Caesar Must Die Leads Berlinale Winners

Congrats to the Taviani Bros. (who?), the inveterate sibling filmmakers whose Shakespeare-in-prison semi-doc Caesar Must Die has claimed the top prize at this year's Berlinale. Stephanie Zacharek has more about the Golden Bear winner in her review from Berlin — along with more about Barbara, whose own helmer, Christian Petzold, won the festival's Best Director award. (Tabu and Sister nabbed hardware as well.) As Stephanie predicted, Caesar Must Die secured U.S. distribution in this week in Berlin and will be Stateside later this year; stay tuned to Movieline for details about how and when you can see it, and read on for the complete list of winners. Congrats to all!



GOLDEN BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM

Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die)

by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani

JURY GRAND PRIX-SILVER BEAR

Csak a szél (Just The Wind)

by Bence Fliegauf

SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR

Christian Petzold for Barbara (Barbara)

SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS

Rachel Mwanza in Rebelle (War Witch) by Kim Nguyen

SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard in En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair) by Nikolaj Arcel

SILVER BEAR FOR AN OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION

Lutz Reitemeier for the photography in Bai lu yuan (White Deer Plain) by Wang Quan’an

SILVER BEAR FOR THE BEST SCRIPT

Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg for En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair) by Nikolaj Arcel

ALFRED BAUER PRIZE, awarded in memory of the Festival founder, for a work of particular innovation: Tabu by Miguel Gomes

SPECIAL PRIZE-SILVER BEAR

L’enfant d’en haut (Sister) by Ursula Meier

BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD, endowed with 50,000 Euros, funded by GWFF

Kauwboy Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole

(Generation Kplus)

SPECIAL MENTION

Tepenin Ardı Beyond the Hill by Emin Alper

(Forum)

PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY

GOLDEN BEAR

Rafa by João Salaviza

THE JURY PRIZE – SILVER BEAR

Gurehto Rabitto The Great Rabbit by Atsushi Wada

SPECIAL MENTION

Licuri Surf Licuri Surf by Guile Martins

EFA SHORT FILM NOMINEE BERLIN

Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garçon Two Ships

by Justine Triet

DAAD SHORT FILM PRIZE: The Man that Got Away The Man that Got Away by Trevor Anderson

PRIZES OF THE JURIES GENERATION Children’s Jury Generation Kplus

CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM: Arcadia by Olivia Silver

SPECIAL MENTION: Just Pretended To Hear by Kaori Imaizumi

CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: Julian by Matthew Moore

SPECIAL MENTION: BINO by Billie Pleffer

Youth Jury Generation 14 plus, CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM: Night of Silence by Reis Çelik

SPECIAL MENTION Kronjuvelerna The Crown Jewels by Ella Lemhagen

CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: Meathead Meathead by Sam Holst

SPECIAL MENTION 663114 by Isamu Hirabayashi

International Jury Generation Kplus

THE GRAND PRIX OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST FILM: Kauwboy Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole

SPECIAL MENTION: GATTU by Rajan Khosa

THE SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: BINO by Billie Pleffer

SPECIAL MENTION: L by Thais Fujinaga

Competition Panorama Forum

Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die), by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani

Rebelle (War Witch), by Kim Nguyen

Die Wand (The Wall), by Julian Roman

Pölsler Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic

La demora (The Delay), by Rodrigo Plá

Tabu (Tabu), by Miguel Gomes

L’âge atomique (Atomic Age), by Héléna Klotz Hemel (Hemel), by Sacha Polak

PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS: À moi seule (Coming Home), by Frédéric Videau

C.I.C.A.E. PRIZE: Death For Sale (Death for Sale), by Faouzi Bensaïdi Forum Kazoku no kuni (Our Homeland), by Yang Yonghi

LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS: My Brother The Devil (My Brother The Devil), by Sally El Hosaini

Special Mention: Dollhouse (Dollhouse), by Kirsten Sheridan

TEDDY AWARDS

Keep The Lights On (Keep The Lights On), by Ira Sachs

Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright

Loxoro (Loxoro), by Claudia Llosa

Jaurés (Jaurés), by Vincent Dieutre

INDEPENDENT JURIES

PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY

MADE IN GERMANY – PERSPEKTIVE FELLOWSHIP, endowed with 15,000 Euros, funded by Glashütte Original

Annekatrin Hendel for Disko (Disco)

DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE, funded by the German-French Youth Office This Ain’t California (This Ain’t California), by Marten Persiel

CALIGARI FILM PRIZE

Tepenin Ardı (Beyond the Hill), by Emin Alper

Special Mentions

Bagrut Lochamim (Soldier / Citizen), by Silvina Landsmann Escuela normal (Normal School), by Celina Murga

Jaurès (Jaurès), by Vincent Dieutre

NETPAC PRIZE

Paziraie Sadeh (Modest Reception), by Mani Haghighi

PEACE FILM AWARD

Csak a szél (Just The Wind), by Bence Fliegauf

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE Csak a szél (Just The Wind), by Bence Fliegauf

CINEMA FAIRBINDET PRIZE

Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright

READERS’ JURIES AND AUDIENCE AWARDS

Panorama Audience Award PPP – fiction film: Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic

Panorama Audience Award PPP – documentary film: Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present (Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present), by Matthew Akers

BERLINER MORGENPOST READERS’ PRIZE Barbara (Barbara), by Christian Petzold

TAGESSPIEGEL READERS’ PRIZE

La demora (The Delay), by Rodrigo Plá

SIEGESSÄULE READERS’ AWARD

Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic

Special Mention

Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright

PRIZE OF THE BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS SCORE COMPETITION

Christoph Fleischmann (Germany)

BERLIN TODAY AWARD

Rafael Balulu (Israel) for Batman At The Checkpoint (Batman At The Checkpoint)

Special Mention

David Lalé (United Kingdom) for White Lobster (White Lobster)

[via Deadline]