Serendipity Point copro wins best screenplay at Berlin

The drama following two veterinarian students made its world premiere in competition at the European festival.

Serendipity Point Films’ copro Museo has picked up the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear award for best screenplay.

The crime drama is produced by Gerardo Gattica and Alberto Muffelmann of Mexico’s Panorama Global and Moises Cosio of Detalle Films. Robert Lantos of Serendipity executive produces, alongside Anant Singh and Brian Cox of South Africa’s Distant Horizon and Mark Musselman. The film made its world premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival in February.

Directed by Mexico’s Alonso Ruizpalacios and co-written with Manuel Alcalá, Museo follows two veterinarian students who scheme to steal Mexican cultural artifacts from the country’s National Anthropology Museum and find themselves in over their heads. Gael García Bernal and Leonardo Ortizgris star.

Meanwhile, Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not took home the Golden Bear for Best Film at Berlin. Other festival award winners include Malgorzata Szumowska’s Twarz, which took home the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, while Wes Anderson was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director for Isle of Dogs.

Correction: this story was updated to include Mark Musselman as an executive producer on the film