• Winners Announced at 2014 Beaufort International Film Festival

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    The Eighth Annual Beaufort International Film Festival concluded on February 15th with the winners being announced in 9 categories and the presentation of the first ever Behind the Scenes Award. The award for Best Feature went to THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU, directed by Katharyn Grant and the award for Best Documentary went to AKA, DOC POMUS, directed by William Hechter and Peter Miller.  The top award went to Film Editor and two-time Oscar Winner Arthur Schmidt (Forrest Gump and Who Framed Roger Rabbit). He was awarded the prestigious Jean Ribaut Award for Excellence in Film Editing.

    Despite flight delays and reroutes and closed major highways due to a major winter storm hitting the southeast, filmmakers and film lovers still made the effort to get to the festival and once here, enjoyed four fun filled days of filmmaking excellence. “It was a tremendous turnout. We were quite pleased, “ stated Festival Director Ron Tucker. “Even with the adverse weather conditions at the start of the festival, the weather got better and we neared attendance of around 7000 people enjoying some part of festival events,”  Tucker stated.

    The film festival celebrated the 20th anniversary of the release of the film Forrest Gump with special activities which included the screening of the film with some of the cast and crew in attendance.  A video tribute to Mr. Schmidt was played on awards night that included video messages from actors Gary Sinise and Tom Hanks and Director Robert Zemeckis.

    James Passanante was presented the inaugural “Behind the Scenes” Award for is more than 30 years of work in the film industry as a Scenic Designer.

    Other Winners include:

    Best Feature:  The One Who Loves You, directed by Katharyn Grant, Denver, CO;

    Best Documentary:   AKA, Doc Pomus, directed by William Hechter and Peter Miller, Ontario, Canada;

    Best Short Film: The Long Wait, directed by Wolfgang Bodison, Los Angeles, CA

    Best Student Film:  Helpless, directed by Christene Hurley, Winston-Salem, NC,  University of North Carolina School of the Arts

    Best Animation:  Death & the Robot, directed by Austin Taylor, Winston-Salem, NC  University of North Carolina School of the Arts

    Best Screenplay:  Pawn, written by Uyen Le and VW Scheich, Los Angeles, CA

    Best Actor:  Elizabeth Yoder, Los Angeles, CA  ( The Long Wait)

    Best Director: Katharyn Grant, Denver, Co  (The One Who Loves You)

    Audience Choice:   AKA, Doc Pomus (Directors, William Hechter and Peter Miller)

    The World Without Purple Award: Special award presented by Alzheimer’s Family Services of Greater Beaufort to filmmaker Barbara Klutinis for her film The Sum Total of Our Memory.

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  • Complete Lineup for 43rd New Directors/New Films; Ana Lily Amirpour’s A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT is the Opening Night Film

    A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHTA GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT

    The complete lineup was unveiled for the 43rd edition of New Directors/New Films taking place March 19 to  March 30, 2014 in New York City and presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.  This year’s festival will screen 27 international feature films and 13 short films.  The opening night feature is Ana Lily Amirpour’s A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, a Persian, black-and-white, noirish thriller that recently bowed at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and is based on a graphic novel written by Amirpour about a young female vampire who stalks the streets of a fictional lonely Iranian ghost town. The closing night feature, 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH, by visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, also had its premiere at Sundance, where it won directing and editing awards in the World Cinema Documentary category. The film follows a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musical and cultural icon Nick Cave as he is writing his 2013 album “Push the Sky Away.”

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  • Official Trailer and Poster for Eliza Hittman’s Debut Feature IT FELT LIKE LOVE

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    Check out the official trailer and poster for Eliza Hittman’s debut feature IT FELT LIKE LOVE.  Variance Films will release IT FELT LIKE LOVE in New York on March 21st and Los Angeles on March 28th, 2014.  “Eliza Hittman’s powerful debut feature tells the story of Lila (Gina Piersanti, in a stunning debut), a fourteen year old spending a hot summer in a blue-collar Brooklyn neighborhood far removed from the bustling city.  Awkward, lonely, and often playing the third wheel, Lila is determined to emulate the sexual exploits of her more experienced best friend.  She fixates on Sammy, a tough older guy, when she hears that “he’ll sleep with anyone.”  Deluded in her romantic pursuit, Lila tries desperately to insert herself into Sammy’s gritty world, but in doing so she puts herself into a dangerously vulnerable situation.”

