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Rich Cline was on the Fipresci jury at Berlinale 2009

Berlinale site 73rd Berlin International
Film Festival

16 - 26 FEBRUARY 2023
in Berlin, Germany


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
Crystal Bear: ADOLFO
Generation 14plus: HUMMINGBIRDS
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)
Cinematography: Helene Louvart (DISCO BOY)
First Feature: Leandro Koch & Paloma Schachmann
(THE KLEZMER PROJECT)
Fipresci Prize: THE SURVIVAL OF KINDNESS
Fipresci - Panorama: THE QUIET MIGRATION
Fipresci - Encounters: HERE
Fipresci - Forum: BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS


Encounters: HERE
Encounters - Jury Prize:
ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
Encounters - Director:
Tatiana Huezo (THE ECHO)
Ecumenical Prize: TOTEM
Ecumenical - Panorama: MIDWIVES
Ecumenical - Forum: WHERE GOD IS NOT
Cicae - Panorama:
THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE
Cicae - Forum: THE FACE OF JELLYFISH
Series Award: THE GOOD MOTHERS
AG Kino Gilde:
AND THE KING SAID, WHAT A FANTASTIC MACHINE
Amnesty Award: THE BURDENED
ArteKino: PEELED SKIN
Berliner Morgenpost: 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
Caligari: DE FACTO
Compass-Perspektive: SEVEN WINTERS
Guild: 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
Heiner Carow: BONES AND NAMES
Kompagnon-Fellowship:
PARAPHRASE ON THE FINDING OF A GLOVE and
MY BELOVED MAN'S FEMALE BODY
Peace Film: SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN
Tagesspiegel: ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
2 0 2 3   F I L M S
20,000 SPECIES OF BEES (Urresola, Sp)
ABOUT THIRTY (Shanly, Arg)
ABSENCE (Wu, Chn)
ADOLFO (Auza, US)
THE ADULTS (Defa, US)
AFIRE (Petzold, Ger)
AFTER (Lapia, Fr)
ALL THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD ARE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE (Apalowo, Ngr)
ALLENSWORTH (Benning, US)
ALMAMULA (Torales, Fr)
AMBUSH (Ninawe, Ind)
AND THE KING SAID, WHAT A FANTASTIC MACHINE (Danielson/Van Aertryck, Swe)
AND, TOWARDS HAPPY ALLEYS (Singh, Ind)
ANQA (Celik, Aut)
ARARAT (Kundag, Ger)
ART COLLEGE 1994 (Liu, Chn)
AUTOBIO-PAMPHLET (Bende, Ind)
BAD LIVING (Canijo, Por)
THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE (Chiha, Fr)
BEING IN A PLACE: A PORTRAIT OF MARGARET TAIT (Fowler, UK)
BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS (Petri, Rom)
BLACK HEAD (Yurtsever, Tur)
BLACKBERRY (Johnson, Can)
BONES AND NAMES (Stumm, Ger)
BOOM! BOOM! THE WORLD VS BORIS BECKER (Gibney, UK)
THE BRIDE (Birara, Rwa)
THE BURDENED (Gamal, Yem)
THE CAGE IS LOOKING FOR A BIRD (Musaeva, Fr)
CALLS FROM MOSCOW (Yero, Cub)
THE CASTLE (Benchimol, Arg)
THE CEMETERY OF CINEMA (Diallo, Fr)
CIDADE RABAT (Nobre, Por)
CONCRETE VALLEY (Bourges, Can)
DANCING QUEEN (Gosse, Nor)
DE FACTO (Doborac, Aut)
DEAREST FIONA (Tan, Ned)
DEEP SEA (Tian, Chn)
DELEGATION (Saban, Pol)
DISCO BOY (Abbruzzese, Fr)
DO YOU LOVE ME (Noyabrova, Ukr)
DREAMS' GATE (Ahmadi, Irn)
DRIFTER (Hirsch, Ger)
EASTERN FRONT (Mansky/Titarenko, Lat)
THE ECHO (Huezo, Mex)
ELAHA (Aboyan, Ger)
THE ETERNAL MEMORY (Alberdi, Chl)
THE FACE OF THE JELLYFISH (Liebenthal, Arg)
FAMILY TIME (Kouvo, Fin)
FEMME (Freeman/Ng, UK)
FORMS OF FORGETTING (Cevik, Tur)
GOLDA (Nattiv, UK)
A GOLDEN LIFE (Sangare, Bur)
