67th Berlin International Film Festival explained
The 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 18 February 2017 with Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven as president of the jury.[1] [2]
Django, directed by Etienne Comar, opened the festival.[3] The Golden Bear was awarded to the Hungarian film On Body and Soul directed by Ildikó Enyedi, which also served as closing film of the festival.[4]
Juries
Main Competition
- Paul Verhoeven, Dutch filmmaker - Jury President
- Olafur Eliasson, Icelandic sculptor[5]
- Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Tunisian producer
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
- Julia Jentsch, German actress
- Diego Luna, Mexican actor and filmmaker
- Wang Quan'an, Chinese filmmaker
Best First Feature Award
Documentary Award
- Daniela Michel, Mexican film critic[7]
- Laura Poitras, American filmmaker and producer
- Samir, Iraqi director and producer
Short Film Competition
- Kimberley Drew, American writer, curator and social media manager[8]
- Christian Jankowski, German artist and filmmaker
- Carlos Nuñez, Chilean film producer
Official Section
Main Competition
The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:[9] [10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country/region |
|---|
| Ana, mon amour | | Romania, Germany, France |
| Beuys | | Germany |
| Bright Nights | Helle Nächte | | Germany, Norway |
| Colo | | Portugal, France |
| The Dinner | | United States |
| Django | | France |
| A Fantastic Woman | Una mujer fantástica | | Chile, Germany, United States, Spain |
| Félicité | | France, Senegal, Belgium, Germany, Lebanon |
| Have a Nice Day | 好极了 | | China |
| Joaquim | | Brazil, Portugal |
| Mr. Long | ミスター・ロン/ 龍先生 | | Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, China, Taiwan |
| On Body and Soul | Testről és lélekről | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary |
| On the Beach at Night Alone | 밤의 해변에서 혼자 | | South Korea |
| The Other Side of Hope | Toivon tuolla puolen | | Finland |
| The Party | | United Kingdom |
| Return to Montauk | Rückkehr nach Montauk | | Germany, France, Ireland |
| Spoor | Pokot | | Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Sweden, Slovakia, France |
| Wild Mouse | Wilde Maus | | Austria | |
Out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[10]
Panorama
The following films were selected for the Panorama section:[11] [12] [13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country/region |
|---|
| 1945 | Ferenc Török | Hungary |
| Berlin Syndrome | Cate Shortland | Australia, France |
| Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | United States, Brazil, Italy, France |
| Centaur | Aktan Abdykalykov | Kyrgyzstan, France, Germany, Netherlands |
| Ciao Ciao | 巧巧 | Song Chuan | China, France |
| Close-Knit | 彼らが本気で編むときは、 | Naoko Ogigami | Japan |
| Discreet | Travis Mathews | United States |
| Fluidø | Shu Lea Cheang | Germany |
| From the Balcony | Fra balkongen | Ole Giæver | Norway |
| Ghost in the Mountains | 空山异客 | Yang Heng | China |
| God's Own Country | Francis Lee | United Kingdom |
| Headbang Lullaby | Hicham Lasri | Morocco, France, Qatar, Lebanon |
| Honeygiver Among the Dogs | Dechen Roder | Bhutan |
| Hostages | Rezo Gigineishvili | Georgia, Russia, Poland |
| Inflame | Kaygı | Ceylan Özgün Özçelik | Turkey |
| Insyriated | Philippe Van Leeuw | Belgium, France, Lebanon |
| Just Like Our Parents | Como Nossos Pais | Laís Bodanzky | Brazil |
| The King's Choice | Kongens Nei | Erik Poppe | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland |
| The Misandrists | Bruce LaBruce | Germany |
| One Thousand Ropes | Tusi Tamasese | New Zealand |
| Pendular | Júlia Murat | Brazil, Argentina, France |
| Requiem for Mrs. J. | Rekvijem za gospodju J. | Bojan Vuletić | Serbia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Russia, France, Germany |
| Skins | Pieles | | Spain |
| The Taste of Betel Nut | 槟榔血 | Hu Jia | China, Hong Kong |
| Tiger Girl | | Germany |
| Vaya | | South Africa |
| Vazante | | Brazil, Portugal |
| When the Day Had No Name | Teona Strugar Mitevska | Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia |
| The Wound | | South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France |
| Panorama Dokumente |
|---|
| Adriana's Pact | El Pacto de Adriana | Lissette Orozco | Chile |
| Belinda | Marie Dumora | France |
| Bones of Contention | Andrea Weiss | United States |
| Casting JonBenet | Kitty Green |
| Chavela | Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi |
| Dream Boat | Tristan Ferland Milewski | Germany |
| Erase and Forget | Andrea Luka Zimmerman | United Kingdom |
| Five Stars | Fünf Sterne | Annekatrin Hendel | Germany |
| Ghost Hunting | Istiyad Ashbah | Raed Andoni | France, Palestine, Switzerland, Qatar |
