Berlin International Film Festival 2012
The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) took place from February 9th to 19th, 2012. Together with Cannes and Venice, one of the most important film festivals in the world, it was under the direction of Dieter Kosslick for the eleventh time . The Italian contribution Caesar must die (original title: Cesare deve morire ) by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani was awarded the Golden Bear , the main prize of the film festival .
In the official sections 395 films were shown in a total of 966 screenings, ten films more than in the previous year. 87 titles were produced or co-produced by Germany. The films were shown in 22 cinemas and venues spread across Berlin - the main venue was, as in previous years, the Theater am Potsdamer Platz (“Berlinale Palast”), where, among other things, all of the competition films were premiered. Since the productions had not yet received an age rating from the Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK), all screenings - with the exception of the Generation section - were permitted from the age of 18. 750 other films were shown at the European Film Market (EFM). As in the previous year, the festival was financed at 19.5 million euros, 6.5 million of which came from federal funds.
The film festival opened with Benoît Jacquot's contesting historical film Les adieux à la reine . Dieter Kosslick, whose contract as head of the Berlinale was extended in advance, named migration and right-wing radicalism as the thematic priorities for the Berlinale 2012. In addition, the solidarity campaigns for Iranian filmmakers should be continued. After the works of Jafar Panahi, who was sentenced to prison, had been shown in several sections of the film festival in the previous year , Panahi, his co-director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Mohammad Rasulof, among others, were invited to Berlin as guests of honor in 2012 . However, they did not accept the invitation. The filmmakers would no longer have been in prison, but according to Kosslick some of them would not have been allowed to leave the country.
The German comedian and actress Anke Engelke was hired to host the opening and closing gala . Engelke had already been a Berlinale presenter from 2003 to 2005 and from 2010 to 2011.
The American actress Meryl Streep , who was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for her life's work on February 14, 2012 as part of the German premiere of her film Die Eiserne Lady, had already been selected as the winner . Streep, the actress most frequently nominated for an Oscar , had already won the Berlinale Cinematography in 1999 and the Silver Bear in 2003 for best actress . In addition, the Babelsberg film studio , the German filmmaker Haro Senft and the American inventor Ray Dolby were honored with the Berlinale camera.
After repeated criticism of the competition program, Kosslick had ruled out a rescheduling of the Berlinale in advance due to cooperation with the film festivals of Rotterdam and Sundance , which are held before the Berlinale. If postponed into autumn, the festival would rival the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals . In the run-up to the Berlinale, the American film director Martin Scorsese had expressed an interest in opening the film festival with his film Hugo Cabret, which premiered in October 2011 . However, since the fantasy film would have had regular theatrical release in the United States and Europe at the start of the film festival, Hugo Cabret was not included in the program.
Official Sections
International competition
International jury
Mike Leigh was presented as the jury president of the Berlinale 2012 in early December 2011 . The British film, television and theater director who loves to improvise is one of the most important representatives of New British Cinema alongside Ken Loach and Stephen Frears and has so far been nominated for an Oscar seven times in his career . Leigh's artistic concern is according to his own statements, "to make extraordinary films about ordinary life" . He often tells humorous stories about the lower social class. In 1984 his feature film Meantime was shown in the Forum section of the Berlinale , his short film The Short and Curlies (1988) and his feature film Life is Sweet (1991) were shown in the Panorama section. In 2008 Leigh competed for the Golden Bear for the first time with Happy-Go-Lucky .
The jury president was supported by seven jury members, one more than in the previous year. Most of them were filmmakers:
- Anton Corbijn - Dutch photographer and film director
- Asghar Farhadi - Iranian film director (2011 Golden Bear winner)
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - French actress and singer
- Jake Gyllenhaal - American actor
- François Ozon - French film director (four-time participant in the competition)
- Boualem Sansal - Algerian writer
- Barbara Sukowa - German actress and singer
Movies
German and European contributions
Invited again to the competition in 2012 * = former winner of the Golden Bear |
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Director | Invitations | |
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Hans-Christian Schmid | 4th | |
Christian Petzold , Wang Quan'an * | 3 | |
Matthias Glasner | 2 |
The official program was presented by Dieter Kosslick on January 31, 2012 in Berlin, after the first competition entries had already been announced on December 19, 2011. Fiction films with a running time of 70 minutes or more that had been completed within twelve months before the start of the festival were permitted. 18 productions from 21 countries competed for the Golden Bear, the main prize of the festival. All of the films were world premieres. As in previous years, most of the contributions came from Europe (12), followed by Asia (3), North America (2) and Africa (1). Films from Oceania were not included. The directors of 14 films ( Nikolaj Arcel , Antonio Chavarrías , Edwin , Bence Fliegauf , Miguel Gomes , Alain Gomis , Benoît Jacquot , Ursula Meier , Brillante Mendoza , Kim Nguyen , Spiros Stathoulopoulos , Paolo and Vittorio Taviani , Billy Bob Thornton and Frédéric Videau ) received their first invitation to the competition, while Wang Quan'an , a former Golden Bear winner, was also represented for the third time. The Chinese had won the main prize in 2007 for Tuya's wedding and filmed the historical novel of the same name by Chen Zhongshi , Bai lu yuan , which was on the index for a long time because of explicit sex scenes. The over three-hour drama takes place at the end of the Chinese Empire and focuses on the dispute between two extended families in Shaanxi province and a young woman who gets caught between the fronts.
