Berlin International Film Festival 2018
The 68th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) took place from February 15 to 25, 2018. For the 17th time they were under the direction of Dieter Kosslick .
In the official sections, including the international competition for the Golden Bear under the direction of Tom Tykwer , the first contributions were announced from December 2017. For the first time in the history of the Berlinale, the festival opened with an animated film, Isle of Dogs - Atari's Journey by Wes Anderson . The director opened the 2014 Berlinale with his last film, Grand Budapest Hotel . The final program was officially presented on February 6, 2018. The main prize of the festival was awarded to the European experimental film Touch Me Not by the Romanian director Adina Pintilie .
A total of 385 films were shown in 14 sections. As in previous years, u. a. the Theater am Potsdamer Platz (“Berlinale Palast”) as well as the cinemas CinemaxX , Kino International , the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and the Friedrichstadtpalast are the main venues for the Berlinale.
The American actor Willem Dafoe was honored with the Honorary Golden Bear and an homage from ten films. This year's Berlinale camera was given to the Swiss Beki Probst (1988 to 2014 head of the Berlinale's European Film Market), the Israeli producer Katriel Schory (including managing director of the Israel Film Fund) and the Czech director and actor Jiří Menzel (winner of the Golden Bear 1990 ) awarded.
In the course of the #MeToo debate about abuse of power and sexual violence in the entertainment industry, a panel discussion and a seminar on the topic took place on the occasion of the Berlinale. Under the title “NO to Discrimination!”, Help should be given in the event of discrimination, harassment or abuse at the festival. At the opening ceremony, Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters recalled this on the occasion of her speech. Festival director Kosslick remembered the imprisoned Deniz Yücel and Oleh Senzow . Yücel was released from prison during the festival.
Official Sections
International competition
International jury
Tom Tykwer was presented as jury president at the beginning of November 2017 . The German film director, screenwriter and producer has been represented with six films at the Berlinale in the past. With the short films Epilog ( Panorama Section , 1992 ) and True (Short Film Competition , 2004 ) as well as with the feature films Heaven (International Competition, 2002 ) and The International (out of competition, 2009 ), with which he opened the film festival. He also worked with other directors on the episode film Deutschland 09 (out of competition, 2009) and the documentary Rosakinder ( Berlinale Special , 2013 ). When he was introduced as the jury president, Tykwer pointed out that the Berlinale was his “favorite and [...] home festival” and had supported him since the beginning of his career. He was the first German jury president since Werner Herzog ( 2010 ).
The jury president was supported by several jury members who were named at the official presentation of the program on February 6, 2018:
- Cécile de France , Belgian actress
- Chema Prado , Spanish film archivist and photographer
- Adele Romanski , American film producer
- Ryūichi Sakamoto , Japanese composer
- Stephanie Zacharek , American film critic
Before the festival began, Tykwer stated in an interview that she missed “wild and bulky films” in Germany. "We found out that we not only want to appreciate what cinema can do, but also what it can still go to," he said on behalf of the jury before the award ceremony.
Movies
19 films competed for the Golden Bear.
Out of competition:
- 7 Days in Entebbe (7 days in Entebbe) - Director: José Padilha (US, UK) - with Rosamund Pike , Daniel Brühl , Eddie Marsan , Lior Ashkenazi , Denis Ménochet , Ben Schnetzer , Angel Bonanni , Juan Pablo Raba , Nonso Anozie
- Ága - director: Milko Lazarov (Bulgaria, Germany, France) - with Mikhail Aprosimov , Feodosia Ivanova , Galina Tikhonova , Sergey Egorov , Afanasiy Kylaev
- Black 47 - directed by Lance Daly (Ireland, Luxembourg) - with Hugo Weaving , James Frecheville , Stephen Rea , Freddie Fox , Barry Keoghan , Moe Dunford , Sarah Greene , Jim Broadbent
- Eldorado - Director: Markus Imhoof (Switzerland, Germany) - Documentary
- Unsane (Unsane - Delivered) - Director: Steven Soderbergh (USA) - with Claire Foy , Joshua Leonard , Jay Pharoah , Juno Temple , Aimee Mullins , Amy Irving
Berlinale shorts
In the Berlinale Shorts series , feature, documentary, experimental and animation films with a maximum length of 30 minutes (including credits) are shown. International contributions must not have been shown outside their country of origin before the Berlinale performance. Gender and power relations were mentioned as a topic. Furthermore, a special program was organized under the title "1968 - Red flags for everyone" with short film productions from the 1960s. The Berlinale Shorts curator has been the freelance writer and film director Maike Mia Höhne since 2007.
In 2017, the International Short Film Jury included the Portuguese filmmaker Diogo Costa Amarante ( Golden Bear 2017 for the short film Cidade Pequena ), the American filmmaker and curator Mark Toscano and the South African filmmaker and scientist Jyoti Mistry . In addition to the Golden Bear for the best short film and the Silver Bear, the jury will award nominations for the European Short Film Award and the Audi Short Film Award.
