Berlin International Film Festival Totally Explained

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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With 230,000 tickets sold and over 430,000 admissions it's considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films competing for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick.
The European Film Market (EFM), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, filmbuyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The Berlinale Talent Campus, a week long series of lectures and workshops, gathers young filmmakers from around the globe. It partners with the festival itself and is considered to be a forum for upcoming artists.
The festival, the EFM and other satellite events are attended by more than 20,000 professionals from over 120 countries. Around 4200 journalists are responsible for the media exposure in more than 100 countries. At high-profile feature film premieres, movie stars and celebrities are present at the red carpet. The Berlinale has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention. The 59th Berlin International Film Festival will be held 05 to 15 February 2009.

Awards

Golden Bear

Best Motion Picture
Lifetime Achievement ("Honorary Golden Bear")

Silver Bear

Jury Grand Prix

Best Director

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best screenplay

Best film music

Extraordinary achievement by a single artist

Grand Prize of the Jury (Short film award) Others

Panorama Publikumspreis, the Audience Award

Berlinale Camera, a special award for services to the Festival

A Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the 14plus Competition

Teddy Award for films with LGBT topics

Golden Bear winners

Year	Film	Director	Country of origin
1952	Hon dansade en sommar	Arne Mattsson	Sweden
1953	The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France/Italy
1954	Hobson's Choice	David Lean	United Kingdom
1955	Die Ratten	Robert Siodmak	Federal Republic of Germany
1956	Invitation to the Dance	Gene Kelly	United States
1957	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	United States
1958	Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
1959	Les Cousins	Claude Chabrol	France
1960	El Lazarillo de Tormes	César Ardavin	Spain
1961	La notte	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy/France
1962	A Kind of Loving	John Schlesinger	United Kingdom
1963	Il Diavolo	Gian Luigi Polidoro	Italy
1964	Susuz Yaz	Ismail Metin Karabey	Turkey
1965	Alphaville	Jean-Luc Godard	France/Italy
1966	Cul-de-Sac	Roman Polanski	United Kingdom
1967	Le départ	Jerzy Skolimowski	Belgium
1968	Ole dole doff	Jan Troell	Sweden
1969	Rani Radovi	Želimir Žilnik	Yugoslavia
1970	N/A	N/A	N/A
1971	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Vittorio De Sica	Italy/W. Germany
1972	The Canterbury Tales	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy
1973	Distant Thunder	Satyajit Ray	India
1974	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Ted Kotcheff	Canada
1975	Adoption	Márta Mészáros	Hungary
1976	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson	Robert Altman	United States
1977	The Ascent	Larisa Shepitko	Soviet Union
1978	Las Truchas	José Luis García Sánchez	Spain
	Ascensor	Tomas Munoz	Spain
	La Palabras de Max	Emilio Martínez Lázaro	Spain
1979	David	Peter Lilienthal	West Germany
1980	Heartland	Richard Pearce	United States
1980	Palermo or Wolfsburg	Werner Schroeter	West Germany
1981	Deprisa, Deprisa	Carlos Saura	Spain (with France)
1982	Veronika Voss	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	West Germany
1983	Ascendancy	Edward Bennett	United Kingdom
1983	The Beehive	Mario Camus	Spain
1984	Love Streams	John Cassavetes	United States
1985	Die Frau und der Fremde	Rainer Simon	East Germany
1985	Wetherby	David Hare	United Kingdom
1986	Stammheim	Reinhard Hauff	West Germany
1987	The Theme	Gleb Panfilov	Soviet Union
1988	Red Sorghum	Zhang Yimou	China
1989	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	United States
1990	Music Box	Costa-Gavras	United States
1990	Larks on a String	Jiri Menzel	Czechoslovakia
1991	La Casa del sorriso	Marco Ferreri	Italy
1992	Grand Canyon	Lawrence Kasdan	United States
1993	Woman Sesame Oil Maker	Xie Fei	China
1993	The Wedding Banquet	Ang Lee	Taiwan/United States
1994	In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan	UK/Ireland
1995	L'Appât	Bertrand Tavernier	France
1996	Sense and Sensibility	Ang Lee	United States/United Kingdom
1997	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Miloš Forman	United States
1998	Central Station	Walter Salles	Brazil (with France)
1999	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	United States
2000	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson	United States
2001	Intimacy	Patrice Chéreau	UK (with France, Germany, Spain)
2002	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan
2002	Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass	UK/Ireland
2003	In This World	Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
2004	Head-On	Fatih Akin	Germany/Turkey
2005	U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha	Mark Dornford-May	South Africa
2006	Grbavica	Jasmila Žbanić	Bosnia and Herzegovina (with Austria, Germany, Croatia)
2007	Tuya's Marriage	Wang Quan'an	China
2008	Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad)	José Padilha	Brazil

Berlinale Talent Campus

Commencing in 2003, the Berlinale has partnered with the Berlinale Talent Campus, which is a winter school for "up and coming filmmakers" that takes place at the same time as the Festival itself. The Talent Campus accepts about 350 applicants each year; the attendees come from around the world, and represent all of the filmmaking professions.
The proceedings include presentations and workshops by distinguished experts, who have included Park Chan-wook, Frances McDormand, Stephen Frears, Dennis Hopper, Jia Zhangke, Walter Murch, Anthony Minghella, Charlotte Rampling, Walter Salles, Ridley Scott, Raoul Peck, Tom Tykwer, and Wim Wenders. Many of these presentations and lectures are archived, both as videorecordings and transcripts, on the Talent Campus' website.

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