With three contributions, German filmmakers were represented most frequently. These were exclusively auteur filmmakers . Hans-Christian Schmid received his fourth invitation to the competition, more often than any other director in the 2012 edition. In What remains , he tells of a German family who have to deal with the disappearance of their mother suffering from depression (played by Corinna Harfouch ) looks faced. Christian Petzold , who competed for the Golden Bear for the third time, worked for Barbara for the fifth time with the actress Nina Hoss . In the drama, which took place in the GDR in 1980, Hoss portrays a doctor who is transferred to a provincial hospital after she has unsuccessfully submitted an application to leave the country. Was represented in the competition for the second time Matthias Glasner , who in grace repeated Jürgen Vogel entrusted a role. The drama tells of a German couple (played by Vogel and Birgit Minichmayr ) who emigrate to Norway and are confronted with the question of guilt in a traffic accident.
The French-Swiss Ursula Meier was the only female film director to be represented in the competition. In L'enfant d'en haut she focuses on a twelve-year-old boy (portrayed by Kacey Mottet Klein ) who regularly goes on forays into a ski hotel in order to turn his booty - mainly ski equipment from tourists - into money. Two French directors, Benoît Jacquot and Frédéric Videau, have also received invitations. Based on the novel of the same name by Chantal Thomas (translated into German under the title Goodbye, Queen! ), Jacquot's Berlinale opening film Les adieux à la reine reports - from the perspective of the servants of Versailles - from the first days of the French Revolution . In À moi seule, Videau tells of the kidnapping of a girl (played by Agathe Bonitzer ) that was held in a windowless cellar for eight years before she managed to escape. For his film Csak a szél, Bence Fliegauf was inspired by a series of murders against Roma in Hungary and tells of a Roma family who live near a crime scene. The Italian brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani accompanied for his film Cesare deve morire six months prisoners in a high security wing of the Roman prison Rebibbia, where these samples for the Shakespeare -Stück Julius Caesar were holding.
The contributions by European directors were supplemented by the Dane Nikolaj Arcel, the Greek Spiros Stathoulopoulos, the Portuguese Miguel Gomes and the Spaniard Antonio Chavarrías. In the historical drama En kongelig affære, Arcel took on the relationship between the German doctor and educator Johann Friedrich Struensee and the Danish Queen Caroline Mathilde (played by Mads Mikkelsen and Alicia Vikander ). Stathoulopoulos' Metéora is set in the Greek monasteries of the same name in Thessaly and focuses on the love affair between a Greek monk (portrayed by Theo Alexander ) and a Russian Orthodox nun ( Tamila Koulieva ). For his film Tabu, Miguel Gomes made use of numerous allusions from film history and tells - partly in black and white images - of a dying old Portuguese woman who experienced an adventurous love story during the colonial era. Antonio Chavarrías made a psychological thriller with Dictado , which tells of a childless couple that takes care of the young daughter of a suicide.
Films from Asia
In addition to Wang Quan'an, two other directors from Asia received invitations to participate in the competition. The Philippine director Brillante Mendoza (with the 2009 Best Director Award of the Film Festival of Cannes award) is in the French-Philippine co-production Captive , an employee of a humanitarian aid organization (played by Isabelle Huppert ) in the center, together with a group of tourists on the island of Palawan is kidnapped by the Islamist militant underground organization Abu Sajaf . In Kebun binatang, the Indonesian Edwin tells of a young woman (played by Ladya Cheryl ) who is raised by animal keepers next to giraffes and elephants in Jakarta Zoo .
Contributions from North America and Africa
American actor, filmmaker and singer Billy Bob Thornton and Canadian director Kim Nguyen competed for the Golden Bear from North America. In Jayne Mansfield's Car , set in the late 1960s, Billy Bob Thornton tells of two families from the USA and Great Britain who meet after the death of their mother. With Rebelle, Nguyen filmed the story of two African child soldiers who manage to escape. Both then try to return to their village.
Aujourd'hui by the Franco-Senegalese Alain Gomis was the only contribution from an African country to the competition. In it, a Senegalese who has returned from the USA (played by the American musician and actor Saul Williams ) suspects his imminent death and begins to visit his family and friends.
