Berlin 2005 Winners
Pauline Malefane in Carmen in Khayelitsha
The 2005 Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear has been awarded to a South African production, the Xhosa-language Carmen in Khayelitsha. Directed by Mark Dornford-May and starring Pauline Malefane (right), 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 by the Nazis and beheaded along with her brother.
Julia Jentsch, the young [...]
by Andre Soares | February 19, 2005
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Berlin 2005 Awards
2005 Berlin Film Festival Awards
2005 Berlin Film Festival: February 10–20, 2005
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 [...]
by Andre Soares | February 19, 2005
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Berlin 2005: Tsai Ming-Liang’s Sexually Explicit THE WAYWARD CLOUD
"The body always plays an important role in my films," says Malaysian-born filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang. "You could say the body is the most beautiful thing we have or you could say it’s the ugliest thing we have. We can sell bodies, we can adore or worship bodies."
Set in an urban apartment house in the midst of a summertime drought, Tsai’s made-in-Taiwan (with additional French and Chinese state funding), sexually explicit The Wayward Cloud tells the story of a fledgling pornography star who runs into the woman he once loved. Graphic sexual scenes are interspersed with outrageous musical numbers, including one featuring a dancing penis.
The film stars Lee Kang-sheng and Chen Shiang-chyi.
The Wayward Cloud is up for the [...]
by Andre Soares | February 18, 2005
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Berlin 2005: Im Kwon-taek, Fernando Fernán Gómez Receive Honorary Golden Bear
Korean director Im Kwon-taek, 69, described by Der Spiegel as the "godfather of Korean film," became the first Asian filmmaker to received the Honorary Golden Bear at a ceremony held yesterday, Feb. 12, at the 55th Berlin Film Festival.
Im shared the honor with Spanish (though born in Peru) actor-director-writer Fernando Fernán Gómez (right), 83, winner of six Spanish Film Academy Goya Awards (one of them as best actor for his tour de force in the title role of José Luis Garci’s 1998 drama The Grandfather) and two best actor Silver Bears at the Berlinale (for El Anacoreta / The Anchorite in 1977 and Stico in 1985).
Among the previous recipients of the Honorary Golden Bear [...]
by Andre Soares | February 13, 2005
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Berlin 2005: Out of Competition Line-Up
2005 Berlin Film Festival Out of Competition Line-Up
Heights, United States, director Chris Terrio
Hitch, United States, director Andy Tennant
Hotel Rwanda, Canada / Britain / Italy / South Africa, director Terry George
Kinsey, United States / Germany / Britain, director Bill Condon
Tickets, Italy / Britain, directors Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach
by Andre Soares | February 5, 2005
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Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Berlin 2005, Berlin Film Festival, Ermanno Olmi, Film Festivals, Heights, Hitch, Hotel Rwanda, Kinsey, Tickets
Berlin 2005: Official Competition Line-Up
2005 Berlin Film Festival Competition Line-Up
Anklaget (Accused), Denmark, director Jacob Thuesen
Asylum, United States / Ireland, director David MacKenzie
De battre mon coeur s’est arreté (The Beat That My Heart Slipped), France, director Jacques Audiard
Gespenster (Ghosts), Germany / France, director Christian Petzold
In Good Company, United States, director Paul Weitz
Kakushi Ken – Oni no Tsume (The Hidden Blade), Japan, director Yoji Yamada
Kong que (Peacock), China, director Gu Changwei
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, United States, director Wes Anderson
Man to Man, France / South Africa / Britain, director Regis Wargnier
Les mots bleus (Words in Blue), France, director Alain Corneau
One Day in Europe, Germany / Spain, director Hannes Stoehr
Paradise Now, Netherlands / France, director [...]
