70th Berlin International Film Festival
 Festival poster | |
| Opening film | My Salinger Year |
|---|---|
| Closing film | There Is No Evil |
| Location | Berlin, Germany |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Awards | Golden Bear (There Is No Evil) |
| Festival date | 20 February – 1 March 2020 |
| Website | http://www.berlinale.de |
The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020.[1][2] It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival heads, business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian.[3] The festival opened with the opening gala presented by actor Samuel Finzi followed by the world premiere of the film My Salinger Year which was selected for the Berlinale Special section.[4] The Golden Bear was awarded to the Iranian film There Is No Evil, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof.[5]
Jury
Main competition
The following were on the jury for the Berlinale Competition section:[6][7]
International jury
- Jeremy Irons, actor (United Kingdom) - Jury President
- Bérénice Bejo, actress (France / Argentina)
- Bettina Brokemper, producer (Germany)
- Annemarie Jacir, filmmaker and poet (Palestine)
- Kenneth Lonergan, playwright and filmmaker (United States)
- Luca Marinelli, actor (Italy)
- Kleber Mendonça Filho, film director, screenwriter, producer and film critic (Brazil)
Encounters Awards Jury
The following people were on the jury for the Encounters Awards:[8]
- Shōzō Ichiyama, producer (Japan)
- Dominga Sotomayor, film director, writer and producer (Chile)
- Eva Trobisch, film director (Germany)
Best First Feature Award Jury
The following people were on the jury for the Best First Feature Award:[9]
- Ognjen Glavonić, film director and writer (Serbia)
- Hala Lotfy, film director, producer and founder of Hassala Films (Egypt)
- Gonzalo de Pedro Amatria, film scholar (Spain)
Documentary Award Jury
The following people were on the jury for the Berlinale Documentary film award:[10]
- Gerd Kroske, filmmaker (Germany)
- Marie Losier, filmmaker and curator (France / United States)
- Alanis Obomsawin, filmmaker, singer and artist (Canada)
International Short Film Jury
The following people were on the jury for the Berlinale Shorts section:[11]
- Réka Bucsi, filmmaker (Hungary)
- Fatma Çolakoğlu, curator (Turkey)
- Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, filmmaker and artist (Lesotho)
In competition
The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:[12][13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All the Dead Ones | Todos os mortos | Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra | Brazil, France |
| Bad Tales | Favolacce | Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo | Italy, Switzerland |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Burhan Qurbani | Germany, Netherlands, France | |
| DAU. Natasha | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel | Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia | |
| Days | 日子 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| Delete History | Effacer l'historique | Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern | France, Belgium |
| First Cow | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
| Hidden Away | Volevo nascondermi | Giorgio Diritti | Italy |
| The Intruder | El Prófugo | Natalia Meta | Argentina, Mexico |
| Irradiated | Irradiés | Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia |
| My Little Sister | Schwesterlein | Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond | Switzerland |
| Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Eliza Hittman | United States | |
| The Roads Not Taken | Sally Potter | United Kingdom | |
| The Salt of Tears | Le sel des larmes | Philippe Garrel | France, Switzerland |
| Siberia | Abel Ferrara | Italy, Germany, Mexico | |
| There Is No Evil | شیطان وجود ندارد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany, Czech Republic, Iran |
| Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany, France | |
| The Woman Who Ran | 도망친 여자 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
Encounters
The following films were selected for the new Encounters section:[14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Funny Face | Tim Sutton | United States | |
| Gunda | Victor Kossakovsky | Norway, United States | |
| Isabella | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina | |
| Kill It and Leave This Town | Zabij to i wyjedz z tego miasta | Mariusz Wilczyński | Poland |
| Los Conductos | Camilo Restrepo | Brazil, Colombia, France | |
| The Last City | Die letzte Stadt | Heinz Emigholz | Germany |
| Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Bosnia, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland | |
| The Metamorphosis of Birds | A metamorfose dos pássaros | Catarina Vasconcelos | Portugal |
| Naked Animals | Nackte Tiere | Melanie Waelde | Germany |
| Orphea | Khavn and Alexander Kluge | Germany | |
| Servants | Služobníci | Ivan Ostrochovský | Czech Republic, Ireland, Romania, Slovakia |
| The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs | Laila aur satt geet | Pushpendra Singh | India |
| Shirley | Josephine Decker | United States | |
| The Trouble with Being Born | Sandra Wollner | Austria, Germany | |
