Berlin Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Berlin Film Festival Awards

2006 Berlin Film Festival: February 9–19, 2006

2006 Berlin Film Festival Winners

Photos: © Berlinale 2006

Golden Bear : GRBAVICA, by Jasmila Zbanic

Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix 2006 (ex-aequo): EN SOAP / A SOAP, by Pernille Fischer Christensen, and OFFSIDE, by Jafar Panahi

Silver Bear – Best Director : Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO

Silver Bear – Best Actor : Moritz Bleibtreu in ELEMENTARTEILCHEN / THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, by Oskar Roehler

Silver Bear – Best Actress : Sandra Hüller in REQUIEM, by Hans-Christian Schmid

Silver Bear – Artistic Contribution : Jürgen Vogel as actor, co-writer and co-producer of the film DER FREIE WILLE / THE FREE WILL, by Matthias Glasner

Silver Bear – Best Film Music : Peter Kam for ISABELLA, by Pang Ho-Cheung

Alfred Bauer Prize 2006 (to a work which "takes the art of film in a new direction"): EL CUSTODIO, by Rodrigo Moreno

Members of the international Jury for the Best First Feature Award : Valentina Cervi, Goran Paskaljevic, and Hans Weingartner

Best First Feature Award : EN SOAP / A SOAP, director: Pernille Fischer Christensen; producer: Lars Bredo Rahbek

Members of the International Short Film Jury: Oh Jung-Wan, Mariela Besuievsky, and Florian Gallenberger

The Golden Bear for Best Short Film: ALDRIG SOM FÖRSTA GÅNGEN! (Nie wie beim ersten Mal!), by Jonas Odell

The Jury Prize – Silver Bear to the Short Film (ex aequo): GRATTE-PAPIER / PENPUSHER, by Guillaume Martinez, and OUR MAN IN NIRVANA, by Jan Koester

Special Mention: EL DIA QUE MORI / THE DAY I DIED, by Maryam Keshavarz

Panorama Short Film Award: TES CHEVEUX NOIRS IHSAN (Dein dunkles Haar Ihsan), by Tala Hadid

Prix UIP Berlin: EL CERCO / THE FENCE, by Ricardo Íscar and Nacho Martín

DAAD Short Film Prize: BARBUROT / SWANETTES, by Rony Sasson

Honorary Golden Bear: Polish director and screenwriter Andrzej Wajda and British actor Sir Ian McKellen

PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY

Film from the Competition: GRBAVICA, by Jasmila Zbanic

Film from the Panorama: KOMORNIK / THE COLLECTOR, by Feliks Falk

Film from the Forum: CONVERSATIONS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, by Khalo Matabane

FIPRESCI PRIZES

Film from the Competition: REQUIEM, by Hans-Christian Schmid

Film from the Panorama: KNALLHART / TOUGH ENOUGH, by Detlev Buck

Film from the Forum: IN BETWEEN DAYS, by So Yong Kim

C.I.C.A.E. (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et Essai / International Confederation of Art Cinemas) PRIZES

Panorama Jury Award: KAN SHANG QU HEN MEI (Little Red Flowers), by Zhang Yuan

Forum Jury Award: KAROV LA BAYIT (Close to Home), by Dalia Hager and Vidi Bilu

Label Europa Cinemas Award: KNALLHART / TOUGH ENOUGH, by Detlev Buck

Panorama Audience Awards

Feature Film: BUBOT NIYAR / PAPER DOLLS, by Tomer Heymann

Short Film: HAYELET BODEDA / THE SUBSTITUTE, by Talya Lavie

Teddy Awards (gay/lesbian/etc. themed films):

Best Feature Film: ANG PAGDADALAGA NI MAXIMO OLIVEROS (The Blossoming Of Maximo Oliveros), by Auraeus Solito

Best Documentary: AU-DELA DE LA HAINE (Beyond Hatred), by Olivier Meyrou

Best Short Film: EL DIA QUE MORI / THE DAY I DIED, by Maryam Keshavarz

Jury Award: COMBAT, by Patrick Carpentier

Dialogue en Perspective Prize (for outstanding work screened in the Berlinale section Perspektive Deutsches Kino): DER LEBENSVERSICHERER (Running On Empty), by Bülent Akinci

Special Mention: WHOLETRAIN, by Florian Gaag

Manfred Salzgeber Prize (named after the long-time director of the Panorama and co-organiser of the festival): BUBOT NIYAR / PAPER DOLLS, by Tomer Heymann

Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas: DER FREIE WILLE / THE FREE WILL, by Matthias Glasner

Wolfgang Staudte Prize (to a film screened in the Forum – the prize is named after the German post-war director and scriptwriter): BABOOSKA, by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel

Caligari Film Prize: 37 USES FOR A DEAD SHEEP, by Ben Hopkins

NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) Prize: DEAR PYONGYANG, by Yang Yong-hi

Amnesty International Film Prize: U NERGIZ BISKIVIN (Narcissus Blossom), by Masoud Arif Salih and Hussein Hassan Ali

Femina (Germany's Association of Women Working in Film) Prize (for "outstanding artistic contribution of a female technician" in a German-language feature film in the areas of set design, camera work, costumes, music or editing): Yasmin Khalifa and Carola Gauster for their set design in the feature film BYE BYE BERLUSCONI!, by Jan Henrik Stahlberg

Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Prize: A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, by Robert Altman

Prizes of the Berlinale Talent Campus

The Volkswagen Score Competition Award: ALASDAIR REID(UK)

Berlin Today Award: HIGH MAINTENANCE, by Philip Van (USA)

Berlinale Camera ("awarded to a film personality to whom the film festival feels especially attached"): Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, film director Jürgen Böttcher, and MoMa curator Laurence Kardish

Prizes of the Childrens' Jury 2006

The Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film: DRØMMEN (We Shall Overcome), by Niels Arden Oplev

Special Mention: ANG PAGDADALAGA NI MAXIMO OLIVEROS (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros), by Auraeus Solito

The Crystal Bear for Best Short Film: ALDRIG EN ABSOLUTION (Never an Absolution), by Cameron B. Alyasin

Special Mention: O KLEFTIS (The Thief), by Irina Boiko

Prizes of the Youth Jury 2006

The Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film: FYRA VECKOR I JUNI (Four Weeks in June), by Henry Meyer

Special Mention: KAMATAKI, by Claude Gagnon

Prizes of the International Jury of the 29th Kinderfilmfest

Grand Prix of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk for Best Feature Film: ANG PAGDADALAGA NI MAXIMO OLIVEROS (The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros), by Auraeus Solito

Special Mention: JESTEM (I Am), by Dorota Kedzierzawska

The Special Prize of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk for best short film: WEI XIAO DER YU (Der lächelnde Fisch), by C. Jay Shih, Alan I. Tuan, and Poliang Lin

Special Mention: VIKA, by Tsivia Barka