69th Berlin International Film Festival Award Winners

Awards ceremony has been emotional because Dieter Kosslick tributes, homages and the spontaneous reaction of the ceremony audience. I will miss him as believe not many celebrities have what he does, HUGE charm with very-dark and very-dry humor, which simply LOVE it!

The movie clips are always welcome and today are helping to focus more on the movies than on the departure of beloved festival director.

My reactions to fest winners is, in general, as a whole have a traditional flavor, which in my book is just perfect.  Very glad that last Berlinale directed by Dieter Kosslick has been good and Juliette Binoche's hand is absolutely allover in top award winners, which is also perfect.

Lapid, Ozon, and newcomer Fingscheidt won the one, two and three film awards at 2019 Berllinale.   Wait, wait a gift from the jury for DK a huge bear, lol.  Will also miss Anke as assume she'll be gone too.  Not afraid of change, change is good BUT has to be equal or better than what Kosslick is leaving, sigh; Let's hope next year there will be nothing to regret.

It's over Danke, Dieter!  Danke Berlinale! Bis nächstes Jahr

Competition

Golden Bear for Best Film:  Synonymes (Synonyms), Nadav Lapid, France, Israel and Germany

Silver Bear Jury Grand Prize:  Grâce à Dieu (By the Grace of God), François Ozon, France

Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize:  Systemsprenger (System Crasher), Nora Fingscheidt, Germany

Silver Bear for Best Director: Angela Schanelec for Ich war zuhause, aber (I Was at Home, but), Germany and Serbia

Silver Bear for Best Actress: Yong Mei in 地久天长 Di jiu tian chang (So Long, My Song), Wang Xiaoshuai, China
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Wang Jingchun in 地久天长 Di jiu tian chang (So Long, My Song), Wang Xiaoshuai, China

Silver Bear for best Script: Maurizio Braucci, Claudio Giovannesi and Roberto Saviano for   La Paranza dei bambini (Piranhas), Claudio Giovannesi, Italy
Silver Bear for Outstanding Contribution in the categories Cinematography, Editing, Score, Costume Design or Production Design: Rasmus Videvaek for Ut og stjæle hester (Out Stealing Horses), Hans Petter Moland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark

Best First Feature Award:  Oray, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Germany

Glashütte Original Documentary Award:  Talking About Trees, Suhaib Gasmelbari, France, Sudan, Germany, Chad and Qatar

Short Films
Golden Bear: Umbra, Florian Fischer and Johannes Krell, Germany, 20’
Silver Bear:  Blue Boy, Manuel Abramovich, Argentina and Germany, 19’
Audi Award: Rise, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Brazil, Canada, USA, 20’
Special Mention:  Omarska, Varun Sasindran, France, 19’
Best Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards: Suc de síndria (Watermelon Juice), Irene Moray, Spain, 22’

Generation

Generation Kplus
Children's Jury
Crystal Bear for Best Film:  Une Colonie (A Colony), Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Canada
Special Mention:  Daniel fait face (Daniel), Marine Atlan, France
Crystal Bear for Best Short Film:  Juste moi et toi (Just Me and You), Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Canada, 22'
Special Mention:  #pestverhaal (#bullyingstory), Eef Hilgers, Netherlands (documentary), 16'



International Jury
Grand Prix for Best Film:  Di yi ci de li bie (A First Farewell), Wang Lina, China
Special Mention:  Mijn bijzonder rare week met Tess (My Extraordinary Summer with Tess), Steven Wouterlood, Netherlands and Germany
Special Prize of the Generation Kplus International Jury for Best Short Film:  El tamaño de las cosas (The Size of Things), Carlos Felipe Montoya, Colombia, 12'
Special Mention:  Pappa (Dad), Atle S. Blakseth, Einar Dunsæd, Norway, 8'



Generation 14plus
Children's Jury
Crystal Bear for Best Film:  Hölmö nuori sydän (Stupid Young Heart), Selma Vilhunen, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden
Special Mention:  We Are Little Zombies, Makoto Nagahisa, Japan
Crystal Bear for Best Short Film:  Tattoo, Farhad Delaram, Iran, 15'
Special Mention: Four Quartets, Marco Alessi, UK, 11'



International Jury
Grand Prix for Best Film:  Beol-sae (House of Hummingbird), Bora Kim, Korea
Special Mention:  Bulbul Can Sing, Rima Das, India
Special Prize of the International Jury for Short Film:  Liberty, Faren Humes, USA, 17'
Special Mention:  Soeurs Jarariju (The Sisters Jarariju), Jorge Cadena, Switzerland, 20'



Collateral Awards - Prizes from Independent Juries

FIPRESCI Awards
Competition:  Synonymes (Synonyms), Nadav Lapid, France, Israel and Germany
Panorama:  Dafne, Federico Bondi, Italy
Forum:  Die Kinder der Toten, Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska, Austria