List of competition films
Out of competition
In addition to the competition, the following films were shown in the competition program:
- Bel Ami - Directors: Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod (with Robert Pattinson , Uma Thurman , Kristin Scott Thomas , Christina Ricci )
- Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - Director: Stephen Daldry (with Tom Hanks , Sandra Bullock , Max von Sydow , Thomas Horn )
- Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate - Director: Tsui Hark (with Jet Li , Zhou Xun , Chen Kun , Kwai Lun Mei )
- Haywire - Director: Steven Soderbergh (with Gina Carano , Ewan McGregor , Michael Fassbender , Channing Tatum )
- Jin líng Shí San Chai ( The Flowers Of War ) - Director: Zhang Yimou (with Christian Bale , Ni Ni , Atsuro Watabe )
- Shadow Dancer - Director: James Marsh (with Clive Owen , Andrea Riseborough , Gillian Anderson )
Berlinale shorts
In the official short film competition, 27 films from 22 countries were represented, including 20 world premieres. Fiction, documentary, experimental and animated films were permitted up to a maximum duration of 30 minutes (including credits). As in the international competition, the Golden and Silver Bears are awarded by an international jury as part of the Berlinale Shorts . In 2011 this consisted of the German actress Sandra Hüller , the Palestinian-American artist Emily Jacir and the Irish filmmaker David O'Reilly , who won the main prize in the category for Please Say Something in 2009. In addition, the jury awarded the nomination for the best European short film (Prix EFA) and a grant in Berlin. The short films by the Peruvian Claudia Llosa ( Golden Bear 2009 for Eine Perle Ewigkeit ) and the German artist Christoph Schlingensief, who died in 2010, were invited . The program's curator was Maike Mia Höhne .
The episode film Magyarország 2011 ( Hungary 2011 ), which reflects the political and social situation in Hungary, was shown in a special on February 18, 2012 . In the film, among others were Márta Mészáros and Miklós Jancsó involved. Béla Tarr was invited to speak.
- Short film competition
- Ad balloon by Lee Woo-jung (Republic of Korea, 24 min)
- To the Dawn by Mariola Brillowska (Germany, 3 min)
- A girl named Yssabeau by Rosana Cuellar (Germany / Mexico, 18 min)
- Enakkum Oru Per by Suba Sivakumaran (United States / Sri Lanka, 12 min)
- Erotic Fragments No. 1,2,3 by Anucha Boonyawatana (Thailand, 7 min)
- Gurehto Rabitto by Atsushi Wada (France, 7 min)
- impossible exchange by Mahmoud Hojeij (Lebanon, 10 min)
- Karrabing! Low Tide Turning by Liza Johnson and Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Australia, 14 min)
- La Santa by Mauricio López Fernández (Chile, 14 min)
- LI.LI.TA.AL. by Akihito Izuhara (Japan, 8 min)
- Licuri Surf by Guile Martins (Brazil, 15 min)
- Loxoro by Claudia Llosa (Spain / Peru / Argentina / USA, 19 min)
- Mah-Chui by Kim Souk-young (Republic of Korea, 23 min)
- Nostalgia by Gustavo Rondón Córdova (Venezuela, 30 min)
- Panchabhuta by Mohan Kumar Valasala (India, 15 min)
- PUSONG WAZAK! Isa Na Namang Kwento Ng Pag-ibig Sa Pagitan Ng Isang Kriminal at Isang Puta by Khavn De La Cruz (Philippines, 15 min)
- Rafa by João Salaviza (Portugal / France, 25 min)
- Say Goodbye to the Story '(ATT 1/11) by Christoph Schlingensief (Germany, 23 min)
- Shi Luo Zhi Di by Zhou Yan (People's Republic of China, 25 min)
- Strauss.ok by Jeanne Faust (Germany, 5 min)
- The End of Barcelo (France, 17 min)
- The Man that Got Away by Trevor Anderson (Canada, 25 min)
- Utsikter by Marcus Harrling and Moa Geistrand (Sweden, 12 min)
- Uzushio by Naoto Kawamoto (Japan, 6 min)
- Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garçon by Justine Triet (France, 30 min)
- Yi chang ge ming zhong hai wei lai de ji ding yi de xing wei by Sun Xun (People's Republic of China, 12 min)
- zounk! by Billy Roisz (Austria, 6 min)
Berlinale Special
In the special series, including the Berlinale Special Gala , both new productions and reruns of film classics are presented, including in connection with the award of the Golden Camera. Dieter Kosslick makes the selection. In 2012 the venues were the Haus der Berliner Festspiele , Kino International and Friedrichstadt-Palast . In memory of Theo Angelopoulos and Vadim Glowna , who died before the film festival , their films Eleni - Die Erde weint and Desperado City were shown.
