The top prize at the Berlin Film Festival was won by “There is No evil” by Mohammad Rasoulof, an Iranian director who is currently unable to leave his home country. Rasoulof’s daughter Baran, who also stars in the film, received the Golden Bear on his behalf.

Jury president Jeremy Irons said that the film, which tells four stories about the death penalty, showed “the web an authoritarian regime weaves among ordinary people, drawing them towards inhumanity”.

The second-place award at the festival went to “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”, a film about abortion in the US by director Eliza Hittman.