“The Silver

© Berlinale

Hugo for Best Female Performance goes to Eszter Tompa for

KONTINENTAL '25 for her subtle, incisive, never caricatural acting. Tompa has been capable of recounting a personal crisis while constantly opening up to universal reflections that summon all viewers. She manages to be human, fragile, imperfect, strong, everydayish, and perfectly coherent with the director's irony. The spectator stays with her, in deep empathy, in her incessant search for an impossible, impeccable conduct.“