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  • A WORLD NOT OURS, URANIUM DRIVE-IN Lead Winners of 2014 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

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    The winners of the 2014 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival’s Feature, Big Sky, Short and Mini-Doc categories were announced before an energized and packed house last night at the Top Hat Lounge in downtown Missoula.  The Best Feature award went to A WORLD NOT OURS, described as an intimate and funny portrait of three generations of exile in the refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh, in southern Lebanon.  “Through his unique sensibility and keenly perceptive eye, filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel gives us a fascinating glimpse into the world of the Palestinian refugee camp where he grew up,” read the judges’ statement. “In so doing, he creates a remarkable cinematic journey that is both highly personal and strikingly universal.”

    The Big Sky Award was earned by URANIUM DRIVE-IN, described as the gripping story of a once-booming Colorado mining town as it grapples with the prospect of a return to the mining industry that offers a conflicting mix of economic prosperity and environmental and health challenges. The film was directed by Susan Beraza.  “We chose URANIUM DRIVE-IN  for the Big Sky Award because of its balanced and raw look at the realities of mining,” said the jury. “The filmmakers took great care with the subject and the characters and the result is a powerful story about life in the west.”  URANIUM DRIVE-IN also took home a cash prize of $1000 sponsored by the Montana Film Office.

    The Best Short award winner was THE RECORD BREAKER, described as the funny and surprisingly heartfelt tale of Ashrita Furman, the man with the most Guinness World Records of all time. The film’s director is Brian McGinn.  “THE RECORD BREAKER is witty, fast-paced and accomplished, with an engaging character who has found his own personal quirky passion in life,” said the judges. “Underneath the fun, the film grapples with deeper, even profound issues such as the nature of obsession and changing relationships between parents and child.”

    And finally, the winner of the Best Mini-Doc award went to EUGENE, directed by Jordan Olshanksy and Jason Stanfield. The 13-minute film, shot over the course of several months, tracks the last days of a homeless man living in the outskirts of San Francisco. The judges’ statement was not available as of press time.

    The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival’s status as a qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Short and Mini-Doc categories means that THE RECORD BREAKER and EUGENE are now eligible for consideration for next year’s Oscars.

    In addition to the category winners, judges were given the option of presenting an Artistic Vision award in each category. In each case, the jury found a film so deserving. They are: TRUCKER AND THE FOX (Feature), directed by Arash Lahooti; TRANSMORMON (Big Sky), directed by Torben Bernhard; PRISON TERMINAL (Short), directed by Edgar Barens; and ADRIFT (Mini-Doc), directed by Frederik Depickere.

    The award screenings will cap a busy final weekend of the nine-day festival. In addition to Friday evening’s full slate of films, screenings will be held in all four festival venues throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, including a slate of “Movies You Missed” made up of some of the most popular films screened during the previous week. Film schedule and information can be found at bigskyfilmfest.org.

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  • TIME IS ILLMATIC, Documentary on Rapper Nas to Open 2014 Tribeca Film Festival

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    The world premiere of the documentary TIME IS ILLMATIC, will open the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. The film follows the trajectory of Nas’ 1994 landmark debut album, Illmatic– widely considered one of the most important and revolutionary albums in hip-hop. The premiere, taking place on Wednesday, April 16, will be followed by a special musical performance where Nas will perform the groundbreaking album from front to back. TIME IS ILLMATIC, is directed by multimedia artist, One9, written by Erik Parker, and produced by One9, Parker, and Anthony Saleh. The Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, will run through April 27th.

    TIME IS ILLMATIC traces Nas’s influences and the insurmountable odds he faced in creating the greatest work of music from hip-hop’s second golden era. The film tracks the musical legacy of the Jones family — handed down to Nas from his jazz musician father, Olu Dara, the support of his Queensbridge neighborhood crew, and the loyalty of his younger brother Jabari “Jungle” Fret. Twenty years after its release, Illmatic is widely recognized as a hip-hop benchmark that encapsulates the sociopolitical outlook, enduring spirit, and collective angst of a generation of young men searching for their voice in America. Time Is Illmatic is supported by The Ford Foundation’s Just Films and Tribeca Film Institute’s Tribeca All Access program.

    “I want to thank the Tribeca Film Festival for supporting the film with the incredible platform they’ve built over the years,” said Nas. “It’s an honor to premiere this film in my hometown. I also want to thank One9 and Erik Parker for their persistence and hard work. Those guys and I come from the same place and era, which gives the doc an authenticity that is important to me. We wanted this film to represent the real, from the storyline all the way down to the directors and producers.”