| The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | Anders Edström and C.W. Winter | Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States | |
Panorama
The following films were selected for the Panorama section:[15][16][17][18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Hands on Deck | À L'abordage | Guillaume Brac | France |
| Always Amber | Alltid Amber | Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen | Sweden |
| The Assistant | Kitty Green | United States | |
| Black Milk | Schwarze Milch | Uisenma Borchu | Germany, Mongolia |
| A Common Crime | Un crimen común | Francisco Márquez | Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland |
| Digger | Georgis Grigorakis | Greece, France | |
| Dry Wind | Vento Seco | Daniel Nolasco | Brazil |
| Eeb Allay Ooo! | Prateek Vats | India | |
| Exile | Exil | Visar Morina | Belgium, Germany, Kosovo |
| Father | Otac | Srdan Golubović | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia |
| Hope | Håp | Maria Sødahl | Norway, Sweden |
| If It Were Love | Si c'était de l'amour | Patric Chiha | France |
| Mare | Andrea Štaka | Croatia, Switzerland | |
| Minyan | Eric Steel | United States | |
| Mughal Mowgli | Bassam Tariq | United Kingdom | |
| No Hard Feelings | Futur Drei | Faraz Shariat | Germany |
| Notes from the Underworld | Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt | Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel | Austria |
| One in a Thousand | Las Mil y Una | Clarisa Navas | Argentina, Germany |
| One of These Days | Bastian Günther | Germany, United States | |
| Pari | Siamak Etemadi | Bulgaria, France, Greece, Netherlands | |
| Shine Your Eyes | Cidade Pássaro | Matias Mariani | Brazil |
| Sow the Wind | Semina il vento | Danilo Caputo | France, Greece, Italy |
| Suk Suk | Ray Yeung | Hong Kong | |
| Surge | Aneil Karia | United Kingdom | |
| Wildland | Kød & Blod | Jeanette Nordahl | Denmark |
Panorama Dokumente
The following films were selected for the Panorama Dokumente section:[15][16]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Mirror | O reflexo do lago | Fernando Segtowick | Brazil |
| Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets | Bill and Turner Ross | United States | |
| Days of Cannibalism | Teboho Edkins | France, Netherlands, South Africa | |
| The Foundation Pit | Kotlovan | Andrey Gryazev | Russia |
| I Dream of Singapore | Lei Yuan Bin | Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom | |
| If It Were Love | Si c'était de l'amour | Patric Chiha | France |
| Little Girl | Petite fille | Sébastien Lifshitz | France, Belgium |
| Nardjes A. | Karim Aïnouz | Algeria, Brazil, France, Germany, Qatar | |
| Running on Empty | Jetzt oder morgen | Lisa Weber | Austria |
| Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence | Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien | Bettina Böhler | Germany |
| Welcome to Chechnya | David France | USA | |
Berlinale Special
The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Sector | Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez | United States | |
| Charlatan | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia | |
| Curveball | Johannes Naber | Germany | |
| DAU. Degeneration | DAU. Degeneratsia | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Ilya Permyakov | Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia |
| Golda Maria | Patrick Sobelman and Hugo Sobelman | France | |
| High Ground | Stephen Maxwell Johnson | Australia | |
| Hillary | Nanette Burstein | United States | |
| Last and First Men | Jóhann Jóhannsson | Iceland | |
| Minamata | Andrew Levitas | United Kingdom | |
| My Salinger Year | Philippe Falardeau | Canada, Ireland | |
| Night Shift | Police | Anne Fontaine | France |
| Numbers | Nomera | Oleg Sentsov in collaboration with Akhtem Seitablaiev | Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, France |
| The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | United States | |
| Onward | Dan Scanlon | United States | |
| Paris Calligrammes | Ulrike Ottinger | Germany, France | |
| Persian Lessons | Vadim Perelman | Russia, Germany, Belarus | |
| Pinocchio | Matteo Garrone | Italy, France, United Kingdom | |
| Speer Goes to Hollywood | Vanessa Lapa | Israel | |
| Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue | 一直游到海水变蓝 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| Time to Hunt | 사냥의 시간 | Yoon Sung-hyun | South Korea |
Berlinale Shorts
The following films were selected for the Berlinale shorts section:[19]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Blake Williams | Canada | |
| À l'entrée de la nuit | Anton Bialas | France | |
| Aletsch Negative | Laurence Bonvin | Switzerland | |
| Atkūrimas | Laurynas Bareisa | Lithuania | |
| Cause of Death | Jyoti Mistry | South Africa/Austria | |
| A Demonstration | Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner | Germany/Netherlands/UK | |
| Filipiñana | Rafael Manuel | Philippines/UK | |
| Foam | Écume | Omar Elhamy | Canada |
| Genius Loci | Adrien Mérigeau | France | |
| Girl and Body | Charlotte Mars | Australia | |
| Gumnaam Din | Ekta Mittal | India | |
| HaMa'azin | Omer Sterenberg | Israel | |
| How to Disappear | Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf | Austria | |
| Huntsville Station | Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone | USA | |
