Women-directed films accounted for just 21 percent of the films eligible for the Berlinale’s highest honors this year. Despite overwhelming odds, the fest’s most prestigious prizes, the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, went to films helmed by women. Adina Pintilie’s “Touch Me Not” took home the former and Malgorzata Szumowska’s “Mug” the latter.

An exploration of intimacy, “Touch Me Not” follows its characters attempts to “overcome old patterns, defense mechanisms, and taboos — to cut the cord, and finally be free,” Pintilie told us. “When I was 20, I thought I knew everything about love, about how a healthy intimate relationship should be, and how desire functions,” the Romanian writer-director recalled. “Today, after 20 years of trials and tribulations, all of my views about intimacy — which were so clear — seem to have lost their definition, and grown more complex and unsettlingly contradictory. As a reflection of this personal journey, ‘Touch Me Not’ touches on these questions of human longing and (in)ability to touch or be touched, to make contact with each other.”

Pintilie’s previous credits include feature “Don’t Get Me Wrong” and the short “Diary #2.”

“Mug” follows a man who undergoes a face transplant after a workplace injury. Polish filmmaker Szumowska won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize in 2015 for “Body,” the story of a concerned father who sends his anorexic daughter to a psychiatrist following her mother’s death.

Ana Brun took home the best actress trophy for lesbian drama “The Heiresses,” and Elena Okopnaya received the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for “Dovlatov,” a look into the last six days of Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov’s life.

Ildiko Enyedi’s “On Body and Soul” was awarded the Golden Bear last year. The romance about slaughterhouse employees is up for an Oscar in the foreign-language category at this Sunday’s awards.