    “Like the Festival itself, Time is Illmatic and the groundbreaking body of work it recognizes has roots grounded in New York City, but represents and reaches communities far beyond,” said Jane Rosenthal, CEO and Co-founder of Tribeca Film Festival. “The film spotlights a musical journey with community and family at its core and we look forward to celebrating this pivotal moment in hip hop history as we open our 13th edition.”

    “Throughout the journey, we see the metamorphosis of Nas as a young street poet, full of a rich musical legacy, transforming the pain and isolation of growing up in Queensbridge Houses into raw, honest lyrics, illuminating a spirit that inspired generations from the past, present, and the future. Experiencing the stories, passion, and energy of a modern day alchemist shaping lyrical dust to diamonds was truly an honor and we are extremely proud to premiere the film at Tribeca,” said One9. “I want to thank Nas, Jungle, Olu Dara, The Jones family, the Tribeca Film Institute, and Ford Foundation for allowing Erik Parker and me to create an authentic and unfiltered documentary film.”

    Hip Hop luminary and multi-platinum artist, Nas, released his debut album Illmatic in 1994, and he has gone on to sell over 20 million albums worldwide. The legendary Queens rapper, son of jazz musician Olu Dara, is widely recognized as a visionary and lauded for a seminal body of work that spans a two-decade career. He has released nine solo albums and three compilations, and will release Illmatic XX, a special 20th anniversary edition of the landmark debut, on April 15 by SONY Legacy.

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  • COMING SOON: Sony Pictures Classics to Release Zhang Yimou’s COMING HOME in the U.S.

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    Zhang Yimou’s latest film COMING HOME starring Gong Li, and currently in post-production, has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for release in the U.S. Inspired by Yan Geling’s “THE CRIMINAL LU YANSHI, COMING HOME is described as a romance drama chronicling the journey of a Chinese dissident (Chen Daoming) from the 1920′s to the 1990′s.

    COMING HOME marks the twelfth collaboration between the Sony Pictures Classics team and Zhang Yimou, dating back to the 1991 Orion Classics release of RAISE THE RED LANTERN. Other films include HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, SHANGHAI TRIAD, THE STORY OF QIU JU and CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER. The film will also be SPC’s sixth collaboration with Producer Bill Kong which began in 2000 with Ang Lee’s Academy Award winning CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.

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  • THE LAST ONE, a New Documentary about the AIDS Memorial Quilt to Screen at 2014 American Documentary Film Festival

    The Last One directed by Nadine Licostie

    The 2014 American Documentary Film Festival and Film Fund will screen THE LAST ONE – a look at the AIDS quilt and those who wove the panels. In the eighties and nineties, as AIDS ravaged the United States gay community, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was born out of a public battle for treatment and understanding. THE LAST ONE is a feature-length documentary tracing its history as an international art project and the role it continues to play as a response to a disease that still imperils vulnerable communities around the world.

    Through the intensely personal stories of its founders, volunteers, and panel-makers, THE LAST ONE examines how stigma and discrimination exacerbated and still fuel a disease that has already claimed the lives of 30 million people and currently infects 65 million men, women and children around the globe–including 50,000 new infections a year in the US alone. Longtime LGBT Activist and Founder of The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, Cleve Jones, will attend the screening of THE LAST ONE, along with the film’s director, Nadine Licostie.

    The American Documentary Film Festival opens on Thursday, March 27th and continues through Monday, March 31st, 2014.

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  • COMING SOON: Rachel Dratch, Wendy Moniz and Trevor St. John Among Cast of Patrick Wang’s Sophomore Feature Film THE GRIEF OF OTHERS

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    Rachel Dratch, Wendy Moniz and Trevor St. John are among the cast members set for the upcoming feature film THE GRIEF OF OTHERS.  THE GRIEF OF OTHERS is the sophomore film from Patrick Wang whose first film is the critically acclaimed IN THE FAMILY, which he wrote and directed.  Based on the acclaimed novel by Leah Hager Cohen (New York Times notable book, finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), the film is set to commence production in April 2014 in Nyack, New York.  

    In addition to Rachel Dratch (Saturday Night Live), Wendy Moniz (Betrayal, The Guardian), and Trevor St. John (One Life to Live, In the Family), additional key cast members include Oona Laurence, who won a Tony Award for her role as Matilda in Matilda the Musical, Jeremy Shinder who appeared in the international tour of The Addams Family, Sonya Harum who appeared in Gossip Girl and Blue Bloods, and Mike Faist who appeared on Broadway in Newsies.