GREEN NIGHT (Han, Chn)
A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL (d'Alo, Lux)
HELLO DANKNESS (Soda Jerk, Aus)
HERE (Devos, Bel)
HEROIC (Zonana, Mex)
HORSE OPERA (Davey, US)
HUMMINGBIRDS (Castanos/Contreras, US)
I WOKE UP WITH A DREAM (Solarz, Arg)
IN THE BLIND SPOT (Polat, Ger)
IN UKRAINE (Pawlus/Wolski, Pol)
IN WATER (Hong, Kor)
INFINITY POOL (Cronenberg, Can)
INGEBORG BACHMANN: JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT (von Trotta, Swi)
THE INNOCENTS (Fontaine, Fr)
INSIDE (Katsoupis, Gr)
THE INTRUSION (Dias/Mallon, Br)
IRON BUTTERFLIES (Liubyi, Ukr)
JOAN BAEZ: I AM A NOISE (O'Connor/Navasky/O'Boyle, US)
JUST SUPER (Sivertsen, Nor)
KASH KASH (Najjar, Ger)
KIDDO (Dwinger, Ned)
KILL BOKSOON (Byun, Kor)
KISS THE FUTURE (Cicin-Sain, US)
THE KLEZMER PROJECT (Koch/Schachmann, Aut)
KOKOMO CITY (Smith, US)
LAST NIGHT OF AMORE (Di Stefano, It)
LEAVING AND STAYING (Koepp, Ger)
LIMBO (Sen, Aus)
LIVING BAD (Canijo, Por)
LONELY OAKS (Fragale/Kuhlendahl/Muhlhoff, Ger)
LONGING FOR THE WORLD (Hasse, Swi)
LORIOT'S GREAT CARTOON REVUE (Geyer/Loriot, Ger)
THE LOST BOYS (Graton, Bel)
LOVE TO LOVE YOU, DONNA SUMMER (Williams/Sudano, US)
MAD FATE (Cheang, Chn)
MAMMALIA (Mihailescu, Rom)
MANHOLE (Kumakiri, Jpn)
MANODROME (Trengove, US)
MASSIMO TROISI: SOMEBODY DOWN THERE LIKES ME (Martone, It)
MATRIA (Gago, Sp)
MIDWIVES (Fehner, Fr)
MUSIC (Schanelec, Ger)
MUTT (Lungulov-Klotz, US)
MY WORST ENEMY (Tamadon, Fr)
NOTES FROM EREMOCENE (Cakanyova, Svk)
NUCLEAR NOMADS (Friedrich/Zargari, Ger)
ON MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS (Egen, Ger)
ON THE ADAMANT (Philibert, Fr)
OPPONENT (Alami, Swe)
ORLANDO: MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (Preciado, Fr)
OUR BODY (Simon, Fr)
PASSAGES (Sachs, Fr)
PAST LIVES (Song, US)
PERPETRATOR (Reeder, US)
THE PLOUGH (Garrel, Fr)
THE PROPERTIES OF METALS (Bigini, It)
PROPERTY (Bandeira, Br)
THE QUIET MIGRATION (Choi, Den)
RAMONA (Villegas, Dom)
REALITY (Satter, US)
REGARDLESS OF US (Yoo, Kor)
REMEMBERING EVERY NIGHT (Kiyohara, Jpn)
SAMSARA (Patino, Sp)
SEA SPARKLE (Huyghe, Bel)
SENECA: ON THE CREATION OF EARTHQUAKES (Schwentke, Ger)
SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN (Niederzoll, Ger)
THE SHADOWLESS TOWER (Zhang, Chn)
SHE CAME TO ME (Miller, US)
SHE-HERO (Fornay, Svk)
SICA (Subirana, Sp)
SILVER HAZE (Polak, UK)
SIRA (Traore, Bur)
THE SIREN (Farsi, Fr)
SISI & I (Finsterwalder, Ger)
SOMEDAY WE'LL TELL EACH OTHER EVERYTHING (Atef, Ger)
STAMS (Braunstein, Aut)
SUN AND CONCRETE (Wnendt, Ger)
SUPERPOWER (Penn/Kaufman, US)
THE SURVIVAL OF KINDNESS (de Heer, Aus)
SUZUME (Shinkai, Jpn)
SWEET AS (Clerc, Aus)
TALK TO ME (Philippou/Philippou, Aus)
TAR (Field, US)
THE TEACHERS' LOUNGE (Catak, Ger)
THE TEMPLE WOODS GANG (Ameur-Zaimeche, Fr)
THERE IS A STONE (Ota, Jpn)
THIS IS THE END (Dieutre, Fr)
TILL THE END OF THE NIGHT (Hochhausler, Ger)
TOMORROW IS A LONG TIME (Jow, Sin)
TOTEM (Aviles, Mex)
TRANSFARIANA (Lachaise, Fr)
THE TRIAL (de la Orden, Arg)
UNDER THE SKY OF DAMASCUS (Khaled/Derki/Wajeeh, Den)
DER VERMESSENE MENSCH (Kraume, Ger)
THE WALLS OF BERGAMO (Savona, It)
WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY (Kovalenko, Ukr)
WHEN WILL IT BE AGAIN LIKE IT NEVER WAS BEFORE (Heiss, Ger)
WHERE GOD IS NOT (Tamadon, Fr)
WHITE PLASTIC SKY (Banoczki/Szabo, Hun)



