Today, on Saturday, February 16, the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival will come to a splendid close with the presentation of the awards.
1,600 guests are expected to attend the gala, beginning at 7.00 pm in the Berlinale Palast, where the winners of the Golden and Silver Bears, the Prizes of the International Short Film Jury and the Best First Feature Award will be announced. Following the ceremony, the winner of the Golden Bear will be shown as closing film. Festival Director Dieter K...
On Saturday, February 16 at the award ceremony of the independent juries, the young French-German-Portuguese jury awarded the “FGYO-Prize Dialogue en perspective” for the first time endowed with 5.000€. This year, the prize goes to Anne Zohra Berrached‘s film Two Mothers.
For the tenth time, the Berlin International Film Festival and the French-German Youth Office (FGYO), an official partner of the Berlinale, are giving young film-lovers the chance to award the ...
The Act of Killing
The public has cast its votes: the 15th PanoramaAudienceAwards - presented in collaboration with radioeins of rbb (Berlin-Brandenburg’s public radio and television station), Berlin’s city magazine tip and the Berlinale’s Panorama section - go to The Broken Circle Breakdown for fiction film, and to The Act of Killing for documentary.
The official award ceremony will be held on Berlinale Kinotag, Sunday February 17, at 5.00 pm in CinemaxX ...
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The nine members of the international jury – programmers of queer film festivals and programmes – view films of queer interest within the framework of all sections of the Berlinale . Three films are nominated for each of the categories: best feature film, best documentary/essay film and the best short film. The jury presents furthermore its Special Jury Award.
Members of the Jury
Benoît Arnulf, Nice LGBTI Film Festivals, France/Frankreich; Martha Arredondo, The Santo Doming...
"Sadourni’s Butterflies"
("Las Mariposas de Sadourni", 2012) is the first feature film by Argentinian director Dario Nardi. The film made its international premier at the 10th Dubai Film Festival and its North American premier at the 24th Palm Springs International Film Festival in the 'New Voices/New Visions' section. It most recently screened at the EFM market during the 63rd Berlinale.
Nardi began work on the film fifteen years ago in 1998 until at last...
The members of the Youth Jury in Generation 14plus
Indira Geisel
Maxim Mersini
Jonas Mileta
Zoë Noack
Sarah Rheinfurth
Carla Romagna
Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh
give the following awards:
Crystal Bear for the Best Film: Baby Blues
by Kasia Rosłaniec, Poland 2012
In this film we were completely unprepared for the extreme way the story unfolds. Its bold editing style, colorful cinematography and innovative direction gave the film great dynamism. The film showed us strong...
Directed by Amit Gupta (Resistance), JADOO is one of the only wholly British films in this year’s festival selection and the filmmaker and his cast will be in Berlin in support of the film.
It has been announced during the EFM that Jeff Berg’s recently launched talent, finance and rights outfit Resolution has taken world rights to JADOO.
JADOO
The World Premiere Screening of Amit Gupta’s Jadoo
Will take place at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival (Culinary ...
Actor John Corbett as 'Bobby' in 'The Lookalike' (2013).
Crime drama ‘The Lookalike’ (2013) wrapped filming in late January just in time to cut a trailer for buyers at the 2013 EFM (European Film Market) in Berlin. Sales company Arclight Films acquired the film for world rights and began pre-sale negotiations at the EFM.
Filmmaker Richard Gray and his DOP Thomas Scott Stanton attended the 63rd Berlinale to promote 'The Lookalike' along with Richard...
Taika Waititi is an actor/writer/director from the Raukorekore region of east coast New Zealand and of Te-Whanau-a-Apanui descent. Two years ago his film 'BOY' (2010) held its North American premier at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. 'BOY' most recently screened in the NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema section of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, 2013.
'BOY' is by far one of the greatest indie film achievements of recent years that stays long with its v...
Tusi Tamasese's film ‘The Orator’ ('O Le Tulafale', 2011) made film history as the first ever to come from the Samoan Islands. It held its world premier at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011, and most recently screened at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in the NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema section in 2013.
Saili is a small man with a big heart who lives happily with his beautiful wife Vaaiga and her daughter Litia. Sadly however, t...
By far one of the best and most memorable films for me in the past five years was the cinematic masterpiece "Samson and Delilah" (2009) by Australian director Warwick Thornton. Directed as his first feature after sixteen years as a cinematographer, the film is set in the Central Australian desert. It is a contemporary Aboriginal rite of passage story about two young lovers, Samson and Delilah, who experience a journey together that changes their lives forever.