The entries for the short film competition - 22 films from 18 countries - were announced on January 10, 2018, including a film from Rwanda for the first time :
Film title (reference title) | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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After / Life | Puck Lo | United States | 15 ' |
Alma Bandida | Marco Antônio Pereira | Brazil | 15 ' |
And What Is the Summer Saying | Payal Kapadia | India | 23 ' |
Babylon | Keith Deligero | Philippines | 20 ' |
blue | David Jansen | Germany | 15 ' |
Burkina Brandenburg complex | Ulu Braun | Germany | 19 ' |
Circle | Jayisha Patel | UK, India, Canada | 14 ' |
City of Tales | Arash Nassiri | France | 21 ' |
Coyote | Lorenz Wunderle | Switzerland | 10 ' |
Imfura | Samuel Ishimwe | Switzerland, Rwanda | 36 ' |
Imperial Valley (Cultivated Run-Off) | Lukas Marxt | Germany, Austria | 14 ' |
Des jeunes filles disparaissent | Clement Pinteaux | France | 16 ' |
Madness | João Viana | Guinea-Bissau, Qatar, Portugal, France | 13 ' |
The Men Behind the Wall | Ines Moldavsky | Israel | 28 ' |
Onde o Verão Vai (episódios da juventude) | David Pinheiro Vicente | Portugal | 20 ' |
Russa |
João Salaviza , Ricardo Alves Jr. |
Portugal, Brazil | 20 ' |
Solar Walk | Réka Bucsi | Denmark | 21 ' |
Terremoto Santo |
Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca |
Brazil | 20 ' |
Le Tigre de Tasmanie | Vergine Keaton | France | 14 ' |
TRAP | Manque La Banca | Argentina | 16 ' |
While I Yet Live | Maris Curran | United States | 15 ' |
Wishing Well | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Germany | 13 ' |
Out of competition:
- Besida - Director: Chuko Esiri (Nigeria), 12 '
- The Shadow of Utopia - Director: Antoinette Zwirchmayr (Austria), 23 '
Special program "1968 - Red flags for everyone"
- Alaska - Director: Dore O. (FRG, 1968), 18 '
- Antigone - Director: Ula Stöckl (FRG, 1964), 9 '
- Color test Rote Fahne - Director: Gerd Conradt (FRG, 1968), 12 '
- Fundevogel - Director: Claudia von Alemann (FRG, 1967), 22 '
- I Ruhrområdet - Director: Peter Nestler (Sweden, 1967), 34 '
- Yes / No - Director: Ernst Schmidt jr. (Austria, 1968), 3 '
- Art & Revolution - Director: Ernst Schmidt jr. (Austria, 1968), 2 '
- My Name is Oona - Director: Gunvor Nelson (USA, 1969), 10 '
- So what…? - Director: Marquard Bohm and Helmut Herbst (FRG, 1966), 33 '
- Program information - Director: Christiane Gehner (FRG, 1970), 10 '
- Raw film - Director: Birgit and Wilhelm Hein (FRG, 1968), 20 '
- Tapp und Tastkino - Director: Valie Export (Austria, 1968), 2 '
panorama
The Panorama section is traditionally dedicated to auteur films . The latest works by well-known filmmakers, debut films and new discoveries in art house cinema , both feature films and documentaries (“Documents”) will be presented. Wieland Speck , Head of Panorama since 1992 , was appointed advisor to the Official Program in 2018. Paz Lázaro , the previous Panorama program manager, has been appointed as his successor .
The contributions were announced on December 16, 2017 and January 25, 2018. A total of 47 films from 40 countries were represented, including 37 world premieres and 16 directorial debuts. 27 films were shown in Panorama Special as well as in the main program and 20 documentaries in Panorama Documents.
Feature films
Documentaries
Film title (reference title) | Director | country |
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Al Gami'ya (What Comes Around) |
Reem Saleh | Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Qatar, Slovenia |
Až přijde válka (When the War Comes) |
Jan Gebert | Czech Republic, Croatia |
Bixa Travesty (Tranny Fag) |
Claudia Priscilla Kiko Goifman |
Brazil |
Ex Pajé (Ex Shaman) |
Luiz Bolognesi | Brazil |
Family life (Family Life) |
Rosa Hannah Ziegler | Germany |
Game girls | Alina Skrzeszewska | France, Germany |
Generation wealth | Lauren Greenfield | United States |
Hotel Jugoslavija | Nicolas Wagnières | Switzerland |
Je vois rouge (I See Red People) |
Bojina Panayotova | France, Bulgaria |
Kinshasa Makambo | Dieudo Hamadi | Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar, Norway |
MATANGI / MAYA / MIA | Steve Loveridge | UK, Sri Lanka |
Obscuro Barroco | Evangelia Kranioti | France, Greece |
partisan |
Lutz Pehnert , Matthias Ehlert , Adama Ulrich |
Germany |
(The Trial) |
O processo Maria Ramos | Brazil, Germany, Netherlands |
Shakedown | Leilah wine robbery | United States |
Shut Up and Play the Piano | Philipp Jedicke | Germany, France, Great Britain |
The Silence of Others |
Almudena Carracedo , Robert Bahar |
USA, Spain |
The Silk and the Flame | Jordan Schiele | United States |
That summer | Göran Hugo Olsson | Sweden, Denmark, USA |
THF Central Airport | Karim Ainouz | Germany, Brazil France |
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 have been shown at a non-European festival, broadcast in the country of origin on television or distributed via video-on-demand. European films (with the exception of German productions) were allowed to have been released at a national festival in the country of origin or to have had a national theatrical release. Section head is Christoph Terhechte .
