The Teddy Awards Best Feature goes to Nasty Baby
The Teddy Award – the most outstanding queer film prize in the world – is a socially engaged, political honour presented to films and people who communicate queer themes on a broad social platform, thereby contributing to tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society.
During the Berlinale the award is presented in the following categories: Best Feature, Best Documentary / Essay Film and Best Short Film as well as the Special Jury Award. Every year films from all sections of the Berlin International Film Festival compete for the Teddy Awards.
BEST FEATURE FILM 2015
Nasty Baby
by Sebastián Silva
Freddy is an artist whose desire for a baby has become something of an obsession. He surrounds himself with photographs of his childhood and is working feverishly on a fresh piece about newborns. He and his partner Mo have even managed to persuade their best friend Polly to have their baby. However, after numerous failed attempts to conceive, this proves to be more difficult than they first envisaged. Freddy’s planned video installation also turns out to be rather more complicated than he thought. And then, when the ‘Bishop’, their rather deranged neighbour, begins tormenting them with his serious chicanery, their hitherto carefree existence starts to go dangerously awry. A series of surprising events brings their frustrations to a head and before long, Freddy and his friends begin to lose their grip on reality.
Sebastián Silva’s savagely satirical film is an angry portrait of a group of presumptuous and self-absorbed bohemians. The director himself plays the role of Freddy, infusing his performance with the complacency, doggedness, ignorance and egomania of a social circle which is in the process of becoming estranged from their original visions and dreams.
BEST DOCUMENTARY/ESSAY FILM 2015
El hombre nuevo (The new man)
by Aldo Garay
BEST SHORT FILM 2015
San Cristóbal
by Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo
SPECIAL TEDDY AWARD 2015
Udo Kier
Members of the Jury 2015
Gustavo Scofano
Nick Deocampo
Muffin Hix
Yvonne Behrens
Diego Trerotola
Shana Myara
Predrag Azdejkovic
Mascha Nehls
Bradley Fortuin
