Shot over three years, the documentary takes viewers onto a Seine barge in Paris that serves as a floating daycare centre for adults suffering from a mental illness. The French documentary “On the Adamant” — a film about a floating daycare centre in Paris for adults with a mental illness — has won the Berlin International Film Festival’s top Golden Bear prize. The award for best director went to fellow French filmmaker Philippe Garrel for “The Plough”, about three siblings who are trying to keep alive the family puppeteering business after the death of their father. French cinematographer Helene Louvart received the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution for her work on “Disco Boy”. Zelenskyy, a former comedian and actor, featured prominently in Sean Penn’s film about the war in Ukraine, “Superpower,” which had its world premiere in Berlin.
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