Berlin 2005 Articles

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]