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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 | |||
70th Berlin InternationalFilm Festival 20 FEBUARY - 1 MARCH 2020 in Berlin, Germany
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Golden Bear: THERE IS NO EVILSilver Bear: NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS Teddy Bear: NO HARD FEELINGS Documentary: IRRADIATED Honorary Golden Bear: Helen Mirren Special Silver Bear: DELETE HISTORY Director: Hong Sang-soo (THE WOMAN WHO RAN) Screenplay: Damiano & Fabio D'Innocenzo (BAD TALES) Actress: Paula Beer (UNDINE) Actor: Elio Germano (HIDDEN AWAY) Cinematography: Jurgen Jurges (DAU. NATASHA) First Feature: Camilo Restrepo (LOS CONDUCTOS) Crystal Bear - Kplus: THE WOLVES Crystal Bear - 14plus: MY NAME IS BAGHDAD Audience Award - Panorama: OTAC Audience Award - Doc: WELCOME TO CHECHNYA Youth Jury: OUR LADY OF THE NILE Children's Jury: SWEET THING Teddy - Doc: IF IT WERE LOVE Teddy - Jury Award: DAYS Teddy - Readers: NO HARD FEELINGS Teddy - Activist Award: Olga Baranova, Maxim Lapunov, David Isteev (WELCOME TO CHECHNYA) Berlinale Camera: Ulrike Ottinger Arte Kino: Ceerle Baetens (THE MELTING) VFF Talent: Sakaris Stora (THE LAST PARADISE ON EARTH) Palm Dog: THE ROADS NOT TAKEN |
Fipresci Prize: UNDINEFipresci - Panorama: MOGUL MOWGLI Fipresci - Forum: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Fipresci - Encounters: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS Ecumenical Prize: THERE IS NO EVIL Ecumenical - Panorama: FATHER Ecumenical - Forum: ZERO Encounters: THE WORKS AND DAYS Encounters - Director: Cristi Puiu (MALMKROG) Cicae - Panorama: DIGGER Cicae - Forum: THE CALMING Amnesty Award: WELCOME TO CHECHNYA Berliner Morganpost: DELETE HISTORY Caligari Prize: VICTORIA Compass-Perspektive: WALCHENSEE FOREVER Eurimages: Onur Saylak (THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD) German Arthouse Cinemas: JUMBA Guild: THERE IS NO EVIL Heiner Carow: GARAGE PEOPLE Kompagnon-Fellowship: Hristiana Raykova (111) and Ian Purnell (ARCTIC LINK) Label Europa: HOPE Peace Film: THE WOLVES Queer.de: NO HARD FEELINGS Tagesspiegel: WINDOW BOY WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HAVE A SUBMARINE | ||
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A I O U (Anton Vidokle/Khalil/Sweitzer, US)A L'ABORDAGE (Brac, Fr) A STORM WAS COMING (Vazquez, Sp) ABSTRACTED (Tanaka, Jpn) AFTER THE CROSSING (Richmond/Akafou, Bur) AKIYA (Kina, Fin) ALICE JUNIOR (Baroni, Br) THE ALIEN (Saeivar, Irn) ALL THE DEAD ONES (Gotardo/Dutra, Br) ALWAYS AMBER (Hietala/Reinikainen, Swe) AMAZON MIRROR (Segtowick, Br) THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Stephens/Velez, US) ANNE AT 13,000 FT (Radwanski, Can) APIYEMIYEKI? (Vaz, Br) ART COMES FROM THE BEAK AS IT GROWS (Herpich, Ger) AS ABOVE SO BELOW (Francis, Leb) 
