56th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 56th Berlin International Film Festival
was held from February 9 to February 19, 2006.
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 9 to February 19, 2006.
Jury
- Charlotte RamplingCharlotte RamplingCharlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
: UK (Head of Jury) - Matthew BarneyMatthew BarneyMatthew Barney is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video...
: USA - Yash ChopraYash ChopraYash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...
: India - Marleen GorrisMarleen GorrisMarleen Gorris is a writer-director from the Netherlands. Gorris is known as an outspoken feminist and supporter of gay and lesbian issues which is reflected in much of her work....
: Netherlands - Janusz KaminskiJanusz KaminskiJanusz Zygmunt Kamiński is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's films since 1993's Schindler's List.-Life and career:...
: Poland - Yeong-ae Lee: Korea
- Armin Mueller-StahlArmin Mueller-StahlArmin Mueller-Stahl is a German film actor, painter, writer and musician.-Early life:Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia...
: Germany - Fred RoosFred Roos-Life and career:Roos was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Florence Mary and Victor Otto Roos. Beginning in television as a casting director for The Andy Griffith Show, Roos went on to produce most of Francis Ford Coppola's films subsequent to The Godfather, including Apocalypse Now...
: USA - Jung-Wan Oh: South Korea
- Mariela Besuievski: Spain
- Florian GallenbergerFlorian GallenbergerFlorian Gallenberger is a German film director. His film Quiero ser was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2001.-Career:...
: Germany
Awards
- Golden Berlin Bear:
- Grbavica: The Land of My DreamsGrbavica (film)Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian troops during the war...
by Jasmila ZbanicJasmila ŽbanicJasmila 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... - Best Short Film - Never Like the First Time! by Jonas OdellJonas OdellJonas Odell is a Swedish music video and film director and founder of FilmTecknarna. Odell, who specializes in a mix of animation and live action, has directed a number of short films, music videos and commercials...
- Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
- Silver Berlin Bear:
- Best Film Music - Isabella by Peter KamPeter KamPeter Kam Pui-Tat is a music composer for Hong Kong films including The Warlords and Bodyguards and Assassins.Peter is a four-time winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards.-External links:...
- Best Actor - Moritz BleibtreuMoritz BleibtreuMoritz Bleibtreu is a German actor.Bleibtreu was born in Munich, the son of actors Monica Bleibtreu and Hans Brenner, and the great-grand-nephew of the actress Hedwig Bleibtreu.Bleibtreu grew up in Hamburg...
for The Elementary Particles - Best Actress - Sandra HüllerSandra HüllerSandra Hüller is a German actress. She studied theater from 1996-2000 at the Hochschule Für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch", Berlin. She appeared from 1999-2001 at the Jena Theater, Thuringia and then for one year at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig...
for RequiemRequiemA Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead or Mass of the dead , is a Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal... - Best Director - Michael WinterbottomMichael WinterbottomMichael 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...
& Mat Whitecross for The Road to GuantanamoThe Road to GuantanamoThe Road to Guantanamo, alternatively The Road to Guantánamo, is a British 2006 docudrama directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross about the incarceration of three British detainees at a detainment camp in Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba... - Best Short Film - Penpusher by Guillaume Martinez
- Outstanding Artistic Achievement - Jürgen VogelJürgen VogelJürgen Peter Vogel is a German actor, screenwriter, film producer and singer.-Biography:Jürgen Vogel is the son of a Hamburg waiter and a housewife. He worked as a child model, later had various jobs and visited the Munich drama school for one day. In 1985 he moved to Berlin, where he shared a...
for The Free Will - Jury Grand Prix - En soapEn SoapA Soap, , is a Danish melodramatic comedy film directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen which incorporates many of the austere techniques of Dogme style. The movie, starring Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik, follows the turbulent love story between an abrasive beauty clinic owner and a depressed...
by Pernille Fischer ChristensenPernille Fischer ChristensenPernille 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...
- Best Film Music - Isabella by Peter Kam
- Honorable Mention:
- Short Film - Maryam KeshavarzMaryam KeshavarzMaryam Keshavarz is Iranian-American filmmaker.Keshavarz studied Persian literature at the University of Shiraz before turning to filmmaking. She has a B.A...
for El día que morí
- Short Film - Maryam Keshavarz
- Honorary Golden Berlin Bear:
- Andrzej WajdaAndrzej WajdaAndrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...
