Berlin Film Festival Awards 2005
February 19th, 2005 by Andre Soares
2005 Berlin Film Festival Awards
2005 Berlin Film Festival: February 10–20, 2005
2005 Berlin Film Festival: Films in Competition
The Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear has been awarded to the Xhosa-language, South African film Carmen in Khayelitsha. Directed by Mark Dornford-May and starring Pauline Malefane, the film is a modernized version of Georges Bizet’s opera, set in a South African slum.
Headed by Roland Emmerich, the seven-member Berlin jury gave the runner-up Silver Bear to Gu Changwei’s Peacock, which depicts the daily life of a working-class family in a small Chinese town.
Marc Rothemund was voted best director for Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, the story of the young German resistance leader who was eventually caught and beheaded along with her brother.
Julia Jentsch, the anti-Nazi fighter in Sophie Scholl, won as best actress, while Lou Taylor Pucci received the best actor Silver Bear for his role as an insecure teenager in the U.S.-made Thumbsucker.
Hany Abu-Assad’s controversial French-German-Dutch-Palestinian co-production Paradise Now, the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers, had been considered a front runner for the Golden Bear, but ended up with only the Best European Film award.
Photos: Andreas Teich, Richad Hübner, Ali Ghandtachi © Berlinale 2005
Golden Bear: Carmen e-Khayelitsha / Carmen in Khayelitsha by Marc Dornford-May
Jury Grand Prix - Silver Bear: Kong que / Peacock by Gu Changwei
Silver Bear for Best Director: Marc Rothemund for Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage / Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Lou Taylor Pucci for Thumbsucker
Silver Bear for Best Actress: Julia Jentsch for Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution: Tsai Ming Liang for the screenplay of Tian bian yi duo yun / The Wayward Cloud
Silver Bear for Best Film Music: Alexandre Desplat for De battre, mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped by Jacques Audiard
Honorary Golden Bear: Im Kwon-Taek and Fernando Fernán Gómez
Berlinale Kamera: Shochiku, Helene Schwarz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Katrin Sass
AGICOA’s Blue Angel Award for the best European film: Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Assad
The Alfred Bauer Prize for "taking the art of film in a new direction": The Wayward Cloud by Tsai Ming Lian
Jury Prize - Silver Bear for Short Film: The Intervention by Jay Duplass and Jam Session by Izabela Plucinska
Special Mention: Don Khishot Be’Yerushalaim / Don Quixote in Jerusalem by Dani Rosenberg
Panorama Short Film Award: Green Bush by Warwick Thornton
Special Panorama Jury prize: Tama tu by Taika Waititi
Special Mention: Rhee Young-ran for her performance in Sara Jeanne by Kim Seong-Sooks and Bikini by Lasse Persson
New York Film Academy Scholarship: Zgvis donidan. . . / Eye Level . . . by George Ovashvili
International Short Film Jury Prix UIP Berlin: Hoi Maya / Hi Maya by Claudia Lorenz
Ecumenical Jury Prize for a film in the Competition: Sophie Scholl - The Final Days by Marc Rothemund
Ecumenical Jury Prize for a film in the Panorama: Va, vis et deviens / Live and Become by Radu Mihaieanu
Ecumenical Jury Prize for a film in the Forum: Ratziti Lihiyot gibor / On the Objection Front by Shiri Tsur
FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the Competition: Tian bian yi duo yun / The Wayward Cloud by Tsai Ming Liang
FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the Panorama: Massaker / Massacre by Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim, and Hermann Theißen
FIPRESCI Prize for a film in the Forum: Niu pi / Oxhide by Liu Jiayin
C.I.C.A.E. Prize for a film in the Panorama: Ultranova by Bouli Lanners
C.I.C.A.E. Prize for a film in the Forum: Odessa Odessa. . . by Michale Boganim
Special Mention: Mahiru no hoshizora / Starlit High Noon by Nakagawa Yosuke and Stadt als Beute by Irene von Alberti, Miriam Dehne, and Esther Gronenborn
Panorama audience award: Va, vis et deviens / Live and Become by Radu Mihaieanu
The Panorama audience award (short film): Hi Maya by Claudia Lorenz
Peace Film Award: Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand / Turtles Can Fly by Bahman Ghobadi
Amnesty International Prize: Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Assad
International Competition Jury: Roland Emmerich (Jury President, Germany), Ingeborga Dapkunaite (Lithuania), Bai Ling (China), Franka Potente (Germany), Wouter Barendrecht (The Netherlands), Nino Cerruti (Italy), Andrei Kurkov (Ukraine)
Short Film Jury: Gabriela Tagliavini (Argentina), Marten Rabarts (New Zealand), Susan Korda (USA)
2005 Berlin Film Festival: Films in Competition
Berlin Film Festival Awards: 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
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French Film Critics’ Awards 2005
Marrakech Film Festival Awards 2005
Moscow Film Festival Awards 2005
Toronto Film Festival Awards 2005
Venice Film Festival Awards 2005
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