60th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival
was held from February 11 to February 21, 2010, with Werner Herzog
as President of the Jury. The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an
's romantic drama Apart Together
, in competition, while the closing film is Japanese director Yoji Yamada
's About Her Brother
, which was screened out of competition. A new record attendance was established with 282,000 sold tickets, according to the organizers . A complete restored version of Fritz Lang
's Metropolis
was also shown at the festival.
- President of the Jury Francesca Comencini
Nuruddin Farah
Cornelia Froboess
José Maria Morales
Yu Nan
Renée Zellweger
for Best Film - Bal
by Semih Kaplanoğlu
Silver Bears:
Honorary Golden Bear
Crystal Bear in the Generation Kplus (Feature Length Film)
Crystal Bear in the Generation14plus (Feature Length Film)
The Berlinale Camera
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
was held from February 11 to February 21, 2010, with Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
as President of the Jury. The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an
Wang Quan'an
Wang Quan'an is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991...
's romantic drama Apart Together
Apart Together
Apart Together is a 2010 Chinese drama film directed by Wang Quan'an. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay award.-Cast:* Lu Yan as Qiao Yu-e* Xu Caigen as Qiao Yu-e's husband...
, in competition, while the closing film is Japanese director Yoji Yamada
Yoji Yamada
is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy ....
's About Her Brother
Otōto (2010 film)
Otōto is a 2010 film by Yoji Yamada. The first screening of this film outside of Japan was at the closing ceremony of the 60th Berlin Film Festival in 2010...
, which was screened out of competition. A new record attendance was established with 282,000 sold tickets, according to the organizers . A complete restored version of Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
's Metropolis
Metropolis (film)
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and...
was also shown at the festival.
Jury
Werner HerzogWerner Herzog
Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
- President of the Jury Francesca Comencini
Francesca Comencini
Francesca Comencini is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand school with her sisters. She has directed 14 films since 1984. Her film Le parole di mio padre was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah
Nuruddin Farah is a prominent Somali novelist.-Early years:Born in Baidoa, Somalia, Farah is the son of a merchant father and a poet mother. As a child, he attended school at Kallafo in the Ogaden, and studied English, Arabic, and Amharic. In 1963, three years after Somalia's independence, Farah...
Cornelia Froboess
Cornelia Froboess
Cornelia Froboess is a German actress and a teen idol of the 1950s and early 1960s. During that time, Froboess appeared in many musical films, especially after the rock and roll wave had hit Germany...
José Maria Morales
José Maria Morales
José Maria Morales is a Spanish film producer. He produced The Milk of Sorrow, which won the Golden Bear at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010. He was a member of the jury at the 60th Berlin International Film...
Yu Nan
Yu Nan
Yu Nan is a Chinese actress. Born in Dalian, Yu Nan studied at the Beijing Film Academy, where she graduated in 1999.-In China:...
Renée Zellweger
Renée Zellweger
Renée Kathleen Zellweger is an American actress and producer. Zellweger first gained widespread attention for her role in the film Jerry Maguire , and subsequently received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles as Bridget Jones in the comedy Bridget Jones's Diary ...
