Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (German: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), popularly known as Berlinale, is a prestigious film festival international cinema held in the city of Berlin (Germany). It was founded in West Berlin in 1951 and has been held annually in February since 1978. It is considered one of the "Big Three" film festivals along with Venice (1932) and Cannes (1946).
The prize figure consists of a Bear, and the most valuable is the one forged in gold. The Golden Bear and the Silver Bears for Best Director and Best Performance, both male and female, are awarded during February at the Berlinale Palast. The Honorary Golden Bear is also awarded, for a lifetime as a director, actor or actress.
With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions each year, it has the largest public attendance of any annual film festival. In addition, up to 400 films are shown in various sections of film genres in each edition. The Berlin Festival is a category "A" accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) together with the Venice and Cannes festivals.
History
The history of this festival begins thanks to the initiative of Oscar Martay when, on October 9, 1950, he decided to gather a committee to create an international film festival in Berlin. This committee was made up, in addition to Martay and his friend George Turner, by two representatives of the administration of the Berlin Senate, four representatives of the German film industry and a journalist. This would give rise, in 1951, to the first ceremony of the festival under the name of "Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin", held from June 6 to 17, with the awards ceremony being on the 18th.
On June 6, the festival opens with the film Rebecca, by Alfred Hitchcock, the star of the film Joan Fontaine being invited to the event. Despite having spent six years from the end of World War II, part of Berlin is still in ruins, its reconstruction had already begun but it was still far from reactivating the great cultural activity, as occurred in the 1920s, but despite they all wanted to monopolize the attention on the festival with the reason that it was an example of a “showcase of the free world” in the divided city.
The first year the awards will be chosen by a jury of German experts, but under pressure from the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) it was decided that the following year's awards would be chosen by the public, since only category “A” festivals may have a jury of experts. In 1956, finally, the FIAPF will grant category "A" to the Berlin festival, so that from that year it could have the right to award the prizes through an international jury.
In recent years, the proximity of the festival dates to the Oscar awards ceremony has generated inconvenience. For this reason, the possibility of holding the festival in May shortly after the Sundance Film Festival is being contemplated.
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Golden Bear Winners
| Gold Bear Winners | |||
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| Year | Movie | Director | Country |
| 1951 | Four in a jeep | Leopold Lindtberg | Switzerland Switzerland
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| ...Sans laisser d'adresse | Jean-Paul Le Chanois | .svg){kind=small} France
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| In Beaver Valley | James Algar | .svg){kind=small} United States
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| Justice accomplished | André Cayatte | France
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| Cinderella | Wilfred Jackson | United States
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| 1952 | One summer of happiness | Arne Mattsson | Sweden Sweden
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| 1953 | The salary of fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France / Italy Italy
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| 1954 | The Despota | David Lean | United Kingdom.svg){kind=small} United Kingdom
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| 1955 | The rats | Robert Siodmak | Germany Germany
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| 1956 | Invitation To The Dance | Gene Kelly | United States
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| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | United States
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| 1958 | Wild strawberries | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden Sweden
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| 1959 | Les Cousins | Claude Chabrol | France
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| 1960 | The Lazarillo of Tormes | César Fernández Ardavín | .svg){kind=small} Spain
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| 1961 | Night | Michelangelo Antonioni | ItalyItaly
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| 1962 | A Kind of Loving | John Schlesinger | United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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| 1963 | Il Diavolo | Gian Luigi Polidoro | ItalyItaly
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| 1964 | Susuz Yaz | Metin Erksan | Turkey Turkey
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| 1965 | Alphaville | Jean-Luc Godard | France / ItalyItaly
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| 1966 | Cul-de-Sac | Roman Polanski | United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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| 1967 | Give it up. | Jerzy Skolimowski | Belgium Belgium
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| 1968 | Ole dole doff | Jan Troell | Sweden Sweden
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| 1969 | Rani Radovi | Želimir Žilnik | .svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
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| 1970 | |||
| 1971 | The garden of the Finzi-Contini | Sica Vittorio | ItalyItaly / GermanyGermany
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| 1972 | The stories of Canterbury | Pier Paolo Pasolini | ItalyItaly
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| 1973 | Distant Thunder | Satyajit Ray |  India
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| 1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada Canada
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| 1975 | Adoption | Márta Mészáros | Hungary Hungary
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| 1976 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians | Robert Altman |  United States
