Saturday, February 14, 2015

65th Berlinale International Film Festival


















One of the top three festivals in the World (the others being Cannes and Venice) is more serious and political than the others. However due to its time slot, it doesn't get the big films that Cannes gets. Instead Berlin gets to pick from big Hollywood films that gets released late in the year for Award considerations. It's the only one of the three festivals open to the public.

OFFICIAL COMPETITION
13 Minutes, Oliver Hirschbiegel OC
45 Years, Andrew Haigh 
BEST ACTOR & ACTRESS
Aferim!, Radu Jude 
BEST DIRECTOR
As We Were Dreaming, Andreas Dresen
Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories, Di Phan Dang
Body, Malgorzata Szumowska 
BEST DIRECTOR
Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh OC
El Club, Pablo Larraín 
SILVER BEAR 
Chasuke’s Journey, Sabu
Diary of a Chambermaid, Benoit Jacquot
Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Peter Greenaway
Every Thing Will Be Fine, Wim Wenders OC
Gone with the Bullets, Wen Jiang
Ixcanul, Jayro Bustamante 
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE
Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick
Mr. Holmes, Bill Condon OC
Nobody Wants the Night, Isabel Coixet
The Pearl Button, Patricio Guzmán BEST SCRIPT 
Queen of the Desert, Werner Herzog
Sworn Virgin, Laura Bispuri
Taxi, Jafar Panahi 
GOLDEN BEAR 
Under Electric Clouds, Alexey German
Victoria, Sebastian Schipper

BERLINALE SPECIAL
Love & Mercy, Bill Pohlad
Selma, Ava DuVernay
Woman in Gold, Simon Curtis
Life, Anton Corbjin
Virgin Mountain, Dagur Kári
Breathe Umphefumlo, Mark Dornford-May
The Misplaced World, Margarethe von Trotta
The Seventh Fire, Jack Pettibone Riccobonoe
Greenery Will Bloom Again, Ermanno Olmi


PANORAMA
600 Miles (Gabriel Ripstein, Mexico) BEST FIRST FILM
The Sea Is Behind (Hicham Lasri, Morocco)
Love, Theft and Other Entanglements (Muayad Alayan, Palestine)
Angelica (Mitchell Lichtenstein, USA)
Absence (Chico Teixeira, Brazil / Chile)
Bizarre (Étienne Faure, France)
Why me? (Tudor Giurgiu, Romania / Bulgaria / Hungary)
The Fire (Juan Schnitman, Argentina)
Tough Love (Rosa von Praunheim, Germany)
Every Time (Josh Kim, Thailand / USA)
Butterfly (Marco Berger, Argentina)
Nasty Baby (USA By Sebastián Silva)
Necktie Youth (Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, South Africa)
The Blue Hour (Anucha Boonyawatana, Thailand)
Out of My Hand (Takeshi Fukunaga, USA)
A Minor Leap Down (Hamed Rajabi, Iran)
Petting Zoo (Micah Magee, Germany / USA)
Pioneer Heroes (Natalia Kudryashova, Russian Federation)
The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert, Brazil)
The Summer of Sangailé (Alanté Kavaïté, Lithuania)
Blue Blood (Lirio Ferreira, Brazil)
Thanatos, Drunk (Chang Tso-Chi, Taiwan)
54: The Director's Cut (Mark Christopher, USA)
Chorus (François Delisle, Canada)
The Last Summer of the Rich (Peter Kern, Austria)
Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents (Stina Werenfels, Switzerland)
Dyke Hard (Bitte Andersson, Sweden)
Ode to My Father (JK Youn, Republic of Korea)
I Am Michael (Justin Kelly, USA)
Paradise in Service (Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Taiwan)
Murder in Pacot (Raoul Peck, France / Haiti / Norway)
Out of Nature (Ole Giæver, Marte Vold, Norway)
Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley, USA)
Stories of Our Lives (Jim Chuchu, Kenya)

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For more info: www.berlinale.de 

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