The 48th edition of the forum showed 44 films in the main program, including 35 world premieres.
- 14 Apples - Director: Midi Z, Taiwan (Myanmar)
- Afrique, la pensée en mouvement Part I - Director: Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Senegal)
- Aggregat - Director: Marie Wilke (Germany)
- Amiko - Director: Yoko Yamanaka (Japan)
- Apatride (Stateless) - Director: Narjiss Nejjar (Morocco, France, Qatar)
- Departure - Director: Ludwig Wüst (Austria)
- La cama (The Bed) - Director: Mónica Lairana (Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil)
- La casa lobo (The Wolf House) - Director: Joaquín Cociña , Cristóbal León (Chile)
- Casanovagen - Director: Luise Donschen (Germany)
- Classical Period - Director: Ted Fendt (USA)
- Con el viento (Facing the Wind) - Director: Meritxell Colell Aparicio (Spain, France, Argentina)
- Los débiles (The Weak Ones) - Directors: Raúl Rico , Eduardo Giralt Brun (Mexico)
- Den 'Pobedy (Victory Day) - Director: Sergei Loznitsa (Germany)
- Die Tomorrow - Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Thailand)
- Djamilia (Jamila) - Director: Aminatou Echard (France)
- Drvo (The Tree) - Director: André Gil Mata (Portugal)
- An Elephant Sitting Still - Director: Hu Bo (People's Republic of China)
- L'empire de la perfection (In the Realm of Perfection) - Director: Julien Faraut (France)
- Fotbal infinit (Infinite Football) - Director: Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania)
- Grass - Director: Hong Sang-soo (Republic of Korea)
- The Green Fog - Directors: Guy Maddin , Evan Johnson , Galen Johnson (USA, Canada)
- Supporting film: Accidence - Directors: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson (Canada)
- Interchange - Directors: Brian M. Cassidy , Melanie Shatzky (Canada)
- Jahilya - Director: Hicham Lasri (Morocco, France)
- Kaotični život Nade Kadić (The Chaotic Life of Nada Kadić) - Director: Marta Hernaiz (Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Last Child - Director: Shin Dong-seok (Republic of Korea)
- Madeline's Madeline - Director: Josephine Decker (USA)
- Maki'la - Director: Machérie Ekwa Bahango (Democratic Republic of the Congo, France)
- Mariphasa - Director: Sandro Aguilar (Portugal)
- Minatomachi (Inland Sea) - Director: Kazuhiro Soda (Japan, USA)
- Notes On an Appearance - Director: Ricky D'Ambrose (USA)
- Old Love - Director: Park Kiyong (Republic of Korea)
- Our House - Director: Yui Kiyohara (Japan)
- Our Madness - Director: João Viana (Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Qatar, Portugal, France)
- Premières armes (First Stripes) - Director: Jean-François Caissy (Canada)
- Premières solitudes (Young Solitude) - Director: Claire Simon (France)
- SPK Complex - Director: Gerd Kroske (Germany)
- Syn (The Son) - Director: Alexander Abaturov (France, Russian Federation)
- Teatro de guerra (Theater of War) - Director: Lola Arias (Argentina, Spain)
- Tuzdan kaide (The Pillar of Salt) - Director: Burak Çevik (Turkey)
- Unas preguntas (One or Two Questions) - Director: Kristina Konrad (Germany, Uruguay)
- Waldheim's Waltz - Director: Ruth Beckermann (Austria)
- Wieża. Jasny dzień. (Tower. A Bright Day.) - Director: Jagoda Szelc (Poland)
- Wild Relatives - Director: Jumana Manna (Germany, Lebanon, Norway)
- Yours in Sisterhood - Director: Irene Lusztig (USA)
At the same time, the Forum Expanded has existed since 2006 , presenting artistic film and video installations and performances at various locations in Berlin. For 2018, 34 films and video works of all lengths and genres as well as 15 installations from a total of 27 countries were registered.
generation
This Berlinale section shows suitable international film productions for children and young people. Long films with a running time of at least 60 minutes and short films with a maximum duration of 20 minutes that were completed within twelve months before the start of the festival were allowed. Foreign productions may be shown in advance at a non-European festival, broadcast in the country of origin on television or distributed via video-on-demand . European films (with the exception of German productions) are 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 had a national theatrical release. The head of the section is Maryanne Redpath. The first contributions were published in December 2017. In 2018, 65 full-length and short films from 39 countries from over 2000 submissions were invited to the Generation Kplus (opening film: 303 ) and Generation 14plus (opening film: Cirkeline, Coco og det vilde næsehorn ) competitions.
As an award, a Crystal Bear is given to a feature film and a documentary by a children's (eleven Berlin children aged 11 to 14 years) and a youth jury (seven young people between 14 and 18 years of age). There is a separate international Generation Kplus jury that awards cash prizes for the best feature-length and short film donated by the German Children's Fund . Another international jury, on behalf of the Federal Agency for Civic Education , awards a grand prize for the best feature film and a special prize for the best short film.