- Ian McKellenIan McKellenSir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...
- Andrzej Wajda
- Berlinale Camera:
- Michael BallhausMichael BallhausMichael Ballhaus, A.S.C. is a German cinematographer. In 1990, he was the Head of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.- Life and career :...
- Jürgen Böttcher
- Laurence Kardish
- Peter B. Schumann
- Hans Helmut Prinzler
- Michael Ballhaus
- Best Debut Film:
- En soapEn SoapA Soap, , is a Danish melodramatic comedy film directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen which incorporates many of the austere techniques of Dogme style. The movie, starring Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik, follows the turbulent love story between an abrasive beauty clinic owner and a depressed...
by Pernille Fischer ChristensenPernille Fischer ChristensenPernille 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...
(director) & Lars Bredo Rahbek (producer)
- En soap
- Panorama Audience Award:
- Tomer HeymannTomer HeymannTomer Heymann is an Israeli filmmaker.- Life :Heymann has directed many documentary films and series in the past ten years, most of them long-term follow-ups and personal documentations. His films won major awards at different prestigious film festivals including his first film “It Kinda Scares...
for Paper DollsPaper DollsPaper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera which aired for 14 episodes on ABC from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984. Set in New York's fashion industry, the show centered around top modeling agency owner Racine , her conflicts with the family of cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper , and the... - Short Film - Talya Lavie for The SubstituteThe SubstituteThe Substitute is a 1996 action-crime-thriller film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Marc Anthony, William Forsythe, Raymond Cruz, and Luis Guzmán.-Plot:...
- Tomer Heymann
- Crystal Bear:
- Best Short Film - Cameron B. Alyasin for Never an Absolution
- Best Feature Film - Niels Arden OplevNiels Arden OplevNiels Arden Oplev is a writer-director from Denmark.-Biography:He directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the film based on Stieg Larsson's novel of the same title and won critical acclaim internationally. Oplev decided to not continue directing the second and third parts of the Millennium...
for We Shall OvercomeWe Shall Overcome"We Shall Overcome" is a protest song that became a key anthem of the African-American Civil Rights Movement . The title and structure of the song are derived from an early gospel song by African-American composer Charles Albert Tindley... - 14Plus: Best Feature Film - Henry MeyerHenry MeyerHenry Meyer was a poet originally from Brush Valley, , Pennsylvania. His native language was Pennsylvania Dutch, and although he learned English in school, he wrote his poetry in "Dutch"....
for Four Weeks in June
- Crystal Bear - Special Mention:
- Best Short Film: Irina Boiko for The Thief
- Best Feature Film: Auraeus SolitoAuraeus SolitoAuraeus Solito is a filmmaker and indigenous peoples rights advocate who comes from a lineage of Shaman-Kings from the Palawan tribe but is one of the first to be born outside of his tribal land of South Palawan...
for The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros - 14Plus: Best Feature Film: Claude GagnonClaude GagnonClaude Gagnon is a Canadian born director, actor, and producer. Born in 1949 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. He help produce several films such as Visage pâle , Heaven , and looking for Anne .-References:...
for Kamataki
- Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk Grand Prix:
- The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus SolitoAuraeus SolitoAuraeus Solito is a filmmaker and indigenous peoples rights advocate who comes from a lineage of Shaman-Kings from the Palawan tribe but is one of the first to be born outside of his tribal land of South Palawan...
- The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus Solito
- Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Award:
- A Fish with a Smile by C. Jay Shih
- Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Special Mention:
- Best Short Film - Vika by Tsivia Barkai
- Best Feature Film - I Am by Dorota KedzierzawskaDorota KedzierzawskaDorota Kędzierzawska is a Polish director of feature and documentary films.Kędzierzawska graduated from the National Film School in Łódź in 1981 but prior to that had completed a course in cultural studies at the University of Łódź and studied film directing in Moscow for two years.Kędzierzawska...
