Berlin International Film Festival 2002
The 52nd Berlin International Film Festival took place from 6 February until 16th February 2002 instead.
It was the first Berlinale that was directed by the new director Dieter Kosslick . As a former director of the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation , he attaches particular importance to promoting young German film and introduces the “Perspective German Cinema” section as a new section.
Competition section
In the program of the official competition this year, the following films were judged by the international jury:
* = Opening film
International jury
The president of the jury in 2002 was the Indian director Mira Nair . Under her leadership, the following jury members selected the winners: Lucrecia Martel (Argentina), Claudie Ossard (France), Oskar Roehler (Germany), Kenneth Turan (USA), Raoul Peck (Haiti), Nicoletta Braschi (Italy), Declan Quinn (USA) ) and Renata Litvinowa (Russia).
Award winners
- Golden Bear : This year two Golden Bears were awarded: Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass, and with Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki, an animated film received this prestigious award for the first time in the history of the Berlinale .
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Silver bears in the following categories:
- Grand Jury Prize: Andreas Dresen for Half Staircase
- Best director: Otar Iosseliani for Monday morning
- Best Actress: Halle Berry for Monster's Ball
- Best Actor: Jacques Gamblin for Laissez-Passer
- Best score: Antoine Duhamel for Laissez-Passer
- For an extraordinary artistic achievement: the acting ensemble of 8 women . Catherine Deneuve , Isabelle Huppert , Emmanuelle Béart , Fanny Ardant , Virginie Ledoyen , Danielle Darrieux , Firmine Richard and Ludivine Sagnier
Panorama section
The Panorama Audience Award was given this year's documentary Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary of André Heller . The Australian film Walking on Water by Tony Ayres received the Teddy Award . The Ecumenical Jury Prize went to the film L'Ange de Goudron by Denis Chouinard .
Honorary Golden Bear
This year, two artists were honored for their life's work: the Italian actress Claudia Cardinale and the American director Robert Altman .
Children's film festival
- Glass bear of the children's jury for the Norwegian film Glasskår by Lars Berg .
Other award winners
- Caligari Film Award for A Lucky Day (Un día de suerte) - Director: Sandra Gugliotta
- Wolfgang Staudte Prize for Wesh, wesh - what's going on here? (Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe?) - Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Retrospective
This year's retrospective, entitled European 60s - Revolt, Fantasy & Utopia , showed films by filmmakers from Eastern and Western Europe who shaped and influenced the film scene in Europe in the 1960s. The following films were shown among others:
- Farewell to yesterday from Alexander Kluge
- Andrej Rublev by Andrej Tarkowski
- Bitter Honey by Tony Richardson
- Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Eleven in the morning by Jean-Luc Godard
- Beloved crank of John Schlesinger
- If ... by Lindsay Anderson
- The Hunt by Carlos Saura
- Karla von Herrmann Zschoche
- Love 1962 by Michelangelo Antonioni
- The girl from Márta Mészáros
- The Knife in the Water by Roman Polański
- The Passenger by Andrzej Munk
- Persona by Ingmar Bergman
- Red Sun by Rudolf Thome
- The collector of Éric Rohmer
- Trail of the stones by Frank Beyer
- The start of Jerzy Skolimowski
- Silence and Scream by Miklós Jancsó
- Tattoo by Johannes Schaaf
- Daisies by Věra Chytilová
- The innocent magicians by Andrzej Wajda
- Viva Maria! by Louis Malle
- Down to business, honey from May Spils