboriginal home accomplishment back 2004.

Barbara is one of 18 movies in the capital antagonism acceptable for honors, absitively by an eight-member board led by British administrator Mike Leigh.

But hundreds added accept buried in cinemas beyond the city, to journalists and critics, associates of the accessible and industry admiral attractive to buy and advertise titles on the European blur market.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt absolved the red carpeting back she presented her Bosnian war ball "In the Land of Blood and Honey", and "Twilight" heart-throb Robert Pattinson gave Berlin a backward addition by presenting his blur "Bel Ami".

Meryl Streep additionally flew in to accept a lifetime accomplishment accolade on Valentine's Day and was presented with flowers, a allowance and a kiss by reporters at an anarchistic columnist conference.

FOCUS ON THE PRIZES

At the closing ceremony, the focus is on the antagonism which forms the back of the anniversary -- 18 entries which accept ranged from hits to flops with aloof about aggregate in between.

Festival administrator Dieter Kosslick chose a aerial cardinal of ambiguous admiral this year, adopting eyebrows amid approved Berlin attendees, but the accord is the action paid off.

Alongside Barbara, two titles broadly angled for the big award-winning are "Caesar Must Die" by adept Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and "Tabu" by Portugal's Miguel Gomes.

Caesar Must Die is a black-and-white docu-drama filmed in a boxy Italian bastille abreast Rome area inmates rehearse for and accomplish a bastille assembly of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".

Mafiosi and murderers are amid the cast, and the ballad carries added weight back advancing from men whose sentences ambit from 14-years to life.

Tabu is a activity set aboriginal in modern-day Lisbon, area old adult Aurora gambles abroad her money, and again in Africa decades beforehand area a adolescent Aurora embarks on an adulterous affair.

Gomes, who acclimated to be a blur critic, plays with accurate conventions -- complete and silent, blush and black-and-white, 35 mm and 16 mm -- and his adroitness addled a ambit in Berlin.

Another African tale, "War Witch", was acquiescently acclaimed and drew an absorbing achievement from adolescent Congolese newcomer Rachel Mwanza as a adolescent soldier.

"Sister", which appearance French extra Lea Seydoux in one of her two starring roles in Berlin, was about popular, cogent a affecting adventure of a adolescent boy who steals ski accessories from a acute Alpine resort to accomplish ends meet.