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Shadows @ Berlinale Europe's premiere winter film festival Runs alongside the European Film Market in Berlin Rich Cline was on the Fipresci jury at Berlinale 2009
74rd Berlin International Film Festival 15 - 25 FEBRUARY 2024 in Berlin, Germany	2 0 2 4 A W A R D S
	Golden Bear: DAHOMEY Silver Bear: A TRAVELER'S NEEDS Jury Prize: THE EMPIRE Honorary Golden Bear: Martin Scorsese Berlinale Camera: Edgar Reitz Documentary: NO OTHER LAND Teddy Bear: ALL SHALL BE WELL Teddy - Doc: TEACHES OF PEACHES Teddy Jury Award: CROSSING Special Teddy Award: Lothar Lambert Crystal Bear Kplus: IT'S OKAY Grand Prix Kplus: REINAS Crystal Bear 14plus: LAST SWIM Grand Prix 14plus: WHO BY FIRE Audience Award: MEMORIES OF A BURNING BODY Audience Award - Doc: NO OTHER LAND Director: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias (PEPE) Screenplay: Matthias Glasner (DYING) Lead Performance: Sebastian Stan (A DIFFERENT MAN) Supporting Performance: Emily Watson (SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE) Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht (THE DEVIL'S BATH) First Feature: CU LI NEVER CRIES Encounters: DIRECT ACTION Encounters - Jury Prize: THE GREAT YAWN OF HISTORY and SOME RAIN MUST FALL Encounters - Director: Juliana Rojas (CIDADE; CAMPO)	Fipresci Prize: MY FAVOURITE CAKE Fipresci - Panorama: FARUK Fipresci - Encounters: SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN Fipresci - Forum: THE HUMAN HIBERNATION Ecumenical Prize: MY FAVOURITE CAKE Ecumenical - Panorama: SEX Ecumenical - Forum: MARIA'S SILENCE Cicae - Panorama: SEX Cicae - Forum: SHAHID AG Kino: LAST SWIM Amnesty Award: THE STRANGERS' CASE ArteKino: ICH BIN MARIKA Berliner Morgenpost: DYING Caligari: SHAHID Eurimages: SCREAMING GIRL Europa Cinemas: SEX German Arthouse: DYING Heiner Carow: IVO Kompagnon-Fellowship: THE SHORE and TRAVERSEE Peace Film: FAVORITEN Tagesspiegel: A FAMILY VFF Talent: SILENCE SOMETIMES
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	ABIDING NOWHERE ABOVE THE DUST THE ADAMANT GIRL AFTERWAR ALL SHALL BE WELL ALL THE LONG NIGHTS ANDREA GETS A DIVORCE ANOTHER END ARCADIA ARCHITECTON AT AVERROES & ROSA PARKS BALDIGA: UNLOCKED HEART (Stein, Ger) BARRUNTO BETANIA BETWEEN THE TEMPLES (Silver, US) A BIT OF A STRANGER BLACK TEA THE BOX MAN BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY THE CATS OF GOKOGU SHRINE CIDADE; CAMPO LA COCINA CROSSING (Akin, Geo) CU LI NEVER CRIES CUCKOO DAHOMEY (Diop, Fr) DEMBA THE DEVIL'S BATH DIARIES FROM LEBANON A DIFFERENT MAN (Schimberg, US) DIRECT ACTION DISCO AFRIKA: A MALAGASY STORY DOSTOYEVSKY DYING THE EDITORIAL OFFICE ELBOW THE EMPIRE THE EMPTY GRAVE EVERY YOU EVERY ME EXHUMA THE FABLE A FAMILY FARUK FAVORITEN FIN FOX AND HARE SAVE THE FOREST FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE GLORIA! THE GREAT PHUKET THE GREAT YAWN OF HISTORY HANDS IN THE FIRE HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT HOLD ON TO HER HOLY WEEK L'HOMME-VERTIGE: TALES OF A CITY THE HUMAN HIBERNATION I SAW THE TV GLOW (Schoenbrun, US) I SAW THREE BLACK LIGHTS I'M NOT EVERYTHING I WANT TO BE IN THE BELLY OF A TIGER INTERCEPTED THE INVISIBLE ZOO IT'S OKAY! IVO JANET PLANET (Baker, US) LANGUE ETRANGERE LAST SWIM LOVE LIES BLEEDING (Glass, US) MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER THE MAJOR TONES	MARIA'S SILENCE MATT UND MARA MAYDEGOL MEANWHILE ON EARTH MEMORIES OF A BURNING BODY MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, OR THE NIGHT IS NEVER COMPLETE MY FAVOURITE CAKE (Moghadam/Sanaeeha, Irn) MY NEW FRIENDS MY STOLEN PLANET MY SUMMER WITH IRENE NANACATEPEC THE NIGHTS STILL SMELL OF GUNPOWDER NO OTHER LAND (Adra/Abraham, Pal) OASIS OASIS OF NOW THE OUTRUN (Fingscheidt, UK) PARADISES OF DIANE PEPE THE PERIPHERY OF THE BASE REAS REINAS REPRODUCTION REPUBLIC RESONANCE SPIRAL RISING UP AT NIGHT