    THE GRIEF OF OTHERS follows the family of Ricky and John Ryrie who suffer a devastating loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents try to return to their previous lives and struggle to regain a semblance of normalcy for themselves and their two children Paul and Biscuit.  Yet in the aftermath of the baby’s death, long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to the surface and a dreadful secret emerges with reverberations that reach far into their past and threaten their future.

    Trevor St. John plays John Ryrie, Wendy Moniz plays Ricky Ryrie, and Oona Laurence and Jeremy Shinder play their children Biscuit and Paul.  Sonya Harum appears as Jessica Safransky and Mike Faist plays Gordie Joiner.  In a dramatic turn, Rachel Dratch appears as Madeleine Berkowitz, a colleague of John’s.

    “We could not be more thrilled to secure the strong cast that this project deserves,” commented director Patrick Wang.  “Leah Hager Cohen’s novel is a powerful story of how unexpected generosity and human connections help us navigate loss and grief. The tremendous talent and sensitivities of this cast will breathe life into these characters on the screen with the same gorgeous detail we find on the page.”

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  • Film Society of Lincoln Center to Honor Director Rob Reiner with 41st Chaplin Award

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    Director Rob Reiner, will be honored at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 41st Annual Chaplin Award Gala held at Lincoln Center i New York City on Monday, April 28, 2014.  According to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, ‘The event will celebrate the range of Reiner’s work from the pure comedy of This Is Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride to the intense drama of Stand By Me; the romantic comedy of When Harry Met Sally…, as well as his extensive on-screen work highlighted with the role of Michael “Meathead” Stivic in the landmark television series All in the Family.’

    “The Board is very excited to have Rob Reiner as the next recipient of The Chaplin Award,” said Ann Tenenbaum, The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Board Chairman. “He has brought some of the most enduring and entertaining films of recent history to the screen, from iconic cult-classic comedies to powerful dramas that together illustrate an amazing range and body of work. As a director, writer, actor, and producer, we welcome him to the list of other master multi-hyphenates who have been prior recipients of the Chaplin Award Tribute.” 

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  • John McKay’s NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING to Open 2014 Cleveland International Film Festival

    NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING directed by John McKay

    NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING directed by John McKay has been announced as the Opening Night film of the 38th Cleveland International Film Festival, kicking off the festival on on Wednesday, March 19, 2014.  This “gentle, stylish, and quirky romantic comedy” stars Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber, Amy Manson, Iain De Caestecker, Kate Dickie, Freya Mavor, Gary Lewis, and Henry Ian Cusick.  The 38th Cleveland International Film Festival takes place March 19 to March 30, 2014.

    NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING directed by John McKay

    NOT ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING tells the story of struggling publisher Thomas Duval (Stanley Weber) who discovers his only successful author, Jane Lockhart (Karen Gillan), has writer’s block; and it is up to him to unblock her or he is finished. With her newfound success, she’s become too happy and she can’t write when she’s happy. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realizes he is in love with her.

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  • Complete List of Award Winners of 2014 BAFTAS, ACT OF KILLING Wins Documentary Award

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    The winners of the EE British Academy Film Awards were announced in London on Sunday night, and the GREAT BEAUTY won the award for Film Not in the English Language, the ACT OF KILLING received the Documentary award, and director and writer Kieran Evans received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for his first feature film KELLY + VICTOR.

    Sleeping with the Fishes won the British Short Animation award and the British Short Film award was presented to Room 8. 

    Best Picture
    Winner: 12 YEARS A SLAVE

    Best British Film
    Winner: GRAVITY

    Best Director
    Winner: Alfonso Cuarón, GRAVITY

    Best Actor
    Winner: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 YEARS A SLAVE

    Best Actress
    Winner: Cate Blanchett, BLUE JASMINE

    Best Supporting Actor
    Winner: Barkhad Abdi, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

    Best Supporting Actress
    Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, AMERICAN HUSTLE

    Best Original Screenplay
    Winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE, Eric Warren Singer, David O Russell

    Best Adapted Screenplay
    Winner: PHILOMENA, Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

    Best Foreign
    Winner: THE GREAT BEAUTY, Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima

    Best Documentary
    Winner: THE ACT OF KILLING, Joshua Oppenheimer

    Best Animation
    Winner: FROZEN, Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