- Anton Corbijn inside out by Klaartje Quirijns (2012)
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry by Alison Klayman (2012)
- Althawra ... Khabar by Bassam Mortada (2012)
- La chispa de la vida by Álex de la Iglesia (2011)
- Death Row by Werner Herzog (2012)
- Desperado City by Vadim Glowna (1981)
- Don - The King is back by Farhan Akhtar (2011)
- Eleni - The earth is crying by Theo Angelopoulos (2004)
- The catch shot by Volker Schlöndorff (1976)
- Luck by Doris Dörrie (2012)
- Hijos de las nubes, la última colonia by Álvaro Longoria (2012)
- I, Anna by Barnaby Southcombe (2012)
- In the Land of Blood and Honey by Angelina Jolie (2011)
- Keyhole by Guy Maddin (2011)
- Life and Death of Colonel Blimp by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell (1943)
- Marley by Kevin Macdonald (2012)
- Oktjabr by Sergej Eisenstein (1928)
- Side by Side by Chris Kenneally
- A day with the wind by Haro Senft - winner of the Golden Camera (1978)
- The Story of Film by Mark Cousins (2011)
- Young Adult by Jason Reitman (2011)
panorama
The Panorama section was held for the 33rd time and is dedicated to international film (preferably art house cinema and auteur films ). In 2012, 53 feature films from 37 countries were shown, including 20 documentaries and 33 world premieres. Fiction and documentary films with a running time of 70 minutes or more that had been completed within twelve months before the start of the festival were permitted. Foreign productions could be shown at a non-European festival, broadcast on television in the country of origin or distributed via video-on-demand . European films (with the exception of German productions) were allowed to have been released in their country of origin, at a national festival or to have been given a national theatrical release. Section head is Wieland Speck .
The section in which the Panorama Audience Award is awarded was opened with Tony Gatlifs Indignados and Małgorzata Szumowskas Elles . Supporting films were 7 Deadly Kisses by Sammaria Simanjuntak (Indonesia), A Lazy Summer Afternoon with Mario Montez by John Heys (Germany), Green Laser by John Greyson (Canada) and ZUCHT und ORDNUNG by Jan Soldat (Germany).
Feature films
- 10 + 10 by Hou Hsiao-Hsien , Wang Toon , Wu Nien-Jen , Sylvia Chang , Chen Guo-Fu , Wei Te-Sheng , Chung Meng-Hung , Chang Tso-Chi , Arvin Chen , Yang Ya-Che and others (Taiwan )
- Atomic Age (L'âge atomique) by Héléna Klotz (France)
- Bugis Street Redux from Yonfan (Hong Kong)
- Cherry by Stephen Elliott (United States)
- Chocó ( Choco ) by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza (Colombia)
- The Convoy by Alexey Mizgirev (Russia)
- Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi (France)
- Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood by Daniele Vicari (Italy, Romania, France)
- Dollhouse by Kirsten Sheridan (Ireland)
- Elles by Małgorzata Szumowska (France, Poland, Germany)
- Fon Tok Kuen Fah ( Headshot ) by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thailand, France)
- From Seoul To Varanasi ( From Seoul To Varanasi ) by Kyuhwan Jeon (South Korea)
- Faith, Love, Death by Peter Kern (Austria)
- Highway from Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal, United States)
- Hot boy noi loan - cau chuyen ve thang cuoi, co gai diem va con vit ( Lost In Paradise ) by Vu Ngoc Dang (Vietnam)
- Indignados by Tony Gatlif (France)
- Iron Sky by Timo Vuorensola (Finland, Netherlands, Australia, Germany)
- Keep the Lights On by Ira Sachs (United States)
- Kuma by Umut Dağ (Austria)
- La mer à l'aube ( Calm At Sea ) by Volker Schlöndorff (France, Germany)
- Leave It On The Floor by Sheldon Larry (United States, Canada)
- Love by Doze and Niu Chen-Zer (China, Taiwan)
- Man On Ground by Akin Omotoso (South Africa)
- Mai-wei ( My Way ) by Kang Je-gyu (South Korea)
- Mommy Is Coming by Cheryl Dunye (Germany)
- My Brother The Devil by Sally El Hosaini (United Kingdom)
- Rentaneko ( Rent-a-Cat ) by Naoko Ogigami (Japan)
- Parada ( The Parade ) by Srđan Dragojević (Serbia, Republic of Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia)
- Sharqiya ( Central Station ) by Ami Livne (Israel, France, Germany)
- Die Wand ( The Wall ) by Julian Roman Pölsler (Austria, Germany)
- Wilaya by Pedro Pérez Rosado (Spain)
- The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears by Teona Strugar Mitevska (Macedonia, Germany, Slovenia, Belgium)
- Xingu by Cao Hamburger (Brazil)
Documentaries
- Anak-Anak Srikandi ( Children of Srikandi ) from the Children of Srikandi Collective (Germany / Indonesia)
- Attack on Democracy - Eine Intervention ( Democracy Under Attack - An Intervention ) by Romuald Karmakar (Germany)
- Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 by Dagmar Schultz (Germany)
- Blood must flow - Undercover under Nazis by Peter Ohlendorf (Germany)
- Brötzmann - The world is mine ( Brötzmann - That's When The World Is Mine ) by Uli M. Schueppel (Germany)
- Call Me Kuchu by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright (United States)
- Detlef by Stefan Westerwelle and Jan Rothstein (Germany)
- Mr. Wichmann from the third row ( Henryk from the back row ) by Andreas Dresen (Germany)
- In the Shadow of a Man by Hanan Abdalla (Egypt)
- König des Comics ( King of Comics ) by Rosa von Praunheim (Germany) via Ralf König
- La Vierge, les Coptes et Moi ( The Virgin, the Copts and Me ) by Namir Abdel Messeeh (France / Qatar / Egypt)
- Marina Abramović The Artist is Present ( Marina Abramović The Artist is Present ) by Matthew Akers (United States)