THE ASSISTANT (Green, US)AUTOMOTIVE (Heldt, Ger) BAD TALES (D'Innocenzo/D'Innocenzo, It) BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (Qurbani, Ger) BEST MAN (Holmberg, Swe) BLACK MILK (Borchu, Mon) BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS (Ross/Ross, US) BLUE EYES AND COLORFUL MY DRESS (Gumiela, Ger) BORN OF THE *** (Anastas/Gabri, Pal) THE CALMING (Song, Chn) CHARLATAN (Holland, Cz) CITIZENS OF THE COSMOS (Vidokle, US) COCOON (Krippendorff, Ger) A COMMON CRIME (Marquez, Arg) LOS CONDUCTOS (Restrepo, Col) CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY (Perel, Arg) CURVEBALL (Naber, Ger) CUTIES (Doucoure, Fr) DAU. DEGENERATION (Khrzhanovskiy/Permyakov, Ger) DAU. NATASHA (Khrzhanovskiy/Oertel, Ukr) DAYS (Tsai, Tai) DAYS OF CANNIBALISM (Edkins, SA) DAZED FLESH (Grace Passo/Alves, Br) DEATH OF NINTENDO (Martin, Ph) DELETE HISTORY (Delepine/Kervern, Fr) DIGGER (Grigorakis, Gr) DIRECTED GAMES (Andrade, Br) DIVINELY EVIL (Vinagre, Br) DOUBLEWIDE (Perlin, US) DRY WIND (Nolasco, Br) THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE (Tsilyk, Ukr) EEB ALLAY OOO! (Vats, Ind) ENTRE PERRO Y LOBO (Gutierrez, Cub) EQUINOX (Honda, US) EXIL (Morina, Ger) THE EXIT OF THE TRAINS (Jude/Cioflanca, Rom) EXPEDITION CONTENT (Karel/Kusumaryati, US) FATHER (Golubovic, Ser) FIRST COW (Reichardt, US) A FISH SWIMMING UPSIDE DOWN (Petkova, Ger) THE FOUNDATION PIT (Gryazev, Rus) FREM (Cakanyova, Cz) FUNNY FACE (Sutton, US) FUTUR DREI (Shariat, Ger) GARAGE PEOPLE (Yefimkina, Ger) GENERATIONS (Siefert, US) GODDESS OF THE FIREFLIES (Barbeau-Lavalette, Can) GOLDA MARIA (Sobelman/Sobelman, Fr) GUNDA (Kossakovsky, Nor) H IS FOR HAPPINESS (Sheedy, Aus) HALF BLUE (Joe Namy, US) HER NAME WAS EUROPA (Anja Dornieden/Monroy, Ger) HIDDEN AWAY (Diritti, It) HIGH GROUND (Johnson, Aus) HILLARY (Burstein, US) HOPE (Sodahl, Nor) THE HOUSE OF LOVE (Ferri, It) I DREAM OF SINGAPORE (Lei, Sin) IF IT WERE LOVE (Chiha, Fr) IN DEEP SLEEP (Ignatenko, Rus) INFINITY MINUS INFINITY (Otolith, UK) THE INTRUDER (Meta, Arg) IRRADIATED (Panh, Cam) ISABELLA (Pineiro, Arg) JIIBIE (Millan, Col) JUMBO (Wittock, Fr) KIDS RUN (Ott, Ger) KILL IT AND LEAVE THIS TOWN (Wilczynski, Pol) THE LANDING (Zaatari, Leb) LAST AND FIRST MEN (Johannsson, Ice) THE LAST CITY (Emigholz, Ger) LETTER FROM A GUARANI WOMAN IN SEARCH OF THE LAND WITHOUT EVIL (Yxapy, Br) LETTER TO A FRIEND (Jacir, Pal) LIGHT IN THE TROPICS (Gaitan, Br) LITTLE GIRL (Lifshitz, Fr) LOS LOBOS (Leopo, Mex) MAGGIE'S FARM (Benning, US) MALMKROG (Puiu, Rom) MAMA, MAMA, MAMA (Pichon-Riviere, Arg) MARE (Staka, Cro) MATATA (Katondolo, Con) MEDIUM (Cozarinsky, Arg) MEMORY ALSO DIE (Anni, Ngr) |
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS (Vasconcelos, Por)MINAMATA (Levitas, UK) MINYAN (Steel, US) MOGUL MOWGLI (Tariq, UK) MONTY AND THE STREET PARTY (Morgenthaler/Wulff, Den) MOST OF WHAT FOLLOWS IS TRUE (Nader, Egy) MY LITTLE SISTER (Chuat/Reymond, Swi) MY NAME IS BAGHDAD (Souza, Br) MY SALINGER YEAR (Falardeau, Can) NAKED ANIMALS (Waelde, Ger) NARDJES A. (Ainouz, Alg) NDN SURVIVAL TRILOGY (Cuthand, Can)
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS (Hittman, US)NOTES FROM THE UNDERWORLD (Covi/Frimmel, Aut) THE NOTES OF ANNA AZZORI (Ruhm, Aut) NUMBERS (Sentsov/Seitablaiev, Ukr) OECONOMIA (Losmann, Ger) ONE IN A THOUSAND (Navas, Arg) ONE OF THESE DAYS (Gunther, Ger) 
ONWARD (Scanlon, US)ORDINARY JUSTICE (Bellosi, It) ORPHEA (Kluge/Khavn, Ger) (OTHER) FOUNDATIONS (Motta, Br) OUR LADY OF THE NILE (Rahimi, Fr) OUT OF PLACE (Gussefeld, Ger) OUVERTURES (L&D Ensemble, UK) PARADISE DRIFTERS (Peijnenburg, Ned) PARI (Etemadi, Gr) PARIS CALLIGRAMMES (Ottinger, Ger) PERRO (Sternal, Ger) PERSIAN LESSONS (Perelman, Rus) PETIT SAMEDI (Sermon-Dai, Bel) THE PHANTOM MENACE (Arnfield, UK) PINOCCHIO (Garrone, It) POLICE (NIGHT SHIFT) (Fontaine, Fr) POMPEI (Falgueres/Shank, Bel) POROSITY VALLEY 2: TRICKSTERS' PLOT (Ayoung Kim, Kor) THE PROMISED (Elghoneimy, Egy) PURPLE SEA (Alzakout/Abdulwahed, Ger) QUANTUM CREOLE (Filipa Cesar, Ger) RECOVERY (Kevin Jerome Everson, US) RED MOON TIDE (Patino, Sp)
