The 9-year-old actress won the best leading role at the Berlin Film Festival, the youngest winner in history

According to Sina Entertainment, 9-year-old Sofia Otero ("Twenty Thousand Kinds of Bees") won the Silver Bear Award for Best Leading Role at this Berlin Film Festival and is also the youngest performance award winner in the history of the Berlin Film Festival. Tilting up her little feet, she was so excited that she cried.

Sophia plays an eight-year-old who is unsure about her gender in the film. The film explores the complex diversity of gender from a childhood perspective.

Twenty Thousand Kinds of Bees is a film based on the work of a Spanish novelist named Lelia López de Samoso about a girl and her grandfather on a bee farm. Sofia Otero played the girl in the film, injecting innocence and childlikeness into the role, while also showing her acting skills and emotional expression.