Generation 14plus
Feature films:
- 303 - Director: Hans Weingartner (Germany) - opening film
- Adam - Director: Maria Solrun (Germany, Iceland, USA, Mexico)
- Cobain - Director: Nanouk Leopold (Netherlands, Belgium, Germany)
- Danmark (Denmark) - Director: Kasper Rune Larsen (Denmark)
- Dressage - Director: Pooya Badkoobeh (Iran)
- Les faux tatouages (FakeTattoos) - Director: Pascal Plante (Canada)
- Fortuna - Director: Germinal Roaux (Switzerland, Belgium)
- Güvercin (The Pigeon) - Director: Banu Sıvacı (Turkey)
- Hendi & Hormoz - Director: Abbas Amini (Iran, Czech Republic)
- High Fantasy - Director: Jenna Bass (South Africa)
- Kissing Candice - Director: Aoife McArdle (Ireland, Great Britain)
- Para Aduma (Red Cow) - Director: Tsivia Barkai (Israel)
- Retablo - Director: Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio L. (Peru, Germany, Norway)
- Unicórnio (Unicorn) - Director: Eduardo Nunes (Brazil)
- Virus Tropical - Director: Santiago Caicedo (Colombia, France)
- What Walaa Wants - Director: Christy Garland (Canada, Denmark)
Short films:
- Fry-Up - Director: Charlotte Regan (Great Britain)
- Follower - Director: Jonathan B. Behr (Germany)
- Je fais où tu me dis (Dressed for Pleasure) - Director: Marie de Maricourt (Switzerland)
- Juck - Directors: Olivia Kastebring , Julia Gumpert , Ulrika Bandeira (Sweden)
- Kiem Holijanda - Director: Sarah Veltmeyer (Netherlands)
- Well zdrowie! (Bless You!) - Director: Paulina Ziólkowska (Poland)
- Neputovanja (Untravel) - Director: Ana Nedeljković , Nikola Majdak Jr. (Serbia, Slovak Republic)
- Nuuca - Director: Michelle Latimer (USA, Canada)
- Playa (Beach) - Director: Francisco Borrajo (Mexico)
- Pop Rox - Director: Nate Trinrud (USA)
- Premier amour (First Love) - Director: Jules Carrin (Switzerland)
- Sinfonía de un mar triste (Symphony of a Sad Sea) - Director: Carlos Morales (Mexico)
- Tangles and Knots - Director: Renée Marie Petropoulos (Australia)
- Three Centimeters - Director: Lara Zeidan (Great Britain)
- Vermine (Vermin) - Director: Jeremie Becquer (Denmark)
- Voltage - Director: Samira Ghahremani (Austria)
Generation Kplus
Feature films:
- Allons enfants (Cléo & Paul) - Director: Stéphane Demoustier (France)
- Los Bando - Director: Christian Lo (Norway, Sweden)
- Blue Wind Blows - Director: Tetsuya Tomina (Japan)
- Ceres - Director: Janet van den Brand (Belgium, Netherlands)
- Cirkeline, Coco og det vilde næsehorn ( Circleen, Coco And the Wild Rhinoceros) - Director: Jannik Hastrup (Denmark) - opening film
- El día que resistía - Director: Alessia Chiesa (Argentina, France)
- Dikkertje Dap (My Giraffe) - Director: Barbara Bredero (Netherlands, Belgium, Germany)
- Gordon och Paddy (Gordon and Paddy) - Director: Linda Hambäck (Sweden)
- Mochila de plomo (Packing Heavy) - Director: Darío Mascambroni (Argentina)
- Les rois mongols (Cross My Heart) - Director: Luc Picard (Canada)
- Sekala Niskala (The Seen and Unseen) - Director: Kamila Andini (Indonesia, Netherlands, Australia, Qatar)
- Supa Modo - Director: Likarion Wainaina (Germany, Kenya)
- Den utrolige historie om den kæmpestore pære (The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear) - directed by Philip Einstein Lipski , Amalie Næsby Fick , Jørgen Lerdam (Denmark)
- Wang Zha de yuxue (Wangdrak's Rain Boots) - Director: Lhapal Gyal (People's Republic of China)
Short films:
- A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl - Director: Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Australia)
- L'après-midi de Clémence (The Afternoon of Clémence) - Director: Lénaïg Le Moigne (France)
- Vdol´ i poperyok (Between the Lines) - Director: Maria Koneva (Russian Federation)
- Brottas (Tweener) - Director: Julia Thelin
- Cena d'aragoste (Lobster Dinner) - Director: Gregorio Franchetti (USA, Italy)
- De Natura - Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović (Romania)
- Fisketur (Out Fishing) - Director: Uzi Geffenblad (Sweden)
- Fire in Cardboard City - Director: Phil Brough (New Zealand)
- Hvalagapet - Director: Liss-Anett Steinskog (Norway)
- Jaalgedi (A Curious Girl) - Director: Rajesh Prasad Khatri (Nepal)
- Lost & Found - Director: Bradley Slabe (Australia)
- Neko no Hi (Cat Days) - Director: Jon Frickey
- Paper Crane - Director: Takumi Kawakami (Australia)
- Pinguin (Penguin) - Director: Julia Ocker (Germany)
- Snijeg za Vodu (Snow for Water) - Director: Christopher Villiers (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Great Britain)
- Toda mi alegría (All My Joy) - Micaela Gonzalo (Argentina)
- Tråder (Threads) - Director: Torill Kove (Norway, Canada)
- Trois rêves de ma jeunesse (Three Dreams of My Childhood) - Director: Valérie Mréjen , Bertrand Schefer (Romania)
- Yover - Director: Edison Sánchez (Colombia)
Perspective German cinema
The Perspective German Cinema section, created at the suggestion of Dieter Kosslick in 2002, presents both short and long feature, documentary and experimental films by young German filmmakers with a minimum length of 20 minutes. It is aimed at talented directors who are at the beginning of their careers. Previous participation of the entries at a film festival was not an exclusion criterion. The head of the section is Linda Söffker.
