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![]() Europe's premiere winter film festival Runs alongside the European Film Market in Berlin Rich Cline was on the Fipresci jury at Berlinale 2009 | |||
![]() Film Festival 10 - 20 FEBRUARY 2022 in Berlin, Germany
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![]() 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 - 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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![]() 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) ![]() ![]() 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) |
![]() 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) ![]() 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) ![]() 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) ![]() 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) | ||
![]() Film Festival 1 - 5 MARCH & 9 - 20 JUNE 2021 in Berlin, Germany
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![]() BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN Silver Bear: WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY Jury Prize: MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS Teddy Bear: MIGUEL'S WAR Documentary: WE Director: Denes Nagy (NATURAL LIGHT) Screenplay: Hong Sangsoo (INTRODUCTION) Performance: Maren Eggert (I'M YOUR MAN) Supporting Performance: Lilla Kizlinger (FOREST: I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE) Editing: Yibran Asuad (A COP MOVIE) First Feature: Dasha Nekrasova (THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST) Crystal Bear - Kplus: BEANS Crystal Bear - 14plus: STOP-ZEMLIA Youth Jury: THE FAM Children's Jury: SUMMER BLUR Teddy Jury: INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL Audience Award - Competition: MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS Audience Award - Panorama: THE LAST FOREST |
![]() WE LOOK AT THE SKY Fipresci - Panorama: BROTHER'S KEEPER Fipresci - Encounters: THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER Fipresci - Forum: SKI Encounters: WE Encounters - Jury Prize: TASTE Encounters - Director: Ramon & Silvan Zurcher (THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER) and Denis Cote (SOCIAL HYGIENE) ArteKino: WHO KILLED NARCISO Caligari: A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES Compass-Perspektive: INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL Dimitri Eipides: DRAGONS Eurimages: THE OBLIVION THEORY Kompagnon-Fellowship: Eliza Petkova (DER ARBEITER) and Jonas Metauschek (WIR WAREN KUMPEL) VFF Talent: TROPICAL GOTHIC NB. Many of the usual awards were suspended in 2021 | ||
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![]() AFTER LIFE FOLLOWED BY RED IMPASTO JAR (Kina, Fin) AHORITA FRAMES (Levi, Ger) ALBATROS DRIFT AWAY (Beauvois, Fr) ALL EYES OFF ME (Aroya, Isr) ALL OF YOUR STARS ARE BUT DUST ON MY SHOES (Aivazian, Leb) AMONGST MEN (Fendrik, Arg) ANAMNESIS (Wright/Kolbe, Ger) ANCIENT SOUL (Gurrea,Sp) ANY DAY NOW (Ramezan, Fin) AS I WANT (Alqadi, Egy) AUTOTROFIA (Vidokle, It) ![]() ![]() A BALANCE (Harumoto, Jpn) BALLAD OF A WHITE COW (Sanaeeha/Moghaddam, Irn) ![]() ![]() ![]() BICENTENARIO (Mesa, Col) BLACK BACH ARTSAKH (Anastas/Gabri, Arm) BLACK BEAUTY: FOR A SHAMANIC CINEMA (Ndiritu, UK) BLISS (Kull, Ger) BLOODSUCKERS (Radlmaier, Ger) BROTHER'S KEEPER (Karahan, Tur) CELTS (Tomovic, Ser) ![]() THE COAST (Hura, Ind) ![]() COME HERE (Suwichakornpong, Tha) ![]() COPILOT (Berrached, Ger) COURAGE (Paluyan, Ger) ![]() DEATH OF A VIRGIN, AND THE SIN OF NOT LIVING (Barbari, Leb) DIRTY FEATHERS (Corral, Mex) DISTRICT TERMINAL (Yadegari/Mirhosseini, Irn) FABIAN: GOING TO THE DOGS (Graf, Ger) * THE FAM (Baillif, Swi) FATHERLAND (Siebert, Ger) FIGHTER (Yun, Kor) THE FIRST 54 YEARS (Mograbi, Fr) FOR LUCIO (Marcello, It) FOREST: I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE (Fliegauf, Hun) ![]() FROM THE WILD SEA (Petre, Den) FROM WHERE THEY STOOD (Cognet, Fr) GENDERATION (Treut, Ger) THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER (Zurcher/Zurcher, Swi) THE GOOD WOMAN OF SICHUAN (Zhao, Can) ![]() ![]() THE INHERITANCE (Asili, US) INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL (Ugrekhelidze, Ger) INTRODUCTION (Hong, Kor) ![]() JACK'S RIDE (Nobre, Por) JE SUIS KARL (Schwochow, Ger) JESUS EGON CHRIST (Vajda/Vajda, Ger) JUST A MOVEMENT (Meessen, Bel) KAPITA (Katondolo, US) KEEP MOVING (Ghazi, Ger) |
![]() LAST DAYS AT SEA (Atienza, Ph, Tai) THE LAST DAYS OF GILDA (Pizzi, Br) THE LAST FOREST (Bolognesi, Br) LIMBO (Soi, Chn) LOST ON ARRIVAL (Van Bekkum, Ned) THE LUMINOUS VIEW (Ferraro, It) ![]() MAY JUNE JULY (Everson, US) ME AND THE OTHERS (Schalko, Aut) MEDICINE AND MAGIC (Cuthand, Can) MEMORY BOX (Hadjithomas/Joreige, Leb) ![]() MISSION ULJA FUNK (Kronenberg, Ger) MOON, 66 QUESTIONS (Lentzou, Gr) MR BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS (Speth, Ger) ![]() NELLY RAPP: MONSTER AGENT (Adolfsson, Swe) NEXT DOOR (Bruhl, Ger) NIGHT FOR DAY (Wardill, Por) NIGHT NURSERY (Sanou, Bur) NIGHT RAIDERS (Goulet, Can) ![]() NORTH BY CURRENT (Minax, US) THE PATH IS MADE FOR WALKING (Gaitan, Br) ![]() PHILLY D.A. (Passon/Brook, US) PLOY (Jiwarangsan, Tha) THE RED FILTER IS WITHDRAWN (Kim, Kor) A RIVER RUNS, TURNS, ERASES, REPLACES (Zhu, US) ROCK BOTTOM RISER (Silva, US) ![]() A SCHOOL IN CERRO HUESO (Cappato, Arg) THE SEED ( Meyer, Ger) SEVEN YEARS AROUND THE NILE DELTA (Zohairy, Egy) SHORT VACATION (Kwon/Seo, Kor) SKI (La Banca, Arg) SNOW ANGELS (Zackrisson, Swe) SOCIAL HYGIENE (Cote, Can) SOUAD (Amin, Egy) STE ANNE (Vermette, Can) STOP-ZEMLIA (Gornostai, Ukr) SUMMER BLUR (Han, Chn) TABIJA THE WHITE FORTRESS (Drljaca, BiH) ![]() TASTE (Bao, Vie) TED K (Stone, US) THEO AND THE METAMORPHOSIS (Odoul, Fr) THOSE WHO DO NOT DROWN (Mohaiemen, Ind) TINA (Lindsay/Martin, US) TZAREVNA SCALING (Bakhtiozina, Rus) UNDER THE WHITE MASK (De Groof, Bel) UPHEAVAL (Bungue, Ger) VOICES AND SHELLS (Schweizer, Ger) WE (Diop, Fr) WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? (Koberidze, Geo) WHAT WILL SUMMER BRING (Ceroi, Arg) ![]() WHEN A FARM GOES AFLAME (Akinleminu, Ger) WHO WE WERE (Bauder, Ger) WOOD AND WATER (Bak, Ger) THE WORLD AFTER US (Salah-Cazanas, Fr) THE ZAMA ZAMA PROJECT (Morris, US) * review coming | ||
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