- Teddy:
- Best Short Film - El día que morí by Maryam KeshavarzMaryam KeshavarzMaryam Keshavarz is Iranian-American filmmaker.Keshavarz studied Persian literature at the University of Shiraz before turning to filmmaking. She has a B.A...
- Best Documentary Film - Beyond HatredBeyond HatredBeyond Hatred is a 2005 French documentary film written and directed by Olivier Meyrou.The documentary tells the story of a French couple seeking justice after the homophobic murder of their gay son, 29-year old Francois Chenu. He was murdered by neo-fascist skinheads in 2002...
by Olivier Meyrou - Best Feature Film - The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus SolitoAuraeus SolitoAuraeus Solito is a filmmaker and indigenous peoples rights advocate who comes from a lineage of Shaman-Kings from the Palawan tribe but is one of the first to be born outside of his tribal land of South Palawan...
- Best Short Film - El día que morí by Maryam Keshavarz
- Teddy Jury Award:
- Patrick CarpentierPatrick CarpentierPatrick Carpentier is a retired Canadian race car driver. He is best known for his career in the Champ Car World Series and the IndyCar Series. In 2009, Patrick shared the #36 of Tommy Baldwin Racing with Mike Skinner and ran Michael Waltrip's #55 Toyota Camry in the road course races in the...
for CombatCombatCombat, or fighting, is a purposeful violent conflict meant to establish dominance over the opposition, or to terminate the opposition forever, or drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed....
- Patrick Carpentier
- FIPRSECI Prize:
- Competition - RequiemRequiemA Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead or Mass of the dead , is a Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal...
by Hans-Christian SchmidHans-Christian SchmidHans-Christian Schmid is a German film director and screenwriter.-Life and work:Hans-Christian Schmid has collaborated with Michael Gutmann on several of his the film that he has directed. Gutmann wrote screenplays for 23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint , and Crazy... - Forum of New Cinema - So Yong Kim for In Between DaysIn Between Days"In Between Days" is a song by the English new wave/rock band The Cure....
- Panorama - KnallhartKnallhartTough Enough is a German movie, directed by Detlev Buck, released in 2006. Main actors are David Kross and Jenny Elvers.-Plot summary:...
for Detlev BuckDetlev BuckDetlev Buck is a German film director and actor.-Life and work:From his first short film at the age of 21 in 1982, Erst die Arbeit und dann?, he has remained one of the most important filmmakers working in Germany...
- Competition - Requiem
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:
- Competition - Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams by Jasmila ZbanicJasmila ŽbanicJasmila 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...
- Forum of New Cinema - Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon by Khalo Matabane
- Panorama - The CollectorThe CollectorThe Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. It was made into a movie in 1965.- Plot summary :The novel is about a lonely young man, Frederick Clegg, who works as a clerk in a city hall, and collects butterflies in his spare time...
by Feliks FalkFeliks FalkFeliks Falk is a Polish movie and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio shows. A 1966 graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts, he also is a painter and graphic artist...
- Competition - Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams by Jasmila Zbanic
- C.I.C.A.E. Award:
- Forum of New Cinema - Close to HomeClose to Home (film)Close to Home is a 2005 Israeli movie. It is the first film about the experience of women soldiers in the Israeli army.Smadar and Mirit , both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service...
by Dalia Hager - Panorama - Yuan Zhang for Little Red FlowersLittle Red FlowersLittle Red Flowers is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan. The film was a co-production between China's Beijing Century Good-Tidings Cultural Development Company LTD and Italy's Downtown Pictures...
- Forum of New Cinema - Close to Home
- Netpac Award:
- Dear PyongyangDear PyongyangDear Pyongyang is a documentary film by Zainichi Korean director Yang Young-Hee about her own family. Shot in Osaka Japan and Pyongyang, North Korea, the film features Korean dialogue with Japanese subtitles. The US release has Japanese and Korean dialogue with English subtitles...
by Yong-hi Yang
- Dear Pyongyang
- Prix UIP Berlin:
- The Fence by Ricardo Íscar
- Alfred Bauer Award:
- Rodrigo MorenoRodrigo MorenoFor the Colombian racewalker with the same name see Rodrigo Moreno For the naturalized Spanish footballer currently playing for Bolton Wanderers see Rodrigo Moreno Machado....
for El custodio
- Rodrigo Moreno
- Label Europa Cinemas:
- Detlev BuckDetlev BuckDetlev Buck is a German film director and actor.-Life and work:From his first short film at the age of 21 in 1982, Erst die Arbeit und dann?, he has remained one of the most important filmmakers working in Germany...
for KnallhartKnallhartTough Enough is a German movie, directed by Detlev Buck, released in 2006. Main actors are David Kross and Jenny Elvers.-Plot summary:...
