Iranian Family Drama Wins at Berlin Film Festival

    The Iranian drama "Nader and Simin: A Separation（分开） " won the Golden Bear award for the best picture and also picked up the best actor and actress prizes at the Berlin film festival Saturday.
    The movie directed by Ashghar Farhadi portrays¹ a marriage in crisis and explores Iran's class divisions and a clash between traditional and modern ways of living and thinking.
    In his acceptance speech（提名演讲）, Farhadi paid tribute to fellow Iranian film maker² Jafar Panahi, who was unable to come to Berlin after being sentenced to six years in jail and banned from film-making and traveling for 20 years on charges of anti-government activity.  Panahi won the best director award in 2009 for his movie "About Elly ."The runner-up prize, the Silver Bear, was awarded to Hungarian director Bela Tarr's for "The Turin Horse ."German film maker Ulrich Koehler won this year's best director award for his movie "Sleeping Sickness," while American director Joshua Marston and his co-writer Andamion Murataj took the best screenplay award for "The Forgiveness of Blood ," a drama set in Albania.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 portrays   

v.画像( portray的第三人称单数 )；描述；描绘；描画

参考例句：

• The museum collection vividly portrays the heritage of 200 years of canals. 博物馆的藏品让运河200 年的历史再现眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The film portrays Gandhi as a kind of superman. 这部电影把甘地描绘成一个超人。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。