    Best Cinematography
    Winner: GRAVITY, Emmanuel Lubezki

    Best Editing
    Winner: RUSH, Dan Hanley, Mike Hill

    Best Production Design
    Winner: THE GREAT GATSBY, Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

    Best Costume Design
    Winner: THE GREAT GATSBY, Catherine Martin

    Best Make Up and Hair
    Winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE, Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell

    Best Sound
    Winner: GRAVITY, Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro

    Best Original Music
    Winner: GRAVITY, Steven Price

    Best Special Visual Effects
    Winner: GRAVITY, Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny

    Best British Short Animation
    Winner: SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES, James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

    Best British Short Film
    Winner: ROOM 8, James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner

    Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
    Winner: Keiran Evans (Director/Writer), KELLY + VICTOR

    The EE Rising Star Award (voted for by public)
    Winner: Will Poulter

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  • Complete List of Award Winners of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival; BLACK COAL, THIN ICE by Diao Yinan Wins Golden Bear for Best Film

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    The winners of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival were announced on Saturday and the Chinese thriller (BAI RI YAN HUO) BLACK COAL, THIN ICE by Diao Yinan is the big winner, taking home the Golden Bear for Best Film. THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL by Wes Anderson took second place, winning the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. The public cast its votes and DIFRET won the Audience Award for Best Fiction Film, and DER KREIS (THE CIRCLE) for Audience Award for Best Documentary.

    GOLDEN BEAR FOR BEST FILM 
    Bai Ri Yan Huo
    Black Coal, Thin Ice
    by Diao Yinan

    SILVER BEAR GRAND JURY PRIZE
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    by Wes Anderson

    SILVER BEAR ALFRED BAUER PRIZE for a feature film that opens new perspectives
    Aimer, boire et chanter
    Life of Riley
    by Alain Resnais

    SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR
    Richard Linklater for
    Boyhood (Boyhood)

    SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS
    Haru Kuroki in
    Chiisai Ouchi (The Little House) by Yoji Yamada

    SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR
    Liao Fan in
    Bai Ri Yan Huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice) by Diao Yinan

    SILVER BEAR FOR BEST SCRIPT
    Dietrich Brüggemann, Anna Brüggemann for
    Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross) by Dietrich Brüggemann

    SILVER BEAR FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION
    in the categories camera, editing, music score, costume or set design
    Zeng Jian for the camera in
    Tui Na (Blind Massage) by Lou Ye

    BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD

    BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD, 
    Güeros
    Güeros
    by Alonso Ruizpalacios

    PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY

    GOLDEN BEAR FOR BEST SHORT FILM
    Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à pompe
    As long as shotguns remain
    by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel

    SILVER BEAR JURY PRIZE (SHORT FILM)
    LABORAT
    LABORAT
    by Guillaume Cailleau

    BERLIN SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
    Taprobana
    Taprobana
    by Gabriel Abrantes

    DAAD SHORT FILM PRIZE
    Person to Person
    Person to Person
    by Dustin Guy Defa

    PRIZES OF THE JURIES GENERATION

    Children’s Jury Generation Kplus

    CRYSTAL BEAR for the Best Film
    Killa
    The Fort
    by Avinash Arun

    SPECIAL MENTION
    Hitono Nozomino Yorokobiyo
    Joy of Man’s Desiring
    by Masakazu Sugita

    CRYSTAL BEAR for the Best Short Film
    Sprout
    Sprout
    by Ga-eun Yoon

    SPECIAL MENTION
    Sepatu Baru
    On Stopping the Rain
    by Aditya Ahmad

    International Jury Generation Kplus

    THE GRAND PRIX OF THE GENERATION KPLUS INTERNATIONAL JURY for the best feature-length film,
    Ciencias Naturales
    Natural Sciences
    by Matías Lucchesi

    SPECIAL MENTION
    Killa
    The Fort
    by Avinash Arun

    THE SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE GENERATION KPLUS INTERNATIONAL JURY for the best short film,
    Moy lichniy los’
    My Own Personal Moose
    by Leonid Shmelkov

    SPECIAL MENTION
    el
    away
    by Roland Ferge

    Youth Jury Generation 14plus

    CRYSTAL BEAR for the Best Film
    52 Tuesdays
    52 Tuesdays
    by Sophie Hyde

