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 Shadows @ BerlinaleEurope's premiere winter film festival Runs alongside the European Film Market in Berlin Rich Cline was on the Fipresci jury at Berlinale 2009 | |||
69th Berlin InternationalFilm Festival 7-17 FEBRUARY 2019 in Berlin, Germany
| 2 0 1 9 A W A R D S | ||
Golden Bear: SYNONYMSSilver Bear: BY THE GRACE OF GOD Teddy Bear: BRIEF STORY FROM THE GREEN PLANET Bauer Prize: SYSTEM CRASHER Director: Angela Schanelec (I WAS AT HOME, BUT) Actress: Yong Mei (SO LONG, MY SON) Actor: Wang Jingchun (SO LONG, MY SON) Screenplay: Maurizio Braucci, Claudio Giovannesi, Roberto Saviano (PIRANHAS) Artistic Contribution - Cinematography: Rasmus Videbaek (OUT STEALING HORSES) Crystal Bear - Kplus: STUPID YOUNG HEART Crystal Bear - 14plus: HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Audience Award - Panorama: 37 SECONDS Audience Award - Doc: TALKING ABOUT TREES Teddy - Doc: LEMEBEL Teddy - Jury Award: A DOG BARKING AT THE MOON Teddy - Readers: BRIEF STORY FROM THE GREEN PLANET VFF Talent: Vincenzo Cavallo (BUFIS) Honorary Golden Bear: Charlotte Rampling |
Fipresci - Competition: SYNONYMSFipresci - Panorama: DAFNE Fipresci - Forum: DIE KINDER DER TOTEN Ecumenical - Competition: GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIJA Ecumenical - Panorama: BUOYANCY Ecumenical - Forum: EARTH Cicae - Panorama: 37 SECONDS Cicae - Forum: OUR DEFEATS Guild Prize: GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIJA Label Europa: STITCHES Caligari Prize: HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME Peace Film: YOUR TURN Amnesty Award: YOUR TURN Heiner Carow Prize: BEAUTY & DECAY Berliner Morganpost: SYSTEM CRASHER Tagesspiegel: MONSTERS Compass-Perspektive Award: BORN IN EVIN Perspektive Deursches Kino: TO BE CONTINUED Arte Kino: A RESPONSIBLE ADULT Eurimages: AVALON PC | ||
| 2 0 1 9 F I L M S | |||
2040 (Gameau, Aus)37 SECONDS (HIKARI, Jpn) 6MINUTES66 (Feldmeier/Feldmeier, Ger) ABOUT SOME MEANINGLESS EVENTS (Derkaoui. Mor) ACID (Gorchilin. Rus) AFRICAN MIRROR (Hedinger. Ger) ALL MY LOVING (Berger. Ger) 
AMAZING GRACE (Pollack/Elliott, US)AN OPEN ROSE (Salhab, Leb) ANBESSA (Scarpelli, US) AND YOUR BIRD CAN SING (Sho Miyake mit Tasuku Emoto, ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH (Baichwal/Pencier/Burtynsky, Can) AREN'T YOU HAPPY? (Heinrich, Ger) BABA (Haidary, Afg) 
BAIT (Jenkin, UK)BARACOA (Briones, Ger) BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP! (Seyrig, Fr)
BEAUTY & DECAY (Hendel. Ger)BEFORE WE GROW OLD (Helm, Ger) BELONGING (Cevik, Tur) BERLIN BOUNCER (Dietl. Ger) BETTER DAYS (Tsang, Chn) THE BLUE FLOWER OF NOVALIS (Vinagre/Carneiro, Br) THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN (Tailfeathers/Hepburn, Can) BORN IN EVIN (Zaree. Ger)
THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND (Ejiofor, UK)THE BREATH (Schueppel. Ger) BREATHLESS ANIMALS (Lei. Chn) BRECHT (Breloer, Ger) BRIEF STORY FROM THE GREEN PLANET (Loza. Arg)
BULBUL CAN SING (Das, Ind)BUOYANCY (Rathjen. Aus)
