Berlin International Film Festival 2019

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Nadav Lapid (center) together with his actors Tom Mercier and Louise Chevillotte and the Golden Bear for Synonymes
Dieter Kosslick will be Berlinale Director for the last time in 2019.

The 69th  Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) took place from February 7th to 17th, 2019. They were held for the 18th and last time under the direction of Dieter Kosslick , who will be replaced by Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek in 2020 .

The festival opened with the ensemble film The Kindness of Strangers by Lone Scherfig , who also competed for the Golden Bear . The final program was officially presented on January 29, 2019. The international co-production Synonymes by the Israeli director Nadav Lapid was awarded the main prize of the festival .

The British actress Charlotte Rampling was honored with the Honorary Golden Bear for her life's work and a tribute at the festival .

Official Sections

International competition

International jury

The members of the jury before the award ceremony: v. l. No. Sebastián Lelio, Juliette Binoche, Rajendra Roy, Trudie Styler, Justin Chang and Sandra Hüller

Juliette Binoche was presented as jury president in December 2018 . In the past, the French actress has made several films at the Berlinale, including in the competition ( The Night is Young , 1987 ; The English Patient , 1997 - Actor Award ; Chocolat - A Small Bite Is Enough , 2001 ; In My Country , 2004 ; Camille Claudel 1915 , 2013 ; Nobody Wants the Night , opening film 2015 ), in the sections Panorama ( The Better Life , 2012 ) and Forum ( Die Liebenden von Pont-Neuf , 1992 ). In 1993 Binoche was also honored with the Berlinale Camera .

The jury president was assisted by several jury members who were named at the official presentation of the program on January 29, 2019:

Movies

Invited again in 2019 to the competition for the Golden Bear
Director Invitations
François Ozon 5
Isabel Coixet ,
Hans Petter Moland ,
Wang Quan'an 		4th
Denis Côté ,
Agnieszka Holland ,
Wang Xiaoshuai 		3
Fatih Akin ,
Lone Scherfig 		2

The selection of films in the competition for the Golden Bear was announced on December 13, 2018, January 10 and 17, 2019. Of the originally 17 films in the competition, the Chinese entry Yi miao zhong (One Second) by Zhang Yimou could not be officially shown four days before the premiere due to technical problems in post-production .

Film title (reference title) Director country Actor (selection)
The ground under your feet Marie Kreutzer Austria Valerie Pachner , Pia Hierzegger , Mavie Hörbiger , Michelle Barthel , Marc Benjamin , Axel Sichrovsky , Dominic Marcus Singer , Meo Wulf
Di jiu tian chang Wang Xiaoshuai People's Republic of China Wang Jingchun , Yong Mei , Qi Xi , Wang Yuan , Du Jiang , Ai Liya , Xu Cheng , Li Jingjing , Zhao Yanguozhang
Elisa y Marcela
(Elisa & Marcela) 		Isabel Coixet Spain Natalia de Molina , Greta Fernández , Sara Casasnovas , Tamar Novas , María Pujalte
Praise be to God
(Grâce à Dieu) 		François Ozon France Melvil Poupaud , Denis Ménochet , Swann Arlaud , Éric Caravaca , François Marthouret , Bernard Verley , Martine Erhel , Josiane Balasko , Hélène Vincent , François Chattot , Frédéric Pierrot
The golden glove Fatih Akin Germany, France Jonas Dassler , Margarethe Tiesel , Hark Bohm
Gospod postoi, imeto i 'e Petrunija
(God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija) 		Teona Strugar Mitevska Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, France Zorica Nusheva , Labina Mitevska , Simeon Moni Damevski , Suad Begovski , Violeta Shapkovska , Stefan Vujisic , Xhevdet Jasari , Andrijana Kolevska
Ghost Town Anthology
(Répertoire des villes disparues) 		Denis Côté Canada Robert Naylor , Josée Deschênes , Jean-Michel Anctil , Larissa Corriveau , Rémi Goulet , Diane Lavallée , Hubert Proulx , Rachel Graton , Normand Carrière , Jocelyne Zucco
I was at home but ... Angela Schanelec Germany, Serbia Maren Eggert , Franz Rogowski , Lilith Stangenberg , Jakob Lassalle , Clara Möller
The Kindness of Strangers Lone Scherfig Denmark, Canada, Sweden, Germany, France Zoe Kazan , Tahar Rahim , Andrea Riseborough , Caleb Landry Jones , Jay Baruchel , Bill Nighy
A story of three sisters
(Kız Kardeşler) 		Emin Alper Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, Greece Cemre Ebüziyya , Ece Yüksel , Helin Kandemir , Kayhan Açikgöz , Müfit Kayacan , Kubilay Tunçer
Mr. Jones Agnieszka Holland Poland, Great Britain, Ukraine James Norton , Vanessa Kirby , Peter Sarsgaard
Öndög Wang Quan'an Mongolia Dulamjav Enkhtaivan , Aorigeletu , Norovsambuu Batmunkh
Paranza - The Clan of Children
(La paranza dei bambini) 		Claudio Giovannesi Italy Francesco Di Napoli , Ar Tem , Viviana Aprea , Pasquale Marotta
Stealing horses
(Ut og stjæle hester) 		Hans Petter Moland Norway, Sweden, Denmark Stellan Skarsgård , Tobias Santelmann , Bjørn Floberg , Danica Curcic
Synonymes
(synonyms) 		Nadav Lapid France, Israel, Germany Tom Mercier , Quentin Dolmaire , Louise Chevillotte
System sprinkler Nora Fingscheidt Germany Helena Zengel , Albrecht Schuch , Gabriela Maria Schmeide , Lisa Hagmeister