| I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck | France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland |
| If I Think of Germany at Night | Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht | Romuald Karmakar | Germany |
| In the Intense Now | No Intenso Agora | João Moreira Salles | Brazil |
| Investigating Paradise | Tahqiq fel djenna | Merzak Allouache | France, Algeria |
| My Wonderful West Berlin | Mein wunderbares West-Berlin | Jochen Hick | Germany |
| Politics, Instructions Manual | Política, manual de instrucciones | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spain |
| Fighting Through the Night | Combat au bout de la nuit | Sylvain L'Espérance | Canada |
| Revolution of Sound: Tangerine Dream | Margarete Kreuzer | Germany |
| Small Talk | 日常對話 | Hui-chen Huang | Taiwan |
| Strong Island | Yance Ford | United States, Denmark |
| Tania Libre | Lynn Hershman Leeson | United States |
| Untitled | Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi | Austria, Germany | |
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
The following films were selected for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section:[14] [15]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) |
|---|
| Back for Good | Zurück für Gut | Mia Spengler |
| The Best of all Worlds | Die beste aller Welten | Adrian Goiginger |
| Container | Kontener | Sebastian Lang |
| Dark Blue Girl | Die Tochter | Mascha Schilinski |
| End of the Season | Zwischen den Jahren | Lars Henning |
| Final Stage | Nicolaas Schmidt |
| Gabi | Michael Fetter Nathansky |
| Ironhead | Eisenkopf | Tian Dong |
| Mikel | Cavo Kernich |
| Millennials | Jana Bürgelin |
| Paths | Ein Weg | Chris Miera |
| Self-criticism of a Bourgeois Dog | Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes | Julian Radlmaier |
| Tara | Felicitas Sonvilla |
| We Were Kings | Könige der Welt | Christian von Brockhausen, Timo Großpietsch | |
Berlinale Special
The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:[9] [10] [16]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| 4 Blocks | | Germany |
| Below the Surface | | Denmark, Germany |
| Black Spot | Mathieu Missoffe | France, Belgium |
| The Bomb | | United States |
| Close-Up | کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک | | Iran |
| Devil's Freedom | La libertad del diablo | Everardo González | Mexico |
| Eight Hours Don't Make a Day | Acht Stunden sind kein Tag | | Germany |
| In Times of Fading Light | In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts | | Germany |
| Last Days in Havana | Últimos días en La Habana | | Cuba, Spain |
| The Lost City of Z | | United States |
| Maudie | | Canada, Ireland |
| Patriot | | United States |
| A Prominent Patient | Masaryk | Julius Sevcík | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| The Queen of Spain | La reina de España | | Spain |
| The Same Sky | Der gleiche Himmel | | Germany, Czech Republic |
| SS-GB | | United Kingdom |
| | Askold Kurov | Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic |
| The Young Karl Marx | Le jeune Karl Marx | | France, Germany, Belgium | |
Official Awards
The following prizes were awarded:[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]
Main Competition
GWFF Best First Feature Award
Short Film Competition
Panorama
Panorama Audience Award
Panorama Audience Award – Documentaries (Panorama Dokumente)
Generation
Generation 14plus
Generation KPlus
- The Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus International Jury for Best Film: Shkola nomer 3 by Yelizaveta Smith and Georg Genoux
- Special Mention: Ben Niao by Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka
- Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Short Film: The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do by Juanita Onzaga
- Special Mention Short Film: U Plavetnilo by
Independent Awards
CICAE Art Cinema Award
Harvey-Manner Readers' Jury Award
Guild Film Prize
Caligari Film Prize
Heiner Carow Prize
- Five Stars by Annekatrin Hendel
Compass-Perspektive-Award
- The Best of All Worlds by Adrian Goiginger
Kompagnon-Fellowship
ARTE International Prize
Eurimages Co-Production Development Award
- Razor Film Produktion for The Wife of the Pilot
VFF Talent Highlight Award
- Nefes Polat for The Bus to Amerika
Film Prize of the Robert Bosch Stiftung for International Cooperation Germany / Arab World
- Animation Film: Night by Ahmad Saleh
- Short Film: The Trap by Nada Riyadh
- Documentary Film: Behind Closed Doors by Yakout Elhababi
- Devil's Freedom by Everardo González
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: The 67th Berlin International Film Festival: Important Dates . 19 October 2016 . Berlinale . 5 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180905075145/https://www.berlinale.de/en/globals/festivaldaten/Eckdaten.html . dead .