BY THE GRACE OF GOD (Ozon, Fr)BY THE NAME OF TANIA (Lienard/Jimenez, Bel) CHAINED (Shani, Isr) THE CHILDREN OF THE DEAD (Copper/Liska, Aut) A COLONY (Dulude-De Celles, Can) THE COMPONENTS OF LOVE (Bliese, Ger) THE CROSSING (Bai, Cha) THE DAY AFTER I'M GONE (Eldar. Isr) DAFNE (Bondi. It) DANIEL (Atlan, Fr) DELPHINE AND CAROLE (McNulty. Fr) DEMONS (Hui, Sin DIVINE LOVE (Mascaro. Br) A DOG BARKING AT THE MOON (Xiang. Chn) A DOG CALLED MONEY (Murphy. Ire) DRIVEWAYS (Ahn, US) DUST (Bhargava, Ger) EARTH (Geyrhalter. Aut) EASY LOVE (Jandali, Ger) ELEVEN MILES (Joshi. Ind) ELISA & MARCELA (Coixet, Sp) EPIC OF LOVE (Ahmadi, Afg) FAMILY MEMBERS (Bendesky Russek. Arg) FAR FROM US (Kuri/Bierbrauer, Aut) FAREWELL TO THE NIGHT (Techine, Fr) A FIRST FAREWELL (Wang, Tai) FISH TAKES OFF (Cooper, Ger) FLATLAND (Bass. SA) FLESH OUT (Occhipinti. It) FOURTEEN (Salitt , US) FROM TOMORROW ON, I WILL (Markovic/Wu, Chn) FUKUOKA (Zhang , Chn) GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY (Cote, Can) GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNYA (Mitevska, Mac) THE GOLDEN GLOVE (Akin, Germany / Fr) GOLDIE (de Jong, US)
GRETA (Praca, Br)THE GROUND BENEATH MY FEET (Kreutzer, Aut) GULLY BOY (Akhtar (India) HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME (Heise. Ger) HELLHOLE (Devos. Bel) HOLY BEASTS (Guzman/Cardenas. Dom) HOMING (Marins, Br) HORMIGAS (Furniss, CR) THE HOUSE OF HISTORY (Tahiri. Afg) HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD (Kim, Kor) I WAS AT HOME, BUT (Schanelec, Ger) THE INNER LIGHT (Sick, Ger) IDOL (Lee, Kor) IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE: MARIO ADORF (Wessely, Ger) JESSICA FOREVER (Poggi/Vinel. Fr) JUST DON'T THINK I'LL SCREAM (Beauvais. Fr) KHARTOUM OFFSIDE (Zein, Sud) KIDS IN THE SPOTLIGHT (Agneskirchner, Ger) KINDER (Wesemann, Ger) THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS (Scherfig, Den)
KNIVES AND SKIN (Reeder, US) |
KOKDU: A STORY OF GUARDIAN ANGELS (Kim, Kor)LANDLESS (Freitas. Br) LAPU (Jaimes/Polanco. Col) THE LAST TO SEE THEM (Summa, Ger) LEAKAGE (Iravanian, Cz) LEMEBEL (Garibaldi. Chl) LIGHT OF MY LIFE (Affleck. US) LOTTE AND THE LOST DRAGONS (Ernits/Poldma, Lat) LOUIS & LUCA: MISSION TO THE MOON (Sivertsen, Nor) THE MAGIC LIFE OF V (Hristov, Fin) MARIGHELLA (Moura, Br) MASO AND MISO GO BOATING (Roussopoulos/etc, Fr)
MID90s (Hill, US)MIDNIGHT TRAVELER (Fazili/Mahdavian. US) THE MIRACLE OF THE SARGASSO SEA (Tzoumerkas. Gr)
MONOS (Landes. Col)MONSTERS (Olteanu, Rom) MOTHER, I AM SUFFOCATING. THIS IS MY LAST FILM ABOUT YOU. (Mosese, Les) MR JONES (Holland, Pol) MS SLAVIC 7 (Bohdanowicz/Campbell, Can) MUSIC AND APOCALYPSE (Linz, Ger) MY EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER WITH TESS (Wouterlood, Ned) NORMAL (Tulli. Italy / Swe) O BEAUTIFUL NIGHT (Bohm. Ger) OFF SEASON (Beckhoff, Ger) OLANDA (Schoch, Rom) ON THE STARTING LINE (Matias. Fr) ONDOG (Wang, Mon) ONE SECOND (Zhang, Chn)
THE OPERATIVE (Adler, Ger)ORAY (Buyukatalay, Ger) OUR DEFEATS (Periot, Fr) OUR VOICE OF EARTH, MEMORY AND FUTURE (Rodriguez/Silva, Col) OUT STEALING HORSES (Moland, Nor) PETER LINDBERGH: WOMEN STORIES (Vecchiet, Ger) PHOTOGRAPH (Batra, Ind) PIRANHAS (Giovannesi, It) THE PIT (Raykova. Ger) THE PLAGIARISTS (Parlow, US) THE PORTUGUESE WOMAN (Gomes, Por) RECONSTRUCTING UTOYA (Javer, Nor) THE RED PHALLUS (Gyeltshen, Bhu) RETROSPEKT (Rots, Ned) RINGSIDE (Hormann, Ger) A RUSSIAN YOUTH (Zolotukhin, Rus) S.C.U.M. MANIFESTO 1967 (Roussopoulos/Seyrig. Fr) SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY (Nierenberg, US) SEARCHING EVA (Hellenthal. Ger) THE SECOND JOURNEY TO ULURU (Cantrill/Cantrill, Aus) SELFIE (Ferrente. France / It) SERENDIPITY (Nourry. US) SERPENTARIUS (Conceicao, Por) THE SHADOW PLAY (Lou. Chn) SHOOTING THE MAFIA (Longinotto. Ire)
SKIN (Nattiv, US)SO LONG, MY SON (Wang Xiaoshuai, Chn) SO PRETTY (Rovinelli, US)