Out of competition:

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. “Different dimensions of power, visibility and knowledge” in conjunction with “the question of participation” were named as the topic. The Berlinale Shorts curator has been the freelance writer and film director Maike Mia Höhne since 2007 .

The entries for the short film competition - 24 films from 17 countries - were announced on January 14, 2019.

In 2019, the International Short Film Jury includes the US Senior Curator at Vimeo Jeffrey Bowers , the Croatian Head of Acquisition at MUBI Vanja Kaludjercic and the artistic director and founder of the RAW Material Company from Senegal Koyo Kouoh . 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.

Film title (reference title) Director country Length
(in min.)
All on a Mardi Gras Day Michal Pietrzyk United States 22 '
Blue boy Manuel Abramovich Argentina, Germany 19 '
Can't You See Them? - Repeat. Clarissa Thieme Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina 09 '
Entropia Flóra Anna Buda Hungary 10 '
Flexible bodies Louis Fried Germany 19 '
Héctor Victoria Giesen Carvajal Chile 19 '
How to Breathe in Kern County Chris Filippone United States 09 '
It has to be lived once and dreamed twice Rainer Kohlberger Germany, Austria 28
Kingdom Tan Wei Keong Singapore 05 '
Leyenda dorada Chema García Ibarra ,
Ion de Sosa 		Spain 11 '
Lidérc úr Luca Tóth Hungary, France 19 '
Mot Khu Dat Tot Pham Ngoc Lan Vietnam 19 '
Në Mes Samir Karahoda Kosovo 15 '
Omarska Varun Sasindran France 19 '
Past Perfect Jorge Jácome Portugal 23 '
Prendre feu Michaël Soyez France 26 '
Rang Mahal Prantik Basu India 27 '
Rise Bárbara Wagner,
Benjamin de Burca 		Brazil, Canada 20 '
Shakti Martín Rejtman Argentina, Chile 19 '
The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay Yen-Chao Lin Canada 11 '
Splash Shen Jie People's Republic of China 09 '
Suc de síndria Irene Moray Spain 22 '
umbra Florian Fischer ,
Johannes Krell 		Germany 20 '
World on board Eva Könnemann Germany 29 '

Out of competition:

  • Al Mahatta - Director: Eltayeb Mahdi (Sudan, 1989, 16 ')
  • Crvene gumene čizme - Director: Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2000, 18 ')

panorama

The program was announced on December 18, 2018 and January 21, 2019. A total of 45 films will be presented with the participation of 38 countries, including 34 world premieres and 19 debut films. The program is divided into 29 feature films and 16 documentaries.