Ecumenical Jury Awards
Competition:  Господ постои, името и е Петрунија Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija (God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija), Teona Stugar Mitevska, Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia and France
Panorama:  Buoyancy, Rodd Rathjen, Australia
Panorama Special Mention:  Midnight Traveler, Hassan Fazili and Emelie Mahdavian, USA, UK, Qatar and Canada (documentary)
Forum:  Erde (Earth), Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria
Honorary Award: Dieter Kosslick

Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai (C.I.C.A.E.)
Panorama:  37 Seconds, Hikari, Japan
Forum:  Nos défaites (Our Defeats), Jean-Gabriel Périot, France

Teddy Awards
Best Film: Breve Historia del Planeta Verde ( Brief Story from the Green Planet), Santiago Loza, Argentina, Germany, Brazil and Spain
Nominated:
Der Boden unter den Füßen (The Ground beneath My Feet), Marie Kreutzer, Austria
Greta, Armando Praça, Brazil
Best Documentary: Lemebel, Joanna Reposi Garibaldi, Chile and Colombia
Nominated:
Searching Eva, Pia Hellenthal, Germany
Self Portrait in 23 Rounds: a Chapter in David Wojnarowicz's Life, 1989-1991, Marion Scemana, France
Best Short Film:  Entropia, Flóra Anna Buda, Hungary, 10’
Nominated:
Lidérc úr (Mr. Mare), Luca Tóth, Hungary, France, 19’ 
Parsi, Eduardo Williams and Mariano Blatt, Argentina and Switzerland
Special Jury Award:  A Dog Barking at the Moon, Xiang Zi, China and Spain 
Readers' Award: Breve Historia del Planeta Verde ( Brief Story from the Green Planet), Santiago Loza, Argentina, Germany, Brazil and Spain
Special Teddy Award: Falk Richter

Amnesty International Film Prize:  Espero tua (re)volta (Your Turn), Eliza Capai, Brazil (documentary)
Caligari Film Prize:  Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit (Heimat Is A Space in Time), Thomas Heise, Germany and Austria
Guild Film Prize:  Господ постои, името и е Петрунија Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija (God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija), Teona Stugar Mitevska, Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia and France
Heiner Carow Prize:  Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit (Beauty and Decay), Annekatrin Hendel, Germany (documentary)
Label Europa Cinemas:  Šavovi (Stitches), Miroslav Terzić, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina

Peace Film Prize:  Espero tua (re)volta (Your Turn), Eliza Capai, Brazil (documentary)
Special Mentions
Système K (System K), Renaud Barret, France (documentary)
Midnight Traveler, Hassan Fazili and Emelie Mahdavian, USA, UK, Qatar and Canada (documentary) 

Readers' Juries and Audience Awards

Panorama Audience Awards
Feature Films
1st Place:  37 Seconds, Hikari, Japan
2nd Place:  Šavovi (Stitches), Miroslav Terzić, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina
3rd Place:  Buoyancy, Rodd Rathjen, Australia
Documentary Films
1st Place: Talking About Trees, Suhaib Gasmelbari, France, Sudan, Germany, Chad and Qatar (documentary)
2nd Place: Midnight Traveler, Hassan Fazili and Emelie Mahdavian, USA, UK, Qatar and Canada (documentary) 
3rd Place: Shooting the Mafia, Kim Longinotto, Ireland and USA (documentary)

The Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury Award:  Systemsprenger (System Crasher), Nora Fingscheidt, Germany
The Tagesspiegel Readers' Jury Award:  Monștri. (Monsters.), Marius Olteanu, Romania

Prizes Berlinale Co-Production Market & Berlinale Talents (Development Awards)

ArteKino International Prize:  A Responsible Adult, Shira Geffen, Israel
Baumi Script Development Award: Martin Rehbock for The Mule With Three Legs, Germany
Euroimages Co-Production Development Award: Alcarràs, Carla Simón, Spain
VFF Talent Hightlight Award:  Vicenzo Cavallo in Bufis, Mahad Ahmed, Kenya

Robert Bosch Stifung Prize for International Cooperation
Documentary Film:
Abo Zabaal 1989, Bassam Mortada, Germany and Egypt
Do You Love Me, Lana Deher, Germany and Lebanon
Special Mention: Fouledh, Mehdi Hmili, Germany and Tunisia
Short Film Fiction: Homeless Hearts, Mohamed Sabbah, Germany and Lebanon

Compass-Perspektive-Award:  Born in Evin, Maryam Zaree, Germany and Austria
Kompagnon-Fellowship Awards
Berlinale Talents: Transit Times, Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu, Germany, Moldova and Romania
Perspektive Deutsches Kino: To Be Continued (WT), Julian Pörksen, Germany

Honorary Golden Bear:  Charlotte Rampling
Berlinale Camera: Sandra Schulerg, Wieland Speck, Agnès Varda, and Herrmann Zschoche