Yong Mei 咏梅

For the first time in the history of the Berlin Film Festival, the prizes for Best Actor and Best Actress went to performers from the same film — and it makes the achievement all the more honorable that it fell to Chinese actors. The awards went to Wang Jing-Chun, who had long deserved something substantial, and Yong Mei, who played the leads in So Long, My Son. The film competed in the main competition but did not take the top prize. Also at the Berlin Film Festival, the Teddy Award (given to films with LGBT themes) went to A Dog Barking at the Moon, while A First Farewell received the top prize in the Generation Kplus children's film competition.