| Inflorescence | Nicolaas Schmidt | Germany | |
| It Wasn't the Right Mountain, Mohammad | Mili Pecherer | France | |
| My Galactic Twin Galaction | Sasha Svirsky | Russia | |
| Playback | Ensayo de una despedida | Agustina Comedi | Argentina |
| She Who Wears the Rain | Celle qui porte la pluie | Marianne Métivier | Canada |
| So We Live | Rand Abou Fakher | Belgium | |
| Stump the Guesser | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada | |
| T | Keisha Rae Witherspoon | USA | |
| Union County | Adam Meeks | USA | |
| Veitstanz/Feixtanz | Gabriele Stötzer | East Germany (1988) | |
Other sections
The Berlinale retrospective included more than 30 films by Hollywood filmmaker King Vidor.[20] The homage was dedicated to Helen Mirren, with Mirren awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear.[21] The Berlinale Camera was awarded to Ulrike Ottinger followed by the world premiere of Ottinger's documentary Paris Calligrammes.[22]
The Series section, introduced in 2015,[23] is devoted to longform television series. In 2020, there were two Australian entries: Stateless and Mystery Road Series 2.[24][25]
Awards
The following prizes were awarded:[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
- Golden Bear – There Is No Evil by Mohammad Rasoulof
- Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize – Never Rarely Sometimes Always by Eliza Hittman
- Silver Bear for Best Director – Hong Sang-soo for The Woman Who Ran
- Silver Bear for Best Actress – Paula Beer for Undine
- Silver Bear for Best Actor – Elio Germano for Hidden Away
- Silver Bear for Best Script – Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo for Bad Tales
- Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution – Jürgen Jürges for cinematography in DAU. Natasha
- Silver Bear 70th Berlinale – Delete History by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
- Golden Bear for Best Short Film – Keisha Rae Witherspoon for T
- Best First Feature – Camilo Restrepo for Los conductos
- Encounters
- Best Film — The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) by C.W. Winter & Anders Edström
- Best Director — Cristi Puiu for Malmkrog
- Special Jury Award — The Trouble with Being Born by Sandra Wollner
- Special Mention — Isabella by Matías Piñeiro
- Panorama Audience Award
- 1st Place: Father by Srdan Golubović
- 2nd Place: No Hard Feelings by Faraz Shariat
- 3rd Place: Hope by Maria Sødahl
- Panorama Audience Award – Documentaries
- 1st Place: Welcome to Chechnya by David France
- 2nd Place: Saudi Runaway by Susanne Regina Meures
- 3rd Place: Little Girl by Sébastien Lifshitz
- Teddy Award
- Best Feature Film: No Hard Feelings (Futur drei) by Faraz Shariat
- Best Documentary/Essay Film: If It Were Love (Si c'était de l'amour) by Patric Chiha
- Best Short Film: Playback by Agustina Comedi
- Special Jury Award: Days by Tsai Ming-liang
- FIPRESCI Prize
- Competition: Undine by Christian Petzold
- Panorama: Mogul Mowgli by Bassam Tariq
- Special Mention: All Hands on Deck by Guillaume Brac
- Forum: The Twentieth Century by Matthew Rankin
- Special Mention: Overtures by The Living and the Dead Ensemble
- Encounters: The Metamorphosis of Birds by Catarina Vasconcelos
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
- Competition: There Is No Evil by Mohammad Rasoulof
- Panorama: Father by Srdan Golubović
- Special Mention: Saudi Runaway by Susanne Regina Meures
- Generation 14Plus
- Crystal Bear for the Best Film: Our Lady of the Nile by Atiq Rahimi
- Special Mention: White Riot by Rubika Shah
- Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film: Mutts by Halima Ouardiri
- Special Mention: Goodbye Golovin by Mathieu Grimard
- Grand Prix of the Generation 14Plus International Jury for the Best Film: My Name Is Baghdad by Caru Alves de Souza
- Special Mention: Voices in the Wind by Nobuhiro Suwa
- Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Short Film: Mutts by Halima Ouardiri
- Special Mention: White Winged Horse by Mahyar Mandegar
- Crystal Bear for the Best Film: Our Lady of the Nile by Atiq Rahimi
- Generation KPlus
- Crystal Bear for Best Film: Sweet Thing by Alexandre Rockwell
- Special Mention: H Is for Happiness by John Sheedy
- Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film: The Name of the Son by Martina Matzkin
- Special Mention: Miss by Amira Géhanne Khalfallah
- The Grand Prix of the International Jury in Generation Kplus for the Best Film: The Wolves by Samuel Kishi Leopo
- Special Mention: Cuties by Maïmouna Doucouré
- Special Mention: Mum, Mum, Mum by Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière
- Special Prize of the International Jury in Generation Kplus for the Best Short Film: The Name of the Son by Martina Matzkin
- Special Mention: The Kites by Seyed Payam Hosseini
- Crystal Bear for Best Film: Sweet Thing by Alexandre Rockwell
- Caligari Film Prize
- Prize Winner: Victoria by Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere
- Heiner Carow Prize
- Prize Winner: Garagenvolk by Natalija Yefimkina
- Compass-Perspektive-Award
- Prize Winner: Walchensee Forever by Janna Ji Wonders
- Kompagnon-Fellowship
- Perspektive Deutsches Kino: 111 by Hristiana Rykova
- Berlinale Talents: Arctic Link by Ian Purnell
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