THE SOUVENIR (Hogg, UK)STAFF ONLY (Ballus, Sp) STITCHES (Terzic, Ser) THE STONE SPEAKERS (Drljaca, Bos) STUPID YOUNG HEART (Vilhunen, Fin) SUNE VS SUNE (Holmberg, Swe)
SYNONYMS (Lapid, Fr)SYSTEM CRASHER (Fingscheidt, Ger) TACKLING LIFE (List, Ger) A TALE OF THREE SISTERS (Alper, Tur) TALKING ABOUT TREES (Gasmelbari. Fr) THIRTY (Kostova, Ger)
TREMORS (Bustamante. Gua)VANISHING DAYS (Zhu, Chn)
VARDA BY AGNES (Varda, Fr)VARIETY (Gordon, US)
VICE (McKay, US)WAITING FOR THE CARNIVAL (Gomes. Br) WATERGATE, OR: HOW WE LEARNED TO STOP AN OUT OF CONTROL PRESIDENT (Ferguson, US) WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES (Nagahisa, Jpn) WESTERN ARABS (Shargawi. Den) WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL (Garver with. US) WHAT WE LEFT UNFINISHED (Ghani, US) WHERE WE BELONG (Zund, Swi) WHO YOU THINK I AM (Nebbou, Fr) YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION (Emigholz. Ger) YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE: DIE TOTEN HOSEN ON TOUR (Kablitz-Post, Ger) YOUR TURN (Capai, Br) | ||
68th Berlin InternationalFilm Festival 15-28 FEBRUARY 2018 in Berlin, Germany
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Golden Bear: TOUCH ME NOTSilver Bear: MUG Teddy Bear: HARD PAINT Crystal Bear - Kplus: CROSS MY HEART Crystal Bear - 14plus: FORTUNA Audience Award - Panorama: PROFILE Audience Award - Doc: THE SILENCE OF OTHERS Teddy - Doc: TRANNY FAG Teddy - Readers: THE HEIRESSES Bauer Prize: THE HEIRESSES Director: Wes Anderson (ISLE OF DOGS) Actor: Anthony Bajon (THE PRAYER) Actress: Ana Brun (THE HEIRESSES) Screenplay: Manuel Alcala & Alonso Ruizpalacios (MUSEUM) First Feature: Adina Pintilie (TOUCH ME NOT) Teddy - Newcomer: Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio (RETABLO) Artistic Contribution: Elena Okopnaya (DOVLATOV) Grand Prix - Kplus: THE SEEN AND UNSEEN Grand Prix - 14plus: FORTUNA VFF Talent: Jing Wang (TROPICAL MEMORIES) Honorary Golden Bear: Willem Dafoe |
Fipresci - Competition: THE HEIRESSESFipresci - Panorama: RIVER'S EDGE Fipresci - Forum: AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL Ecumenical - Competition: IN THE AISLES Ecumenical - Panorama: STYX Ecumenical - Forum: THEATRE OF WAR Cicae - Panorama: HARD PAINT Cicae - Forum: THEATRE OF WAR Guild Prize: IN THE AISLES Label Europa: STYX Caligari: THE WOLF HOUSE Peace Film: THE SILENCE OF OTHERS Amnesty Prize: CENTRAL AIRPORT THF Heiner Carow: STYX Berliner Morganpost: DOVLATOV Tagesspiegel: IN THE REALM OF PERFECTION Compass-Perspektive: EVERYWHERE WE ARE Kompagnon-Fellowship: WHEN A FARM GOES AFLAME and BLUTSAUGER Arte International: THE WAR HAS ENDED Eurimages: THE WAR HAS ENDED | ||
| R E V I E W E D 2 0 1 8 F I L M S | |||
7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE (Padilha, UK)
AGA (Lazarov, Bul)
AMANDA (Hers, Fr)
BLACK '47 (Daly, Ire)
THE CAPTAIN (Schwentke, Ger)
DON'T WORRY, HE WON'T GET FAR ON FOOT (Van Sant, US)
GENERATION WEALTH (Greenfield, US)
THE HAPPY PRINCE (Everett, UK)
HARD PAINT (Matzembacher/Reolon, Br)
THE HEIRESSES (Martinessi, Par)
HUMAN FLOW (Ai, Ger)
IN THE FADE (Akin, Ger)
ISLE OF DOGS (Anderson, UK) |
THE LOOMING TOWER (Futterman/Gibney/Wright, US)
MANIFESTO (Rosefeldt, Ger)
MARILYN (Redondo, Arg)
TEHRAN TABOO (Soozandeh, Ger)
THAT SUMMER (Olsson, Swe)
TOUCH ME NOT (Pintilie, Ger)
TRANSIT (Petzold, Ger)
UNSANE (Soderbergh, US)
UTOYA - JULY 22 (Poppe, Nor)
WESTERN (Grisebach, Ger)
YARDIE (Elba, UK)* review coming | ||
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