Shadows @ Berlinale
62nd Berlin International Film Festival9 - 19 FEBUARY 2012
Runs alongside the European Film Market in Berlin
Rich Cline was on the Fipresci jury at Berlinale 2009
2 0 1 1 A W A R D S . . .
Golden Bear:
NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION
Silver Bear: THE TURIN HORSE
Teddy Bear: ABSENT
Teddy - Doc: THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
Crystal Bear - Kplus:
THE LIVERPOOL GOALIE
Crystal Bear - 14plus: ON THE ICE
Director: Ulrich Kohler
(SLEEPING SICKNESS)
Writer: Joshua Marston & Andamion Murataj (FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD)
Actress: Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat & Sarina Farhadi (NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION)
Actor: Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini & Ali Asghar Shahbazi (NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION)
Artistic Contribution: Wojciech Staron & Barbara Enrique (THE PRIZE)
Audience Award: EVEN THE RAIN
Honorary Bear: Armin Mueller-Stahl
First Feature: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (ON THE ICE)
Fipresci Prize: THE TURIN HORSE
Fipresci Prize - Panorama:
TOP FLOOR LEFT WING
Fipresci Prize - Forum:
HEAVEN'S STORY
Ecumenical Prize:
NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION
Ecumenical Prize - Panorama: INVISIBLE
Ecumenical Prize - Forum:
FAMILIAR GROUNDS
Cicae Prize - Panorama: HERE
Cicae Prize - Forum: AMNESTY
Bauer Prize: IF NOT US, WHO
Europa Prize: ABOVE US ONLY SKY
German Art House Prize:
IF NOT US, WHO
Dialogue en Perspective:
THE EDUCATION
Caligari Prize: THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE
Netpac Prize: HEAVEN'S STORY
Amnesty Prize: BARZAKH
Peace Award:
TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER
Cinema Fairbindet: WIND & FOG
Femina Prize: Julia Brandes (LOLLIPOP MONSTER)
10+10 (Hou, Tai)12 SISTERS (Ly, Cam)
7 DEADLY KISSES (Simanjuntak, Ina)
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (Klayman, US)
ALL DIVIDED SELVES (Fowler, UK)
AMONG MEN (Stein/Rosener, Ger)
ANONYMOUS (Emmerich, UK)ANTON CORBIJN INSIDE OUT (Quirijns, Ned)
ARCADIA (Silver, US)
THE ARTIST IS PRESENT (Akers/Dupre, US)
AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT (de la Iglesia, Sp)
ATOMIC AGE (Klotz, Fr)
AUDRE LORDE (Schultz, Ger)
AUJOURD'HUI (Gomis, Sen)
AVALON (Petersen, Swe)
BAIKONUR (Helmer, Rus)
BARBARA (Petzold, Ger)
BEAUTY (Seggiaro, Arg)
BEFORE TOMORROW (Schoenfeld, Ger)
* BEL AMI (Donnellan/Ormerod, UK)
BELIEF, LOVE, DEATH (Kern, Aut)
BESTIAIRE (Cote, Can)
BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW (Yuzo, Jpn)
BEYOND THE HILL (Alper, Tur)
BLISS (Dorrie, Ger)
BLOOD MUST FLOW (Ohlendorf, Ger)
BLOOT BROTHAZ (Yildirim, Ger)
BRAND X (Chamberlain, US)
BROTZMANN (Schueppel, Ger)
BUGIS STREET REDUX (Yonfan, Chn)
BURNOUT (Freytag, Ger)
CAESAR MUST DIE (Taviani/Taviani, It)
CALL ME KUCHU (Zouhali-Worrall/Wright, US)
CALM AT SEA (Schlondorff, Ger)
CANNED DREAMS (Gauriloff, Fin)
CAPTIVE (Mendoza, Ph)
THE CHEF (Cohen, Fr)
CHERRY (Elliott, US)
CHILDISH GAMES (Chavarrias, Sp)