Among the entries, the “Kompagnon” sponsorship award introduced in 2017 (grant of 5000 euros / 2500 euros for short films), the GWFF Best First Feature Award (endowed with 50,000 euros) and the Glashütte Original Documentary Film Award (endowed with 50,000 euros) were awarded.
The contributions were announced on December 21, 2017 and January 12, 2018.
Documentaries:
- The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life - Director: Zita Erffa
- outside - directed by Johanna Sunder-Plassmann , Tama Tobias-Macht
- Impreza - Das Fest - Director: Alexandra Wesolowski
- Everywhere we are - Director: Veronika Kaserer
Feature films:
- The Defect Cat - Director: Susan Gordanshekan (with Pegah Ferydoni , Hadi Khanjanpour , Henrike von Kuick , Constantin von Jascheroff , Arash Marandi )
- After-work beer - Director: Ben Brummer (with Tilman Strauss , Julia Dietze , Johann Jürgens , Christian Tramitz )
- No Safe Place - Director: Antje bein ( Lucia Stickel , Kristina Pauls , Robin Sondermann )
- Kineski zid (Great Wall of China) - Director: Aleksandra Odic (with Elena Matić , Tina Keserović , Faketa Salihbegović-Avdagić , Anja Stanić , Mugdim Avdagić )
- Luz - Director: Tilman Singer (with Luana Velis , Jan Bluthardt , Julia Riedler , Nadja Stübiger , Johannes Benecke )
- Rå - Director: Sophia Bösch (with Sofia Aspholm , Lennart Jähkel , Lars T. Johansson , Ingmar Virta , Ivan Mathias Petersson )
- Tailwind from the front (opening film) - Director: Philipp Eichholtz (with Victoria Schulz , Aleksandar Radenković , Daniel Zillmann , Angelika Waller )
- Storkow Kalifornia (opening film) - Director: Kolja Malik (with Daniel Roth , Lana Cooper , Franziska Ponitz )
- Lost - Director: Felix Hassenfratz (with Maria Dragus , Anna Bachmann , Clemens Schick , Enno Trebs , Meira Durand )
- Whatever Happens Next - Director: Julian Pörksen (with Sebastian Rudolph , Lilith Stangenberg , Peter René Lüdicke , Christine Hoppe , Eike Weinreich )
Berlinale Special
In the Berlinale Special section , extraordinary new productions are shown, films by or about personalities who have been awarded with the Berlinale Camera , as well as selected international series (Berlinale Series). The following contributions were shown in the section:
- AMERICA Land of the FreeKS - Director: Ulli Lommel (Germany) - Documentary
- Der Buchladen der Florence Green (The Bookshop) - Director: Isabel Coixet (Spain, Great Britain, Germany) - with Emily Mortimer , Bill Nighy , Patricia Clarkson
- Dolmetscher (The Interpreter) - directed by Martin Šulík (Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Austria) - with Peter Simonischek , Jiří Menzel , Zuzana Mauréry , Attila Mokos , Anna Rakovská
- Gurrumul - Director: Paul Williams (Australia) - Documentary (in cooperation with the special event NATIVe )
- The Happy Prince - Director: Rupert Everett (Germany, Belgium, Italy) - with Colin Firth , Emily Watson , Colin Morgan , Edwin Thomas, Rupert Everett
- Monster Hunt 2 - Director: Raman Hui (People's Republic of China / Hong Kong, China) - with Tony Leung Chiu Wai , Baihe Bai , Boran Jing
- RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY - Director: Stephen Nomura Schible (USA, Japan) - Documentary
- The silent classroom - directed by Lars Kraume (Germany) - with Leonard Scheicher , Tom Gramenz , Lena Klenke , Jonas Dassler , Florian Lukas , Jördis Triebel , Michael Gwisdek , Ronald Zehrfeld , Burghart Klaußner
- Songwriter - Director: Murray Cummings (Great Britain) - Documentary
- Unga Astrid (Becoming Astrid) - Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen (Sweden, Germany, Denmark) - with Alba August , Trine Dyrholm , Magnus Krepper , Maria Bonnevie , Henrik Rafaelsen
- Usedom - The unobstructed view of the sea - Director: Heinz Brinkmann (Germany) - Documentary
- Viaje a los Pueblos Fumigados - Director: Fernando Solanas (Argentina) - Documentary
The Berlinale Special Series , in which television series are presented, was given a new venue in 2018 under the new title Berlinale Series with the Zoo Palast .
