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Berlin 2006 Winners

There weren’t many surprises at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival awards. One of this year’s favorites, Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica, the story of a 12-year-old girl (Luna Mijovic, above, hugging Mirjana Karanovic) who discovers that she is the end result of a Bosnian war crime — namely, rape — was awarded the Golden Bear for best film.
Also on the political side, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross took home the Silver Bear for best director for The Road to Guantanamo, which follows three British Muslims held at the notorious U.S. prison (located on the island of Cuba) where suspected terrorists — without having been formally charged and without access to legal representation — have been systematically tortured and abused.
The acting [...]

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 [...]

Berlin 2006: REQUIEM, GRBAVICA, THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING

Moritz Bleibtreu in The Elementary Particles (top); Sandra Hüller in Requiem (bottom)

More on the Berlin International Film Festival:
Four German films will be screened in the Official Competition.
They are: Oscar Roehler’s literary adaptation Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles; Hans-Christian Schmid’s exorcism drama Requiem; Matthias Glasner’s Der Freie Wille / The Free Will, the story of a convicted rapist who is freed after 12 years behind bars; and Valeska Grisebach’s Sehnsucht / Desire (right), a love story set in eastern Germany, and starring Andreas Müller and Ilka Welz.
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At European Films, Boyd van Hoeij gives his take on the films screened at Berlin 2006, including Jasmila žbanic’s post-Bosnian war drama Grbavica, the Icelandic gay soccer comedy Strákarnir Okkar / Eleven Men [...]

Berlin 2006: Is Dresden Burning?

"German filmmakers have tackled the touchy subject of whether the Allied firebombing of Dresden at the end of World War Two was a ‘war crime’ with a carefully balanced melodrama that got its worldwide premiere on Monday.
"Showing the German point of view of anything in World War Two is always likely to cause a stir — and that’s precisely what the makers of Dresden said they want to achieve.
"Dresden, which premiered at the European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival, quickly reopened old wounds about what many Germans privately call a war crime — and even act of terror." Erik Kirschbaum via Reuters.
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Directed by Roland Suso Richter, the made-for-TV miniseries Dresden stars Marie Bäumer, Susanne Bormann, Michael [...]

Berlin 2006: Teddy Award Retrospective

Wieland Speck, director of the Panorama sidebar at the Berlin Film Festival:
"To show a film from Iran about a transsexual, as we did three years ago, was a sensation. We had to take enormous precautionary measures, because this continues to be a highly political issue.
"But it’s by no means just the Islamic countries. In our neighbouring Poland a man was recently elected president [Lech Kaczynski of the far right "Law and Justice" party] who has been spreading so much hatred towards gays and lesbians, that a lot of people have been hurt, also physically. At the moment in Poland, gays and lesbians are being attacked by neo-Nazis and the police are doing nothing about it. This shows that we are [...]

Berlin 2006: Out of Competition Films

Berlin 2006: Out of Competition Films

Capote, Bennett Miller

The New World, Terrence Malick

The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry

Syriana, Stephen Gaghan

V for Vendetta, James McTeigue

Wu ji / The Promise, Chen Kaige

Closing film: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah (digitally restored print)

Berlin 2006: Golden Bear Film Line-Up

Berlin 2006: Golden Bear Film Line-Up

Opening film: Snow Cake, director Marc Evans

Candy, Neil Armfield

El Custodio / The Minder, Rodrigo Moreno

Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles, Oskar Roehler

Find Me Guilty, Sidney Lumet

Der Freie Wille / The Free Will, Matthias Glasner

Grbavica, Jasmila Zbanic

Invisible Waves, Pen-ek Ratanaruang

Isabella, Pang Ho-cheung

L’Ivresse du pouvoir / Comedy of Power, Claude Chabrol

Offside, Jafar Panahi

A Prairie Home Companion, Robert Altman

Requiem, Hans-Christian Schmid

The Road to Guantanamo, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross

Romanzo Criminale / Crime Novel, Michele Placido

Sehnsucht / Desire, Valeska Grisebach

Slumming, Michael Glawogger

En Soap / A Soap, Pernille Fischer Christensen

Zemestan, Rafi Pitts

Berlin 2006: Andrzej Wajda, Ian McKellen to Receive Honorary Golden Bears

The 56th Berlin International Film Festival will present the 2006 Honorary Golden Bears to Polish director and screenwriter Andrzej Wajda (above, left) and British actor Ian McKellen (above, right).
Andrzej Wajda, one of Poland’s best-known filmmakers, has had several of his films in competition in Berlin, including Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, Miss Nobody, and Holy Week. Among his forty or so features, most of which are highly politicized, are A Generation, Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, Danton, Man of Marble, and Man of Iron. In 2000, Wajda was given an honorary Oscar for his career achievements.
Wajda will be handed the Honorary Golden Bear on February 15 at 8.30 pm in the Kino International. [...]

Berlin 2006: Charlotte Rampling to Head International Jury

British actress Charlotte Rampling, 60, will preside over the International Jury of the Berlinale 2006. Referring to Rampling as a "fascinating woman and brilliant artist," Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick expressed his pleasure in having on board an actress who "has come to stand for unconventional and memorable cinema."
During her 40+-year career, Rampling — who has lived in France most of her life — has appeared in almost 70 films, including Luchino Visconti’s The Damned (1969); Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter (1974), playing opposite Dirk Bogarde; John Boorman’s Zardoz, with Sean Connery; and Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories (1980).
Also, Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict, in which she’s excellent playing opposite Paul Newman; Alan Parker’s Angel Heart (1987); Gianni Amelio’s [...]

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