56th Berlin International Film Festival

Juries

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:

Main Competition

• Charlotte Rampling, British actress - Jury President
• Matthew Barney, American director and artist
• Yash Chopra, Indian director and producer
• Marleen Gorris, Dutch filmmaker
• Janusz Kamiński, Polish director of photography
• Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
• Fred Roos, American producer
• Lee Young-ae, South Korean actress

Best First Feature Award

• Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
• Goran Paskaljević, Serbian director
• Hans Weingartner, Austrian director and producer

Short Films Competition

• Mariela Besuievsky, Spanish producer
• Florian Gallenberger, German director and screenwriter
• Jung-Wan Oh, South Korean producer

Official Sections

Main Competition

The following films were selected for the main competition:

Official Awards

Main Competition

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:

• Golden Bear: Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams by Jasmila Žbanić
• Silver Bear for Jury Grand Prix:
  • Offside by Jafar Panahi
  • En soap by Pernille Fischer Christensen
• Silver Bear for Best Actor: Moritz Bleibtreu for The Elementary Particles
• Silver Bear for Best Actress: Sandra Hüller for Requiem
• Silver Bear for Best Director: Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross for The Road to Guantanamo
• Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Jürgen Vogel for The Free Will
• Silver Bear for Best Film Music: Isabella by Peter Kam
• Alfred Bauer Prize: Rodrigo Moreno for The Minder

[[Honorary Golden Bear]]

• Andrzej Wajda
• Ian McKellen

[[Short Film Golden Bear|Golden Bear for Best Short Film]]

• Never Like the First Time! by Jonas Odell
  • Honorable Mention: Maryam Keshavarz for El día que morí

Berlinale Camera

• Michael Ballhaus
• Jürgen Böttcher
• Laurence Kardish
• Peter B. Schumann
• Hans Helmut Prinzler

Best First Feature

• En soap by Pernille Fischer Christensen (director) & Lars Bredo Rahbek (producer)

Independent Awards

Panorama Audience Award

• Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls
• Short Film: Talya Lavie for The Substitute

Crystal Bear

• Best Short Film: Cameron B. Alyasin for Never an Absolution
  • Special Mention: Irina Boiko for The Thief
• Best Feature Film: Niels Arden Oplev for We Shall Overcome
  • Special Mention: Auraeus Solito for The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
• 14Plus Best Feature Film: Henry Meyer for Four Weeks in June
  • Special Mention: Claude Gagnon for Kamataki

Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix

• The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus Solito
• Special Award: A Fish with a Smile by C. Jay Shih
• Special Mention:
  • Best Short Film: Vika by Tsivia Barkai
  • Best Feature Film: I Am by Dorota Kędzierzawska

[[Teddy Award|Teddy]]

• Best Short Film: El día que morí by Maryam Keshavarz
• Best Documentary Film: Beyond Hatred by Olivier Meyrou
• Best Feature Film: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus Solito
• Jury Award: Patrick Carpentier for Combat

FIPRSECI Prize

• Competition: Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid
• Forum of New Cinema: So Yong Kim for In Between Days
• Panorama: Knallhart by Detlev Buck

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

• Competition: Grbavica by Jasmila Žbanić
• Forum of New Cinema: Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon by Khalo Matabane
• Panorama: The Collector by Feliks Falk

C.I.C.A.E. Award

• Forum of New Cinema: Close to Home by Dalia Hager
• Panorama: Zhang Yuan for Little Red Flowers

Netpac Award

• Dear Pyongyang by Yong-hi Yang

Prix UIP Berlin

• The Fence by Ricardo Íscar

Label Europa Cinemas

• Detlev Buck for Knallhart

Caligari Film Award

• Ben Hopkins for 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep

DIALOGUE en Perspective

• Bülent Akinci for Running on Empty
  • Special Mention: Florian Gaag for Wholetrain

Talent Movie of the Week

• Phillip Van for High Maintenance

Berlin Today Award

• Anna Azevedo for BerlinBall

Score Competition

• Alasdair Reid

Manfred Salzgeber Award

• Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls

DAAD Short Film Award

• Rony Sasson for Swanettes

Peace Film Award

• Jasmila Žbanić for Grbavica

Amnesty International Film Prize

• Masoud Arif Salih for Narcissus Blossom

Wolfgang Staudte Award

• Tizza Covi for Babooska

Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas

• Matthias Glasner for The Free Will

Femina-Film-Prize

• Yasmin Khalifa for Bye Bye Berlusconi!

Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost"

• Robert Altman for A Prairie Home Companion

Reader Jury of the "Berliner Zeitung"

• Shion Sono for Strange Circus

Reader Jury of the "Siegessäule"

• Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls

References

References

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