Berlin 2006 Articles

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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, [...]