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BERLIN — A film about the struggles of a single mother and her 12-year-old daughter in the cruel aftermath of the Bosnian war has won the top prize at the Berlin film festival.

The movie, "Grbavica," a joint Austrian-Bosnian-German-Croatian production, beat out 18 rivals to secure the Golden Bear award Saturday night for the best film, sustaining the festival's reputation as a backer of lesser-known filmmakers.

Director Jasmila Zbanic's film tells of how the young girl forces her mother to confess that her father was not a hero who died fighting Serb guerrillas during Bosnia's ethnically charged civil war — but rather a rapist at a Serb camp for prisoners-of-war.

"I am dreaming this, so I will wake in five minutes in Sarajevo," Zbanic, 31, said after receiving her award in the German capital. She thanked the organizers for being "so liberal to invite small films from small countries with small budgets."

The two runners-up were "Offside," a comedy that uses soccer mania to highlight the struggle for women's rights in Iran; and the Danish-Swedish tragicomedy "A Soap."

Britain's Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross were honored in the best-director category for "The Road to Guantanamo," their semi-documentary re-creating the experiences of three former captives at the U.S. detention facility.

Winterbottom won the Golden Bear in 2003 for "In This World," a story of two young Afghans' grueling journey to England as refugees.

This year's best-actor and -actress awards at the festival both went to performers in German productions: Moritz Bleibtreu, for his role in "Elementarteilchen" ("The Elementary Particles"); and Sandra Hueller, who starred in "Requiem."