71st Berlin International Film Festival Award Winners Final

Update June 21, 2021: Audience Awards were the last prizes to be announced. Berlinale 2021 is over see you next year for Berlinale 2022. Auf Wiedersehen!

Update May 27, 2021: Generation Awards, prizes from the Younger Audience jurors.

As was very clear stated the festival this year will have two dates, first for industry during March and second for audiences in summer time. What was unexpected was that industry event included film press watching films and publishing reviews; but, most of all, awards were given to films! At least, some awards and that's when my confusion started to become chaotic.

With time some clarity came and now believe I understand better what's going on. For starters this post will be In Progress until after the summer event when awards not listed below will be given, like for example Panorama section awards, Teddy Awards, etc.

So, the awards given in the March event are the Prizes of the International Jury, Prizes of the Encounters Jury, Prizes of the International Short Film Jury, Prizes of the Jury Generation, some prizes of the Independent Juries and many Development Awards.  Sections like Generation have a reduced selection -no shorts this year- and listed are only the jury awards, children awards could be given during summer edition.

As programed by festival, the Awards Ceremony will take place at the Summer Special (June 9 to 20, 2021). Additional prizes will also be awarded as part of the Berlinale Summer Special.

Competition

Golden Bear for Best Film:  Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc (Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn), Radu Jude, Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, and Croatia



Silver Bear Jury Grand Prize:  偶然と想像 Guzen to sozo (Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy), Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan

Silver Bear Jury Prize:  Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (Mr. Bachman and His Class), Maria Speth, Germany (documentry)

Silver Bear for Best Director:  Dénes Nagy for Természetes fény (Natural Light), Hungary, Latvia, France and Germany

Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance:  Maren Eggert in Ich bin dein Mensch (I'm Your Man), Maria Schrader, Germany
Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance:  Lilla Kizlinger in Rengeteg – mindenhol látlak (Forest - I See You Everywhere), Bence Fliegauf, Hungary

Silver Bear for Best Screenplay:  Hong Sangsoo for 인트로덕션 Inteurodeoksyeon (Introduction), Hong Sangsoo, Korea

Silver Bear for Outstanding Contribution in the categories Cinematography, Editing, Score, Costume Design or Production Design:  Yibran Asuad for Una Película de Policías (A Cop Movie), Alonso Ruizpalacios, Mexico (documentary)

Best First Feature Award: The Scary of Sixty-First, Dasha Nekrasova, USA
Special Mention: Mantagheye payani (District Terminal), Bardia Yadegari and Ehsan Mirhosseini, Iran and Germany

Documentary Award: Nous (We), Alice Diop, France
Special Mention:  The First 54 Years - An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation, Avi Mograbi, France, Finland, Israel and Germany

Encounters
Best Film:  Nous (We), Alice Diop, France (documentary)
Special Jury Award:  Vị (Taste), Lê Bảo, Vietnam, Singapore, France, Thailand, Germany and Taiwan
Special Mention: Rock Bottom Riser, Fern Silva, USA

Best Director (ex-aequo):
Denis Côté for Hygiène sociale (Social Hygiene), Canada
Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher for Das Mädchen und die Spinne (The Girl and the Spider), Switzerland

Short Films
Golden Bear: Nanu Tudor (My Uncle Tudor), Olga Lucovnicova, Belgium, Portugal, and Hungary,20'
Silver Bear: Xia Wu Guo Qu Le Yi Ban (Day Is Done), Zhang Dalei, China, 24'
Best Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards: Easter Eggs, Nicolas Keppens, Belgium, France, and Netherlands, 15'

Generation
Prizes of the Youth Jury
Crystal Bear for Best Film in the Kplus Competition: Beans, Tracey Deer, Canada
Special Mention: Una Escuela en Cerro Hueso (A School in Cerro Hueso), Betania Cappato, Argentina
Crystal Bear for Best Film in the 14plus Competition: Stop-Zemlia, Kateryna Gornostai, Ukraine
Special Mention: Ninjababy, Yngvild Sve Flikke, Norway
Prizes of the International Jury
The Grand Prix for the Best Film in the Kplus Competition: Han Nan Xia Ri (Summer Blur), Han Shuai, China
Special Mention: Una Escuela en Cerro Hueso (A School in Cerro Hueso), Betania Cappato, Argentina
The Grand Prix for the Best Film in the 14Plus Competition: La Mif (The Fam), Fred Baillif, Switzerland
Special Mention: Cryptozoo, Dash Shaw, USA

Collateral Awards - Prizes from Independent Juries
Note: There were many prizes Suspended for the Berlinale 2021. To read the complete list of suspended awards go here and scroll down to Prizes of Independent Juries* and Readers' Juries.

FIPRESCI Awards
Competition: რას ვხედავთ, როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ? Ras vkhedavt, rodesac cas vukurebt? (What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?), Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia and Germany
Encounters:  Das Mädchen und die Spinne (The Girl and the Spider), Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher, Switzerland
Panorama: Okul Tiraşi (Brother‘s Keeper), Ferit Karahan, Turkey and Romania
Forum: Esquí (Ski), Manque La Banca, Argentina and Brazil

Caligari Film Prize: A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, Shengze Zhu, USA

Compass-Perspektive-Award: Instruction for Survival, Yana Ugrekhelidze, Germany (documentary)
Special Mention: Wood and Water, Jonas Bak, Germany and France

Teddy Awards
Best Film: Miguel's War, Eliane Raheb, Lebanon, Germany and Spain
Jury Award: Instructions for Survival, Yana Ugrekhelidze, Germany (documentary)
Best Short Film: International Dawn Chorus Day, Regie John Greyson, Canada

Development Awards

ArteKino International Award: Who Killed Narciso, Marcelo Martinessi,  Paraguay

Development Grant in Honor of Dimitri Eipides
Awarded to a Berlinale Talents Doc Station Project
Dragons, Miguel Antunes Ramos, Brazil
Special Mention: The Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest, Viv Li, Germany and China

Euroimages Co-Production Development Award: The Oblivion Theory, Annemarie Jacir, France and Germany

International Cooperation Germany/ Arab World:
The Missing Planet, Marouan Omara and Tom Rosenberg, Germany and Egypt
Nobody Wants the Night, Remi Itani, Germany and Lebanon

Kompagnon-Fellowship
Der Arbeiter (The Worker), Eliza Petkova, Germany
Wir waren Kumpel (Once We Were Pitmen),  Jonas Matauschek and Christian Johannes Koch, Germany and Switzerland (documentary)

VFF Talent Highlight Award: Tropical Gothic, Isabel Sandoval, USA

Audience Awards

Berlinale Competition Audience Award
1st Place: Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse (Mr. Bachman and His Class), Maria Speth, Germany (documentry)
2nd Place: Ich bin dein Mensch (I'm Your Man), Maria Schrader, Germany
3rd Place:  Ghasideyeh gave sefid (Ballad of a White Cow), Behtash Snaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam, Iran and France

Panorama Audience Awards
1st Place: A Última Floresta (The Last Forest), Luiz Bolognesi, Brazil
2nd Place: Miguel's War, Eliane Raheb, Lebanon, Germany and Spain
3rd Place: Genderation, Monika Treut, Germany