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Shadows @ Berlinale Europe's premiere winter film festival Runs alongside the European Film Market in Berlin Rich Cline was on the Fipresci jury at Berlinale 2009
73rd Berlin International Film Festival 16 - 26 FEBRUARY 2023 in Berlin, Germany	2 0 2 3 A W A R D S
	Golden Bear: ON THE ADAMANT Silver Bear: AFIRE Jury Prize: BAD LIVING Honorary Golden Bear: Steven Spielberg Berlinale Camera: Caroline Champetier Documentary: THE ECHO Teddy Bear: ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE Teddy - Doc: ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY Crystal Bear: ADOLFO Generation 14plus: HUMMINGBIRDS Audience Award: SIRA Audience Award - Doc: KOKOMO CITY Director: Philippe Garrel (THE PLOUGH) Screenplay: Angela Schanelec (MUSIC) Lead Performance: Sofia Otero (20,000 SPECIES OF BEES) Supporting Performance: Thea Ehre (TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT) Cinematography: Helene Louvart (DISCO BOY) First Feature: Leandro Koch & Paloma Schachmann (THE KLEZMER PROJECT) Fipresci Prize: THE SURVIVAL OF KINDNESS Fipresci - Panorama: THE QUIET MIGRATION Fipresci - Encounters: HERE Fipresci - Forum: BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS	Encounters: HERE Encounters - Jury Prize: ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY Encounters - Director: Tatiana Huezo (THE ECHO) Ecumenical Prize: TOTEM Ecumenical - Panorama: MIDWIVES Ecumenical - Forum: WHERE GOD IS NOT Cicae - Panorama: THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE Cicae - Forum: THE FACE OF JELLYFISH Series Award: THE GOOD MOTHERS AG Kino Gilde: AND THE KING SAID, WHAT A FANTASTIC MACHINE Amnesty Award: THE BURDENED ArteKino: PEELED SKIN Berliner Morgenpost: 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES Caligari: DE FACTO Compass-Perspektive: SEVEN WINTERS Guild: 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES Heiner Carow: BONES AND NAMES Kompagnon-Fellowship: PARAPHRASE ON THE FINDING OF A GLOVE and MY BELOVED MAN'S FEMALE BODY Peace Film: SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN Tagesspiegel: ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
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	20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (Urresola, Sp) ABOUT THIRTY (Shanly, Arg) ABSENCE (Wu, Chn) ADOLFO (Auza, US) THE ADULTS (Defa, US) AFIRE (Petzold, Ger) AFTER (Lapia, Fr) ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE (Apalowo, Ngr) ALLENSWORTH (Benning, US) ALMAMULA (Torales, Fr) AMBUSH (Ninawe, Ind) AND THE KING SAID, WHAT A FANTASTIC MACHINE (Danielson/Van Aertryck, Swe) AND, TOWARDS HAPPY ALLEYS (Singh, Ind) ANQA (Celik, Aut) ARARAT (Kundag, Ger) ART COLLEGE 1994 (Liu, Chn) AUTOBIO-PAMPHLET (Bende, Ind) BAD LIVING (Canijo, Por) THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Chiha, Fr) BEING IN A PLACE: A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT (Fowler, UK) BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS (Petri, Rom) BLACK HEAD (Yurtsever, Tur) BLACKBERRY (Johnson, Can) BONES AND NAMES (Stumm, Ger) BOOM! BOOM! THE WORLD VS BORIS BECKER (Gibney, UK) THE BRIDE (Birara, Rwa) THE BURDENED (Gamal, Yem) THE CAGE IS LOOKING FOR A BIRD (Musaeva, Fr) CALLS FROM MOSCOW (Yero, Cub) THE CASTLE (Benchimol, Arg) THE CEMETERY OF CINEMA (Diallo, Fr) CIDADE RABAT (Nobre, Por) CONCRETE VALLEY (Bourges, Can) DANCING QUEEN (Gosse, Nor) DE FACTO (Doborac, Aut) DEAREST FIONA (Tan, Ned) DEEP SEA (Tian, Chn) DELEGATION (Saban, Pol) DISCO BOY (Abbruzzese, Fr) DO YOU LOVE ME (Noyabrova, Ukr) DREAMS' GATE (Ahmadi, Irn) DRIFTER (Hirsch, Ger) EASTERN FRONT (Mansky/Titarenko, Lat) THE ECHO (Huezo, Mex) ELAHA (Aboyan, Ger) THE ETERNAL MEMORY (Alberdi, Chl) THE FACE OF THE JELLYFISH (Liebenthal, Arg) FAMILY TIME (Kouvo, Fin) FEMME (Freeman/Ng, UK) FORMS OF FORGETTING (Cevik, Tur) GOLDA (Nattiv, UK) A GOLDEN LIFE (Sangare, Bur) GREEN NIGHT (Han, Chn) A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL (d'Alo, Lux) HELLO DANKNESS (Soda Jerk, Aus) HERE (Devos, Bel) HEROIC (Zonana, Mex) HORSE OPERA (Davey, US) HUMMINGBIRDS (Castanos/Contreras, US) I WOKE UP WITH A DREAM (Solarz, Arg) IN THE BLIND SPOT (Polat, Ger) IN UKRAINE (Pawlus/Wolski, Pol) IN WATER (Hong, Kor) INFINITY POOL (Cronenberg, Can) INGEBORG BACHMANN: JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT (von Trotta, Swi) THE INNOCENTS (Fontaine, Fr) INSIDE (Katsoupis, Gr) THE INTRUSION (Dias/Mallon, Br) IRON BUTTERFLIES (Liubyi, Ukr) JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE (O'Connor/Navasky/O'Boyle, US) JUST SUPER (Sivertsen, Nor) KASH KASH (Najjar, Ger) KIDDO (Dwinger, Ned) KILL BOKSOON (Byun, Kor) KISS THE FUTURE (Cicin-Sain, US) THE KLEZMER PROJECT (Koch/Schachmann, Aut)	KOKOMO CITY (Smith, US) LAST NIGHT OF AMORE (Di Stefano, It) LEAVING AND STAYING (Koepp, Ger) LIMBO (Sen, Aus) LIVING BAD (Canijo, Por) LONELY OAKS (Fragale/Kuhlendahl/Muhlhoff, Ger) LONGING FOR THE WORLD (Hasse, Swi) LORIOT'S GREAT CARTOON REVUE (Geyer/Loriot, Ger) THE LOST BOYS (Graton, Bel) LOVE TO LOVE YOU, DONNA SUMMER (Williams/Sudano, US) MAD FATE (Cheang, Chn) MAMMALIA (Mihailescu, Rom) MANHOLE (Kumakiri, Jpn) MANODROME (Trengove, US) MASSIMO TROISI: SOMEBODY DOWN THERE LIKES ME (Martone, It) MATRIA (Gago, Sp) MIDWIVES (Fehner, Fr) MUSIC (Schanelec, Ger) MUTT (Lungulov-Klotz, US) MY WORST ENEMY (Tamadon, Fr) NOTES FROM EREMOCENE (Cakanyova, Svk) NUCLEAR NOMADS (Friedrich/Zargari, Ger) ON MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS (Egen, Ger) ON THE ADAMANT (Philibert, Fr) OPPONENT (Alami, Swe) ORLANDO: MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (Preciado, Fr) OUR BODY (Simon, Fr) PASSAGES (Sachs, Fr) PAST LIVES (Song, US) PERPETRATOR (Reeder, US) THE PLOUGH (Garrel, Fr) THE PROPERTIES OF METALS (Bigini, It) PROPERTY (Bandeira, Br) THE QUIET MIGRATION (Choi, Den) RAMONA (Villegas, Dom) REALITY (Satter, US) REGARDLESS OF US (Yoo, Kor) REMEMBERING EVERY NIGHT (Kiyohara, Jpn) SAMSARA (Patino, Sp) SEA SPARKLE (Huyghe, Bel) SENECA: ON THE CREATION OF EARTHQUAKES (Schwentke, Ger) SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN (Niederzoll, Ger) THE SHADOWLESS TOWER (Zhang, Chn) SHE CAME TO ME (Miller, US) SHE-HERO (Fornay, Svk) SICA (Subirana, Sp) SILVER HAZE (Polak, Ned) SIRA (Traore, Bur) THE SIREN (Farsi, Fr) SISI & I (Finsterwalder, Ger) SOMEDAY WE'LL TELL EACH OTHER EVERYTHING (Atef, Ger) STAMS (Braunstein, Aut) SUN AND CONCRETE (Wnendt, Ger) SUPERPOWER (Penn/Kaufman, US) THE SURVIVAL OF KINDNESS (de Heer, Aus) SUZUME (Shinkai, Jpn) SWEET AS (Clerc, Aus) TALK TO ME (Philippou/Philippou, Aus) TAR (Field, US) THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE (Catak, Ger) THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG (Ameur-Zaimeche, Fr) THERE IS A STONE (Ota, Jpn) THIS IS THE END (Dieutre, Fr) TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT (Hochhausler, Ger) TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME (Jow, Sin) TOTEM (Aviles, Mex) TRANSFARIANA (Lachaise, Fr) THE TRIAL (de la Orden, Arg) UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS (Khaled/Derki/Wajeeh, Den) DER VERMESSENE MENSCH (Kraume, Ger) THE WALLS OF BERGAMO (Savona, It) WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY (Kovalenko, Ukr) WHEN WILL IT BE AGAIN LIKE IT NEVER WAS BEFORE (Heiss, Ger) WHERE GOD IS NOT (Tamadon, Fr) WHITE PLASTIC SKY (Banoczki/Szabo, Hun)