- Detlev Buck
- Caligari Film Award:
- Ben Hopkins for 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
- DIALOGUE en Perspective:
- Bülent AkinciBülent AkinciBülent Akıncı is a Turkish-German director and script writer. Since 1970 he lives in Berlin.In his youth he earned his money as musician, security guard and by selling insurances while he was finishing his graduation certificate from high-school...
for Running on Empty
- Bülent Akinci
- DIALOGUE en Perspective - Special Mention:
- Florian Gaag for Wholetrain
- Talent Movie of the Week:
- Phillip Van for High MaintenanceHigh MaintenanceUpon its release, High Maintanence was met with mixed to positive reviews. James Christopher Monger of Allmusic wrote that the extended play had a more adult pop sound, and gave the album a rating of two and a half stars out of five...
- Phillip Van for High Maintenance
- Berlin Today Award:
- Anna Azevedo for BerlinBall
- Score Competition:
- Alasdair Reid
- Manfred Salzgeber Award:
- Tomer HeymannTomer HeymannTomer Heymann is an Israeli filmmaker.- Life :Heymann has directed many documentary films and series in the past ten years, most of them long-term follow-ups and personal documentations. His films won major awards at different prestigious film festivals including his first film “It Kinda Scares...
for Paper DollsPaper DollsPaper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera which aired for 14 episodes on ABC from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984. Set in New York's fashion industry, the show centered around top modeling agency owner Racine , her conflicts with the family of cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper , and the...
- Tomer Heymann
- Panorama Short Film Award:
- Tala HadidTala HadidTala Hadid , is trained as a painter.Hadid was born to a Moroccan mother and an Iraqi father. Her paternal grandfather, a Marxist economist, was imprisoned under Saddam Hussein....
for Your Dark Hair Ihsan
- Tala Hadid
- DAAD Short Film Award:
- Rony Sasson for Swanettes
- Peace Film Award:
- Jasmila ZbanicJasmila ŽbanicJasmila 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...
for Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
- Jasmila Zbanic
- Amnesty International Film Prize:
- Masoud Arif Salih for Narcissus Blossom
- Wolfgang Staudte Award:
- Tizza CoviTizza CoviTizza Covi is an Italian screenwriter and director. She lived in Paris and Berlin before studying photography in Vienna...
for Babooska
- Tizza Covi
- Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas:
- Matthias Glasner for The Free Will
- Femina-Film-Prize:
- Yasmin Khalifa for Bye Bye Berlusconi!
- Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost":
- Robert AltmanRobert AltmanRobert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
for A Prairie Home CompanionA Prairie Home CompanionA Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, although it is frequently taken on the road...
- Robert Altman
- Reader Jury of the "Berliner Zeitung":
- Shion Sono for Strange CircusStrange Circus-Plot:School principal Ozawa Gozo rapes his daughter, Mitsuko, after she sees her parents having sex. Her mother Sayuri witnesses the rape. Gozo now rapes both of them as he pleases, while his family is undermined by incest, suicide, and murder... such is the erotic novel wheel-bound novelist Taeko...
- Shion Sono for Strange Circus
- Reader Jury of the "Siegessäule":
- Tomer HeymannTomer HeymannTomer Heymann is an Israeli filmmaker.- Life :Heymann has directed many documentary films and series in the past ten years, most of them long-term follow-ups and personal documentations. His films won major awards at different prestigious film festivals including his first film “It Kinda Scares...
for Paper DollsPaper DollsPaper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera which aired for 14 episodes on ABC from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984. Set in New York's fashion industry, the show centered around top modeling agency owner Racine , her conflicts with the family of cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper , and the...
- Tomer Heymann