THE ROADS NOT TAKEN (Potter, UK)RUNNING ON EMPTY (Weber, Aut) THE SALT OF TEARS (Garrel, Fr) SAUDI RUNAWAY (Meures, Swi) SCHLINGENSIEF: A VOICE THAT SHOOK THE SILENCE (Bohler, Ger) SCHOOLGIRLS (Palomero, Sp) SECRETS OF A DIGITAL GARDEN (Riwaq, Pal) SERVANTS (Ostrochovsky, Svk) THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE SEVEN SONGS (Singh, Ind) SHINE YOUR EYES (Mariani, Br) SHIPWRECK AT THE THRESHOLD OF EUROPE (FA, UK) SHIRLEY (Decker, US) SIBERIA (Ferrara, Mex) SISTERS APART (Charizani, Ger) SISTERS IN THE END OF THE WORLD (Mazeto/Lopes, Br) SLEEP (Venus, Ger) SOW THE WIND (Caputo, It) SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD (Lapa, Isr) STRIKE OR DIE (Rescigno, Fr) SUK SUK (Yeung, Chn) THE SUN (Kika Thorne, Can) SURGE (Karia, UK) SWEET THING (Rockwell, US) SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE (Jia, Chn) THE TANGO OF THE WIDOWER AND ITS DISTORTING MIRROR (Ruiz/Sarmiento, Chl) TATSUNIYA II (Rahima Gambo, Ngr) TELE REALITE (Lucile Desamory/Fundi/Mubikay, Bel) THERE IS NO EVIL (Rasoulof, Irn) THIS IS MY DESIRE (Esiri/Esiri, Ngr) TIME TO HUNT (Yoon, Kor) THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN (Wollner, Aut) THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Rankin, Can) THE TWO SIGHTS (Bonnetta, Can) UNDINE (Petzold, Ger) UNTITLED SEQUENCE OF GAPS (Vika Kirchenbauer, Ger) UPPERCASE PRINT (Jude, Rom) VEINS OF THE WORLD (Davaa, Mon) THE VIEWING BOOTH (Alexandrowicz, Isr) VICTORIA (Benoot/Ceulaer/Tollenaere, Bel) VOICES IN THE WIND (Suwa, Jpn) WAGENKNECHT (Kaudelka, Ger) WALCHENSEE FOREVER (Wonders, Ger) WELCOME TO CHECHNYA (France, US) WHAT REMAINS (Thieme, Ger) WHITE RIOT (Shah, UK) THE WHOLE SHEBANG (Ken Jacobs, US) WILDLAND (Nordahl, Den) WINDOW BOY WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HAVE A SUBMARINE (Piperno, Uru) THE WOMAN WHO RAN (Hong, Kor) THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN) (Winter/Edstrom, Jpn) YALDA, A NIGHT FOR FORGIVENESS (Bakhshi, Leb) ZERO (Soda, Jpn) ZEUS MACHINE. THE INVINCIBLE (Ranocchi/Zamagni, It) | ||
69th Berlin InternationalFilm Festival 7-17 FEBRUARY 2019 in Berlin, Germany
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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 | ||
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AMAZING GRACE (Pollack/Elliott, US)
BAIT (Jenkin, UK)
BEAUTY & DECAY (Hendel. Ger)
THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND (Ejiofor, UK)
BULBUL CAN SING (Das, Ind)
BY THE GRACE OF GOD (Ozon, Fr)
A DOG BARKING AT THE MOON (Zi, Chn)
GRETA (Praca, Br)
KNIVES AND SKIN (Reeder, US)
MID90s (Hill, US)
MONOS (Landes. Col)
MR JONES (Holland, Pol) |
THE OPERATIVE (Adler, Ger)
PHOTOGRAPH (Batra, Ind)
PINOCCHIO (Garrone, It)
SKIN (Nattiv, US)
THE SOUVENIR (Hogg, UK)
SYNONYMS (Lapid, Fr)
SYSTEM CRASHER (Fingscheidt, Ger)
TREMORS (Bustamante. Gua)
VARDA BY AGNES (Varda, Fr)
VICE (McKay, US)
WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES (Nagahisa, Jpn)
WHO YOU THINK I AM (Nebbou, Fr)* review coming | ||
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