In competition
The following films were selected in competition for the Golden Bear award:| Title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Apart Together Apart Together Apart Together is a 2010 Chinese drama film directed by Wang Quan'an. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay award.-Cast:* Lu Yan as Qiao Yu-e* Xu Caigen as Qiao Yu-e's husband... |
Wang Quan'an Wang Quan'an Wang Quan'an is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991... |
 Mainland China |
| Bal Honey (2010 film) Honey is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Egg and Milk. It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it became the third Turkish film, after... |
Semih Kaplanoğlu Semih Kaplanoglu Semih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.-Career:He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown... |
 Turkey |
| Caterpillar Caterpillar (film) is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, partially drawn from Edogawa Rampo's banned short-story .The film is a critique of the right-wing militarist nationalism that guided Japan's conduct in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The film deals with various... |
Kōji Wakamatsu Koji Wakamatsu is a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses... |
 Japan |
| Der Räuber The Robber The Robber is a 2010 drama film directed by Benjamin Heisenberg. The film is based on a novel by the Austrian author Martin Prinz, and was shot on location in Vienna. The main character, Johann Rettenberger, is based on Austrian bank-robber and runner Johann Kastenberger... |
Benjamin Heisenberg |  Germany |
| En Familie | Pernille Fischer Christensen Pernille Fischer Christensen Pernille Fischer Christensen is a Danish film director and the older sister of actor Stine Fischer Christensen. She started out in the movie business when she was 20 years old as an assistant to Tómas Gislason. During that time, Gislason was closely connected to Lars von Trier, and she got to... |
 Denmark |
| En ganske snill mann A Somewhat Gentle Man A Somewhat Gentle Man is a 2010 Norwegian comedy film directed by Hans Petter Moland. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Stellan Skarsgård - Ulrik* Bjørn Floberg - Rune Jensen* Gard B... |
Hans Petter Moland Hans Petter Moland Hans Petter Moland is a Norwegian film director. Hans Petter was the first born son of Odd Moland and Sigrid Eid Moland, and has a younger brother named Morten Moland. He is a film graduate from Emerson College in the United States. When living in Boston Hans Petter met a college student Elizabeth... |
 Norway |
| Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle is a 2010 Romanian drama film directed by Florin Şerban.-Plot:Romanian youth Silviu serves a four-year prison sentence. A few days before his release, his younger brother visits him and tells him that their mother has returned, who has found work in Italy and will... |
Florin Şerban Florin Şerban Florin Şerban is a Romanian film director whose film If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle won the Jury Grand Prix and the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2010 Berlin Film festival... |
 Kingdom of Romania |
| Greenberg Greenberg (film) Greenberg is a 2010 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. The film stars Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh... |
Noah Baumbach Noah Baumbach Noah Baumbach is an American writer, director and independent filmmaker.-Background and education:Baumbach was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of novelist/film critic Jonathan Baumbach and Village Voice critic Georgia Brown. He graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1987 and ... |
 United States |
| Howl Howl (2010 film) Howl is a 2010 American experimental film which explores both the Six Gallery debut and the 1957 obscenity trial of 20th century American poet Allen Ginsberg's noted poem Howl. The film is written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and stars James Franco as Ginsberg.-Plot:Howl... |
Rob Epstein Rob Epstein Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein, is a director, producer, writer and editor. Epstein has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature for the films The Times of Harvey Milk and Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.... and Jeffrey Friedman Jeffrey Friedman (filmmaker) Jeffrey Friedman is a non-fiction filmmaker, director, producer, writer and editor. Friedman has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt.... |
United States |
| Kak ya provyol etim letom How I Ended This Summer How I Ended This Summer is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:... |
Alexei Popogrebski Alexei Popogrebski Alexei Popogrebski is a Russian film director and screenwriter. His 2010 film How I Ended This Summer was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography:* Koktebel * Prostye veshchi... |
 Russia |
| Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen Jew Suss: Rise and Fall Jew Suss: Rise and Fall is a 2010 German drama film directed by Oskar Roehler, picturizing the creation process of the 1940 antisemitic Nazi propaganda movie Jud Süß. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.... |
Oskar Roehler Oskar Roehler Oskar Roehler is a German film director, screen writer and journalist. He was born in Starnberg as the son of writer Gisela Elsner and the writer Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others, Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark... |
 Austria and Germany |
| Mammuth Mammuth Mammuth is a 2010 French drama film directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:... |
Benoît Delépine Benoît Delépine Benoît Delépine is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+.... and Gustave de Kervern Gustave de Kervern Gustave de Kervern is a French film actor, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with Benoit Delepine.... |
 Early Modern France |
| Na putu On the Path On the Path is a 2010 Bosnian and Herzegovinan drama film directed by Jasmila Žbanić.-Plot:Luna and Amar are a young Bosnian couple living in Sarajevo. Both have traumatic memories from the Bosnian War of the 1990's. Luna had seen her parents killed by an anti-Muslim militia in Bijeljina, and had... |