- Web site: Jury President of the Berlinale 2017: Paul Verhoeven. 9 December 2016. Berlinale. 13 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180213193955/https://www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/preise_und_juries/preise_internationale_jury/index.html. dead.
- Web site: World Premiere of Django to Open the Berlinale 2017. 4 January 2017. Berlinale. https://web.archive.org/web/20170104234929/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_35156.html. 4 January 2017. dead.
- Web site: Berlin Film Festival: 'On Body and Soul' Wins Golden Bear for Best Film. 18 February 2017. Variety. 18 February 2017 .
- Web site: Berlinale 2017: International Jury. 31 January 2017. Berlinale. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202074849/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_36692.html. 2 February 2017. dead.
- Web site: GWFF Best First Feature Award. Berlinale. 27 January 2017. 27 January 2017.
- Web site: GLASHÜTTE ORIGINAL – DOCUMENTARY AWARD JURY. Berlinale. 15 December 2017.
- Web site: Berlinale Shorts - The 2017 International Short Film Jury: Christian Jankowski, Kimberly Drew and Carlos Nuñez. Berlinale. 13 December 2016. 15 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161220205713/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/berlinale_shorts/shorts-presse-detail_34644.html. 20 December 2016. dead.
- Web site: Aki Kaurismäki, Oren Moverman, Agnieszka Holland, Andres Veiel, and Sally Potter – First Films for the Competition of the Berlinale 2017 . 15 December 2016 . Berlinale . https://web.archive.org/web/20170305003134/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/wettbewerb/wettbewerb-presse-detail_34708.html . 5 March 2017 . dead . 22 January 2018.
- Web site: Press Releases Competition 67th Berlinale - Competition and Berlinale Special - Danny Boyle, Hong Sangsoo, Thomas Arslan, Volker Schlöndorff, Sabu, Álex de la Iglesia and Josef Hader's Directorial Debut in the Competition Programme . 10 January 2017 . Berlinale . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202130800/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/wettbewerb/wettbewerb-presse-detail_35348.html . 2 February 2017 . dead . 22 January 2018.
- Web site: Berlinale Panorama 2017: The Wound Selected to Open Panorama's Main Programme / Focus on "Black Worlds" and "Europa Europa" . Berlinale . 20 December 2016 . 21 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161222001055/http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/panorama/pan-presse-detail_34900.html . 22 December 2016 . dead .
- Web site: Panorama 2017 Programme Complete: Powerful European Auteur Cinema / Three Surprising Indie Gems from China and Hong Kong / Brazil Well-Represented with Five Films. Berlinale. 25 January 2017. 26 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170202072612/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/panorama/pan-presse-detail_36372.html. 2 February 2017. dead.
- Web site: 17 January 2017 . Berlinale Panorama 2017: Panorama Dokumente – Selection is Complete . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170118054149/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_35732.html . 18 January 2017 . 17 January 2017 . Berlinale.
- Web site: Back for Good - Mia Spengler's graduation film to Open Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017. Berlinale. 21 December 2016. 21 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161222001241/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/perspektive_deutsches_kino/pdk-presse-detail_34964.html. 22 December 2016. dead.
- Web site: Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017: The Millennial Generation . Berlinale . 11 January 2017 . 11 January 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170113163733/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_35412.html . 13 January 2017 . dead .
- Web site: Berlinale 2017: Competition and Berlinale Special Are Complete – Master Directors, Newcomers, and Stars Galore . 20 January 2017 . Berlinale . https://web.archive.org/web/20170202011527/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/wettbewerb/wettbewerb-presse-detail_36116.html . 2 February 2017 . dead . 22 January 2018.
- Web site: Awards and Juries in the Generation section. 18 February 2017.
- Web site: Prizes of the Independent Juries. Berlinale. 18 February 2017. 30 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170830235433/https://www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/preise_und_juries/preise_unabh_ngigen_jurys/index.html. dead.
- Web site: TEDDY AWARD Winners 2017. 17 February 2017. 18 February 2017.
- Web site: The Panorama Audience Awards Go to Insyriated and I Am Not Your Negro. Berlinale. 18 February 2017. 18 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218232353/https://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/auszeichnungen__/pue-presse-detail_37204.html. 18 February 2017. dead.
- Web site: Prizes of the International Jury. 18 February 2017. 13 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180213193955/https://www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/preise_und_juries/preise_internationale_jury/index.html. dead.