THE CHILDREN FROM THE NAPF (Schmid, Swi)
CHOCO (Hinestroza, Col)
CHOKED (Kim, Kor)
CINNAMON (Mariscal, Mex)
THE COLOUR OF THE OCEAN (Peren, Ger)
COMBAT GIRLS (Wnendt, Ger)
COMES A BRIGHT DAY (Aboud, UK)COMING HOME (Videau, Fr)
CONDITION (Heise, Ger)
THE CONVOY (Mizgirev, Rus)
CRACKS IN THE SHELL (Schwochow, Ger)
THE CROCODILES: ALL FOR ONE (Groos, Ger)
THE CROWN JEWELS (Lemhagen, Swe)
DEATH FOR SALE (Bensaidi, Bel)
DEATH ROW (Herzog, US)
THE DELAY (Pla, Ur)
DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK (Karmakar, Ger)
DETLEF (Westerwelle/Rothstein, Ger)
DIAZ: DON'T CLEAN UP THIS BLOOD (Vicari, It)
DIFFERENTLY, MOLUSSIA (Rey, Fr)
DOLLHOUSE (Sheridan, Ire)
DON: THE KING IS BACK (Akhtar, Ind)
EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS (Wetzel, Ger)
ELECTRICK CHILDREN (Thomas, US)
ELLES (Szumowska, Fr)
THE END OF PUBERTY (Shoko, Jpn)
ESPOIR VOYAGE (Zongo, Bur)
EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (Jude, Rom)
EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (Daldry, US)FAMOUS FIVE (Marzuk, Ger)
FAREWELL MY QUEEN (Jacquot, Fr) (opening film)
FAREWELL TO THE FROGS (Schamoni, Ger)
THE FLOWERS OF WAR (Zhang, Chn)
FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE (Tsui, Chn)
FOR ELLEN (Kim, US)
FORMENTERA (Reyels, Ger)
FOURTEEN (Grunberg, Ger)
THE FOURTH STATE (Gansel, Ger)
FRANCINE (Cassidy/Shatzky, US)
FRIENDS AFTER 3.11 (Shunji, Jpn)
FROM SEOUL TO VARANASI (Jeon, Kor)
GATTU (Khosa, Ind)
GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING (Belz, Ger)
GOLDEN SLUMBERS(Chou, Cam)
GREEN LASER (Greyson, Can)
HAYWIRE (Soderbergh, US)HEADSHOT (Ratanaruang, Tha)
HELL (Fehlbaum, Ger)
HEMEL (Polak, Ned)
HENRYK FROM THE BACK ROW (Dresen, Ger)
HIGHWAY (Rauniyar, Nep)
HINDSIGHT (Lee, Kor)
HOME FOR THE WEEKEND (Schmid, Ger)
HOTEL LUX (Haussmann, Ger)
HUT IN THE WOODS (Weingartner, Ger)
I, ANNA (Southcombe, UK)
THE ICE DRAGON (Hogdahl, Swe)
IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (Jolie, US)
IN THE SHADOW OF A MAN (Abdalla, Eg)
IN THE WORKS (Tummescheit/Hector, Ger)INDIGNADOS (Gatlif, Fr)
INSURANCE MAN (Stern, Ger)
THE IRON LADY (Lloyd, UK)IRON SKY (Vuorensola, Fin)
JAURES (Dieutre, Fr)
JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR (Thornton, US)
JOSCHKA & MR FISCHER (Danquart, Ger)
JOYFUL REUNION (Tsao, Tai)
JUST PRETENDED TO HEAR (Imaizumi, Jpn)
JUST THE WIND (Fliegauf, Hun)
KARAMAN (Yigit/Prlic, Ger)
KAUWBOY (Koole, Ned)
KEEP ME UPRIGHT (Chantre, Fr)
KEEP THE LIGHTS ON (Sachs, Den)
KEYHOLE (Maddin, Can)
KID-THING (Zellner, US)
KING OF COMICS (von Praunheim, Ger)
KUMA (Dag, Aut)
LAST CALL AT THE OASIS (Yu, US)
THE LAST DAYS OF BRITISH HONDURAS (Sullivan/Sharmini, UK)
THE LAST FRIDAY (Alabdallah, Jor)
LAWINEN DER ERINNERUNG (Graf, Ger)A LAZY SUMMER AFTERNOON WITH MARIO MONTEZ (Heys, Ger)
LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR (Larry, US)
LIVING (Ancelin, Fr)
LOOK AT ME AGAIN (Goifman/Priscilla, Br)
THE LOOK: CHARLOTTE RAMPLING (Maccarone, Ger)
LOST IN PARADISE (Vu, Vie)
LOTTE AND THE MOONSTONE SECRET (Poldma/Ernits, Est)
LOVE (Doze/Niu, Chn)
LOVE IS IN THE AIR (Staho, Den)
LUPE OF THE COW (Aguerre, Mex)
