Berlin International Film Festival 1995

The 45th Berlin International Film Festival took place from February 9th to 20th February 1995 instead.

The Berlinale celebrated a triple anniversary this year : 45 years of the Berlinale, 25 years of the “International Forum of Young Films” and 100 years of film. In addition, the festival was marked by the farewell of Manfred Salzgeber and Wolf Donner, who had died the year before . Salzgeber was the founder of the Panorama section. His favorite film Monsieur Verdoux by Charlie Chaplin was shown in his honor . Wolf Donner directed the Berlinale from 1977 to 1979. He was commemorated with a rerun of the film Germany in autumn .

Competition section

In the official competition this year, the following films were judged by the international jury:

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
The addiction	Abel Ferrara	United States	Lili Taylor , Christopher Walken , Annabella Sciorra
Before Sunrise	Richard Linklater	USA , Austria , Switzerland	Ethan Hawke , Julie Delpy
Butterfly Kiss	Michael Winterbottom	Great Britain	Amanda Plummer
El callejón de los milagros (Eng .: Midq Alley)	Jorge Fons	Mexico	Salma Hayek
Colpo di luna	Alberto Simone	Italy , Netherlands , France	Tchéky Karyo , Nino Manfredi
Gui do	Raymond Leung	Hong Kong
Hades	Herbert Achternbusch	Germany	Herbert Achternbusch
Hong fen	Li Shaohong	PR China , Hong Kong
Hong meigui, bai meigui	Stanley Kwan	Hong Kong , Taiwan	Joan Chen
One hundred and one nights	Agnes Varda	France , Great Britain	Michel Piccoli , Marcello Mastroianni
The decoy	Bertrand Tavernier	France	Marie Gillain
Nobody's Fool - irresistible in the long run	Robert Benton	United States	Paul Newman , Jessica Tandy , Bruce Willis , Melanie Griffith
Pjessa dlja passaschira	Vadim Abdrashitov	Russia
El Rey del Rio	Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón	Spain	Carmen Maura
Sh'Chur	Shmuel Hasfari	Israel	Gila Almagor
Smoke	Wayne Wang	United States	Harvey Keitel , William Hurt , Forest Whitaker
Summer snow	Ann Hui	Hong Kong
A summer full of secrets	Marius Holst	Norway
Silent Scream	Bruce Beresford	United States	Richard Dreyfuss , Linda Hamilton , John Lithgow
Taebek sanmaek	In the Kwon-taek	South Korea
Transatlantis	Christian Wagner	Germany	Daniel Olbrychski , Jörg Hube
Un bruit qui rend fou	Alain Robbe-Grillet , Dimitri de Clercq	France , Belgium , Switzerland	Fred Ward , Arielle Dombasle
When the night starts	Patricia Rozema	Canada	Pascale Bussières , Rachael Crawford , Henry Czerny

International jury

The President of this year's Berlinale was the Israeli Lia Van Leer. Under her leadership, the following jury members selected the winners: Georgi Djulgerov , Gaowa Siqin , Alfred Hirschmeier , Christiane Hörbiger , Wadim Jussow , Michael Kutza , Pilar Miró , Tsai Ming-liang .

Award winners

Golden Bear : French director Bertrand Tavernier won the Golden Bear for Der Decoy this year .
Silver bears were awarded in the following categories:
- Best director: Richard Linklater
- Best actress: Josephine Siao in summer snow
- Best Actor: Paul Newman in Nobody's Fool - Irresistible in the long run
- For special artistic achievements: the entire team from Hong fen and Wadim Abdraschitow for Pjessa dlja passaschira
- Special Jury Prize: Wayne Wang and Harvey Keitel for Smoke

Honorary Golden Bear

The French actor Alain Delon received the Honorary Golden Bear for his life's work this year .

Further prices

Teddy Award (Documentary): Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter by Deborah Hoffman
Teddy Award (feature film): Dupe od mramora by Želimir Žilnik , The Last Supper by Cynthia Roberts , The Priest by Antonia Bird
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Competition): summer snow of Ann Hui
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Forum): Moving Mountains by Michael Apted and Russian Symphony by Konstantin Lopuschanski
The Blue Angel : A summer full of secrets from Marius Holst
Caligari Film Prize (Forum): Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter by Deborah Hoffman and Madagascar by Fernando Pérez
Wolfgang Staudte Prize : Mina Shum for Double Happiness