Silver Bear / Jury Prize

Norman McLaren, 1956 Laureate

The jury's prize, which was awarded the Silver Bear, honors the second best short film in the competition after the Golden Bear at the annual Berlin Film Festival . The prize was first awarded at the fifth edition of the film festival in 1955 as the "Small Silver Plaque". From 1956 to 1957, untitled Silver Bears were awarded. From 1958 to 1964 the award was known as the “Special Prize for a Particularly Valuable Short Film”. Since 1965 the official name has been the “Jury Prize”, while from 1980 to 1981 the “Special Jury Prize” had been introduced. The international short film jury, which is mostly composed of international filmmakers, votes on the award.

Award winners

year	Original title	German title	Director	Length (in min.)
1955 a	Siam	Siam - country and people	Ralph Wright	32 '
1956 b	Rhythmetic	Funny numbers game	Norman McLaren	09 '
1957	1000 small characters	1000 small characters	Herbert Seggelke	not known
	Big Bill Blues	Big Bill Blues	Jean Delire	18 '
	Plitvicka jezera	Plitvice lakes	Dragoslav Holub	not known
1958	Glass	Glass	Bert Haanstra	11 '
	Queen in the realm of women	Queen in the realm of women	Hans Zickendraht	not known
1959	Hest på holiday	Summer vacation of a horse	Astrid Henning-Jensen	38 '
1960	Diario	newspaper	Juan Berend	not known
	The spoilsport	The spoilsport	Boris from Borresholm	16 '
	I vecchi	The old	Raffaele Andreassi	not known
1961	Land de lage	Land from human hands	George Sluizer	29 '
	Lo specchio, la tigre et la pianura	The mirror, the tiger and the plain	Raffaele Andreassi	not known
	Sirènes	Sirens	Emile Degelin	not known
	Morning On The Lièvre	Tomorrow at Lièvre	David Bairstow	not known
1962	The Ancestors	The ancestors	André Libik	20 '
	Nahanni	The Nahanni prospector	Nicholas Balla	not known
	Test for the West: Berlin	Test for the West: Berlin	Franz Baake	26 '
	Venice	Venice	Kurt Steinwendner	11 '
1963	Flaming Poppies	Luminous poppies	Houshang Shafti	23 '
	The home-made car	The self-made car	James Hill	27 '
	Tovi	The marketplace	Errko Kivikoski	not known
1964	Registration	Registration	Bob Houwer	10 '
	Contrasts	Contrasts	Wolfgang Urchs	not known
	Signals	Signals	Raimond Rühl	not known
	Sunday Lark	Sunday fun	Sanford Semel	11 '
1965	Een zondag op het eiland van de Grande Jatte	A Sunday on the island of the Grande Jatte	Frans Weisz	20 '
1966	Rosalie	Rosalie	Walerian Borowczyk	15 '
1967	Flea Ceoil	Folk music festival	Louis Marcus	not known
1968 c	Krek	Krek	Borivoj Dovnikovic-Bordo	10 '
1969	Presadjivanje Osecanja	Transplant of Feeling	Dejan Djurkovic	11 '
1970	Prize not awarded
1971	In continuo	not known	Vlatko Gilic	12 '
1972	The Selfish Giant	The selfish giant	Peter Sander	26 '
	Tri etide za Milosa i Cathy	Three studies for Cathy and Milos	Joze Pogacnik	11 '
1973	Jozef Sulc	Joseph Schulz	Pedrag Golubovic	11 '
	Sova	The owl	Aleksandar Ilic	11 '
1974	Sea Creatures	Sea animals	Robin Lehman	11 '
	Punitive	The punishment	Olga Madsen	12 '
1975	SSS	Shhhhh	Václav Bedrich	03 '
	Strast	Passion	Aleksandr Illic	12 '
1976	Ominide	not known	not known	35 '
	Trains	Trains	Caleb Deschanel	15 '
1977	Etuda o zkousce	Etude about a rehearsal	Evald Schorm	18 '
	Feniks	Phoenix	Petar Gligorovski	18 '
