65th Berlin International Film Festival

The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 February 2015, with American film director Darren Aronofsky as the President of the Jury.^[2][3] German film director Wim Wenders was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear.^[4] The first seven films of the festival were announced on 15 December 2014.^[5] Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night was announced as the opening film.^[6]

The Iranian drama film Taxi, directed by Jafar Panahi, won the Golden Bear, which also served as the closing film of the festival.^[7][8]

For the first time in 2015, a "Berlin Critics' Week" ran parallel to the official festival. Similar to International Critics' Week at the Cannes festival, Berlin Critics' Week (alternatively referred to as "Critics' Week Berlin") is a sidebar run by the German Film Critics Association and screens arthouse films.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Competition

Jury

The following people were on the jury for the festival:^[13]

Name		Profession	Nationality
	Darren Aronofsky (Jury president)	Film director	USA
	Daniel Brühl	Actor	Germany
	Bong Joon-ho	Film director	South Korea
	Martha De Laurentiis	Film producer	USA
	Claudia Llosa	Film director	Peru
	Audrey Tautou	Actress	France
	Matthew Weiner	Writer, director and producer	USA

The following people were on the jury for the Best First Feature:^[14]

• Fernando Eimbcke, Mexican film director
• Joshua Oppenheimer, American film director
• Olga Kurylenko, French actress

In competition

The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:^[5][15][16]

Out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Panorama

The following films were selected for the Panorama section:^[17][18]

Berlinale Special

The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:^[19][20]

Berlinale Classics

The following films were selected to be screened in the Berlinale Classics section:^[21]

Awards

The Golden Bear of 2015 was awarded to Taxi by Iranian director Jafar Panahi.

The following prizes were awarded:^[7]

• Golden Bear – Taxi by Jafar Panahi
• Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear) – The Club by Pablo Larraín
• Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) – Ixcanul by Jayro Bustamante
• Silver Bear for Best Director
  • Radu Jude for Aferim!
  • Małgorzata Szumowska for Body
• Silver Bear for Best Actress – Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years
• Silver Bear for Best Actor – Tom Courtenay for 45 Years
• Silver Bear for Best Script – Patricio Guzmán for The Pearl Button
• Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography
  • Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for Victoria
  • Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin for Under Electric Clouds
• Best First Feature Award – 600 Miles by Gabriel Ripstein^[22]

• Panoroma Audience Award^[23]
  • 1st Place: The Second Mother by Anna Muylaert
  • 2nd Place: Stories of Our Lives by Jim Chuchu
  • 3rd Place: Tough Love by Rosa von Praunheim

• Teddy Award: Nasty Baby by Sebastián Silva^[24]

• FIPRESCI Prize^[25]
  • Competiton: Taxi by Jafar Panahi
  • Panorama: A Minor Leap Down by Hamed Rajabi

Festival appearance

The festival poster was designed by BOROS agency, who made the previous four posters of the festival. Festival director Dieter Kosslick described the poster as "the glamorous and suspense-packed second that precedes every cinema experience is when the curtain opens to reveal the screen. This year's poster motif aims to stir anticipation for that magical moment".^[26]

References

External links

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