Berlinale 2012 Competition (Nominees & Winners)
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Cesare deve morire (2012)
English Title: Caesar Must Die
Language: Italian
Directors: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
Actors: Fabio Cavalli, Salvatore Sriano, Cosimo Rega, Giovanni Arcuri
Prizes: The Golden Bear for Best Film
A Royal Affair (2012)
English Title: A Royal Affair
(Original Title: En Kongelig Affære)
Language: Danish
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Actors: Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Prizes: Silver Bear - Best Actor: Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Silver Bear - Best Script: Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg
Just the Wind (2012)
English Title: Just the Wind
Language: Hungarian
Director: Bence Fliegauf
Actors: Lajos Sárkány, Katalin Toldi, Gyöngyi Lendvai, Géza Jungwirth
Prizes: The Jury Grand Prix - Silver Bear
Peace Film Prize
Amnesty International Film Prize
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English Title: Barbara
Language: German
Director: Christian Petzold
Actors: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke
Prizes: Silver Bear - Best Director
Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury Prize
War Witch (2015)
English Title: War Witch
Language: French, Lingala
Director: Kim Ngyuen
Actors: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Bastien, Serge Kanyinda, Ralph Prosper
Prizes: Silver Bear - Best Actress : Rachel Mwanza
White Deer Plain (2011)
English Title: White Deer Plain
(Original Title: Bai lu yuan)
Language: Mandarin
Director: Wang Quan'an
Actors: Zhang Fengyi, Zhang Yuqi, Wu Gang
Prizes: Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Achievement: Lutz Reitemeier for the photography
Tabu (2012)
English Title: Tabu
Language: Portuguese
Director: Miguel Gomes
Actors:Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta
Prizes: Alfred Bauer Prize (for a work of particular innovation)
Prize of the FIPRESCI Juries (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique)
Sister (2012)
English Title: Sister
Language: French
Director: Ursula Meier
Actors: Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston, Gillian Anderson
Prizes: Special Award - Silver Bear
Coming Home (2012)
English Title: Coming Home
Language: French
Director: Frédéric Videau
Actors: Agathe Bonitzer, Reda Kateb, Hélène Fillières, Noémie Lvovsky
Prizes: Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
English Title: Farewell, My Queen
(Original Title: Les adieux à la reine)
Language: French
Director: Benoït Jacquot
Actors: Léa Seydoux, Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois, Noemie Lvovsky
Aujourd'hui (2012)
English Title: Tey
Language: French
Director: Alain Gomis
Actors: Saül Williams, Aïssa Maïga, Djolof M'bengue, Anisia Uzeyman
Childish Games (2012)
English Title: Childish Games
(Original Title: Dictado)
Language: Spanish
Director: Antonio Chavarrías
Actors: Juan Diego Botto, Bárbara Lennie, Mágica Pérez
Captive (2012)
English Title: Captive/ Captured
Language: Tagalog, English
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Actors:Isabelle Huppert, Katherine Mulville, Marc Zanetta, Maria Isabel Lopez, Rustica Carpio
Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013)
English Title: Jayne Mansfield's Car
Language: English
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Robert Duvall, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick
Home for the Weekend (2012)
English Title: Home for the Weekend
(Original Title: Was bleibt)
Language: German
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
Actors: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler, Ernst Stötzner, Picco von Groote
Mercy (2012)
English Title: Mercy
(Original Title: Gnade)
Language: German, Norwegian, English
Director: Matthias Glasner
Actors:Jürgen Vogel, Birgit Minichmayr, Henry Stange, Ane Dahl Torp, Maria Bock
Kebun Binatang (2012)
English Title: Postcards from the Zoo
(Original Title: Kebun binatang)
Language: Indonesian
Director: Edwin
Actors:Ladya Cheryl, Nicholas Saputra
Metéora (2012)
English Title: Metéora
Language: Greek, Russian
Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Actors: Theo Alexander, Tamila Koulieva
The 62nd International Film Festival in Berlin in February 2012.
As always offering a diverse range of films that were politically critical and thought-provoking, emotional, artisitically valuable, entertaining, disturbing, minimalistic and much more. But once again it was shown in all sections that the world is in transition.
This year's International Jury consisted of the following 8 people:
Jury President Mike Leigh, British director, screenwriter and dramatist who made Naked (1993), Secrets % Lies (1996), Vera Drake (2004) and Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) for example.
Boualem Sansal, Algerian writer. Le serment des barbares (1999) and Rue Darwin (2011) are some of his works.
Charlotte Gainsbourg, British actress and vocal artist. She was in e.g. The little Thief (1988), The Science of Sleep (2006), Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011).
Jake Gyllenhaal, US-American actor who acted in e.g. Donnie Darko (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Zodiac (2007) and Source Code (2011).
Barbara Sukowa, German actress and vocal artist who acted in e.g. Lola (1981), Marianne and Juliane (1981), Rosa Luxemburg (1986) and Vision: From the Life of Hildegard Von Bingen (2009).
François Ozon, French director and screenwriter of e.g. Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000), 8 Women (2002), Swimming Pool (2003) and Potiche (2010).
Anton Corbijn, Dutch photographer, designer and filmmaker. Some of his films are Control (2007), The American (2010) and A Most Wanted Man whoch is in preparation.
Asghar Farhadi, Iranian director and screenwriter. Some his films are A Beautiful City (2004), Fire Work Wednesday (2006), About Elly (2009), Nader And Simin. A Seperation (2011).
Let's look forward to another great Berlinale in 2013. C;