Jasmila Žbanić Jasmila Žbanic Jasmila Žbanić is a film director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, department for theater and film directing. She also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop. She is noted for the... |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany and  Independent State of Croatia |
| Rompecabezas | Natalia Smirnoff Natalia Smirnoff Natalia Smirnoff is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. Her 2010 film Rompecabezas was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:... |
 Argentina and Early Modern France |
| San qiang pai an jing qi | Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum.... |
Mainland China |
| Shahada Shahada (film) Shahada is a 2010 German drama film directed by Burhan Qurbani. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival... |
Burhan Qurbani Burhan Qurbani Burhan Qurbani is an Afghan-German film director whose film Shahada was screened at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. He was born in 1980 in Germany from Ismaeli Hazara Parents... |
Germany |
| Shekarchi The Hunter (2010 film) The Hunter is a 2010 drama film directed by and starring Rafi Pitts. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Rafi Pitts as Ali Alavi* Mitra Hajjar as Sara Alavi* Ali Nicksaulat as Officer Nazem... |
Rafi Pitts Rafi Pitts Rafi Pitts is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director.Rafi spent his childhood in Tehran, where he lived in a basement flat underneath a post-production studio. He describes himself as having been a 'very bad' child actor, starting in films at the age of eight. He came to England in... |
 Iran and Germany |
| Submarino Submarino Submarino is a 2010 Danish drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg, starring Jakob Cedergren and Peter Plaugborg. It is based on the 2007 novel Submarino by Jonas T. Bengtsson, and focuses on two brothers on the bottom of Danish society, with lives marked by violence and drug addiction. The film... |
Thomas Vinterberg Thomas Vinterberg Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production.... |
Denmark |
| The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski Roman Polanski Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."... |
Early Modern France, Germany and |
| The Killer Inside Me The Killer Inside Me (2010 film) The Killer Inside Me is a 2010 American film adaptation of the 1952 novel of the same name by Jim Thompson. The film is directed by Michael Winterbottom and stars Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, and Jessica Alba. At its release, it was criticised for its graphic depiction of violence directed toward... |
Michael Winterbottom Michael Winterbottom Michael Winterbottom is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features... |
United States |
Out of competition
The following films made their international debut by screening out of competition at the festival:| Title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|
| About Her Brother Otōto (2010 film) Otōto is a 2010 film by Yoji Yamada. The first screening of this film outside of Japan was at the closing ceremony of the 60th Berlin Film Festival in 2010... |
Yoji Yamada Yoji Yamada is a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy .... |
Japan |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop Exit Through the Gift Shop Guetta happily accepts the assignment, adopting the name "Mr. Brainwash", putting up street art in the city and six months later, re-mortgaging his business to afford renting copious equipment and a complete production team to create pieces of art under his supervision... |
Banksy Banksy Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique... |
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| My Name Is Khan My Name is Khan My Name Is Khan ; commonly referred to as MNIK, is a 2010 Bollywood film directed by Karan Johar, with a screenplay by Shibani Bathija, produced by Hiroo Yash Johar and Gauri Khan, and starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, who reunite after nine years... |
Karan Johar Karan Johar Karan Johar is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and Television host. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and Yash Johar. He is one of the most successful filmmakers in Bollywood. He is most known for directing and producing some of Bollywood's highest grossing films in India and the... |
 India |
| Please Give Please Give Please Give is a 2010 dark comedy film written and directed by Nicole Holofcener and starring Catherine Keener. It is the fourth film Keener and Holofcener have made together... |
Nicole Holofcener Nicole Holofcener Nicole Holofcener is an American film and television director. She has directed four feature films, most recently Please Give.-Career:... |
United States |
| Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man is a 2010 Romanian drama film directed by Constantin Popescu Jr. It was released at Berlin International Film Festival, 60 edition.-Plot:... |
Constantin Popescu | Kingdom of Romania |
| The Kids are All Right The Kids Are All Right (film) The Kids Are All Right is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Lisa Cholodenko and written by Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg.One of Sundance 2010's breakout hits, it opened in limited release on July 9, 2010, expanding to more theaters on July 30, 2010. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray... |
Lisa Cholodenko Lisa Cholodenko Lisa Cholodenko is an American film and television writer/director. She is best known for her highly acclaimed 2010 comedy-drama The Kids Are All Right which was nominated for a number of awards including four Academy Awards, Best Picture among them.- Career :Having grown up in a Jewish family ,... |
United States |
| Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation... |
United States |
Awards
Golden BearGolden Bear
According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos species can reach masses of . The Grizzly Bear and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear....