1978	The contraption	The thing	James Dearden	08th'
	A lot of soupière	On the string	Michel Longuet	07 '
1979	phantom	phantom	René Perraudin	not known
			Uwe Schrader
1980	Rod Gröth ("for the best director")	Rod Groeth	Jörg Moser-Metius	10 '
1981	Ter land, ter zee en in de lucht ("for the best director")	not known	Paul Driessen	10 '
1982	San ge Heshang ("for the best short film script ")	The three monks	A there	19 '
1983	What life promises ("for the best short film director")	What life promises	Egon Haase	12 '
1984	Yu bang xiang zheng	The fight between snipe and mussel	Hu Jinqing	10 '
1985	Paradise (director)	paradise	Ishu Patel	16 '
1986	Auguszta etet	Augusta is feeding	Csaba Varga	04 '
1987	Luxo Jr. ("for the best director")	The little lamp	John Lasseter	02 '
			Bill Reeves
1988	Laska na prvni pohled	love at first sight	Pavel Koutsky	05 '
1989	Udel	The lot	Jaroslava Havettová	12 '
1990	Ilha das flores	Island of flowers	Jorge Furtado	13 '
1991	Posledních 100 let marx-leninismu v cechách	The last 100 years of Marxism-Leninism in Bohemia	Pavel Koutsky	04 '
1992	Prize not awarded
1993	At zije mys!	Long live the mouse!	Pavel Koutsky	06 '
1994	Balthazar	not known	Christophe Fraipont	15 '
1995	My baby left me	not known	Milorad Krstić	08th'
1996	Maalaislaäkäri	A country doctor	Katariina Lillqvist	15 '
1997	Late at night	not known	Stefanie Jordan	05 '
			Stefanie Saghri
			Claudia Zoller
1998	Cinema Alcazar	not known	Florence Jaugey	10 '
1999	Desserts	not known	Jeff Stark	03 '
2000	Media	not known	Pavel Koutsky	05 '
2001	Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy # 1	not known	Frank Fitzpatrick	06 '
2002	Bror min	My brother	Jens Jonsson	10 '
2003	En ausencia	In absence	Lucía Cedrón	15 '
	Ischov tramwai N ° 9	Tram N ° 9 runs	Stepan Koval	10 '
2004	Vet!	Class!	Karin Young	11 '
			Brigit Hillenius
2005	The intervention	The interference	Jay Duplass	15 '
	Jam session	Jam session	Izabela Plucinska	10 '
2006	Gratte paper	Scribe	Guillaume Martinez	08th'
	Our Man In Nirvana	Our Man In Nirvana	Jan Koester	11 '
2007	Decroche	Take off	Manuel Schapira	16 '
	Mei	Mei	Arvin Chen	11 '
2008	Udedh bun	not known	Siddharth Sinha	21 '
2009	jade	jade	Daniel Elliott	16 '
2010	Hayerida	The descent	Shai Miedzinski	20 '
2011	Pu-Seo-Jin Bam	Broken night	Yang Hyo-joo	23 '
2012	Gurehto Rabitto	not known	Atsushi Wada	07 '
2013	the calm remains	the calm remains	Stefan Kriekhaus	14 '
2014	LABORATORY	LABORATORY	Guillaume Cailleau	22 '
2015	Bad at dancing	not known	Joanna Arnow	11 '
2016	A man returned	A man returns	Joanna Arnow	11 '
2017	Ensueño en la Pradera	Daydream in the prairie	Esteban Arrangoiz Julien	17 '
2018	Imfura	not known	Samuel Ishimwe	36 '
2019	Blue boy	not known	Manuel Abramovich	19 '
2020	Filipiñana	not known	Rafael Manuel	24 '

^a In 1955, a "Small Silver Plaque" was awarded as an award.

^b1956 two Silver Bears were as trophies to the Turkish contribution The sun of the Hittites ( Hitit Günesi ) and the Indian contribution Spring in Kashmir ( Spring Comes to Kashmir awarded).

^cIn 1968 the Dutch contribution Toets by Tom Tholen won a Silver Bear as a “Special Jury Prize”.

Web links

• Annual at berlinale.de
• Berlin Film Festival in the Internet Movie Database (English)