Feature films

Film title (reference title) Director country Actor (selection)
37 seconds HIKARI Japan Mei Kayama , Misuzu Kanno , Makiko Watanabe , Shunsuke Daitō , Yuka Itaya
All my loving Edward Berger Germany Lars Eidinger , Nele Mueller-Stöfen , Hans Löw
Breve historia del planeta verde
(Brief Story from the Green Planet) 		Santiago Loza Argentina, Germany, Brazil, Spain Romina Escobar , Paula Grinszpan , Luis Soda
Buoyancy Rodd Rathjen Australia Sarm Heng , Thanawut Kasro , Mony Ros
Dafne Federico Bondi Italy Carolina Raspanti , Antonio Piovanelli , Stefania Casini
The Day After I'm Gone Nimrod Eldar Israel Menashe Noy , Zohar Meidan
Divino Amor
(Divine Love) 		Gabriel Mascaro Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Denmark, Norway, Sweden Dira Paes , Julio Machado
A Dog Barking at the Moon Xiang Zi People's Republic of China Nan Ji , Naren Hua , Zhang Xinyue
Eynayim Sheli
(Chained) 		Yaron Shani Israel, Germany Eran Naim , Stav Almagor , Stav Patai
La fiera y la fiesta
(Holy Beasts) 		Laura Amelia Guzmán
Israel Cárdenas 		Dominican Republic, Argentina, Mexico Geraldine Chaplin , Udo Kier , Luis Ospina , Jaime Piña , Jackie Ludueña
Flatland Jenna Bass South Africa, Germany, Luxembourg Faith Baloyi , Nicole Fortuin , Izel Bezuidenhout
Flesh Out Michela Occhipinti Italy Beitta Ahmed dykes , Amal Saab Bouh Oumar , Aichetou Abdallahi Najim , Sidi Mohamed Chighaly
Greta Armando Praça Brazil Marco Nanini , Denise Weinberg , Demick Lopes , Gretta Star
Hellhole Bas Devos Belgium, Netherlands Willy Thomas , Alba Rohrwacher , Lubna Azabal , Hamza Belarbi
Jessica Forever Caroline Poggi , Jonathan Vinel France Aomi Muyock , Sebastian Urzendowsky , Augustin Raguenet , Lukas Ionesco , Eddy Suiveng , Paul Hamy , Maya Coline
Kislota
(Acid) 		Alexander Gorchilin Russian Federation Filipp Avdeev , Alexander Kuznetsov , Arina Shevtsova , Alexandra Rebenok , Savva Saveliev
Light of My Life Casey Affleck United States Anna Pniowsky , Casey Affleck, Elisabeth Moss
Mid90s Jonah Hill United States Sunny Suljic , Lucas Hedges , Katherine Waterston , Na-kel Smith , Olan Prenatt
Los miembros de la familia
(Family Members) 		Mateo Bendesky Argentina Tomás Wicz , Laila Maltz , Alejandro Russek
Monos Alejandro Landes Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Uruguay Julianne Nicholson , Moisés Arias , Sofia Buenaventura , Julián Giraldo , Karen Quintero
O beautiful night Xaver Boehm Germany Noah Saavedra , Marko Mandić , Vanessa Loibl
Šavovi ( stitches
) 		Miroslav Terzić Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina Snežana Bogdanović , Marko Baćović , Jovana Stojiljković
The Shadow Play Lou Ye People's Republic of China Jing Boran , Song Jia , Qin Hao , Ma Sichun
skin Guy Nattiv United States Jamie Bell , Danielle Macdonald , Vera Farmiga , Bill Camp , Mike Colter
The souvenir Joanna Hogg Great Britain Honor Swinton-Byrne , Tom Burke , Tilda Swinton
Staff Only Neus Ballus Spain, France Sergi López , Elena Andrada , Ian Samsó , Diomaye A. Ngom , Madeleine C. Ndong
Temblores
(tremors) 		Jayro Bustamante Guatemala, France, Luxembourg Juan Pablo Olyslager , Mauricio Armas Zebadúa , Diane Bathen , María Telón
The miracle in the sea of ​​Sargasso
(To thávma tis thálassas ton Sargassón) 		Syllas Tzoumerkas Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden Angeliki Papoulia , Youla Boudali , Christos Passalis , Argyris Xafis , Thanassis Dovris
우상 (Woo Sang)
(Idol) 		Lee Su-jin South Korea Han Seok-kyu , Sol Kyung-gu , Chun Woo-hee