for Best Film - Bal
Honey (2010 film)
Honey is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu, the third and final installment of the "Yusuf Trilogy", which includes Egg and Milk. It premiered on 16 February 2010 in competition at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival, where it became the third Turkish film, after...
by Semih Kaplanoğlu
Semih Kaplanoglu
Semih Kaplanoğlu is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.-Career:He graduated from the Cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown...
Silver Bears:
- Jury Grand PrixJury Grand PrixThe Jury Grand Prix is a Silver Bear award given by the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival to one of the feature films in competition...
: Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier by Florin ŞerbanFlorin ŞerbanFlorin Şerban is a Romanian film director whose film If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle won the Jury Grand Prix and the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2010 Berlin Film festival... - Best DirectorSilver Bear for Best DirectorThe Silver Bear for Best Director is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for best achievement in direction.-Awards:-Repeated winners:*Mario Monicelli *Satyajit Ray *Carlos Saura -External links:*...
: Roman PolanskiRoman PolanskiRoman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
for The Ghost Writer - Best ActressSilver Bear for Best ActressThe Silver Bear for Best Actress is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for achievement in performance by an actress.-Awards:- External links :*...
: Shinobu Terajima for CaterpillarCaterpillar (film)is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Wakamatsu, partially drawn from Edogawa Rampo's banned short-story .The film is a critique of the right-wing militarist nationalism that guided Japan's conduct in Asia during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. The film deals with various... - Best ActorSilver Bear for Best ActorThe Silver Bear for Best Actor is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for achievement in performance by an actor.- Awards :- External links :*...
: Grigori Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis for Kak ya provel etim letomHow I Ended This SummerHow I Ended This Summer is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:... - Best Screenplay: Wang Quan'anWang Quan'anWang Quan'an is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991...
and Na JinNa JinJin Na is a Chinese actress and screenwriter who, with director Wang Quan'an, won the Best Script award at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival for the film Apart Together.-External links:*http://life.globaltimes.cn/entertainment/2010-02/506800.html...
for Apart TogetherApart TogetherApart Together is a 2010 Chinese drama film directed by Wang Quan'an. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Best Screenplay award.-Cast:* Lu Yan as Qiao Yu-e* Xu Caigen as Qiao Yu-e's husband...
(Tuan Yuan) - Outstanding Artistic Achievement in the Category Camera: Pavel Kostomarov for Kak ya provel etim letomHow I Ended This SummerHow I Ended This Summer is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.-Plot:...
- Alfred Bauer Prize: Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier by Florin ŞerbanFlorin ŞerbanFlorin Şerban is a Romanian film director whose film If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle won the Jury Grand Prix and the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2010 Berlin Film festival...
Honorary Golden Bear
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- Hanna SchygullaHanna SchygullaHanna Schygulla is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema.-Life and career:Schygulla was born in Königshütte, Upper Silesia,...
Crystal Bear in the Generation Kplus (Feature Length Film)
- Echoes of the RainbowEchoes of the RainbowEchoes of the Rainbow is a 2010 Hong Kong drama film directed by Alex Law and starring Simon Yam and Sandra Ng. It won the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the Children’s Jury "Generation Kplus" category at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival....
(Shui Yuet Sun Tau)
Crystal Bear in the Generation14plus (Feature Length Film)
- Neukölln UnlimitedNeukölln UnlimitedNeukölln Unlimited is a 2010 German documentary. The film follows three Lebanese siblings - Hassan, Lial and Maradona - through their daily lives in Berlin's district of Neukölln....
The Berlinale Camera
- Yoji YamadaYoji Yamadais a Japanese film director best known for his Otoko wa Tsurai yo series of films and his Samurai Trilogy ....
- Ulrich Gregor and Erika Gregor
- Fine Art Foundry Noack
External links
- Berlin International Film Festival website
- Berlin International Film Festival:2010 at Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...