The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 February 2015, with American film director Darren Aronofsky as the president of the jury. German film director Wim Wenders was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The first seven films of the festival were announced on 15 December 2014.
Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night was the festival's opening film. Iranian docu-drama Taxi, directed by Jafar Panahi, won the Golden Bear, and was the closing film of the festival.
For the first time in 2015, a Berlin Critics' Week ran parallel to the official festival. Similar to Cannes Critics' Week, the section was a sidebar run by the German Film Critics Association dedicated to independent filmmakers.
Juries
Main Competition Darren Aronofsky, American filmmaker and producer- Jury President Daniel Brühl, German actor Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter Martha De Laurentiis, American film producer Claudia Llosa, Peruvian film director, screenwriter and producer Audrey Tautou, French actress Matthew Weiner, American director, screenwriter and producer
First Feature Award Fernando Eimbcke, Mexican film director and screenwriter Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian actress Joshua Oppenheimer, American film director
Short Film Competition The following people were on the jury for the Best Short Film: Halil Altındere, Turkish artist (Turkey) Madhusree Dutta, Indian director, curator and author (India) Wahyuni A. Hadi, Singaporean author and curator
Official Sections
Main Competition The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:
English title Original title Director(s) Production country 45 Years Andrew Haigh United Kingdom Aferim! Radu Jude Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic As We Were Dreaming Als wir träumten Andreas Dresen Germany, France Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories Cha và con và Phan Đăng Di Vietnam Body Ciało Małgorzata Szumowska Poland Chasuke's Journey 天の茶助 Sabu Japan Diary of a Chambermaid Journal d'une femme de chambre Benoît Jacquot Belgium, France Eisenstein in Guanajuato Peter Greenaway Netherlands, Mexico, Belgium, Finland Gone with the Bullets 一步之遥 Jiang Wen China Ixcanul Jayro Bustamante Guatemala, France Knight of Cups Terrence Malick United States Nobody Wants the Night Nadie quiere la noche Isabel Coixet Spain, France, Bulgaria Queen of the Desert Werner Herzog United States, Morocco Sworn Virgin Vergine giurata Laura Bispuri Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo Taxi تاکسی Jafar Panahi Iran The Club El Club Pablo Larraín Chile The Pearl Button El botón de nácar Patricio Guzmán France, Chile, Spain Under Electric Clouds Под электрическими облаками Aleksei Alekseivich German Russia, Ukraine, Poland Victoria Sebastian Schipper Germany
Out of competition The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
English title Original title Director(s) Production country 13 Minutes Elser Oliver Hirschbiegel Germany Cinderella Kenneth Branagh United States Every Thing Will Be Fine Wim Wenders Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway Mr. Holmes Bill Condon United Kingdom, United States
Panorama The following films were selected for the Panorama section:
English title Original title Director(s) Production country 54 (director's cut)Mark Christopher United States 600 Miles 600 Millas Gabriel Ripstein Mexico Absence Ausência Chico Teixeira Brazil, Chile, France Angelica Mitchell Lichtenstein United States Bizarre Étienne Faure France, United States Blue Blood Sangue azul Lírio Ferreira Brazil The Blue Hour Onthakan Anucha Boonyawatana Thailand Butterfly Mariposa Marco Berger Argentina Chorus François Delisle Canada Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern Stina Werenfels Switzerland, Germany Dyke Hard Bitte Andersson Sweden The Fire El incendio Juan Schnitman Argentina How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) Josh Kim Thailand, United States, Indonesia I Am Michael Justin Kelly United States The Last Summer of the Rich Der letzte Sommer der Reichen Peter Kern Austria Love, Theft and Other Entanglements الحب والسرقة ومشاكل أخرى Muayad Alayan Palestine A Minor Leap Down پریدن از ارتفاع کم Hamed Rajabi Iran, France Murder in Pacot Meurtre à Pacot Raoul Peck France, Haiti, Norway Nasty Baby Sebastián Silva United States Necktie Youth Sibs Shongwe-La Mer South Africa Ned Rifle Hal Hartley United States Ode to My Father 국제시장 Yoon Je-kyoon South Korea Out of My Hand Takeshi Fukunaga United States Out of Nature Mot naturen Ole Giæver, Marte Vold Norway Paradise in Service 軍中樂園 Doze Niu Taiwan Petting Zoo Micah Magee Germany, Greece, United States Pioneer Heroes Pionery-geroi Natalia Kudryashova Russia The Sea Is Behind البحر من ورائكم Hisham Lasri Morocco The Second Mother Que Horas Ela Volta? Anna Muylaert Brazil Stories of Our Lives Jim Chuchu Kenya The Summer of Sangailė Sangailė Alantė Kavaitė Lithuania, France, Netherlands Thanatos, Drunk 醉·生夢死 Chang Tso-Chi Taiwan Tough Love Härte Rosa von Praunheim Germany Why Me? De ce eu? Tudor Giurgiu Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary
Perspektive Deutsches Kino The following films are selected for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino () section:
The Bunker by Nikias Chryssos A Perfect Place by Anatol Schuster Elixir by Brodie Higgs Hakie – Haki. Living as a Man by Anabela Angelovska Sex: Speak by Saskia Walker, Ralf Hechelmann Stubborn Boy by Moritz Krämerwith Ceci Chuh, Niels Braun, Monika Wiedemer Summer Downstairs by Tom Sommerlatte Tell Me Mnemosyne by Lisa Sperling Unoccupied by Filippa Bauer
