Caesar Must Die wins Golden Bear in Berlin
(via IndieWire)
- Golden Bear: “Caesar Must Die,” by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prize: “Just The Wind,” by Bence Fliegauf
- Silver Bear – Best Director: Christian Petzold for “Barbara”
- Silver Bear – Best Actress: Rachel Mwanza for “War Witch”
- Silver Bear – Best Actor: Mikkel Boe Folsgaard for “A Royal Affair”
- Silver Bear – Best Screenplay: Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg for “A Royal Affair”
- Alfred Bauer Prize: “Tabu,” by Miguel Gomes
- Special Mention: “Sister,” by Ursula Meier
- Crystal Bear for the Best Kplus Feature Film: “ARCADIA,” by Olivia Silver (USA)
Special Mention: “Kikoeteru, furi wo sita dake,” by Kaori Imaizumi (Japan) - Crystal Bear for the Best Kplus Short Film: “Julian,” by Matthew Moore (Australia)
Special Mention: “B I N O,” by Bille Pleffer (Australia) - Grand Prix of the Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk for the Best Feature Film, endowed with 7,500 Euro: “Kauwboy,” by Boudewijn Koole (Netherlands)
Special Mention: “GATTU,” by Rajan Khosa (India) - Special Prize of the Deutsche Kinderhilfswerk for the Best Short Film, endowed with 2,500 Euro: “B I N O,” by Bille Pleffer (Australia)
Special Mention: “L,” by Thais Fujinaga (Brazil) - Panorama Section Audience Award, Fiction Film: “Parada” (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic (Serbia, Republic of Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia)
Second Place: “Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood,” by Daniele Vicari (Italy, Romania, France)
Third Place: “Xingu,” by Cao Hamburger (Brazil) - Panorama Section Audience Award, Documentary Film: “Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present,” by Matthew Akers (USA)
Second Place: “Call Me Kuchu,” by Malika Zouhali-Worral and Katherine Fairfax Wright
Third Place: “La Vierge, les Coptes et Moi,” by Namir Abdel Messeeh (France, Qatar, Egypt) - Short Film DAAD Scholarship Award: “The Man That Got Away,” by Trevor Anderson (Canada)
- EFA Nominee Berlin (Best European Short Film): “Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garcon,” by Justine Triet
- Dialogue in Perspective Prize (for French-German cultural dialogue): “This Ain’t California,” by Marten Persiel
- Teddy Award For Best Feature Film - “Keep The Lights On,” by Ira Sachs
- Teddy Award For Best Documentary – “Call Me Kuchu” by Malika Zouhall-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright
- Teddy Award For Best Short Film – “Loxoro,” by Claudia Llosa
- Teddy Award Jury Prize - “Jaures,” by Vincent Dieutre
- Special Teddy Awards: Mario Montez and Ulrike Ottinger
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Wow!
Just great to see you posting the Berlinale winners. I feared this site would be too much interested in the Cannespectacle.
Danke schön! (Thank you!)
I´m really really looking forward to see Christian Petzold´s “Barbara”, who received rapturous reviews from most critics and was speculated by many as a possible Golden Bear winner. It´s about a young woman in the Eastern Germany of the year 1980 who wants to flee the country. When she falls in love she takes the risk and tells her lover about her plans – without knowing for sure if he might work for the Stasi (the investigation police of the East German regime in the times of the Cold War).
I can easily see this being a potential candidate as Germans entry into the Foreign Language competition. Petzold is certainly one of the best directors working today.
Hurray for Italy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s touching to noticed that these two old brothers who gave so much to cinema (to name only one “Padre Parrone” is a absolute masterpiece that in a list of 50 best movies of all time has a place) still have the talent to wonder us. Great expectations for “Cesare”.
OT: A release date has been announced for HYDE PARK ON HUDSON. To quote IMDb:
“The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.”
Sounds kind of like THE LION IN WINTER for 20th-century yanks, no? The script is by a debut screenwriter, and Roger Michell is the director, which is kind of a question mark (his last two films are VENUS–woohoo!–and MORNING GLORY–oh). But the cast is the selling point:
Olivia Colman as the future Queen Mum
Olivia Williams as Eleanor Roosevelt
Bill freakin’ Murray as FDR, and
Laura Linney as Margaret Stuckley, AKA Daisy
Man, THE KING’S SPEECH really touched off a mini-wave of movies about this era of the British Royalty, eh? But they won’t be the primary focus this time. One hesitates to make grand pronouncements this far out, but it sure looks like Murray’s best shot at an Oscar since LOST IN TRANSLATION (and probably ever). Also, to my delight, one of the thread topics on the IMDb discussion page for this movie is “BAFTAs from the rafters”. No kidding.
The early December release date, and its early announcement, suggests a lot of confidence on the part of Focus Features. They probably have a view towards platforming it into January. We’d best keep our eyes on it.
Padre Padrone is also the only mainstream movie whose entire list of plot keywords on IMDB are basically a thesaurus entry for Zoophilia. And it’s probably justified, not because it’s anything but two throwaway scenes, but because those scenes are pretty damn shocking.
I’m predicting best foreign language pic 2013 for A Royal Affair – about the political love triangle between German statesman Struensee, British princess Caroline Mathilda, and Danish King Christian VII.
Why did they hate Rise of the Planet of the Apes so much?
I can’t wait to see this Taviani film and am most excited to read this news! I am a fan of both PADRE PADRONE and LE NOTTE DI SAN LORENZO.