Berlin International Film Festival 1999

The 49th Berlin International Film Festival took place from February 10th to 21st February 1999 instead.

The 1999 Berlinale took place for the last time in the festival center around Kurfürstendamm . The Zoo-Palast was the premiere cinema for the competition films for the last time . For the first time in the history of the festival, the Berlinale was opened by an incumbent Federal Chancellor . Gerhard Schröder came together with the new Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media Michael Naumann .

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)
39 keihô dai sanjûkyû jô	Yoshimitsu Morita	Japan
8mm	Joel Schumacher	USA , Germany	Nicolas Cage , Joaquin Phoenix
Aimée and Jaguar *	Max Färberböck	Germany	Maria Schrader , Juliane Köhler , Johanna Wokalek
Breakfast of Champions	Alan Rudolph	United States	Bruce Willis , Albert Finney , Nick Nolte
Cookie's Fortune	Robert Altman	United States	Glenn Close , Julianne Moore , Liv Tyler
Emporte-moi - take me with you	Léa pool	Switzerland , Canada , France	Karine Vanasse , Pascale Bussières , Miki Manojlović
It starts today	Bertrand Tavernier	France	Philippe Torreton
existence	David Cronenberg	Canada , UK , France	Jennifer Jason Leigh , Jude Law , Ian Holm
The color of the lie	Claude Chabrol	France	Sandrine Bonnaire , Jacques Gamblin
Glória	Manuela Viegas	Portugal , France , Spain	Jean-Christophe Bouvet
The Hi-Lo Country	Stephen Frears	USA , UK , Germany	Billy Crudup , Woody Harrelson , Patricia Arquette
Carnival	Thomas Vincent	France , Germany , Belgium , Switzerland	Sylvie Testud
Kesher Ir	Jonathan Sagall	Israel
War in the Oberland	Francis Reusser	Switzerland , France , Belgium	Marion Cotillard , Yann Trégouët
The burden of pleasure	Manuel Gómez Pereira	Spain , France	Victoria Abril , Javier Bardem
Live and love in LA	Willard Carroll	UK , USA	Angelina Jolie , Dennis Quaid , Madeleine Stowe
The girl of your dreams	Fernando Trueba	Spain	Penélope Cruz , Johannes Silberschneider
Mifunes sidste sang	Søren Kragh-Jacobsen	Denmark , Sweden
Night figures	Andreas Dresen	Germany	Michael Gwisdek , Dominique Horwitz , Imogen Kogge
Qian yan wan yu	Ann Hui	Hong Kong , PR China
Trip to the sun	Yeşim Ustaoğlu	Turkey , Netherlands , Germany
Three Seasons (Saigon Stories)	Tony Bui	Vietnam , USA	Harvey Keitel
The fine line	Terrence Malick	USA , Canada	Sean Penn , Adrien Brody , Nick Nolte
Shakespeare in Love	John Madden	USA , UK	Joseph Fiennes , Geoffrey Rush , Gwyneth Paltrow
Simon Magus	Ben Hopkins	USA , UK , France , Germany , Italy	Noah Taylor , Stuart Townsend , Rutger Hauer

* = Opening film

International jury

The president of this year's jury was the Spanish actress Ángela Molina . Under her leadership, the following jury members selected the winners: Ken Adam , Paulo Branco , Assi Dayan , Pierre-Henri Deleau , Katja von Garnier , Hellmuth Karasek , Jeroen Krabbé , Michelle Yeoh .

Award winners

Golden Bear : Terrence Malick received the Golden Bear this year for his film The Narrow Ridge .
Silver bears were awarded in the following categories:
- Best Director: Stephen Frears
- Best actress: Juliane Köhler and Maria Schrader for their joint performance in Aimée and Jaguar
- Best actor: Michael Gwisdek for his work in the film Nachtgestalten
- Special jury prize: for the Danish director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
- For an extraordinary individual artistic achievement: Tom Stoppard for the script for Shakespeare in Love
- For an exceptional artistic achievement: David Cronenberg

Panorama section

The film Solas by Benito Zambrano won the audience award. The film Raus aus Åmål (Fucking Åmål) by Lukas Moodysson received a " Teddy Award " . Other outstanding films in the 1999 panorama program: The War Zone by Tim Roth , Lola and Bilidikid by E. Kutluğ Ataman and Little Voice by Mark Herman .

Honorary Golden Bear

American actress Shirley MacLaine received an Honorary Golden Bear for her life's work . In her honor, the festival showed a retrospective of her best films.

Other award winners

Panorama Audience Award : Solas by Benito Zambrano
Glass Bear : The Tic Code by Gary Winick
Alfred Bauer Prize : Carnival by Thomas Vincent
The Blue Angel : Journey to the Sun by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
FIPRESCI Prize (competition): It starts today from Bertrand Tavernier
FIPRESCI Award (Forum): Dealer by Thomas Arslan
FIPRESCI Prize (Panorama): Ah Haru by Shinji Sômai
Ecumenical Jury Prize (competition): It starts today by Bertrand Tavernier
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Forum): Dealer by Thomas Arslan
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Panorama): Tala med mig systrar by Maj Wechselmann
Caligari Film Prize (Forum): Viehjud Levi by Didi Danquart
Wolfgang Staudte Prize : The Cruise by Bennett Miller