- Bad Banks , Episodes 1–2 ( ZDF , Arte ) - directed by Christian Schwochow (Germany, Luxembourg) - with Paula Beer , Barry Atsma , Désirée Nosbusch , Albrecht Schuch , Mai Duong Kieu , Marc Limpach , Tobias Moretti
- Heimebane, episodes 1–2 ( Home Ground , NRK ) - directed by Arild Andresen (Norway) - with Ane Dahl Torp , John Carew
- Liberty, Episodes 1–2 ( DR ) - directed by Mikael Marcimain (Denmark) - with Connie Nielsen , Carsten Bjørnlund , Sofie Gråbøl , Magnus Krepper , Charlie Karumi , Anton Hjejle
- The Looming Tower, episodes 1–2 ( Amazon , Hulu ) - directed by Alex Gibney (USA) - with Jeff Daniels , Tahar Rahim , Peter Sarsgaard , Wrenn Schmidt , Bill Camp , Michael Stuhlbarg
- Picnic at Hanging Rock , episodes 1–2 ( Foxtel ) - directed by Larysa Kondracki (Australia) - with Natalie Dormer , Lily Sullivan , Madeleine Madden , Samara Weaving , Lola Bessis , Yael Stone , Inez Currõ , Harrison Gilbertson , Ruby Rees
- Sleeping Bears, Episodes 1–2 ( Keshet Broadcasting ) - Director: Keren Margalit (Israel) - with Noa Koler , Yossi Marshek , Alma Zak , Yaakov Zada Daniel , Doron Tavory
- The Terror , Episodes 1–2 ( AMC , AMC Networks International, Amazon) - Director: Edward Berger (USA) - with Jared Harris , Tobias Menzies , Ciarán Hinds , Adam Nagaitis , Paul Ready
Retrospective and Berlinale Classics
Retrospectives on film history have been held at the Berlinale since 1977 in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek . In 2018, the retrospective entitled “Weimar Cinema - Newly Seen” will be devoted to films from the Weimar Republic . The plan was to show 28 programs with feature films, documentaries and short films from the years 1918 to 1933, which concentrated on the themes of “exoticism”, “everyday life” and “history” and were not counted among the narrowest canons of Weimar cinema.
- Tolirag covers all circles - Director: Oskar Fischinger (1933/34, short film)
- The Adventure of a Beautiful Woman - Director: Hermann Kosterlitz (19328)
- Astray - Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1928)
- Alexanderplatz surprised - Director: Peter Pewas (1932–34, short film)
- The other side - directed by Heinz Paul (1931)
- Barcarole - Director: Hermann Diehl , Ferdinand Diehl (1932, short film)
- The blue light - directed by Leni Riefenstahl (1932)
- Brothers - Director: Werner Hochbaum (1929)
- The Carmen von St. Pauli - Director: Erich Waschneck (1928)
- Color film trials. Demo film for Sirius color process - Director: Ludwig Horst , Hans Horst (1929, short film)
- The Queen's Favorite - Director: Franz Seitz sen. (1922)
- Film study - Director: Hans Richter (1928, short film)
- Fishing in the Rhön (on the Sinn) - Director: Ella Bergmann-Michel (1932, short film)
- Spring Awakening - Director: Richard Oswald (1929)
- Homecoming - Directed by Joe May (1928)
- Heaven on Earth - Director: Reinhold Schünzel , Alfred Schirokauer (1927)
- Her Majesty Love - Directed by Joe May (1931)
- Through two worlds in a car - directed by Clärenore Stinnes , Carl-Axel Söderström (1927–1931)
- In a small pastry shop - Director: Robert Wohlmuth (1930, short film)
- Inflation - Director: Hans Richter (1928, short film)
- Comradeship - Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1931)
- The fight for the Matterhorn - Director: Mario Bonnard , Nunzio Malasomma (1928)
- The Katzensteg - Director: Gerhard Lamprecht (1927)
- The lamp of Asia - Director: Franz Osten (1925)
- A Song of Life - Directed by Alexis Granowsky (1931)
- Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria - Director: Wilhelm Dieterle (1930)
- Market in Berlin - Director: Wilfried Basse (1929, short film)
- People in the Bush - Director: Friedrich Dalsheim , Gulla Pfeffer (1930, documentary)
- Milak, the Greenland Hunter - Director: Bernhard Villinger , Georg Asagaroff (1927, documentary)
- With the camera through old Berlin - Director: Anonymus (short documentary film, 1928)
- Life begins tomorrow - Director: Werner Hochbaum (1933)
- Opium - Directed by Robert Reinert , Nunzio Malasomma (1919)
- Palm Magic - Director: Wolfgang Kaskeline (1933/34, short film)
- Pitsch and Patsch - Director: Rudolf Pfenninger (1932, short film)
- Police report robbery - Director: Ernő Metzner (1929, short film)
- The winner - Director: Julius Pinschewer , Walther Ruttmann (1922, short film)
- Song. The love of a poor human child - Director: Richard Eichberg (1928)
- Explosive excavator 1010 - Director: Karl-Ludwig Acház-Duisberg (1929)
- The illegitimate - Director: Gerhard Lamprecht (1926)
- Wasserfreuden im Tierpark - Director: Anonymous (1931, short film)
- Weltbrand (1920) / Escape from the golden dungeon (1921) - directed by Urban Gad
- Where do old people live? - Director: Ella Bergmann-Michel (1932)
- Das Wunder - Director: Julius Pinschewer, Walther Ruttmann (1922, short film)
- Two colors - Director: Wolfgang Kaskeline (1933, short film)
In addition, new restorations of film classics and rediscovered works are included in the program in the Berlinale Classics series. World premieres of the digitally restored versions of the following films were shown:
- The old law - Director: Ewald André Dupont (1923)
