Berlin film festival honours eastern European movie-makers

Two low-budget films, one from Romania and the other from Bosnia, take top prizes for portrayals of post-communist life Eastern European film-makers basked in the limelight at the weekend after two low-budget pictures snapped up the top prizes at Berlin's international film festival. The Berlinale's first prize, the Golden Bear, was awarded to a quasi-documentary-style Romanian film, Pozitia