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Berlin Film Festival 2014 Winners
COMPETITION
Golden Bear:
Black Coal, Thin Ice (Bai Ri Yan Huo)
by Diao Yinan
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prix:
The Grand Budapest Hotel
by Wes Anderson
Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize:
Aimer, Boire Et Chanter
by Alain Resnais
Silver Bear for Best Director:
Richard Linklater
Boyhood
Silver Bear for Best Actress:
Haru Kuroki
The Little House
Silver Bear for Best Actor:
Liao Fan
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Silver Bear for Best Script:
Dietrich & Anna Brüggemann
Stations Of The Cross
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution:
Cinematography: Zeng Jian
Blind Massage
Golden Bear Best Short Film:
As Long As Shotguns Remain
by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Silver Bear Jury Prize Short Film:
Laborat
by Guillaume Cailleau
PANORAMA
Best First Feature:
Güeros
by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Audience Award – Fiction:
Difret
Ethiopia
by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
2nd Place:
Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks)
Brazil
by Daniel Ribeiro
Chinese thriller Black Coal, Thin Ice has won the Golden Bear for best picture at this year’s Berlin Film Festival
3rd Place:
Patardzlebi (Brides)
Georgia / France
by Tinatin Kajrishvili
Audience Award – Documentary:
Der Kreis (The Circle)
Switzerland
by Stefan Haupt
2nd Place:
Finding Vivian Maier
USA
by John Maloof & Charlie Siskel
3rd Place:
My Mother, A War And Me
Germany
by Tamara Trampe & Johann Feindt
GENERATION KPLUS (Children’s Jury)
Crystal Bear for the Best Film:
Killa
by Avinash Arun, India
Special Mention:
Hitono Nozomino Yorokobiyo
by Masakazu Sugita, Japan
Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film:
Sprout
by Ga-eun Yoon, Republic of Korea
Special Mention:
Sepatu Baru
by Aditya Ahmad, Indonesia
GENERATION KPLUS (International Jury)
Grand Prize:
Ciencias Naturales
by Matías Lucchesi, Argentina/France
Special Mention:
Killa
by Avinash Arun, India
Best Short Film:
Moy Lichniy Los’
by Leonid Shmelkov, Russian Federation
Special Mention:
el
by Roland Ferge, Hungary
GENERATION 14PLUS (Youth Jury)
Crystal Bear for the Best Film:
52 Tuesdays
by Sophie Hyde, Australia
Special Mention:
ärtico
by Gabri Velázquez, Spain
Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film:
Mike
by Petros Silvestros, Great Britain
Special Mention:
Emo (The Musical)
by Neil Triffett, Australia
GENERATION 14PLUS (International Jury)
Violet
by Bas Devos, Belgium / Netherlands
Special Mention:
Einstein And Einstein
by Cao Baoping, People’s Republic of China
Special Prize for the best short film:
Vetrarmorgun
by Sakaris Stórá, Faroe Islands
Special Mention:
Søn
by Kristoffer Kiørboe, Denmark
PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
Competition:
Stations Of The Cross
by Dietrich Brüggemann
Special Mention
’71
by Yann Demange
Panorama:
Calvary
by John Michael McDonagh
Special Mention
Triptych
by Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires
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Chinese thriller Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice) has won the Golden Bear for best picture at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
Liao Fan won the prize for best actor in the same film, while Haru Kuroki won best actress for her role in the Japanese movie Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House).
American Richard Linklater was named best director for his film Boyhood.
An eight-person jury decides the awards.
This year it was headed by American director and producer James Schamus, probably most well-known for producing Brokeback Mountain.
Bai Ri Yan Huo features an overweight detective, played by Liao Fan, on the trail of a serial killer.
Chinese thriller Bai Ri Yan Huo has won the Golden Bear for best picture at this year’s Berlin Film Festival
Richard Linklater’s ambitious coming-of-age film Boyhood used the same child actors over a 12-year span.
Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel, the festival opener, took the Silver Bear grand jury prize, while the Ethiopian film Difret, based on a real case of bride abduction in Ethiopia, took the audience award.
Berlin Film Festival is one of the oldest and most prestigious film showcases in the world, but this year some critics complained of a dearth of strong entries, and a lack of films with strong political or social agendas.
Some 400 films have been screened during the 11-day festival, 23 of them in the competition category.
In 2013, the main prize was awarded to the Romanian film Child’s Pose.
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British director Ken Loach won an Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, recognising films such as Kes and Cathy Come Home.
Ken Loach, 77, has addressed reports that his next film will be his last, as he received a lifetime achievement prize in Germany.
“We’ll have to see,” said Ken Loach noting that filmmaking requires “a physical stamina” that tails off “when you get into the wrong end of the 70s”.
He was also celebrated with a gala screening of Raining Stones, a 1993 film about a poverty-stricken suburban family that Ken Loach said was “still relevant” and, despite the subject, “quite a cheerful film”.
Ken Loach has spent a lifetime battling to make uncompromising films, often focusing on Britain and Ireland’s overlooked underclasses.
The Oxford University graduate began his film career in what was known as “kitchen-sink” realism.
