In pictures: Berlin Film Festival

An awards ceremony rounded off the 58th Berlin Film Festival, with Sally Hawkins winning best actress for Happy-Go-Lucky.

Jose Padilha's controversial portrayal of police corruption in Brazil, The Elite Squad, won the Golden Bear for best film.

Director Errol Morris was runner-up for best film with Standard Operating Procedure, a documentary about Iraq.

There Will Be Blood missed out on best film but Paul Thomas Anderson was named best director for his work on the epic.

Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke won the prize for most innovative film, for Lake Tahoe.

Reza Naji of Iran was best actor in Berlin, having played a long-suffering father in The Song of Sparrows.

Wang Xiaoshuai (right) won best script for In Love We Trust and was joined by actors Cheng Kaisheng (left) and Liu Weiwei (centre).

Some of the award-winners posed together, including Marcos Prado (right), producer of The Elite Squad.

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