65th Berlin International Film Festival

65th Berlin International Film Festival

Festival poster
Opening film	Nobody Wants the Night
Closing film	Taxi
Location	Berlin, Germany
Founded	1951
Awards	Golden Bear (Taxi)
Hosted by	Anke Engelke[1]
Festival date	5–15 February 2015
Website	http://www.berlinale.de

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.^[2][3] German film director Wim Wenders was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear.^[4] The first seven films of the festival were announced on 15 December 2014.^[5] Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night was announced as the opening film.^[6]

The Iranian drama film Taxi, directed by Jafar Panahi, won the Golden Bear, which also served as the closing film of the festival.^[7][8]

For the first time in 2015, a "Berlin Critics' Week" ran parallel to the official festival. Similar to International Critics' Week at the Cannes festival, Berlin Critics' Week (alternatively referred to as "Critics' Week Berlin") is a sidebar run by the German Film Critics Association and screens arthouse films.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Competition

Jury

The following people were on the jury for the festival:^[13]

Name		Profession	Nationality
	Darren Aronofsky (Jury president)	Film director	USA
	Daniel Brühl	Actor	Germany
	Bong Joon-ho	Film director	South Korea
	Martha De Laurentiis	Film producer	USA
	Claudia Llosa	Film director	Peru
	Audrey Tautou	Actress	France
	Matthew Weiner	Writer, director and producer	USA

The following people were on the jury for the Best First Feature:^[14]

• Fernando Eimbcke, Mexican film director
• Joshua Oppenheimer, American film director
• Olga Kurylenko, French actress

In competition

The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:^[5][15][16]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
45 Years	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	Dang Di Phan	Vietnam
Body	Ciało	Małgorzata Szumowska	Poland
Chasuke's Journey	天の茶助 Ten no Chasuke	Sabu	Japan
Diary of a Chambermaid	Journal d'une femme de chambre	Benoît Jacquot	Belgium, France
Eisenstein in Guanajuato	Eisenstein in Guanajuato	Peter Greenaway	Netherlands, Mexico, Belgium, Finland
Gone with the Bullets	一步之遥 Yi bu zhi yao	Jiang Wen	China
Ixcanul	Ixcanul	Jayro Bustamante	Guatemala, France
Knight of Cups	Knight of Cups	Terrence Malick	United States
Nobody Wants the Night	Nadie quiere la noche	Isabel Coixet	Spain, France, Bulgaria
Queen of the Desert	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 Pod electricheskimi oblakami	Aleksei Alekseivich German	Russia, Ukraine, Poland
Victoria	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	Cinderella	Kenneth Branagh	United States
Every Thing Will Be Fine		Wim Wenders	Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
Mr. Holmes	Mr. Holmes	Bill Condon	United Kingdom, United States

Panorama

The following films were selected for the Panorama section:^[17][18]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
54 (director's cut)	54	Mark Christopher	United States
600 Miles	600 Millas	Gabriel Ripstein	Mexico
Absence	Ausência	Chico Teixeira	Brazil, Chile, France
Angelica	Angelica	Mitchell Lichtenstein	United States
Bizarre	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	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	Dyke Hard	Bitte Andersson	Sweden
The Fire	El incendio	Juan Schnitman	Argentina
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)	How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)	Josh Kim	Thailand, United States, Indonesia
I Am Michael	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	Al-Hob wa Al-Sariqa wa Mashakel Ukhra الحب والسرقة ومشاكل أخرى	Muayad Alayan	Palestine
A Minor Leap Down	Paridan az Ertefa Kam	Hamed Rajabi	Iran, France
Murder in Pacot	Meurtre à Pacot	Raoul Peck	France, Haiti, Norway
Nasty Baby	Nasty Baby	Sebastián Silva	United States
Necktie Youth	Necktie Youth	Sibs Shongwe-La Mer	South Africa
Ned Rifle	Ned Rifle	Hal Hartley	United States
Ode to My Father	Gukjesijang	Yoon Je-kyoon	South Korea
Out of My Hand	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 Jun Zhong Le Yuan	Doze Niu	Taiwan
Petting Zoo	Petting Zoo	Micah Magee	Germany, Greece, United States
Pioneer Heroes	Pionery-geroi	Natalia Kudryashova	Russia
The Sea Is Behind	Al bahr min ouaraikoum البحر من ورائكم	Hisham Lasri	Morocco
The Second Mother	Que Horas Ela Volta?	Anna Muylaert	Brazil
Stories of Our Lives	Stories of Our Lives	Jim Chuchu	Kenya
The Summer of Sangailė	Sangailė	Alanté Kavaïté	Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Thanatos, Drunk	醉·生夢死 Zui Sheng Meng Si	Chang Tso-Chi	Taiwan
Tough Love	Härte	Rosa von Praunheim	Germany
Why Me?	De ce eu?	Tudor Giurgiu	Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary

Berlinale Special

The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:^[19][20]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Are You Here	Are You Here	Matthew Weiner	United States
Bloodline	Bloodline	Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman, and Glenn Kessler	United States
La Bohème	Breathe Umphefumlo	Mark Dornford-May	South Africa
Fifty Shades of Grey	Fifty Shades of Grey	Sam Taylor-Johnson	United States
Greenery Will Bloom Again	Torneranno i prati	Ermanno Olmi	Italy
Life	Life	Anton Corbijn	United Kingdom, Canada
The Look of Silence	The Look of Silence	Joshua Oppenheimer	Denmark, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, Indonesia
Love and Mercy	Love and Mercy	Bill Pohlad	United States
The Misplaced World	Die abhandene Welt	Margarethe von Trotta	Germany
Selma	Selma	Ava DuVernay	United Kingdom, United States
The Seventh Fire	The Seventh Fire	Jack Pettibone Riccobono	United States
Virgin Mountain	Fúsi	Dagur Kári	Iceland, Denmark
Woman in Gold	Woman in Gold	Simon Curtis	United Kingdom, United States

Berlinale Classics

The following films were selected to be screened in the Berlinale Classics section:^[21]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country and year
Born in '45	Jahrgang 45	Jürgen Böttcher	East Germany (1966)
The Cat Has Nine Lives	Neun Leben hat die Katze	Ula Stöckl	West Germany (1968)
Goldfinger	Goldfinger	Guy Hamilton	United Kingdom (1964)
In Cold Blood	In Cold Blood	Richard Brooks	United States (1967)
Variety	Varieté	Ewald André Dupont	Germany (1925)

Awards

The Golden Bear of 2015 was awarded to Taxi by Iranian director Jafar Panahi.

The following prizes were awarded:^[7]

• Golden Bear – Taxi by Jafar Panahi
• Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear) – The Club by Pablo Larraín
• Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear) – 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 Script – Patricio Guzmán for The Pearl Button
• Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography
  • Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for Victoria
  • Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin for Under Electric Clouds
• Best First Feature Award – 600 Miles by Gabriel Ripstein^[22]
• Panoroma Audience Award^[23]
  • 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
  • The Grand Prix, for the best feature-length film
  • Special Mention for the Best Feature Film by The Children's Jury for Generation Kplus
  • Rainbow by Nagesh Kukunoor^[24][25]
• Teddy Award: Nasty Baby by Sebastián Silva^[26]
• FIPRESCI Prize^[27]
  • 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".^[28]

References

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19. "Many World Premieres in the Berlinale Special 2015". Berlinale. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
20. "Berlinale Special 2015: Films by Weiner and Oppenheimer complete the programme". Berlinale. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
21. "Berlinale Classics: Digital Premieres of Goldfinger and In Cold Blood - Final Programme Now Confirmed". Berlinale. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
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24. "'Dhanak' honoured in Poland".
25. "- Berlinale - Archive - Annual Archives - 2015 - Programme - Dhanak - Rainbow - Regenbogen".
26. «Nasty Baby» gewinnt Teddy-Filmpreis. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 February 2015.
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External links

• Official website