The organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival say they will stop awarding separate acting¹ prizes to women and men beginning next year.

 

柏林国际电影节主办方称，他们将从明年起停止分别向男女演员颁发表演奖项。

 

Berlinale organizers said Monday the performance awards will be defined in a gender²-neutral way at next year's festival, for which a physical event is planned.

 

The festival awards a Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears, which until this year included best actor and best actress honors. Organizers said those prizes will be replaced with a Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance and a Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance.

 

In a statement, the co-heads of the festival, Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian, said "not separating the awards in the acting field according to gender comprises a signal for a more gender-sensitive awareness³ in the film industry."

 

At the same time, the Alfred Bauer Prize, which is named after the festival's founding director, will be permanently⁴ retired⁵. The prize was suspended this year due to revelations about Bauer's role in the Nazis’ moviemaking bureaucracy.

 

Commenting on the decision to hold a physical event next year, despite uncertainties⁶ due to the coronavirus pandemic, the two directors stressed the need for a "lively relationship with the audience."

 

"In times of the corona⁷ pandemic, it has become even clearer that we still require analogue⁸ experience spaces in the cultural realm," they said, noting that other festivals have also resumed holding physical rather than virtual events.

 

The 2021 festival is scheduled for Feb. 11-21. This year's festival was one of the last major events that took place before the coronavirus pandemic largely shut down public life in Germany.

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