- Olhe pra mim de novo ( Look at me again ) by Kiko Goifman and Claudia Priscilla (Brazil)
- The Reluctant Revolutionary by Sean McAllister (Great Britain)
- The Summit by Franco Fracassi and Massimo Lauria (Italy)
- Ulrike Ottinger - die Nomadin vom See ( Ulrike Ottinger - nomad from the lake ) by Brigitte Kramer (Germany)
- Unter Männer - Schwul in der DDR ( Among Men - Gay in East Germany ) by Markus Stein and Rösener Ringo (Germany)
- Vito by Jeffrey Schwarz (United States)
- Wo men de gu shi ( Our Story - 10-year “Guerrilla Warfare” of Beijing Queer Film Festival ) by Yang Yang (China)
- Words of Witness by Mai Iskander (United States)
Forum
The International Forum of New Films (in short: Forum) has been taking place since 1971 and describes itself as the “most daring section” of the Berlinale. Documentaries and feature films will be presented, including avant-garde, experimental and essay films, long-term observations and political reports. Films with a running time of 60 minutes or more were permitted. Foreign productions could be shown at a non-European festival, broadcast on television in the country of origin or distributed via video-on-demand. European films (with the exception of German productions) were allowed to have been released in their country of origin, at a national festival or to have been given a national theatrical release. Section head is Christoph Terhechte .
The 42nd edition of the forum showed 38 films in the main program, including 26 world and eight international premieres. The Expanded Forum has existed at the same time since 2006 and presents film and video installations at various locations in Berlin.
- Al Juma Al Akheira ( The Last Friday ) by Yahya Alabdallah (Jordan, United Arab Emirates)
- Ang Babae sa Septic Tank ( The Woman in the Septic Tank ) by Marlon N. Rivera (Philippines)
- Avalon by Axel Petersén (Sweden)
- Bagrut Lochamim ( Soldier / Citizen ) by Silvina Landsmann (Israel)
- Bestiaire by Denis Côté (Canada, France)
- Beziehungsweisen ( Negotiating Love ) by Calle Overweg (Germany)
- La demora ( The Delay ) by Rodrigo Plá (Uruguay, Mexico, France)
- Escuela normal ( Normal School ) by Celina Murga (Argentina)
- Espoir voyage by Michel K. Zongo (France, Burkina Faso)
- Formentera by Ann-Kristin Reyels (Germany)
- For Ellen by So Yong Kim (United States)
- Francine by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky (United States, Canada)
- friends after 3.11 by Shunji Iwai (Japan)
- Habiter / Construire ( Living / Building ) by Clémence Ancelin (France)
- Hemel by Sacha Polak (Netherlands, Spain)
- Hiver nomade ( Winter Nomads ) by Manuel von Stürler (Switzerland)
- Jaurès by Vincent Dieutre (France)
- Kashi ( Choked ) by Kim Joong-hyun (South Korea)
- Kazoku no kuni ( 家族 の 国 ; Our Homeland ) by Yang Yonghi (Japan)
- Kid-Thing by David Zellner (United States)
- Koi ni itaru yamai ( 恋 に 至 る 病 ; The End of Puberty ) by Shōko Kimura (Japan)
- The location ( condition ) of Thomas Heise (Germany)
- No Man's Zone ( 無人 地 帯 , Mujin chitai ) by Toshi Fujiwara (Japan, France)
- Nuclear Nation by Atsushi Funahashi (Japan)
- Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete ( Parabeton - Pier Luigi Nervi and Roman Concrete ) by Heinz Emigholz (Germany)
- Paziraie Sadeh ( Modest Reception ) by Mani Haghighi (Iran)
- Příliš mladá noc ( A Night Too Young ) by Olmo Omerzu (Czech Republic, Slovenia)
- Revision by Philip Scheffner (Germany)
- Salsipuedes by Mariano Luque (Argentina)
- Secretion ( Secret ) by Przemysław Wojcieszek (Poland)
- Sleepless Knights by Stefan Butzmühlen and Christina Diz (Germany)
- Le sommeil d'or ( Golden Slumbers ) by Davy Chou (France, Cambodia)
- Spanien ( Spain ) by Anja Salomonowitz (Austria)
- Tepenin Ardı ( Beyond the Hill ) by Emin Alper (Turkey, Greece)
- Tiens moi droite ( Keep Me Upright ) by Zoé Chantre (France)
- Toată lumea din familia noastră ( Everybody in Our Family ) by Radu Jude (Romania, Netherlands)
- What Is Love by Ruth Mader (Austria)
- Zavtra ( Tomorrow ) by Andrey Gryazev (Russia)
Special performances
- Brand X by Wynn Chamberlain (United States, 1970)
- inarbeit / en construction / w toku / lavori in corso ( in the works ) by Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector (Germany, 2012)
- Avalanches of Memory by Dominik Graf (Germany, 2012)
- Swoon by Tom Kalin (United States, 1992)
- Bakumatsu Taiyōden ( The Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate ) by Yūzō Kawashima (Japan, 1957)
- Kino to Ashita no Aida ( Between Yesterday and Tomorrow ) by Yūzō Kawashima (Japan, 1954)
- Suzaki Paradaisu Akashingo ( Suzaki Paradise: Red Light ) by Yūzō Kawashima (Japan, 1956)
- The Connection by Shirley Clarke (United States, 1961)
- Ornette: Made in America by Shirley Clarke (United States, 1985)
- Peov Chouk Sor by Tea Lim Koun (Cambodia, 1967)
- Puos Keng Kang ( The Snake Man ) by Tea Lim Koun (Cambodia, 1970)
- Puthisen Neang Kongrey ( 12 Sisters ) by Ly Bun Yim (Cambodia, 1968)
Perspective German cinema
The Perspective German Cinema section was held for the eleventh time and shows current German documentary and feature film productions. Fiction, documentary and experimental films with a minimum duration of 20 minutes were permitted. Previous participation in a film festival was not an exclusion criterion. The series will open with the documentary Man for a Day by Katarina Peters . On January 10th, 2012 the complete program was presented, which was described by the section leader Linda Söffker as "The GDR was colorful, the youth are critical and good films tell each other in their heads" .