THE ROUNDUP: PUNISHMENT SASQUATCH SUNSET (Zellner/Zellner, US) SCORCHED EARTH THE SECRET DRAWER SEVEN VEILS SEX SHAHID SHAMBHALA SHE SAT THERE LIKE ALL ORDINARY ONES SHIKUN SKIN IN SPRING SLEEP WITH YOUR EYES OPEN SLEEPING WITH A TIGER SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE SOME RAIN MUST FALL SONS SPACEMAN THE STRANGERS' CASE SUBJECT: FILMMAKING SUPERSEX (Rovere, It) SUSPENDED TIME TEACHES OF PEACHES TECHQUA IKACHI, LAND – MY LIFE THROUGH ROCKS AND CLOUDS THROUGH THE GRAVES THE WIND IS BLOWING TOBBY TRACES OF MOVEMENT BEFORE THE ICE A TRAVELER'S NEEDS (Hong, Kor) TREASURE (von Heinz, Ger) TRUE CHRONICLES OF THE BLIDA JOINVILLE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL TURN IN THE WOUND THE UNDERGROWTH THE VISITOR VOICES OF THE SILENCED THE WAYWARD CLOUD WELL ORDERED NATURE WHAT DID YOU DREAM LAST NIGHT, PARAJANOV? WHICH WAY AFRICA? WHO BY FIRE WHO DO I BELONG TO WINNERS THE WRONG MOVIE YOU BURN ME YOUNG HEARTS

73rd Berlin International Film Festival 16 - 26 FEBRUARY 2023 in Berlin, Germany	2 0 2 3 F I L M S
	2 0 2 3 A W A R D S . . . Golden Bear: ON THE ADAMANT Silver Bear: AFIRE Jury Prize: BAD LIVING Honorary Golden Bear: Steven Spielberg Berlinale Camera: Caroline Champetier Documentary: THE ECHO Teddy Bear: ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE Teddy - Doc: ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY Audience Award: SIRA Audience Award - Doc: KOKOMO CITY Director: Philippe Garrel (THE PLOUGH) Screenplay: Angela Schanelec (MUSIC) Lead Performance: Sofia Otero (20,000 SPECIES OF BEES) Supporting Performance: Thea Ehre (TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT) 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (Urresola, Sp) AFIRE (Petzold, Ger) BLACKBERRY (Johnson, Can) CALLS FROM MOSCOW (Yero, Cub) CARNAL SINS (Torales, Arg) DEEP SEA (Tian, Chn) DISCO BOY (Abbruzzese, Fr) DRIFTER (Hirsch, Ger) THE ECHO (Huezo, Mex)	ELAHA (Aboyan, Ger) THE ETERNAL MEMORY (Alberdi, Chl) FEMME (Freeman/Ng, UK) GOLDA (Nattiv, UK) HERE (Devos, Bel) INFINITY POOL (Cronenberg, Can) JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE (O'Connor/Navasky/O'Boyle, US) KOKOMO CITY (Smith, US) LIMBO (Sen, Aus) THE LOST BOYS (Graton, Bel) LOVE TO LOVE YOU, DONNA SUMMER (Williams/Sudano, US) MANODROME (Trengove, US) MUTT (Lungulov-Klotz, US) ON THE ADAMANT (Philibert, Fr) OPPONENT (Alami, Swe) ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (Preciado, Fr) PASSAGES (Sachs, Fr) PAST LIVES (Song, US) PERPETRATOR (Reeder, US) REALITY (Satter, US) SAMSARA (Patino, Sp) SHE CAME TO ME (Miller, US) SILVER HAZE (Polak, UK) SISI & I (Finsterwalder, Ger) SUZUME (Shinkai, Jpn) TALK TO ME (Philippou/Philippou, Aus) TAR (Field, US) THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE (Catak, Ger) TOTEM (Aviles, Mex)

72nd Berlin International Film Festival 10 - 20 FEBRUARY 2022 in Berlin, Germany	2 0 2 2 F I L M S
	2 0 2 2 A W A R D S . . . Golden Bear: ALCARRAS 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) Honorary Golden Bear: Isabelle Huppert	ALCARRAS (Simon, Sp) BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Denis, Fr) BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER (Menkes, US) CALL JANE (Nagy, US) CONCERNED CITIZEN (Haguel, Isr) FLUX GOURMET (Strickland, UK) GIRL PICTURE (Haapasalo, Fin) GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE (Hyde, UK) INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (Dupieux, Fr) KLONDIKE (Er Gorbach, Ukr) NELLY & NADINE (Gertten, Swe) NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (Kohn, US) THE OUTFIT (Moore, US) PETER VON KANT (Ozon, Fr) THE QUIET GIRL (Bairead, Ire) RIMINI (Seidl, Aut) SHALL I COMPARE YOU TO A SUMMER'S DAY? (Hassan, Egy) SUBLIME (Biasin, Arg) THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE (Dominik, UK) * review coming
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