MUMBAI: A day after awarding the Golden Bear to the Turkish film Honey, The 60th Berlin International Film Festival came to a close on Sunday.

The jury made the controversial choice to give the Silver Bear to The Ghost Writer directed by Roman Polanski.

The acting honours went to Shinoubu Terajima, the Japanese star of the anti-war film Caterpillar and to Russian co-stars Girgori Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis for How I Ended This Summer.

The Turkish film, directed by Semih Kaplangolglu, was one of 20 contenders for the Golden Bear this year.

The film is the third in a trilogy, following Milk and Egg, traces the life of a young boy, Yusuf in rural Turkey. The film that has no music stars eight-year-old Bora Altas.