"Bosnia's best actor lives here," says a brightly coloured cardboard sign hung on a tree, near where the village's asphalt road turns into the muddy path that leads to a Roma slum.

The 63rd Berlin film festival wrapped up Sunday after awarding its Golden Bear top prize to the Romanian melodrama "Child's Pose" in a banner year for cinema from post-communist eastern Europe.

The 63rd Berlin film festival wraps up Sunday after awarding its Golden Bear top prize to "Child's Pose", a mother-son psychodrama set among post-communist Romania's new ruling class.

"Child's Pose", a mother-son psychodrama set among post-communist Romania's new ruling class, won the Golden Bear top prize at the 63rd Berlin film festival Saturday.

American film-maker David Gordon Green won the Silver Bear best director prize for his buddy picture "Prince Avalanche" Saturday at the 63rd Berlinale.

A Chilean feel-good movie about ageing, a picture made in secret by Iranian dissident director Jafar Panahi and a drama about Romania's new rich were the odds-on favourites for prizes Saturday at the Berlin film festival.

French icon Catherine Deneuve's feel-good road movie "On My Way" ended the Berlin film festival competition on a high note Friday at an event that has highlighted fresh starts for older women.

The human cost of swingeing cutbacks and spiralling debt have provided inspiration for film-makers from countries hardest hit by Europe's financial crisis at the Berlin film festival.

The makers of the new DreamWorks 3-D animated movie "The Croods", including stars Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone, said Friday they're ready to turn it into the studio's next sequels juggernaut.

"Kai Po Che", an Indian film about cricket, love and politics set against a tumultuous backdrop of brutal sectarian violence and an earthquake, bowled over the crowd at the Berlin film festival Thursday.

The late River Phoenix made a haunting reappearance on the big screen Thursday as the last movie to feature the acclaimed star, who died of a drug overdose at 23, was presented at the Berlin film festival two decades after he made the picture.

French film-maker and producer Claude Lanzmann, renowned for his ground-breaking 1985 documentary "Shoah", will accept a lifetime achievement award at the 63rd Berlin film festival Thursday.

Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic premiered Wednesday at the 63rd Berlinale the true story of an emergency in the life of a desperately poor Roma family, played by the real protagonists.

French Oscar winner Juliette Binoche stars as Auguste Rodin's ex-lover and muse who was confined to an asylum in the Berlinale contender "Camille Claudel 1915", a role she said attracted her for its extremes.

Steven Soderbergh said goodbye to directing, and the Berlinale which has hosted him more often than any other film festival, with the taut thriller "Side Effects" that drew cheers Tuesday.

The 63rd Berlinale premiered Tuesday the latest film by banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi, a haunting lament about crushing state oppression and a tribute to the resilience of the creative drive.

Fatal car crashes lay bare social tensions in two very different countries in upheaval, South Africa and Romania, in new movies in competition at the 63rd Berlin film festival Monday.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy said they feel like they've grown up with their slow-burn romantic trilogy after the latest instalment, "Before Midnight", charmed the Berlinale Monday, and that they're mulling a fourth film.

Fierce performances by lead actresses lit up the screens Sunday at the 63rd Berlinale which, after Cannes shunned female filmmakers in its competition last year, also has three women directors in the race.

A Tarantino-tinged love story plunging US up-and-coming actors Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood into the Bucharest underworld dazzled the Berlin film festival Saturday.