Berlinale top winner seeks asylum in Germany

A real life immigration drama is playing out at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

Nazif Muijic won Best Actor at Berlinale in 2013 for a film that followed a day in his life as a scrap metal collector in Bosnia.

Muijic went home when the festival ended, but has returned to Germany to seek asylum.

So far the authorities have denied his request.

Al Jazeera’s Phil Lavelle reports from Berlin.