Dissident Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof won the top prize at the Berlin film festival for There Is No Evil, a searingly critical work about the death penalty in Iran.
The film tells four loosely related individual stories about the death penalty in Iran, from the executioner to the families of the victims.
The award for best director went to South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo for The Woman Who Ran, a minimalistic film about a woman whose husband is away on a business trip.
Speaking to a news conference via mobile phone, the director said his latest film was about “taking responsibility” under despotism.