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| 1977 | Ascension | Larisa Shepitko |  Soviet Union
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| 1978 | The trouts | José Luis García Sánchez | .svg){kind=small} Spain
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| Elevator | Tomas Muñoz | Spain
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| Max's words | Emilio Martínez-Lázaro | Spain
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| 1979 | David | Peter Lilienthal | GermanyGermany
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| 1980 | Heartland | Richard Pearce | United States
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| Palermo or Wolfsburg | Werner Schroeter | GermanyGermany
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| 1981 | Hurry, hurry | Carlos Saura | Spain Spain
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| 1982 | Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | GermanyGermany
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| 1983 | Ascendancy | Edward Bennett | United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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| The hive | Mario Camus | SpainSpain
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| 1984 | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | United States
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| 1985 | Die Frau und der Fremde | Rainer Simon | GermanyGermany
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| Wetherby | David Hare | United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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| 1986 | Stammheim | Reinhard Hauff | GermanyGermany
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| 1987 | Item | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union
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| 1988 | Red slang | Zhang Yimou | China China
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| 1989 | Rain Man | Barry Levinson | United States
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| 1990 | Music Box | Costa-Gavras | United States
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| Alondras in the wire | Jiří Menzel | Czech Republic Czech Republic
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| 1991 | The Sorrow House | Marco Ferreri | ItalyItaly
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| 1992 | Grand Canyon | Lawrence Kasdan | United States
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| 1993 | Woman Sesame Oil Maker | Xie Fei | ChinaChina
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| The wedding banquet | Lee |  Republic of China / United States
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| 1994 | In the name of the father | Jim Sheridan | United KingdomUnited Kingdom /  Ireland
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| 1995 | The carnace | Bertrand Tavernier | France
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| 1996 | Feeling and sensitivity | Lee | United States / United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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| 1997 | Larry Flynt's scandal | Miloš Forman | United States
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| 1998 | Central do Brasil | Walter Salles | Brazil Brazil
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| 1999 | The thin red line | Terrence Malick | United States
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| The Tic Code | Gary Winick | United States
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| 2000 | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States
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| 2001 | Intimacy | Patrice Chéreau | United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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| 2002 | The Journey of Chihiro | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan Japan
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| Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | United KingdomUnited Kingdom / Ireland
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| 2003 | In This World | Michael Winterbottom | United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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| 2004 | Against the wall | Fatih Akın | GermanyGermany / TurkeyTurkey
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| 2005 | U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha | Marc Dornford-May |  South Africa
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| 2006 | Grbavica | Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| 2007 | Tuya's wedding | Wang Quan'an | ChinaChina
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| 2008 | Elite troops | José Padilha | BrazilBrazil
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| 2009 | Scared tit | Claudia Llosa | Peru Peru
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| 2010 | Bal (Miel) | Semih Kaplanoğlu | TurkeyTurkey
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| 2011 | Nader and Simin, a separation | Asghar Farhadi | Iran Iran
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| 2012 | Caesar must die | Paolo Taviani - Vittorio Taviani | ItalyItaly
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| 2013 | Child's Pose (Poziția copilului) | Călin Peter Netzer | Romania Romania
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| 2014 | Bai ri yan huo | Yi'nan Diao | ChinaChina
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| 2015 | Taxi | Jafar Panahi | IranIran
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| 2016 | Fire in the sea | Gianfranco Rosi | ItalyItaly
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| 2017 | In body and soul | Ildikó Enyedi | HungaryHungary
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| 2018 | Don't touch me (Nu mă atinge-mă) | Adina Pintilie | Romania Romania
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| 2019 | Synonymes | Nadav Lapid | France
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| 2020 | The life of others | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran
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| 2021 | Babardeala cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | Radu Jude |  Romania
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| 2022 | Alcarràs | Carla Simon |  Spain
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| 2023 | Sur l'Adamant | Nicolas Philibert | France
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