MAN FOR A DAY (Peters, Ger)
MAN ON GROUND (Omotoso, SA)
MAORI BOY GENIUS (Kelly, NZ)
MARLEY (Macdonald, UK)
MERCY (Glasner, Ger)
METEORA (Stathoulopoulos, Gr)
* MICHAEL (Schleinzer, Aut)
THE MIRROR NEVER LIES (Andini, Ina)
MODEST RECEPTION (Haghighi, Irn)
MOMMY IS COMING (Dunye, Ger)
THE MONKEY KING: UPROAR IN HEAVEN (Su/Chen, Chn)
MUGARITZ BSO (Ugarte/Sardon, Sp)
MUSTAFA'S SWEET DREAMS (Abazoglou, Gr)
MY BROTHER THE DEVIL (El Hosaini, UK)
MY JOY (Loznitsa, Ger)
MY WAY (Kang, Kor)
NEGOTIATING LOVE (Overweg, Ger)
NIGHT OF SILENCE (Celik, Tur)
A NIGHT TOO YOUNG (Omerzu, Cz)
NO MAN'S ZONE (Fujiwara, Jpn)
NONO (Tolentino, Ph)
NORMAL SCHOOL (Murga, Arg)
NUCLEAR NATION (Atsushi, Jpn)
OFF WHITE LIES (Kenig, Isr)
OMA & BELLA (Karolinski, Ger)
THE OTHER CHELSEA (Preuss, Ger)
OUR HOMELAND (Yang, Jpn)
OUR STORY (Yang, Chn)
PACHA (Ferreiro, Bol)
PARABETON (Emigholz, Ger)
THE PARADE (Dragojevic, Ser)
PEOV CHOUK SOR (Koun, Cam)
POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO (Edwin, Ina)RAISING RESISTANCE (Borgfeld/Bernet, Ger)
THE RAW AND THE COOKED (Treut, Ger)
THE RED AND THE BLACK (Prim, Fr)
THE RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY (McAllister, UK)
REMEMBRANCE (Justice, Ger)
RENT-A-CAT (Ogigami, Jpn)
REPORTED MISSING (Speckenbach, Ger)
REPORTING ... A REVOLUTION (Mortada, Eg)
REVISION (Scheffner, Ger)
RHYMERS AND RIVALS (Hutter, Ger)
A ROYAL AFFAIR (Arcel, Den)
RUBBELDIEKATZ (Buck, Ger)
SALSIPUEDES (Luque, Arg)
SECRET (Wojcieszek, Pol)
A SECRET WORLD (Marino, Mex)
SHADOW DANCER (Marsh, UK)
SHARQIYA (Livne, Isr)
SIDE BY SIDE (Kenneally, US)
SISTER (Meier, Swi)
SLEEPLESS KNIGHTS (Butzmuhlen/Diz, Ger)
SNACKBAR (Uslu, Ned)
SNOW IN PARADISE (Simei-Barton/Si'ulepa, NZ)
SOLDIER/CITIZEN (Landsmann, Isr)
SONS OF THE CLOUDS (Longoria, Sp)
SPAIN (Salomonowitz, Aut)
STEP UP TO THE PLATE (Lacoste, Fr)
STOPPED ON TRACK (Dresen, Ger)
THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY (Cousins, UK)
SUMMER WINDOW (Handloegten, Ger)
THE SUMMIT (Fracassi/Lauria, It)
TABU (Gomes, Por)
TAKING CHANCES (van Kilsdonk, Ned)
THIS AIN'T CALIFORNIA (Persiel, Ger)
THIS WILL BE THE LIFE (Riedel, Ger)
THREE QUARTER MOON (Zubert, Ger)
TOM SAWYER (Huntgeburth, Ger)
TOMORROW (Gryazev, Rus)
TWO LITTLE BOYS (Sarkies, NZ)
ULRIKE OTTINGER (Kramer, Ger)
UNA NOCHE (Mulloy, Cub)
UNDER SNOW (Ottinger, Ger)
LA VERIFICA INCERTA (Farocki, Ger)
THE VIRGIN, THE COPTS AND ME (Messeeh, Qat)
* VITO (Schwarz, US)
WADER WECKER VATER LAND (Gaul, Ger)
THE WALL (Polsler, Aut)
WAR WITCH (Nguyen, Can)
WAY HOME (Kannengiesser, Ger)
WESTERLAND (Staffel, Ger)
WESTWIND (Thalheim, Ger)
WHAT IS LOVE (Mader, Aut)
WHITE DEER PLAIN (Wang, Chn)
WICKIE AND THE TREASURE OF THE GODS (Ditter, Ger)WILAYA (Rosado, Sp)
WINTER NOMADS (von Sturler, Swi)
THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK (Rivera, Ph)
THE WOMAN WHO BRUSHED OFF HER TEARS (Mitevska, Mac)
WORDS OF WITNESS (Iskander, US)
XINGU (Hamburger, Br)
YOKO (Buch, Ger)
YOUNG & WILD (Rivas, Chl)
YOUNG ADULT (Reitman, US)ZARAFA (Bezancon/Lie, Fr)
* reviews coming
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