Berlin's 20th annual Teddy award goes to Filipino film

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Berlin's 20th

            annual Teddy award goes to Filipino film
       The Berlin
            International Film Festival's Teddy Queer Film Award goes to
                The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros.
 Outtraveler Staff
          
          Feb 17, 2006
          
        
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       The Berlin
            International Film Festival's top Teddy queer film
            award was       given out Friday night to The Blossoming
                of Maximo       Oliveros, Filipino filmmaker Auraeus
            Solito's boy-meets-cop drama       about a
            12-year-old cross-dresser in Manila who falls in love with a
            burly policeman. The festival, which ends Sunday, has been
            presenting a       program of 36 queer films from past years
            in celebration of the Teddy's       20th anniversary
            (the first award was given to Spanish director Pedro
            Almodovar). Winners in other categories included Olivier
            Meyrou's Beyond Hatred (Documentary/Essay) and
            Maryam       Keshavarz's The Day I Died (Short
            Film).       (Advocate.com)     

        
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