Berlinale site 72nd
Berlin
International
Film
Festival






10 - 20 FEBRUARY 2022
in Berlin, Germany


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)
Artistic Contribution: Rithy Panh & Sarit Mang
(EVERYTHING WILL BE OK)
Honorary Golden Bear: Isabelle Huppert
Teddy - Special Award: NELLY & NADINE
First Feature: Kurdwin Ayub (SONNE)
Crystal Bear - Kplus: COMEDY QUEEN
Crystal Bear - 14plus: ALIS
Youth Jury: KIND HEARTS and SCHEME
Children's Jury: THE QUIET GIRL
Fipresci Prize: LEONORA ADDIO
Fipresci - Panorama: BETTINA
Fipresci - Encounters: COMA
Fipresci - Forum: SUPER NATURAL


Encounters: MUTZENBACHER
Encounters - Jury Prize:
SEE YOU FRIDAY, ROBINSON
Encounters - Director: Cyril Schaublin (UNREST)
Ecumenical Prize: ONE YEAR ONE NIGHT
Ecumenical - Panorama: KLONDIKE
Ecumenical - Forum:
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
Cicae - Panorama: CONVENIENCE STORE
Cicae - Forum:
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
AG Kino Gilde: STAY AWAKE
Amnesty Award: MYANMAR DIARIES
ArteKino: GIRL PICTURE
Berliner Morgenpost: n/a
Caligari: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
Compass-Perspektive: LADIES ONLY
Eurimages: MY FAVOURITE CAKE
Guild: RABIYE KURNAZ VS GEORGE W BUSH
Heiner Carow: GEWALTEN
Kompagnon-Fellowship: Jonas Bak (SHE MAKES AND UNMAKES) and Payal Sethi (KURINJI)
Label Europa: BEAUTIFUL BEINGS
Peace Film: ALL WAS GOOD
Queer.de: n/a
Tagesspiegel: n/a
VFF Talent: Pooja Chauhan (GIRL PICTURE)
2 0 2 2   F I L M S
1341 FRAMES OF LOVE AND WAR (Tal, Isr)
A E I O U: A QUICK ALPHABET OF LOVE (Krebitz, Ger)
ABOUT JOAN (Lariviere, Fr)
AFTERWATER (Komljen, Ger)
AGAINST THE ICE (Flinth, Ice)
AKYNPOET (Omirbayev, Kaz)
ALCARRAS (Simon, Sp)
ALIS (Weiskopf/van Hemelryck, Col)
AMERICAN JOURNAL (des Pallieres, Fr)
THE APARTMENT WITH TWO WOMEN (Kim, Kor)
THE APPLE DAY (Ghaffari, Irn)
AXIOM (Jonsson, Ger)
BEAUTIFUL BEINGS (Gudmundsson, Ice)
BEBA (Huntt, US)
BEFORE, NOW & THEN (Andini, Ina)
BETTINA (Pehnert, Ger)
BONEY PILES (Tomenko, Ukr)
BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE (Denis, Fr)
BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER (Menkes, US)
BROTHER IN EVERY INCH (Zolotukhin, Rus)
BUBBLE (Araki, Jpn)
CALL JANE (Nagy, US)
CAMOUFLAGE (Perel, Arg)
THE CITY AND THE CITY (Passalis/Tzoumerkas, Gr)
COMA (Bonello, Fr)
COME WITH ME TO THE CINEMA: THE GREGORS (Agneskirchner, Ger)
COMEDY QUEEN (Lenken, Swe)
CONCERNED CITIZEN (Haguel, Isr)
CONVENIENCE STORE (Borodin, Rus)
DARK GLASSES (Argento, It)
THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER (Krummacher, Ger)
DREAMING WALLS (van Elmbt/Duverdier, Bel)
DRY GROUND BURNING (Queiros/Pimenta, Br)
ECHO (Wegener, Ger)
L'ETAT ET MOI (Linz, Ger)
EUROPE (Scheffner, Ger)
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK (Panh, Fr)
FATHER'S DAY (Ruhorahoza, Rwa)
A FLOWER IN THE MOUTH (Baudelaire, Fr)
FLUX GOURMET (Strickland, UK)
FOGAREU (Neves, Br)
FOR THE MANY: THE VIENNA CHAMBER OF LABOUR (Wulff, Aut)
THE FORGER (Peren, Ger)
GANGUBAI KATHIAWADI (Bhansali, Ind)
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE (Mills, Can)
