berlin film festival

The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the "Berlinale" is one of the most important film festivals in Europe. It is held annually in February(in 2005 from February 10 until February 20) and started 1951 after an initiative of the United States , who occupied part of the city after World War II. The jury always placed special emphasis on representing films from all over the world, from the former Eastern Bloc Countries as well as from Western countries. The award are called Golden and Silver Bears (as the Bear is the symbol of Berlin).

List of Winners

Golden Bear

Year	Film	Director	Country
2005	U-CARMEN eKHAYELITSHA	Marc Dornford-May	South Africa
2004	Head On	Fatih Akin	Germany/Turkey
2003	In this World	Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top" \| 2002	Spirited Away	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan
Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass	UK/Ireland
2001	Intimacy	Patrice Chreau	France
2000	Magnolia	Paul Thomas Anderson	United States
1999	The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick	United States
1998	Central Station	Walter Salles	Brazil
1997	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Milos Forman	United States
1996	Sense and Sensibility	Ang Lee	United States
1995	Fresh Bait	Bertrand Tavernier	France
1994	In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan	UK/Ireland
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top" \| 1993	The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls	Xie Fei	China
The Wedding Banquet	Ang Lee	Taiwan
1992	Grand Canyon	Lawrence Kasdan	United States
1991	La Casa del sorriso	Marco Ferreri	Italy
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top" \| 1990	Music Box	Costa-Gavras	United States
Larks on a String	Jiri Menzel	Czechoslovakia
1989	Rain Man	Barry Levinson	United States
1988	Red Sorghum	Yimou Zhang	China
1987	Tema	Gleb Panfilov	Soviet Union
1986	Stammheim	Reinhard Hauff	West Germany
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top" \| 1985	Die Frau und der Fremde	Rainer Simon	East Germany
Wetherby	David Hare	United Kingdom
1984	Love Streams	John Cassavetes	United States
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top" \| 1983	Ascendancy	Edward Bennett	United Kingdom
The Beehive	Mario Camus	Spain
1982	Veronika Voss	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	West Germany
1981	Faster, Faster	Carlos Saura	Spain
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top" \| 1980	Heartland	Richard Pearce	United States
Palermo or Wolfsburg	Werner Schroeter	West Germany
1979	Daivd	Peter Lilienthal	West Germany
rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top" \| 1978	Trout	Jos Luis Garca Snchez	Spain
What Max Said	Emilio Martnez Lzaro	Spain
1977	Ascent	Larisa Shepitko	Soviet Union
1976	Buffalo Bill and the Indians	Robert Altman	United States
1975	Adoption	Mrta Mszros	Hungary
1974	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Ted Kotcheff	Canada
1973	Distant Thunder	Satyajit Ray	India
1972	The Canterbury Tales	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy
1971	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	Vittorio De Sica	Italy/W. Germany

See also: other film festivals, Oscars

External links

from the German-language Wikipedia includes winners since 1951
Official website

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