Ken Loach won an Honorary Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival
He came to prominence in 1966 with Cathy Come Home, a Jeremy Sandford television play about a family’s slide into poverty and homelessness.
Kes, released in 1969, was his first major feature film. The story of an abused teenager and his falcon, it remains one of the director’s best-known works in the UK.
Since then, he has made more than 30 films, and won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2006 for The Wind that Shakes the Barley, about Ireland’s struggle for independence.
It was Ken Loach’s seventh entry for the festival’s top film prize, but his first win. He previously won the jury prize in 1990 for Hidden Agenda, about a British army shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland.
Ken Loach’s next film is Jimmy’s Hall, about James Gralton, the Irish communist leader who set up a dance hall in County Leitrim, which he used to disseminate his political views.
The Berlin Film Festival continues this weekend with the premiere of literary adaptation The 100 Year-Old Man who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared; and a screening of the first two episodes of Netflix’s political drama House Of Cards.
It culminates with an awards ceremony on Sunday.
In 2013, Berlin Film Festival’s main prize was awarded to Romanian film Child’s Pose.
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Shia LaBeouf has walked out of a news conference for director Lars von Trier’s new film Nymphomaniac at the Berlin Film Festival.
Shia LaBeouf, 27, left after 10 minutes, quoting footballer Eric Cantona’s famous 1995 line: “When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.”
The actor later appeared on the red carpet wearing a paper bag on his head.
Written on the paper bag were the words: “I am not famous anymore.”
Shia LaBeouf appeared on the Berlin Film Festival red carpet wearing a paper bag on his head
LaBeouf had walked out of the news conference after being asked about the film’s explicit s** scenes.
His parting line was taken from a cryptic quote Eric Cantona delivered after he had caused a furor by kicking a fan in the crowd while playing for Manchester United.
Shia LaBeouf is known for films including Transformers, Wall Street II, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The film’s stars Christian Slater and Uma Thurman later laughed about their co-star’s comments, joking that the script contained a lot of sardines.
Lars von Trier missed the news conference but did turn up for an earlier photocall wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “Persona non grata” alongside the gold leaf logo of the Cannes Film Festival.
That was a reference to the divisive director’s expulsion from Cannes three years ago after he suggested in a news conference that he sympathized with Adolf Hitler.
Lars von Trier no longer takes part in such news conferences but the incident did not deter him from arriving in Berlin to promote his film.
The two-and-a-half hour Nymphomaniac Volume I “premiered to cheers” and “went down a storm at an afternoon press preview on Sunday, the AFP news agency reported.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel has opened this year’s Berlin Film Festival to rave reviews.
A notable absentee from Berlin is the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died on Sunday of a suspected drug overdose.
Philip Seymour Hoffman had been due to attend the festival to promote his film God’s Pocket.
Instead, a screening of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar-winning performance in the film Capote will be screened in tribute on Tuesday.
“He was one of the greatest actors we had in the world,” festival director Dieter Kosslick told the Reuters news agency.
The Grand Budapest Hotel has opened this year’s Berlin Film Festival to rave reviews
Wes Anderson’s latest movie The Grand Budapest Hotel stars British actor Ralph Fiennes as the famous concierge Gustave H, who woos octogenarian blonde widows at an Alpine hotel. When one dies in mysterious circumstances and leaves him a valuable painting, it sets in motion a chain of murder and mayhem.
It co-stars an enviable line-up of actors including Anderson regulars Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law and Tom Wilkinson.
Wes Anderson is a European festival favorite. His last film, Moonrise Kingdom, opened the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 and earned him an Oscar nomination for best screenplay.
His previous films include The Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Royal Tenenbaums.
The eight-member jury, chaired by Brokeback Mountain producer James Schamus includes Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz and actress Greta Gerwig.
It will announce the winner of the prestigious Golden Bear and other prizes on February 15.
Other films screening out of competition include Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and Calvary, a black comedy drama starring Brendan Gleeson and Chris O’Dowd.
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Romanian movie Pozitia Copilului (Child’s Pose) has picked up the coveted Golden Bear prize for best film at the 63rd Berlin film festival.
Child’s Pose, directed by Calin Peter Netzer, tells the story of a wealthy mother who uses her connections to try and stop her son from going to jail.
The film was a favorite among the 19 contenders. Calin Peter Netzer said he was “a little bit speechless” by the win.
An unemployed Roma from Bosnia-Hercegovina won the best actor award.
Nazif Mujic re-enacted his family’s real-life struggle to get vital medical treatment in the low-budget An Episode In the Life of an Iron Picker, which also picked up the runner-up Silver Bear award.
Calin Peter Netzer’s film is a tale of corruption and guilt in modern Romania.
It follows a rich and controlling mother, played by Luminita Gheorghiu, as she bribes witnesses into giving false statements to save her son from jail after he accidentally runs down and kills a boy.
US filmmaker David Gordon Green won best director at the festival for his comic road movie Prince Avalanche, while best actress went to Chile’s Paulina Garcia for her role as a Santiago divorcee in Gloria.
Romanian movie Child’s Pose has picked up the coveted Golden Bear prize for best film at the 63rd Berlin film festival
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