- Assault Target Moscow (Fail Safe) - Director: Sidney Lumet (1964)
- The sky over Berlin - Director: Wim Wenders (1987)
- Life According to Agfa - Night Shots (החיים על פי אגפא) - Director: Assi Dayan (1992)
- My 20th Century (Az én XX. Századom) - Director: Ildikó Enyedi (1989)
- Tokyo at Dusk (東京 暮色, Tōkyō Boshoku ) - Director: Yasujirō Ozu (1957)
- When the cranes move (Летят журавли, Letjat schurawli ) - directed by Mikhail Kalatosow (1957)
Award winners
International competition
- Golden Bear : Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie
- Silver Bear - Grand Jury Prize : Małgorzata Szumowska for Twarz
- Alfred Bauer Prize : Marcelo Martinessi for Las herederas
- Silver Bear - Best Director : Wes Anderson for Isle of Dogs - Atari's Journey
- Silver Bear - Best Actress : Ana Brun for Las herederas
- Silver Bear - Best Actor : Anthony Bajon for La prière
- Silver Bear - Best Screenplay : Manuel Alcalá and Alonso Ruizpalacios for Museo
- Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Achievement : Elena Okopnaya (costumes and production design) for Dovlatov
Berlinale shorts
- Golden Bear for the best short film : The Men Behind the Wall by Ines Moldavsky
- Silver Bear - Jury Prize : Imfura by Samuel Ishimwe
- Audi Short Film Award: Solar Walk by Réka Bucsi
- Berlinale nomination for the European Film Award : Burkina Brandenburg Complex by Ulu Braun
documentary
- Glashütte Original Documentary Award: Waldheim's Waltz by Ruth Beckermann
- Honorable Mention: Ex Pajé (Ex Shaman) by Luiz Bolognesi
First film
- Best debut film: Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie
- Honorable Mention: To Elephant Sitting Still by Hu Bo
Independent juries
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury : In the aisles by Thomas Stuber (competition), Styx by Wolfgang Fischer (Panorama), Teatro de guerra (Theater of War) by Lola Arias (Forum)
- FIPRESCI Prize : Las herederas (The Heiresses) by Marcelo Martinessi (competition), On the riverside by Isao Yukisada (panorama), An Elephant Sitting Still by Hu Bo (forum)
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Teddy Award : Tinta Bruta (Hard Paint) by Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher (feature film), Bixa Travesty (Tranny Fag) by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman (documentary / essay film), Three Centimeters by Lara Zeidan (short film)
- L'Oreal Teddy Newcomer award: Retablo by Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio L.
- Teddy Readers' Award powered by team: Las herederas (The Heiresses) by Marcelo Martinessi
- Gilde Film Prize: In the corridors of Thomas Stuber
- CICAE Prize: Tinta Bruta (Hard Paint) by Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher (Panorama), Teatro de guerra (Theater of War) by Lola Arias (Forum)
- Label Europa Cinemas: Styx by Wolfgang Fischer
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Panorama audience award
- Best feature film: Profiles by Timur Bekmambetov
- Best Documentary: The Silence of Others by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
- Special Jury Award: Obscuro Barroco by Evangelia Kranioti
- Caligari Film Prize: La casa lobo (The Wolf House) by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña
- Peace Film Prize: The Silence of Others by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar
- Amnesty International Prize: Central Airport THF by Karim Aïnouz
- Heiner Carow Prize of the DEFA Foundation : Styx by Wolfgang Fischer
- Berliner Morgenpost reader award : Dovlatov by Alexey German Jr (competition)
- Tagesspiegel readers' award : L'empire de la perfection (In the Realm of Perfection) by Julien Faraut (Forum)
- Kompass-Perspektive-Preis: Everywhere we are by Veronika Kaserer
- Partner-prizes: When a Farm Goes Aflame, the flakes Fly Home to bear the Tale of Jide Tom Akinleminu (Berlinale Talent 2018), bloodsuckers of Julian Radlmaier (Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017)
- ARTE International Prize: The War Has Ended by Hagar Ben Asher, produced by Madants (Poland), Match Factory Productions (Germany) and Transfax Film Productions (Israel)
- Eurimages Co-Production Development Award: Madants (Poland), Match Factory Productions (Germany) and Transfax Film Productions (Israel) for The War Has Ended (Director: Hagar Ben Asher)
- VFF Talent Highlight Award: Producer Jing Wang (People's Republic of China) for Tropical Memories (Director: Shipei Wen)
Web links
- Official website
- Holger Twele: Festival report Berlinale 2018: Generation section on KinderundJugendmedien.de (2018).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs - Atari's Journey' opens the 68th Berlinale ( memento of the original from December 4, 2017 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 4, 2017 (accessed December 4, 2017).
- ↑ The Berlinale program at berlinale.de (accessed on November 2, 2017).
- ↑ Pilarczyk, Hannah: Weltgeschehen at the Berlinale: The highlights from 385 films at spiegel.de, February 14, 2018 (accessed February 15, 2018).
- ↑ Homage ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted 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, February 6, 2018 (accessed February 6, 2018).