Documentaries

Film title (reference title) Director country With
La Arrancada
(On the Starting Line) 		Aldemar Matias France, Cuba, Brazil
Breath Uli M Schueppel Germany
A Dog Called Money Seamus Murphy Ireland, Great Britain PJ Harvey
Estou Me Guardando Para Quando O Carnaval Chegar
(Waiting for the Carnival) 		Marcelo Gomes Brazil
Lemebel Joanna Reposi Garibaldi Chile, Colombia
Midnight Traveler Hassan Fazili
Emelie Mahdavian 		USA, UK, Qatar, Canada
normal Adele Tulli Italy, Sweden
Beauty & transience Annekatrin Hendel Germany
Searching Eva Pia Hellenthal Germany
Selfie Agostino Ferrente France, Italy
Serendipity Prune Nourry United States
Shooting the Mafia Kim Longinotto Ireland, USA
Système K
(System K) 		Renaud Barret France
Talking about trees Suhaib Gasmelbari France, Sudan, Germany, Chad, Qatar
Western Arabs Omar Shargawi Denmark, Netherlands
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael Rob Garver United States Sarah Jessica Parker , Quentin Tarantino , Alec Baldwin , David O. Russell , Paul Schrader

Forum

The 49th edition of the forum is to show 39 films in the main program, including 31 world premieres.

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 2018.

As an award, a glass bear is given to a feature film and a documentary film 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:

Short films:

Generation Kplus

Feature films:

Short films:

Special demonstrations

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Jerusalem Sam Spiegel Film School (JSFS), the following short films were shown as outstanding works by the film school:

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.

The entries include the Kompass-Perspektive-Preis (endowed with 5,000 euros), “Kompagnon” sponsorship award (grant of 5,000 euros / 2,500 euros for short films), the GWFF Prize for Best First Feature (endowed with 50,000 euros) and the Glashütte Original Documentary Award (endowed with 50,000 euros) awarded.

The contributions announced so far (excluding the award-winning film of the feature film competition of the Max Ophüls Prize 2019):

Documentaries:

Feature films:

Berlinale Special

Movies
Berlinale Series

Retrospective

Retrospectives on film history have been held at the Berlinale since 1977 in collaboration with the Deutsche Kinemathek . In 2019, the retrospective was devoted to the title “Self-determined. Perspektiven von Filemacherinnen “the filmmaking of female directors in the period from 1968 to 1999. It should include an arc from May Spils ' Zur Ding, Schätze (1968), Im Innern des Wals (1985) by Doris Dörrie to the documentary Mit Haut und Haar (1999) by Martina Döcker and Crescentia Dünßer . In addition, around 20 short and medium-length films were included in individual programs as supporting films. Thematically, the retrospective followed on from the 2016 Berlinale , whose retrospective “Germany 1966 - Cinematic Perspectives in East and West” commemorated the beginning of the careers of West German women directors. The directors Katja von Garnier , Iris Gusner , Jeanine Meerapfel , Helke Misselwitz , Helke Sander , Evelyn Schmidt , Ula Stöckl and Margarethe von Trotta were invited to interviews .

Award winners

International competition

  • Nora Fingscheidt (system sprinkler)

  • Wang Jingchun (Di jiu tian chang)

  • Yong Mei (Di jiu tian chang)

Berlinale shorts

documentary

First film

Independent juries

Web links

Commons : 2019 Berlin Film Festival  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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