65th Berlin International Film Festival
Opening film | Nobody Wants the Night |
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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]
Jury[]
Main Competition[]
The following people were on the jury for the festival:[13]
International jury
- Darren Aronofsky, film director, screenwriter and producer (United States) - Jury President
- Daniel Brühl, actor (Germany)
- Bong Joon-ho, director and screenwriter (South Korea)
- Martha De Laurentiis, film producer (United States)
- Claudia Llosa, film director, screenwriter and producer (Peru)
- Audrey Tautou, actress (France)
- Matthew Weiner, director, screenwriter and producer (United States)
First Feature Award Jury[]
The following people were on the jury for the Best First Feature:[14]
- Fernando Eimbcke, film director and screenwriter (Mexico)
- Olga Kurylenko, actress (Ukraine)
- Joshua Oppenheimer, film director (United States)
International Short Film Jury[]
The following people were on the jury for the Best Short Film:[15]
- Halil Altındere, artist (Turkey)
- Madhusree Dutta, director, curator and author (India)
- , author and curator (Singapore)
Bong Joon-ho
Claudia Llosa
Audrey Tautou
Matthew Weiner
In competition[]
The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:[5][16][17]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 | 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 |
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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:[18][19]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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54 (director's cut) | 54 | Mark Christopher | United States |
600 Miles | 600 Millas | Gabriel Ripstein | Mexico |
Absence | Ausência | Brazil, Chile, France | |
Angelica | Angelica | Mitchell Lichtenstein | United States |
Bizarre | Bizarre | Étienne Faure | France, United States |
Blue Blood | Sangue azul | Brazil | |
The Blue Hour | Onthakan | 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 | Switzerland, Germany | |
Dyke Hard | Dyke Hard | Sweden | |
The Fire | El incendio | Argentina | |
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) | How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) | 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 | Palestine | |
Paridan az Ertefa Kam | Iran, France | ||
Murder in Pacot | Meurtre à Pacot | Raoul Peck | France, Haiti, Norway |
Nasty Baby | Nasty Baby | Sebastián Silva | United States |
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, | Norway |
Paradise in Service | 軍中樂園 Jun Zhong Le Yuan | Doze Niu | Taiwan |
Petting Zoo | Petting Zoo | Germany, Greece, United States | |
Pioneer Heroes | Pionery-geroi | 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 | Lithuania, France, Netherlands | |
Thanatos, Drunk | 醉·生夢死 Zui Sheng Meng Si | 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:[20][21]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Are You Here | Are You Here | Matthew Weiner | United States |
Bloodline | Bloodline | Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman, and Glenn Kessler | United States |
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 |
Die abhandene Welt | Margarethe von Trotta | Germany | |
Selma | Selma | Ava DuVernay | United Kingdom, United States |
The Seventh Fire | The Seventh Fire | 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:[22]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country and year |
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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) |
Berlinale Series[]
The Series section, devoted to longform television series, was introduced in 2015.[23]
Awards[]
The following prizes were awarded:[7]
- Golden Bear – Taxi by Jafar Panahi
- Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize – 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[24]
- Panoroma Audience Award[25]
- 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
- Teddy Award: Nasty Baby by Sebastián Silva[28]
- FIPRESCI Prize[29]
- Competition: Taxi by Jafar Panahi
- Panorama: by
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".[30]
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