A GERMAN PARTY (Bruckner, Ger)
GEWALTEN (Hatz, Ger)
GIRL PICTURE (Haapasalo, Fin)
GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE (Hyde, UK)
GRAND JETE (Stever, Ger)
HAPPER'S COMET (Taormina, US)
HAPPINESS (Uzabayev, Kaz)
HEART OF OAK (Charbonnier/Seydoux, Fr)
THE HILL OF SECRETS (Lee, Kor)
HOT IN DAY, COLD AT NIGHT (Park, Kor)
INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE (Dupieux, Fr)
INTO MY NAME (Bassetti, It)
JET LAG (Zheng, Swi)
KALLE KOSMONAUT (Kugler/Kurth, Ger)
THE KEGELSTATT TRIO (Gomes, Por)
KIND HEARTS (Rochette/Claes, Bel)
KLONDIKE (Er Gorbach, Ukr)
THE LAND OF SASHA (Trofimova, Rus)
LEONORA ADDIO (Taviani, It)
THE LINE (Meier, Swi)
A LITTLE LOVE PACKAGE (Solnicki, Aut)
LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH (Kaya, Ger)
A LOVE SONG (Walker-Silverman,US)
LULLABY (Azua, Sp)
MEMORYLAND (Kim, Vie)
THE MIDDLE AGES (Moguillansky/Acuna,Arg)
MILLIE LIES LOW (Savill, NZ)
MOJA VESNA (Kern,Svn)
MUTZENBACHER (Beckermann, Aut)
MY SMALL LAND (Kawawada, Jpn)
MY TWO VOICES (Rodriguez, Can)
MYANMAR DIARIES (MFC, Ned)
NELLY & NADINE (Gertten, Swe)
NO SIMPLE WAY HOME (de Mabior, Ken)
NO U-TURN (Nnaebue, Nga)
NOBODY'S HERO (Guiraudie, Fr)
NORTHERN SKIES OVER EMPTY SPACE (Abella, Mex)
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (Kohn, US)
THE NOVELIST'S FILM (Hong, Kor)
NUCLEAR FAMILY (Wilkerson/Wilkerson, US)
OINK (Halberstad, Ned)
ONE YEAR, ONE NIGHT (Lacuesta, Sp)
THE OUTFIT (Moore, US)
THE PASSENGERS OF THE NIGHT (Hers, Fr)
PETER VON KANT (Ozon, Fr)
A PIECE OF SKY (Koch, Swi)
QUEENS OF THE QING DYNASTY (McKenzie, Can)
THE QUIET GIRL (Bairead, Ire)
RABIYE KURNAZ VS GEORGE W BUSH (Dresen, Ger)
THE REALM OF GOD (Sainte-Luce, Mex)
RETURN TO DUST (Li, Chn)
REWIND & PLAY (Gomis, Fr)
RIMINI (Seidl, Aut)
ROBE OF GEMS (Gallardo, Mex)
ROOKIES (Demaiziere/Teurlai, Fr)
SCALA (Thitanat, Tha)
SCHEME (Sharipov, Kaz)
SEE YOU FRIDAY, ROBINSON (Farahani, Fr)
SHABU (Raphaela, Ned)
SHALL I COMPARE YOU TO A SUMMER'S DAY? (Hassan, Egy)
THE SILENT FOREST (Volm, Ger)
SMALL, SLOW BUT STEADY (Miyake, Jpn)
SOMEWHERE OVER THE CHEMTRAILS (Rybansky, Cz)
SONNE (Ayub, Aut)
SORRY COMRADE (Bruckner, Ger)
STAY AWAKE (Sisley, US)
STRIKING LAND (Domingues, Por)
SUBLIME (Biasin, Arg)
SUPER NATURAL (Jacome, Por)
SWING RIDE (Bellosi, It)
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER (Pinske, Ger)
TAURUS (Sutton, US)
THAT KIND OF SUMMER (Cote, Can)
THIS HOUSE (Charles, Can)
THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE (Dominik, UK)
THREE TIDY TIGERS TIED A TIE TIGHTER (Vinagre, Br)
UNA FEMMINA: THE CODE OF SILENCE (Costabile, It)
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Benning, US)
UNREST (Schaublin, Swi)
UNTIL TOMORROW (Asgari, Irn)
THE VETERAN (Rodriguez, Chl)
WATERS OF PASTAZA (Alves, Por)
WE HAVEN'T LOST OUR WAY (Sasnal/Sasnal, Pol)
WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD (Sinelnikova, Ger)
WE, STUDENTS! (Fariala, CAR)
WORKING CLASS HEROES (Pusic, Ser)

* review coming


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