As loyal readers have noticed I haven't post much during current award season and the reason-why is because have to take care of an ill very close family member. Still, have tried to retweet most of the relevant film related news that havebeen reading. As Berlinale is one of the three main film festivals in the world and consequently, great films undoubtedly will win awards to call audience attention -and mine- thus most will become must-be-seen in the following year. So, will do the very-long award winners post.
Worth mention that found festival to be slow, not many films got audiences and critics positive attention -nor mine-; so, perhaps juries and their prizes will generate more buzz around award winning films. Let's see what happens in a few hours, when the closing ceremony will take place.
Post will be in Progress until after the closing ceremony tonight.
The Winners List
Golden Bear for Best Film:
Silver Bear Jury Grand Prize:
Silver Bear Jury Prize:
Special Mention:
Silver Bear for Best Director:
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay:
Silver Bear for Outstanding Contribution:
Best First Feature Award:
Documentary Award:
Special Mention:
Encounters
Best Film:
Special Jury Award:
Best Director:
Short Films
Golden Bear:
Silver Bear:
Special Mention:
Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards:
Generation
Generation Kplus
Prizes of Children's Jury
Crystal Bear for Best Film: Sweet As, Jub Clerc. Australia
Special Mention: Zeevonk (Sea Sparkle), Domien Huyghe, Belgium and Netherlands
Cristal Bear for Best Short Film: Closing Dynasty, Lloyd Lee Choi, USA
Special Mention: Deniska umřela (Dede Is Dead). Philippe Kastner, Czech Republic
Prizes of International Jury Generation Kplus
Grand Prix for Best Film : Mimi (She - Hero), Mira Farnay, Slovakia
Special Mention: L’Amour du monde (Longing for the World), Jenna Hasse, Switzerland
Special Prize for Best Short Film: Im Stillen erwachen (Waking Up in Silence), Germany and Ukraine
Special Mention: Xiaohui he ta de niu (Xiaohui and His Cows), Xinying Lao, China
Generation 14Plus
Prizes of Youth Jury
Crystal bear for Best Film: Adolfo, Sofía Auza, USA and Mexico
Special Mention: And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine, Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck, Sweden and Denmark (documentary)
Cristal Bear for Best Short Film: Man khod, man ham miraghsam (And Me, I'm Dancing Too), Mohammad Valizadegan, Iran, Germany and Czechia
Special Mention: Szemem sarka (From the Corner of My Eyes), Domonkos Erhardt, Hungary
Prizes of International Jury Generation 14Plus
Grand Prix for Best Film: Hummingbirds, Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras, USA
Special Mention: Mutt, Vuk Lungulov-Klotz, USA
Special Prize for Best Short Film: Infantaria (Infantry), Laís Santos Araújo, Brazil
Special Mention: Incroci, Francesca de Fusco, USA
Perspektive Deutches Kino
Compass-Perspective-Award: Sieben Winter in Teheran (Seven Winters in Tehran), Steffi Niederzoli, Germany and France (documentary)
Honorable Mention: El Secuestro de la Novia (The Kidnapping of the Bride), Sophia Mocorrea, Germany
TV Series
Berlinale Series Award: The Good Mothers, Julian Jarrold, Elisa Amoruso, UK and Italy
Special Mention: Arkitekten (The Architect), Kerren Lumer-Klabbers, Norway
Collateral Awards - Prized from Independent Juries
FIPRESCI Awards
Competition: The Survival of Kindness, Rolf de Heer, Australia
Encounters: Here, Bas Devos, Belgium
Panorama: Stille Liv (The Quiet Migration), Malene Choi, Denmark
Forum: Între revoluții (Between Revolutions), Vlad Petri, Romania, Croatia, Iran
Ecumenical Jury Awards
Competition: Tótem, Lila Avilés, Mexico, Denmark and France
Special Mention: Sur l’Adamant (On the Adamant), Nicolas Philibert, France and Japan (documentary)
Panorama: Sages-femmes (Midwives), Léa Fehner, France
Forum: Jaii keh khoda nist (Where God Is Not), Mehran Tamadon, France and Switzerland (documentary)
AG Kino Gilde - Cinema Vision 14Plus: And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine, Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck, Sweden and Denmark (documentary)
Amnesty International Film Award:Al Murhaqoon (The Burdened), Amr Gamal, Yemen, Sudan and Saudi Arabia
Caligari Fillm Prize: De Facto, Selma Doborac, Austria and Germany
Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai (C.I.C.A.E.)
Panorama: Das Lehrerzimmer (The Teacher's Lounge), İlker Çatak, Germany
Forum: El Rostro de la Medusa (The Face of Jellyfish), Melisa Liebenthal, Argentina
Label Europa Cinemas: Das Lehrerzimmer (The Teacher's Lounge), İlker Çatak, Germany
Guild Film Prize: 20,000 Especies de Abejas (20,000 Species of Bees), Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, Spain
Heiner Carow Prize: Knochen und Namen (Bones and Names), Fabian Stumm, Germany
Peace Film Prize: Sieben Winter in Teheran (Seven Winters in Tehran), Steffi Niederzoli, Germany and France (documentary)
Teddy Awards
Best Film: All The Colors in the World are Between Black and White, Babatunde Apalowe, Nigeria
Jury Award: Silver Haze, Sacha Polak, Netherlands and UK
Best Documentary: Orlando, Ma Biographie Politique (Orlando, My Political Biography), Paul B. Preciado, France
Best Short Film: Marungka Tjalat Junu (Dipped in Black), Matthew Thorne and Derik Lynch, Australia
Special Teddy to Andriy Khalpakhchi and Bohdan Zhuk
Development Awards
ArteKino International Award: Peeled Skin, Leonie Krippendorff, Germany
Euroimages Co-Production Development Award: Iván y Hadoum (Ivan and Hadoum), Ian de la Rosa, Spain
Special Award: The Blindsight, Ruslan Batytskyi, Ukraine
Kompagnon-Fellowship
My Beloved Man's Female Body, Anna Melikova, Germany
Paraphrase on the Finding of a Gove, Mareike Wegener,
VFF Talent Highlight Award: Dios y la Cumbia del Diablo (God and the Devil's Cumbia), Carlos Lenin, Mexico
Talents Footprints
Carlos Ormeño Palma
Miguel Ángel Sánchez
Phillip Leteka
Audience Awards
Panorama Audience Awards
Prize winner Fiction Film 2023
1st Place: Sira, Apolline Traoré, Burkina Faso, France, Germany and Senegal
2nd Place: Al Murhaqoon (The Burdened), Amr Gamal, Yemen, Sudan and Saudi Arabia
3rd Place: Sages-femmes (Midwives), Léa Fehner, France
Prize Winner Documentary Film 2023
1st Place: Kokomo City, D. Smith, USA
2nd Place: La Memoria Infinita (The Eternal Memory,) Maite Alberdi, Chile
3rd Place: Au cimetière de la pelliculle (The Cemetery of Cinema), Thierno Souleymane Diallo, France, Senegal, Guinea and Saudi Arabia
Readers' Juries
Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury Award: 20,000 Especies de Abejas (20,000 Species of Bees), Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, Spain
Tagesspiegel Readers' Jury Award: Orlando, Ma Biographie Politique (Orlando, My Political Biography), Paul B. Preciado, France
Honorary Golden Bear: Steven Spielberg
Berlinale Camera: Caroline Champetier, cinematographer