Forum The following films were selected for the Forum section:
Abaabi ba boda boda (The Boda Boda Thieves) by Yes! That's Us Al-wadi (The Valley) by Ghassan Salhab Balikbayan #1 (Memories of Overdevelopment Redux) by Kidlat Tahimik Beira-Mar (Seashore) by Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon Ben Zaken by Efrat Corem Brasil S/A (Brazilian Dream) by Marcelo Pedroso Ce gigantesque retournement de la terre (This Gigantic Furrowing of the Ground) by Claire Angelini Chaiki (The Gulls) by Ella Manzheeva Cheol won gi haeng (End of Winter) by Kim Dae-hwan Counting by Jem Cohen Dari Marusan by Izumi Takahashi The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Marcin Malaszczak Le dos rouge (Portrait of the Artist) by Antoine Barraud Exotica, Erotica, Etc. by Evangelia Kranioti Flotel Europa by Vladimir Tomic The Forbidden Room by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson Freie Zeiten (After Work) by Janina Herhoffer Futaba kara toku hanarete dainibu (Nuclear Nation II) by Atsushi Funahashi Der Geldkomplex (The Money Complex) by Juan Rodriganez Il gesto delle mani (Hand Gestures) by Francesco Clerici H. by Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia Hedi Schneider steckt fest (Hedi Schneider is Stuck) by Sonja Heiss Histoire de Judas (The Story of Judas) by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche Hotline by Silvina Landsmann K by Emyr ap Richard, Darhad Erdenibulag Koza by Ivan Ostrochovský Madare ghalb atomi (Atom Heart Mother) by Ali Ahmadzadeh La maldad (Evilness) by Joshua Gil Mar by Dominga Sotomayor Mizu no koe o kiku (The Voice of Water) by Masashi Yamamoto La mujer de barro (The Mud Woman) by Sergio Castro San Martín Nefesim kesilene kadar (Until I Lose My Breath) by Emine Emel Balc? La nuit et l'enfant (The Night and the Kid) by David Yon Queen of Earth by Alex Ross Perry Rabo de Peixe (Fish Tail) by Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel La sirene de Faso Fani (The Siren of Faso Fani) by Michel K. Zongo Suenan los androides (Androids Dream) by Ion de Sosa Superwelt (Superworld) by Karl Markovics Thamaniat wa ushrun laylan wa bayt min al-sheir (Twenty-Eight Nights and A Poem) by Akram Zaatari Uber die Jahre (Over the Years) by Nikolaus Geyrhalter Viaggio nella dopo-storia (Journey into Post-History) by Vincent Dieutre Violencia (Violence) by Jorge Forero Zurich by Sacha Polak
Berlinale Special The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:
English title Original title Director(s) Production country Are You Here Are You Here Matthew Weiner United States Bloodline Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman, and Glenn Kessler La Bohème Breathe Umphefumlo Mark Dornford-May South Africa Fifty Shades of Grey Sam Taylor-Johnson United States Greenery Will Bloom Again Torneranno i prati Ermanno Olmi Italy Life Anton Corbijn United Kingdom, Canada The Look of Silence Joshua Oppenheimer Denmark, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, Indonesia Love and Mercy Bill Pohlad United States Die abhandene Welt Margarethe von Trotta Germany Selma Ava DuVernay United Kingdom, United States The Seventh Fire Jack Pettibone Riccobono United States Virgin Mountain Fúsi Dagur Kári Iceland, Denmark Woman in Gold Simon Curtis United Kingdom, United States
Berlinale Classics The following films were selected to be screened in the Berlinale Classics section:
English title Original title Director(s) Production country Born in '45 (1966) Jahrgang 45 Jürgen Böttcher East Germany The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968) Neun Leben hat die Katze Ula Stöckl West Germany Goldfinger (1964) Goldfinger Guy Hamilton United Kingdom In Cold Blood (1967) In Cold Blood Richard Brooks United States Variety (1925) Varieté Ewald André Dupont Germany
Berlinale Series The Series section, devoted to long-form television series, was introduced in 2015. Better Call Saul had its premiere at the Berlinale.
Official Awards
The following prizes were awarded:
Main Competition Golden Bear: Taxi by Jafar Panahi Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: The Club by Pablo Larraín Alfred Bauer Prize: Ixcanul by Jayro Bustamante Silver Bear for Best Director: Radu Jude for Aferim! Małgorzata Szumowska for Body Silver Bear for Best Actress: Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years Silver Bear for Best Actor: Tom Courtenay for 45 Years Silver Bear for Best Screenplay: Patricio Guzmán for The Pearl Button Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: (cinematography) Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for Victoria Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin for Under Electric Clouds
Best First Feature Award 600 Miles by Gabriel Ripstein
Panorama Audience Award: 1st Place: The Second Mother by Anna Muylaert 2nd Place: Stories of Our Lives by Jim Chuchu 3rd Place: Tough Love by Rosa von Praunheim
Generation Rainbow by Nagesh Kukunoor
Independent Awards
Teddy Award Nasty Baby by Sebastián Silva«Nasty Baby» gewinnt Teddy-Filmpreis . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 February 2015.
FIPRESCI Prize Competition: Taxi by Jafar Panahi Panorama: A Minor Leap Down by Hamed Rajabi
Festival appearance The festival poster was designed by BOROS agency, who made the previous four posters of the festival. Festival director Dieter Kosslick described the poster as "the glamorous and suspense-packed second that precedes every cinema experience is when the curtain opens to reveal the screen. This year's poster motif aims to stir anticipation for that magical moment".
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