Berlin 2006 Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

"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 [...]