Berlin International Film Festival 1996

The 46th Berlin International Film Festival took place from February 15 to 26. February 1996 instead.

Competition section

The following films faced the judgment of the international jury in the program of the official competition this year :

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Dead man walking	Tim Robbins	United States	Susan Sarandon , Sean Penn
The village of my dreams	Yōichi Higashi	Japan
Éxtasis	Mariano Barroso	Spain	Javier Bardem
Faithful - The wedding day	Paul Mazursky	United States	Cher , Chazz Palminteri , Ryan O'Neal
Grab Shorty	Barry Sonnenfeld	United States	John Travolta , Gene Hackman , Rene Russo
Jeon tae-il	Park Kwang-su	South Korea
Holy Week	Andrzej Wajda	Poland	Beata Fudalej , Wojciech Malajkat
Mahjong	Edward Yang	Taiwan	Chang Chen
Mary Reilly	Stephen Frears	United States	Julia Roberts , John Malkovich
My husband - I do everything for your love	Bertrand Blier	France	Anouk Grinberg , Gérard Lanvin
Les Menteurs	Elie Chouraqui	France	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi , Jean-Hugues Anglade
Restoration - time of sensuality	Michael Hoffman	USA , UK	Robert Downey Jr. , Sam Neill , David Thewlis
Richard III	Richard Loncraine	UK , USA	Ian McKellen , Annette Bening , Jim Broadbent
Ri guang xia gu	Ping he	People's Republic of China
Youth is beautiful	Bo Widerberg	Denmark , Sweden	Marika Lagercrantz
Sense and sensuality	Ang Lee	USA , UK	Emma Thompson , Kate Winslet , Hugh Grant
A summer in La Goulette	Férid Boughedir	Tunisia , France , Belgium
Silent Night - A Festival of Love	Dani Levy	Germany , Switzerland	Maria Schrader , Jürgen Vogel
Taiyang you he	Ho Yim	Hong Kong
Twelve Monkeys	Terry Gilliam	United States	Bruce Willis
Vite strozzate	Ricky Tognazzi	Italy , France , Belgium
What I Have Written	John Hughes	Australia

International jury

The president of the international jury this year was the Russian director Nikita Michalkow . Under his leadership, the following jury members selected the winners: Gila Almagor , Vincenzo Cerami , Joan Chen , Ann Hui , Peter Lilienthal , Jürgen Prochnow , Claude Rich , Fay Weldon , Catherine Wyler and Christian Zeender .

Award winners

Ang Lee

Golden Bear : The Golden Bear won this year for Ang Lee's film Sense and Sensibility .

Silver bears were awarded in the following categories:

The jury awarded the Polish director Andrzej Wajda a Silver Bear for his life's work .
The Silver Bear for Best Director has been awarded twice: Richard Loncraine and Ho Yim .
Best actress: Anouk Grinberg in Mon Homme
Best Actor: Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking
Best individual artistic achievement: Yōichi Higashi for the particularly original portrayal of a childhood in The Village of My Dreams
The jury's special prize for director Bo Widerberg for Schön is his youth

Honorary Golden Bear

This year the festival awarded two Honorary Golden Bears for their life's work to the director Elia Kazan and the actor Jack Lemmon . Both artists were honored with a retrospective of their best films as part of the festival.

Other award winners

Children's film award: My friend Joe from Chris Bould

Teddy Award (Documentary): The Celluloid Closet by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman

Teddy Award (feature film): I'll Be Your Mirror by Edmund Coulthard and The Watermelon Woman by Cheryl Dunye

FIPRESCI Prize (competition): Taiyang you er from Ho Yim

FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): … and the moon is dancing by Garin Nugroho

FIPRESCI Prize (Panorama): ... and everyone is looking for his kitten by Cédric Klapisch

Ecumenical Jury Prize (competition): Dead Man Walking by Tim Robbins

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Forum): To have (or not to have) by Laetitia Masson

Alfred Bauer Prize : Vite strozzate by Ricky Tognazzi

The Blue Angel : Beautiful is the youth of Bo Widerberg

Caligari Film Prize (Forum): Charms Incidents by Michael Kreihsl

Prize of the Berliner Morgenpost readers' jury : Dead Man Walking by Tim Robbins