Movie title | Director | Actor (selection) |
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Ararat | Engin Kundag | Pinar Erincin , Claudio Schulz-Keune , Erdal Kacar |
Poet and fighter | Marion Hütter | documentary |
Towards morning | Joachim Schoenfeld | |
Karaman |
Tamer Yiğit Branka Prlić |
Isilay Gül |
Man for a day | Katarina Peters | documentary |
Rodicas | Alice Gruia | documentary |
Sometimes we sit and think and sometimes we just sit | Julian Poerksen | |
Not intended to die | Matthias Stoll | documentary |
Days in the city | Janis Mazuch | Pascale Schiller |
This ain't California | Marten Persiel | documentary |
Trattoria | Soleen Yusef | |
The missing | Jan Speckenbach | André Hennicke |
Westerland | Tim Staffel |
generation
This Berlinale section (until 2006: Children's Film Festival ) has been showing suitable international film productions for children and young people since 1978. Long films with a running time of at least 60 minutes and short films with a running length of at least 30 minutes were permitted. Foreign productions could be shown in advance at a non-European festival, broadcast on television in the country of origin or distributed via video-on-demand . European films (with the exception of German productions) were permitted in advance to have been published in the country of origin, at a national festival or an explicit children's or youth film festival, or to have experienced a national theatrical release. As an award, a glass bear is given by a jury of children and young people to a feature film and a documentary. In 2012, 58 short and feature films from 32 countries will be shown. Section head Maryanne Redpath described the program as “New discoveries and curious explorers” .
Generation Kplus - feature films
- Arcadia by Olivia Silver (United States)
- Gattu by Rajan Khosa (India)
- Isdraken ( The Ice Dragon ) by Martin Högdahl (Sweden)
- Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole (Netherlands)
- Kikoeteru, furi wo sita dake ( Just Pretended to Hear ) by Kaori Imaizumi (Japan)
- Die Kinder vom Napf (The Children from the Napf) by Alice Schmid (Switzerland)
- Lotte ja kuukivi saladus (Lotte and the Moonstone Secret) by Janno Põldma and Heiki Ernits (Estonia / Latvia)
- The Mirror Never Lies by Kamila Andini (Indonesia)
- Nono by Rommel Tolentino (Philippines)
- Pacha by Hector Ferreiro (Bolivia / Mexico)
- Patatje Oorlog (Taking Chances) by Nicole van Kilsdonk (Netherlands)
- Zarafa by Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie (France / Belgium)
Generation 14plus - feature films
- Comes A Bright Day by Simon Aboud (Great Britain)
- Electrick Children by Rebecca Thomas (United States)
- Joven & Alocada (Young & Wild) by Marialy Rivas (Chile)
- Kronjuvelerna (The Crown Jewels) by Ella Lemhagen (Sweden)
- Lal Gece (Not of Silence) by Reis Çelik (Turkey)
- Magi I Luften (Love Is In The Air) by Simon Staho (Denmark / Sweden)
- Maori Boy Genius by Pietra Brettkelly (New Zealand) - documentary
- Un Mundo Secreto (A Secret World) by Gabriel Mariño (Mexico)
- Mustafa's Sweet Dreams by Angelos Abazoglou (Greece / Great Britain)
- Una Noche - One Night in Havana (Una Noche) by Lucy Mulloy (United States / Cuba / Great Britain)
- Nosilatiaj. La Belleza (Beauty) by Daniela Seggiaro (Argentina)
- Orchim LeRega (Off White Lies) by Maya Kenig (Israel / France)
- Meral Uslu snack bar (Netherlands)
- Two Little Boys by Robert Sarkies (New Zealand)
- Wandeukyi (Punch) by Han Lee (South Korea)
Retrospective and homage
Retrospectives of film history have been shown at the Berlinale since 1977 in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek . In 2012, over 40 silent and sound films by the Soviet Meschrabpom-Film and the German Prometheus Film , which were made between 1922 and 1936, were shown under the title Die Rote Traumfabrik . The silent films are accompanied by live music by international artists.
