2nd Silver Bear prize for acclaimed director

Mainland director and screenwriter Wang Xiaoshuai has picked up his second Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, winning the best screenplay prize for In Love We Trust.

Wang's film had been competing for the top Golden Bear award at the 58th Berlinale, but that went to Brazilian director Jose Padilha's Tropa de Elite (The Elite Squad), a story of police corruption and gang violence in the Brazilian slums.

In Love We Trust lead actress Liu Weiwei missed out on the best actress prize, which went to Sally Hawkins for her performance in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky.

Wang thanked the jury, saying the award would help 'all of us who try to make independent film in China'.

In Love We Trust, a story of love, loyalty and responsibility among the mainland's new middle class, tells of how a middle-aged divorced couple, both remarried, try to save their young daughter who suffers from leukaemia, by having another child to act as a bone marrow donor.

It was the only film from the mainland competing this year in Berlin, where last year's top Golden Bear award was won by the Chinese film, Tuya's Marriage.