72nd Berlin International Film Festival 10 - 20 FEBRUARY 2022 in Berlin, Germany	2 0 2 2 A W A R D S
	Golden Bear: ALCARRAS Silver Bear: THE NOVELIST'S FILM Jury Prize: ROBE OF GEMS Teddy Bear: THREE TIDY TIGERS TIED A TIE TIGHTER Documentary: MYANMAR DIARIES Teddy - Doc: ALIS Audience Award: HAPPINESS Audience Award - Doc: LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH Director: Claire Denis (BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE) Screenplay: Laila Stieler (RABIYE KURNAZ VS GEORGE W BUSH) Lead Performance: Meltem Kaptan (RABIYE KURNAZ VS GEORGE W BUSH) Supporting Performance: Laura Basuki (BEFORE, NOW & THEN) Artistic Contribution: Rithy Panh & Sarit Mang (EVERYTHING WILL BE OK) Honorary Golden Bear: Isabelle Huppert Teddy - Special Award: NELLY & NADINE First Feature: Kurdwin Ayub (SONNE) Crystal Bear - Kplus: COMEDY QUEEN Crystal Bear - 14plus: ALIS Youth Jury: KIND HEARTS and SCHEME Children's Jury: THE QUIET GIRL Fipresci Prize: LEONORA ADDIO Fipresci - Panorama: BETTINA Fipresci - Encounters: COMA Fipresci - Forum: SUPER NATURAL	Encounters: MUTZENBACHER Encounters - Jury Prize: SEE YOU FRIDAY, ROBINSON Encounters - Director: Cyril Schaublin (UNREST) Ecumenical Prize: ONE YEAR ONE NIGHT Ecumenical - Panorama: KLONDIKE Ecumenical - Forum: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE Cicae - Panorama: CONVENIENCE STORE Cicae - Forum: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE AG Kino Gilde: STAY AWAKE Amnesty Award: MYANMAR DIARIES ArteKino: GIRL PICTURE Berliner Morgenpost: n/a Caligari: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE Compass-Perspektive: LADIES ONLY Eurimages: MY FAVOURITE CAKE Guild: RABIYE KURNAZ VS GEORGE W BUSH Heiner Carow: GEWALTEN Kompagnon-Fellowship: Jonas Bak (SHE MAKES AND UNMAKES) and Payal Sethi (KURINJI) Label Europa: BEAUTIFUL BEINGS Peace Film: ALL WAS GOOD Queer.de: n/a Tagesspiegel: n/a VFF Talent: Pooja Chauhan (GIRL PICTURE)
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	1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR (Tal, Isr) A E I O U: A QUICK ALPHABET OF LOVE (Krebitz, Ger) ABOUT JOAN (Lariviere, Fr) AFTERWATER (Komljen, Ger) AGAINST THE ICE (Flinth, Ice) AKYNPOET (Omirbayev, Kaz) ALCARRAS (Simon, Sp) ALIS (Weiskopf/van Hemelryck, Col) AMERICAN JOURNAL (des Pallieres, Fr) THE APARTMENT WITH TWO WOMEN (Kim, Kor) THE APPLE DAY (Ghaffari, Irn) AXIOM (Jonsson, Ger) BEAUTIFUL BEINGS (Gudmundsson, Ice) BEBA (Huntt, US) BEFORE, NOW & THEN (Andini, Ina) BETTINA (Pehnert, Ger) BONEY PILES (Tomenko, Ukr) BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Denis, Fr) BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER (Menkes, US) BROTHER IN EVERY INCH (Zolotukhin, Rus) BUBBLE (Araki, Jpn) CALL JANE (Nagy, US) CAMOUFLAGE (Perel, Arg) THE CITY AND THE CITY (Passalis/Tzoumerkas, Gr) COMA (Bonello, Fr) COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA: THE GREGORS (Agneskirchner, Ger) COMEDY QUEEN (Lenken, Swe) CONCERNED CITIZEN (Haguel, Isr) CONVENIENCE STORE (Borodin, Rus) DARK GLASSES (Argento, It) THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER (Krummacher, Ger) DREAMING WALLS (van Elmbt/Duverdier, Bel) DRY GROUND BURNING (Queiros/Pimenta, Br) ECHO (Wegener, Ger) L'ETAT ET MOI (Linz, Ger) EUROPE (Scheffner, Ger) EVERYTHING WILL BE OK (Panh, Fr) FATHER'S DAY (Ruhorahoza, Rwa) A FLOWER IN THE MOUTH (Baudelaire, Fr) FLUX GOURMET (Strickland, UK) FOGAREU (Neves, Br) FOR THE MANY: THE VIENNA CHAMBER OF LABOUR (Wulff, Aut) THE FORGER (Peren, Ger) GANGUBAI KATHIAWADI (Bhansali, Ind) GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE (Mills, Can) A GERMAN PARTY (Bruckner, Ger) GEWALTEN (Hatz, Ger) GIRL PICTURE (Haapasalo, Fin) GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE (Hyde, UK) GRAND JETE (Stever, Ger) HAPPER'S COMET (Taormina, US) HAPPINESS (Uzabayev, Kaz) HEART OF OAK (Charbonnier/Seydoux, Fr) THE HILL OF SECRETS (Lee, Kor) HOT IN DAY, COLD AT NIGHT (Park, Kor) INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (Dupieux, Fr) INTO MY NAME (Bassetti, It) JET LAG (Zheng, Swi) KALLE KOSMONAUT (Kugler/Kurth, Ger) THE KEGELSTATT TRIO (Gomes, Por) KIND HEARTS (Rochette/Claes, Bel) KLONDIKE (Er Gorbach, Ukr) THE LAND OF SASHA (Trofimova, Rus) LEONORA ADDIO (Taviani, It) THE LINE (Meier, Swi) A LITTLE LOVE PACKAGE (Solnicki, Aut)	LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH (Kaya, Ger) A LOVE SONG (Walker-Silverman,US) LULLABY (Azua, Sp) MEMORYLAND (Kim, Vie) THE MIDDLE AGES (Moguillansky/Acuna,Arg) MILLIE LIES LOW (Savill, NZ) MOJA VESNA (Kern,Svn) MUTZENBACHER (Beckermann, Aut) MY SMALL LAND (Kawawada, Jpn) MY TWO VOICES (Rodriguez, Can) MYANMAR DIARIES (MFC, Ned) NELLY & NADINE (Gertten, Swe) NO SIMPLE WAY HOME (de Mabior, Ken) NO U-TURN (Nnaebue, Nga) NOBODY'S HERO (Guiraudie, Fr) NORTHERN SKIES OVER EMPTY SPACE (Abella, Mex) NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (Kohn, US) THE NOVELIST'S FILM (Hong, Kor) NUCLEAR FAMILY (Wilkerson/Wilkerson, US) OINK (Halberstad, Ned) ONE YEAR, ONE NIGHT (Lacuesta, Sp) THE OUTFIT (Moore, US) THE PASSENGERS OF THE NIGHT (Hers, Fr) PETER VON KANT (Ozon, Fr) A PIECE OF SKY (Koch, Swi) QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (McKenzie, Can) THE QUIET GIRL (Bairead, Ire) RABIYE KURNAZ VS GEORGE W BUSH (Dresen, Ger) THE REALM OF GOD (Sainte-Luce, Mex) RETURN TO DUST (Li, Chn) REWIND & PLAY (Gomis, Fr) RIMINI (Seidl, Aut) ROBE OF GEMS (Gallardo, Mex) ROOKIES (Demaiziere/Teurlai, Fr) SCALA (Thitanat, Tha) SCHEME (Sharipov, Kaz) SEE YOU FRIDAY, ROBINSON (Farahani, Fr) SHABU (Raphaela, Ned) SHALL I COMPARE YOU TO A SUMMER'S DAY? (Hassan, Egy) THE SILENT FOREST (Volm, Ger) SMALL, SLOW BUT STEADY (Miyake, Jpn) SOMEWHERE OVER THE CHEMTRAILS (Rybansky, Cz) SONNE (Ayub, Aut) SORRY COMRADE (Bruckner, Ger) STAY AWAKE (Sisley, US) STRIKING LAND (Domingues, Por) SUBLIME (Biasin, Arg) SUPER NATURAL (Jacome, Por) SWING RIDE (Bellosi, It) TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER (Pinske, Ger) TAURUS (Sutton, US) THAT KIND OF SUMMER (Cote, Can) THIS HOUSE (Charles, Can) THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE (Dominik, UK) THREE TIDY TIGERS TIED A TIE TIGHTER (Vinagre, Br) UNA FEMMINA: THE CODE OF SILENCE (Costabile, It) THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Benning, US) UNREST (Schaublin, Swi) UNTIL TOMORROW (Asgari, Irn) THE VETERAN (Rodriguez, Chl) WATERS OF PASTAZA (Alves, Por) WE HAVEN'T LOST OUR WAY (Sasnal/Sasnal, Pol) WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD (Sinelnikova, Ger) WE, STUDENTS! (Fariala, CAR) WORKING CLASS HEROES (Pusic, Ser) * review coming
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