A selection of the retrospective will also be shown at the 55th International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (DOK Leipzig) and in March / April 2012 under the title The Red Dreamfactory at the New York Museum of Modern Art .
A retrospective (“Homages”) was dedicated to the work of the American actress Meryl Streep , who was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear in 2012 for her life's work.
Further films and program items
In cooperation with the retrospective and the TV channels ARTE and ZDF , Sergei Eisenstein's October (1928, Октябрь - Oktjabr ) was performed in the Friedrichstadt-Palast on February 10, 2012 . The film deals with the October Revolution in autumn 1917 and was shown with the original music by Edmund Meisel .
In addition to the competition jury, there was an international jury that honored the best directorial debut. The German author Moritz Rinke , the Lebanese cinema director and festival director Hania Mroué and the American actor Matthew Modine judged the debut works from all sections . The prize money of 50,000 euros, which is shared by the director and producer, was donated by the Society for the Perception of Film and Television Rights (GWFF).
As part of the film festival, the Berlinale Talent Campus took place for the tenth time , an annual initiative to promote young talent. 4,382 applications from 137 countries were submitted. 350 filmmakers from around 90 countries took part in events in the Hebbel am Ufer from February 11 to 16, 2012 during the Berlinale . The so-called Score Competition for young film composers was supervised by the Japanese musician and composer Ryūichi Sakamoto . Other speakers were the production designers Alex McDowell , Uli Hanisch and Habib Zargarpour .
On February 17th the gay-lesbian and transgender film prize Teddy Award was presented for the 26th time during the Berlinale . Films from all Berlinale sections were able to qualify for an award in three categories (best feature film, best documentary / essay film, best short film). The Special Teddy for an artistic lifetime achievement was awarded in 2012 to the German director Ulrike Ottinger and the American transvestite and actor Mario Montez .
The European Film Market (EFM) took place parallel to the festival from February 9 to 17, 2012 , a trading platform for producers, distributors, film buyers and co-production agents and traditionally the first international film market of the year. The Martin-Gropius-Bau and the Marriott Hotel at Potsdamer Platz served as the conference venue . 750 films were shown.
As part of the European Film Promotion (EFP) Shooting Star Initiative, young European actors were honored for the 15th time, including the Briton Riz Ahmed , the Swede Bill Skarsgård , the French Adèle Haenel and the German Anna Maria Mühe .
Award winners
International competition :
- Golden Bear : Cesare deve morire by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- Silver Bear - Grand Jury Prize: Csak a szél by Bence Fliegauf
- Silver Bear - Best Director: Christian Petzold ( Barbara )
- Silver Bear - Best Actress: Rachel Mwanza ( Rebelle )
- Silver Bear - Best Actor: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard ( En kongelig affære )
- Silver Bear - Outstanding artistic achievement: Lutz Reitemeier (camera in Bai lu yuan )
- Silver Bear - Best Screenplay: Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg ( En kongelig affære )
- Alfred Bauer Prize : Tabu - A story of love and guilt (Tabu) by Miguel Gomes
- Silver Bear - Honorable Mention: Winter Thief (L'enfant d'en haut) by Ursula Meier
First film
- Best debut film: Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole ; Honorable Mention: Tepenin Ardi by Emin Alper
Short film competition
- Golden Bear : Rafa by João Salaviza
- Silver Bear: Gurehto Rabitto by Atsushi Wada
- DAAD Short Film Award: The Man that Got Away by Trevor Anderson
- Short film nomination for the European Film Award 2012: Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garçon by Justine Triet
Prizes of honor
generation
- Glass bear for the best film (Generation Kplus children's jury): Arcadia by Olivia Silver ; Honorable Mention: Kikoeteru, furi wo sita dake by Kaori Imaizumi
- Glass Bear for the best short film (Generation Kplus Children's Jury): Julian by Matthew Moore ; Honorable Mention: BINO by Billie Pleffer
- Glass bear for the best film (Generation 14plus youth jury): Lal Gece from Reis Çelik ; Honorable Mention: Kronjuvelerna by Ella Lemhagen
- Transparent bear for the best short film (Generation 14plus youth jury): Meathead by Sam Holst ; Honorable Mention: 663114 by Isamu Hirabayashi
- Grand Prize of the German Children's Fund for the best film: Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole; Honorable Mention: Gattu by Rajan Khosa
- Special award from the German Children's Fund for the best short film: BINO by Billie Pleffer ; Honorable Mention: L by Thais Fujinaga
Awards from independent juries
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury : Cesare deve morire by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Section: Competition), Honorable Mention: Rebelle by Kim Nguyen ; The Wall by Julian Roman Pölsler (Panorama), Honorable Mention: Parada by Srđjan Dragojević ; La demora by Rodrigo Plá (forum)
- FIPRESCI prizes : Tabu - A story of love and guilt (Tabu) by Miguel Gomes (section: Competition), Atomic Age (L'âge atomique) by Héléna Klotz (Panorama), Hemel by Sacha Polak (Forum)
- Prize of the Guild of German Film Art Theaters: À moi seule by Frédéric Videau
- CICAE awards: Death For Sale by Faouzi Bensaïdi (Panorama); Kazoku no kuni by Yang Yonghi (forum)
- “Label Europa Cinemas”: My Brother The Devil by Sally El Hosaini ; Honorable Mention: Dollhouse by Kirsten Sheridan