Thornton’s ...
Inch’ Allah.
Canada, 2012.
Canadian filmmaker Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s film “Inch'Allah” is about a Quebecer female doctor ‘Chloe’ (played by Evelyne Brochu) working for the Red Cross in a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who finds herself in the midst of war. Every day she crosses the border between the Israeli side of the border where she lives, to the Palestinian side where she works, witness to the quotidian horror of this tragic divide.
La...
"Night Train to Lisbon" premieres at the Berlinale 2013, adaption of bestselling novel, by Pascal Mercier.
Jeremy Irons plays Raimund Gregorius, a talented but boring middle-aged swiss professor, investigating the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. After an unexpected encounter with a mysterious woman in a rainy day in the city of Bern, Raimund discovers a book of a Portuguese writer and doctor, Amadeu de Prado, a figure pursued by the fascist regime. This leads to a train ride to Li...
If you are running out of money, don´t have an accreditation and losing your Berlinale tickets, which you have bought – that´s… Berlin.
Different as our Mayor said: Poor, but not sexy anymore (nowadays a visitor as the Australian musician Robert F. Coleman is claiming in a big „New York Times”-article that the slovenly life at so cheaply Berlin has ruined his band – too many drugs and parties. But I don´t think you can blame the...
Dear guests, as a Berliner I have to apologize: Sorry for this awful weather! More mud than snow, a harsh and cold westerly and the sky almost always grey. Instead of „Heavens over Berlin” (the originally German title of Wim Wenders´„Wings of Desire”) we only can talk about the bank of clouds over the city in these days.
„Süddeutsche Zeitung” from Munich (where they have snow all winter and beautiful mountains nearby) writes: If t...
In 2013, the number of films screening in the Digital Cinema Package (DCP) format at the Berlinale exceeds 50% for the first time. Only around 8% of the films are still shown in the classic 35mm format. The rest of the total of about 2,500 screenings scheduled during the Festival and the European Film Market are in diverse digital video formats.
Against this backdrop, the work processes involved in ensuring an optimal screening of the films have changed radically over the past years. ...
For Richard Linklater „Before Midnight” it is a kind of long journey back home-story. It has been in Berlin 1995, when he won with „Before Sunrise” his first important international trophy as a director – the „Silbernen Bären” (Silver Bear), Berlinale´s second place price. After „Before Sunset” nine years later on Linklater is now (again nine years later) presenting the sequel „Before Midnight” out of c...
On February 13, the WCF invites all its friends as well as representatives of the industry and press to the panel discussion “Filling the Gap: The Art of Filmmaking in Cuba & Vietnam”. There will once again be the opportunity to learn more about the programme, successes, funding strategies, films, initiatives and partners of the World Cinema Fund (WCF).
The Executive Board of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (KSB) decided, in late 2012, it would continue funding th...
From left to right: Arta Dobroshi (Republic of Kosovo*), Luca Marinelli (Italy), Christa Théret (France),Laura Birn (Finland), Dieter Kosslick (Festival director Berlin International Film Festival), Nermina Lukač (Sweden), Saskia Rosendahl (Germany), Mikkel Boe Følsgaard (Denmark), Ada Condeescu(Romania), Jure Henigman (Slovenia), Carla Juri ( Switzerland).
Following ...
The film „Workers“ from José Luis Valle in the Panorama section tells the story of two wage-dependent persons in the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Rafael (Jesús Padilla) has been a cleaner for 30 years in a sterile light-bulb factory. Next day he should receive his pension – but then they refused it to him, because he is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. Lidia (Susana Salazar) on the other hand is a maid of a rich, critically ill Mexican. This „Patr...
Since 1986 the Berlin International Film Festival has presented the Berlinale Camera to film personalities or institutions to which it feels particularly indebted and wishes to express its thanks.
At the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, US filmmaker Richard Linklater was honoured with a surprise Berlinale Camera.
Richard Linklater is a long-time friend of the Berlinale. His first Competition entry Before Sunrise was awarded the Silver Bear for best director in 1995. After he ...
Since 1986 the Berlin International Film Festival has presented the Berlinale Camera to film personalities or institutions to which it feels particularly indebted and wishes to express its thanks.
At the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, US filmmaker Richard Linklater was honoured with a surprise Berlinale Camera.
Richard Linklater is a long-time friend of the Berlinale. His first Competition entry Before Sunrise was awarded the Silver Bear for best director in 1995. After he ...
