Berlin International Film Festival | |
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Berlinale poster 2006 |
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Location | Berlin, Germany |
Founded | 1951 |
Awards | Golden/Silver Bear |
Number of films | 383 (1.256 screenings) |
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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events held in Berlin, Germany.[1] Founded in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With 230,000 tickets sold and over 430,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide.[2] Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films competing for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick.[3][4]
The European Film Market (EFM), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year.[5] The trade fair serves distributors, filmbuyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The Berlinale Talent Campus, a week long series of lectures and workshops, gathers young filmmakers from around the globe. It partners with the festival itself and is considered to be a forum for upcoming artists.[6]
The festival, the EFM and other satellite events are attended by more than 20,000 professionals from over 120 countries. Around 4200 journalists are responsible for the media exposure in more than 100 countries.[7] At high-profile feature film premieres, movie stars and celebrities are present at the red carpet.[8] The Berlinale has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.[9] The 59th Berlin International Film Festival will be held 05 to 15 February 2009.
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Golden Bear (Goldener Bär)
Silver Bear (Silberner Bär)
Others
Year | Film | Director | Country of origin |
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1952 | Hon dansade en sommar | Arne Mattsson | Sweden |
1953 | The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France/Italy |
1954 | Hobson's Choice | David Lean | United Kingdom |
1955 | Die Ratten | Robert Siodmak | Federal Republic of Germany |
1956 | Invitation to the Dance | Gene Kelly | United States |
1957 | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | United States |
1958 | Wild Strawberries | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
1959 | Les Cousins | Claude Chabrol | France |
1960 | El Lazarillo de Tormes | César Ardavin | Spain |
1961 | La notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy/France |
1962 | A Kind of Loving | John Schlesinger | United Kingdom |
1963 | Il Diavolo | Gian Luigi Polidoro | Italy |
1964 | Susuz Yaz | Metin Erksan | Turkey |
1965 | Alphaville | Jean-Luc Godard | France/Italy |
1966 | Cul-de-Sac | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom |
1967 | Le départ | Jerzy Skolimowski | Belgium |
1968 | Ole dole doff | Jan Troell | Sweden |
1969 | Rani Radovi | Želimir Žilnik | Yugoslavia |
1970 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
1971 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | Italy/W. Germany |
1972 | The Canterbury Tales | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
1973 | Distant Thunder | Satyajit Ray | India |
1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada |
1975 | Adoption | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
1976 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson | Robert Altman | United States |
1977 | The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
1978 | Las Truchas | José Luis García Sánchez | Spain |
Ascensor | Tomas Munoz | Spain | |
La Palabras de Max | Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Spain | |
1979 | David | Peter Lilienthal | West Germany |
1980 | Heartland | Richard Pearce | United States |
Palermo or Wolfsburg | Werner Schroeter | West Germany | |
1981 | Deprisa, Deprisa | Carlos Saura | Spain ( with France) |
1982 | Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
1983 | Ascendancy | Edward Bennett | United Kingdom |
The Beehive | Mario Camus | Spain | |
1984 | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | United States |
1985 | Die Frau und der Fremde | Rainer Simon | East Germany |
Wetherby | David Hare | United Kingdom | |
1986 | Stammheim | Reinhard Hauff | West Germany |
1987 | The Theme | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union |
1988 | Red Sorghum | Zhang Yimou | China |
1989 | Rain Man | Barry Levinson | United States |
1990 | Music Box | Costa-Gavras | United States |
Larks on a String | Jiri Menzel | Czechoslovakia | |
1991 | La Casa del sorriso | Marco Ferreri | Italy |
1992 | Grand Canyon | Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
1993 | Woman Sesame Oil Maker | Xie Fei | China |
The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee | Taiwan/United States | |
1994 | In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | UK/Ireland |
1995 | L'Appât | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
1996 | Sense and Sensibility | Ang Lee | United States/United Kingdom |
1997 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Miloš Forman | United States |
1998 | Central Station | Walter Salles | Brazil ( with France) |
1999 | The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | United States |
2000 | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
2001 | Intimacy | Patrice Chéreau | UK ( with France, Germany, Spain) |
2002 | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | UK/Ireland | |
2003 | In This World | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
2004 | Head-On | Fatih Akin | Germany/Turkey |
2005 | U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha | Mark Dornford-May | South Africa |
2006 | Grbavica | Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Austria, Germany, Croatia) |
2007 | Tuya's Marriage | Wang Quan'an | China |
2008 | Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) | José Padilha | Brazil |
Commencing in 2003, the Berlinale has partnered with the Berlinale Talent Campus, which is a winter school for "up and coming filmmakers" that takes place at the same time as the Festival itself. The Talent Campus accepts about 350 applicants each year; the attendees come from around the world, and represent all of the filmmaking professions.[10]
The proceedings include presentations and workshops by distinguished experts,[11] who have included Park Chan-wook, Frances McDormand, Stephen Frears, Dennis Hopper, Jia Zhangke, Walter Murch, Anthony Minghella, Charlotte Rampling, Walter Salles, Ridley Scott, Raoul Peck, Tom Tykwer, and Wim Wenders. Many of these presentations and lectures are archived, both as videorecordings and transcripts, on the Talent Campus' website.
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