- Teddy Awards : Keep the Lights On by Ira Sachs (best feature film), Jaurès by Vincent Dieutre (jury prize), Call Me Kuchu by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright (best documentary film), Loxoro by Claudia Llosa (best short film)
- Made in Germany - Perspective Award: Annekatrin Hendel for her treatment for the documentary Disko
- "Dialogue en perspective" prize (section: Perspektive Deutsches Kino): This Ain't California by Marten Persiel
- Caligari Film Prize (Section: Forum): Tepenin Ardı by Emin Alper
- NETPAC Prize: Paziraie Sadeh by Mani Haghighi
- Peace Film Prize : Csak a szél by Bence Fliegauf
- Amnesty International Film Prize: Csak a szél by Bence Fliegauf
- CINEMA fairbindet award: Call Me Kuchu by Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright
Readers and audience awards
- Audience award of the Panorama section - feature film: Parada (1st place), Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2nd place), Xingu (3rd place)
- Audience award of the Panorama - Documentary section: Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present (1st place), Call Me Kuchu (2nd place), La Vierge, les Coptes et Moi (3rd place)
- Berliner Morgenpost reader award : Barbara von Christian Petzold
- Tagesspiegel readers' award : La demora by Rodrigo Plá
- Victory Column Readers Award ("Else"): Parada by Srđan Dragojević
- Berlin Today Award (short film competition of the Berlinale Talent Campus): Batman at the Checkpoint by Rafael Balulu (Israel)
Web links
- International Film Festival Berlin 2012 in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official website
- Press review of the Berlinale 2012 on film-zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zander, Peter: In Berlin the stars rush across the red carpet at welt.de, February 1, 2012 (accessed February 5, 2012).
- ^ Zander, Peter: Countdown for the 62nd film festival . In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 4, 2012, Stadtleben, No. 5, p. 5.
- ↑ Who is who in the Berlinale crime thriller? . In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 5, 2012, BIZ, No. 35, p. 2.
- ↑ How to get to the Berlinale . In: Welt Kompakt , February 1, 2012, No. 23.
- ↑ Statistics at berlinale.de (accessed on February 9, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 4, 2012 (accessed January 4, 2012).
- ↑ a b Mehlig, Holger; Wählisch, Nathalie ( dapd ): Solidarity at the Berlinale with Iranian directors. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. January 2, 2012.
- ↑ Cinema: Anke Engelke is moderating again at the Berlinale at morgenpost.de, December 23, 2011 (accessed December 25, 2011).
- ↑ a b Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 2, 2012 (accessed January 2, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, December 22, 2011 (accessed January 19, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 18, 2012 (accessed January 19, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 31, 2012 (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Oßwald, Dieter: “Screeching alarm is nice” . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , January 2, 2012, p. 12.
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, December 2, 2011 (accessed December 20, 2011).
- ↑ Mike Leigh . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 04/2006 from January 28, 2006, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 48/2011 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
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- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, December 19, 2011 (accessed December 20, 2011).
- ↑ Competition: Regulations 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de (accessed on February 5, 2012).
- ↑ data sheet at berlinale.de (accessed on February 5, 2012).
- ↑ Guidelines 2012 ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ a b Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 19, 2012 (accessed January 21, 2012)
- ↑ Presentation of the section ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de (accessed on February 17, 2012).
- ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 25, 2012 (accessed February 5, 2012).
- ↑ Guidelines 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Press release ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 3, 2012 (accessed January 4, 2012).
- ↑ Description ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Guidelines ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Press release ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 19, 2012 (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Guidelines 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, December 22, 2011 (accessed December 25, 2011).
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 10, 2012 (accessed January 14, 2012).
- ↑ Guidelines 2012 ( Memento of the original dated December 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 12, 2012 (accessed January 18, 2012).
- ↑ a b Official press release ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, October 24, 2011 (accessed December 25, 2011).
- ↑ Official press release ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 26, 2012 (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, November 2, 2012 (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 25, 2012 (accessed February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Press kit (PDF; 1.1 MB) at teddyaward.tv, January 30, 2012 (accessed on February 8, 2012).
- ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, December 16, 2011 (accessed February 8, 2012).
- Jump up ↑ Zander, Peter: time of departure . In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 1, 2012, p. 17.
- ↑ Prizes from independent juries 2012 at berlinale.de (accessed on February 18, 2012)