2009 Berlin Film Festival Awards

2009 Berlin Film Festival: Feb. 5-15, 2009

2009 Berlin Film Festival: Competition Line-Up

Golden Bear for Best Film: La teta asustada / The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) by Claudia Llosa

Grand Jury Prize (tie): Alle Anderen / Everyone Else (Germany) by Maren Ade and Gigante (Uruguay / Argentina) by Adrián Biniez

Best Director: Asghar Farhadi for About Elly (Iran)

Best Actor: Sotigui Kouyate for London River by Rachid Bouchareb

Best Actress: Birgit Minichmayr for Everyone Else

Silver Bear – Best Screenplay: Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon for The Messenger by Oren Moverman

Silver Bear – Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Gábor Erdély and Tamás Székely for the Sound Design of Katalin Varga by Peter Strickland

Alfred Bauer Prize: Gigante (Argentina) by Adrián Biniez and Tatarak (Sweet Rush) by Andrzej Wajda

Honorary Golden Bear: Maurice Jarre

Berlinale Camera: Claude Chabrol, Günter Rohrbach, Manoel de Oliveira

Best First Feature Award: Gigante by Adrián Biniez

Special Mention: Flickan (The Girl) by Fredrik Edfeldt

Short Films

Golden Bear: Please Say Something by David O’Reilly (Ireland)

Silver Bear: Jade by Daniel Elliott (Great Britain)

DAAD Short Film Prize: The Illusion by Susana Barriga (Cuba)

Berlinale Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards 2009: Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf. Der Geburtstag by Lola Randl (Germany)

Special Mentions: VU by Leila Albayaty and contre-jour by Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller

Generation Kplus Children

Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film: C’est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear!) by Philippe Falardeau

Special Mention for a Feature Film: Max Pinlig (Max Embarrassing) by Lotte Svendsen

Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film: Ulybka Buddy (Buddha’s smile) by Bair Dyshenov

Special Mention for a Short Film: Oh, My God! by Anne Sewitsky

Generation 14plus Youth

Crystal Bear for the best feature: My Suicide by David Lee Miller

Special Mention: Mary and Max by Adam Elliot

Crystal Bear for the best short film: Aphrodite’s Farm by Adam Strange

Special Mention: Slavar by David Aronowitsch and Hanna Heilborn

Generation Kplus

Grand Prix for the best feature: C’est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear!) by Philippe Falardeau

Special Mention: Flickan (The Girl) by Fredrik Edfeldt

Special Prize for Best Short Film: Oh, My God! by Anne Sewitsky

Special Mention: Jerrycan by Julius Avery

Prizes of the Ecumenical Jury 

Competition: Lille Soldat by Annette K. Ohleson

Special Mention: London River by Rachid Bouchareb and My One And Only  by Richard Loncraine

Panorama: Welcome by Philippe Lioret

Forum: Treeless Mountain by So Yong Kim

FIPRESCI Prizes

Competition: La teta asustada (The Milk Of Sorrow) by Claudia Llosa

Panorama: Nord (North) by Rune Denstad Langlo

Forum: Ai no mukidashi (Love Exposure) by Sono Sion

Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas: Storm by Hans-Christian Schmid

C.I.C.A.E Prizes 

Panorama: Ander by Roberto Castón

Forum: Cea mai fericita fata din lume (The Happiest Girl in the World) by Radu Jude

Teddy Awards 

Feature: Rabioso sol, rabioso cielo (Raging Sun, Raging Sky) by Julián Hernández

Documentary: Fig Trees by John Greyson

Short: A Horse Is Not A Metaphor by Barbara Hammer

Dialogue en perspective: Gitti by Anna Deutsch

Special Mention: Polar by Michael Koch

Actor’s Award: Franziska Petri in Für Miriam (For Miriam) by Lars-Gunnar Lotz and Jacob Matschenz in Fliegen (Fly) by Piotr J. Lewandowski

Caligari Film Prize: Ai no mukidashi (Love Exposure) by Sono Sion

NETPAC Prize (tie): Ma dai fu de zhen suo (Doctor Ma’s Country Clinic) by Cong Feng and Eoddeon gaien nal (The Day After) by Lee Suk-Gyung

Peace Film Award: The Messenger by Oren Moverman

Amnesty International Film Prize: Storm by Hans-Christian Schmid

Femina Film Prize: Silke Fischer for production design in Alle Anderen (Everyone else) by Maren Ade

Label Europa Cinemas Prizes (tie): Nord (North) by Rune Denstad Langlo and Welcome by Philippe Lioret

READERS JURIES AND AUDIENCE AWARDS

Panorama Audience Award: The Yes Men Fix The World by Mike Bonanno, Andy Bichlbaum, Kurt Engfehr

Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Prize: Storm by Hans-Christian Schmid

ELSE Siegessäule Reader’s Choice Award: City Of Borders by Yun Suh

Tagesspiegel Readers’ Prize: Hayat var (My Only Sunshine) by Reha Erdem

Volkswagen Score Competition Award: Atanas Valkov  

Berlin Today Award: Supriyo Sen for Wagah

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