Brazil’s ‘Feito Pipa’ Wins Berlinale Generation Kplus Crystal Bear and Grand Prix

Overview

• Directed by Allan Deberton, the Ceará-shot feature follows a boy named Gugu and stars Yuri Gomes with Teca Pereira and Lázaro Ramos.
• The film earned the Generation Kplus Crystal Bear from a youth jury and the section’s Grand Prix from the international jury, which praised the performances of Gomes and Pereira.
• Festival audiences gave the film standing ovations across four Berlinale screenings, following its earlier selection as a Teddy Award finalist.
• Janaína Marques’s Fiz um Foguete Imaginando que Você Vinha won the Tagesspiegel Readers Jury Award in the Forum section.
• The prizes were received on stage by Deberton alongside producer Marcelo Pinheiro, writer André Araújo and assistant director Luciana Vieira, as critics also honored Narciso with the FIPRESCI award in Panorama.