    SPECIAL MENTION
    ärtico
    arctic
    by Gabri Velázquez

    CRYSTAL BEAR for the Best Short Film
    Mike
    Mike
    by Petros Silvestros

    SPECIAL MENTION
    Emo (the musical)
    Emo (the musical)
    by Neil Triffett

    International Jury Generation 14plus

    THE GRAND PRIX OF THE GENERATION14PLUS INTERNATIONAL JURY for the best feature-length film,
    Violet
    Violet
    by Bas Devos

    SPECIAL MENTION
    Einstein and Einstein
    Einstein and Einstein
    by Cao Baoping

    THE SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE GENERATION 14PLUS INTERNATIONAL JURY for the best short film,
    Vetrarmorgun
    Winter Morning
    by Sakaris Stórá

    SPECIAL MENTION
    Søn
    Son
    by Kristoffer Kiørboe

    INDEPENDENT JURIES

    PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY
    Competition Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross) by Dietrich Brüggemann
    Special Mention ’71 (’71) by Yann Demange

    Panorama Calvary (Calvary) by John Michael McDonagh
    Special Mention Triptyque (Triptych) by Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires

    Forum Sto spiti (At Home) by Athanasios Karanikolas

    PRIZES OF THE FIPRESCI JURY
    Competition Aimer, boire et chanter (Life of Riley) by Alain Resnais
    Panorama Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks) by Daniel Ribeiro
    Forum Forma (Forma) by Ayumi Sakamoto

    PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS
    Boyhood (Boyhood) by Richard Linklater

    CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD
    Panorama Kuzu (The Lamb) by Kutluğ Ataman
    Forum She’s Lost Control (She’s Lost Control) by Anja Marquardt

    LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS
    Blind (Blind) by Eskil Vogt

    TEDDY AWARD
    Best Feature Film Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks) by Daniel Ribeiro
    Best Documentary/
    Essay Film Der Kreis (The Circle) by Stefan Haupt
    Best Short Film Mondial 2010 (Mondial 2010) by Roy Dib
    Teddy Jury Award Pierrot Lunaire (Pierrot Lunaire) by Bruce LaBruce

    MADE IN GERMANY – PERSPEKTIVE FELLOWSHIP, endowed with € 15,000
    funded by Glashütte Original
    Sandra Kaudelka for Intershop

    EX AEQUO
    Sebastian Mez for 274

    FGYO-AWARD DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE, endowed with € 5,000
    funded by the French-German Youth Office
    Anderswo (Anywhere Else) by Ester Amrami

    SPECIAL MENTION
    nebel (fog) by Nicole Vögele

    CALIGARI FILM PRIZE
    Das große Museum (The Great Museum) by Johannes Holzhausen

    NETPAC PRIZE
    Cheol-ae-kum (A Dream of Iron) by Kelvin Kyung Kun Park

    EX AEQUO
    Non-fiction Diary (Non-fiction Diary) by Jung Yoon-suk

    PEACE FILM PRIZE
    We Come as Friends (We Come as Friends) by Hubert Sauper

    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE
    Al midan (The Square) by Jehane Noujaim

    CINEMA FAIRBINDET PRIZE
    Concerning Violence (Concerning Violence) by Göran Hugo Olsson

    HEINER CAROW PRIZE
    Meine Mutter, ein Krieg und ich (My Mother, a War and Me) by Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt

    THINK:FILM AWARD, funded by the Allianz Kulturstiftung
    Provenance (Provenance) by Amie Siegel

    READERS’ JURIES AND AUDIENCE AWARDS

    PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD – fiction film
    Difret (Difret) by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari

    PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARD – documentary film
    Der Kreis (The Circle) by Stefan Haupt

    BERLINER MORGENPOST READERS’ JURY AWARD
    Boyhood (Boyhood) by Richard Linklater

    TAGESSPIEGEL READERS’ JURY AWARD
    Zamatoví teroristi (Velvet Terrorists) by Pavol Pekarčík, Ivan Ostrochovský, Peter Kerekes

    ELSE – SIEGESSÄULE READERS’ JURY AWARD
    52 Tuesdays (52 Tuesdays) by Sophie Hyde

    PRIZES BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET & BERLINALE TALENTS

    ARTE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE, endowed with € 6,000
    Emir Baigazin (Kazakhstan)
    for The Wounded Angel

    VFF HIGHLIGHT PITCH AWARD, endowed with € 10,000
    Bavo Defurne (Belgium)
    for Souvenir

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    Yulia Glukhova (Russian Federation)

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