- ↑ Berlinale Camera 2018: Honors for Beki Probst, Katriel Schory and Jiří Menzel ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2018 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, February 6, 2018 (accessed February 6, 2018).
- ↑ Berlinale on #MeToo. Press release. In: berlinale.de. February 6, 2018, accessed August 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Deniz Yücel leaves prison and is free. In: welt.de. February 16, 2018, accessed February 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Tom Tykwer becomes jury president of the Berlinale 2018 at berlinale.de, November 2, 2017 (accessed November 2, 2017).
- ↑ Prizes of the International Jury at berlinale.de, February 6, 2018 (accessed February 6, 2018).
- ↑ Tom Tykwer misses "wild and bulky films" . In: focus.de, February 9, 2018 (accessed February 24, 2018).
- ↑ Golden Bear for Romanian sex film . In: faz.net, February 24, 2018 (accessed February 24, 2018).
- ↑ a b Berlinale 2018: Benoit Jacquot, Gus Van Sant, Alexey German Jr., Małgorzata Szumowska, Philip Gröning, Thomas Stuber and Laura Bispuri in the competition / Isabel Coixet and Lars Kraume in the Berlinale Special ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in 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 18, 2017 (accessed December 18, 2017).
- ↑ a b Competition and Berlinale Special: Christian Petzold, Emily Atef, Lance Daly, Marcelo Martinessi, Cédric Kahn, Adina Pintilie, Markus Imhoof, Mani Haghighi, Måns Månsson and Axel Petersén, David and Nathan Zellner in the competition program / Raman Hui, Fernando Solanas , Paul Williams in the Berlinale Special ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2018 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 15, 2018 (accessed January 15, 2018).
- ↑ a b Competition and Berlinale Special: Soderbergh, Diaz, Padilha, Ruizpalacios and Lazarov in the competition - Everett, Fischer Christensen, Lommel, Brinkmann, Nomura Schible and Šulík in the Berlinale Special ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2018 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 22, 2018 (accessed January 23, 2018).
- ↑ a b Competition and Berlinale Special complete ( memento of the original dated February 7, 2018 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, February 6, 2018 (accessed February 6, 2018).
- ↑ Berlinale Shorts guidelines at berlinale.de (accessed December 14, 2016).
- ↑ a b Berlinale Shorts 2018: International competition and special program “1968 - Red flags for everyone” ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2018 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 9, 2018 (accessed January 10, 2018).
- ↑ Berlinale Shorts presents the International Short Film Jury 2018: Diogo Costa Amarante, Jyoti Mistry and Mark Toscano ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2018 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, 2018 (accessed January 5, 2018).
- ↑ Section description at berlinale.de (accessed December 25, 2016).
- ↑ Berlinale: Wieland Speck takes on new tasks and hands over the Panorama management after 25 years ( memento of the original from November 7, 2017 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, August 21, 2017 (accessed November 2, 2017).
- ↑ Panorama 2018: Disobedience - "Body Politics", appearance against machismo and the great presence of Latin America ( memento of the original from December 17, 2017 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 15, 2017 (accessed December 16, 2017).
- ↑ Berlinale Panorama 2018 complete: What's Your Poison? ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 25, 2018 (accessed February 5, 2018).
- ↑ Section description at berlinale.de (accessed on February 5, 2018).
- ↑ Forum regulations at berlinale.de (accessed on February 5, 2018).
- ↑ Forum 2018: In the Realm of Perfection - and elsewhere ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2018 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, 2018 (accessed February 5, 2018).
- ↑ 13. Forum Expanded - the complete program ( memento of the original from February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 17, 2018 (accessed January 18, 2018).
- ↑ Guidelines 2018 at berlinale.de (accessed December 26, 2017).
- ↑ Generation 2018: Of real fairy tales and fairytale-like realities ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2017 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, 2017 (accessed December 26, 2017).
- ↑ Generation 2018: Holding up a mirror to reality ( memento of the original from January 18, 2018 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 17, 2018 (accessed January 17, 2018).
- ↑ a b section information at berlinale.de (accessed on December 26, 2017).
- ↑ Perspective Deutsches Kino 2018 opens with a tailwind from the front by Philipp Eichholtz ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, December 21, 2017 (accessed December 26, 2017).
- ↑ Perspective Deutsches Kino 2018: “Whatever Happens Next” ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2018 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 12, 2018 (accessed January 12, 2018).
- ↑ Section description at berlinale.de (accessed December 18, 2017).
- ↑ The series formats of the Berlinale will find a new center in the Zoo Palast in 2018 ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2017 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, October 20, 2017 (accessed November 2, 2017).
- ↑ Berlinale Special 2018: Berlinale Series presents long-awaited series highlights and puts newcomers in the spotlight ( memento of the original from February 6, 2018 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, 2018 (accessed February 5, 2018).
- ↑ Retrospective 2018: “Weimar Cinema - Newly Seen” ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2017 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, November 2, 2017 (accessed November 2, 2017).
- ↑ Berlinale Classics 2018: EA Dupont's old law - world premiere of the digitally restored version ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2017 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 5, 2017 (accessed December 15, 2017).
- ↑ Berlinale Classics 2018: Seven restorations are celebrating their world premieres ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 16, 2018 (accessed January 17, 2018).
- ↑ Berlinale: Awards for Independent Juries . Retrieved February 24, 2018.