73rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale (German pronunciation: [bɛʁliˈnaːlə] ⓘ), took place from 16 to 26 February 2023. It was the first completely in-person Berlinale since the 70th in 2020.[1] The festival has added a new award for best television series this year.[2] On 15 December 2022, the first Panorama and Generation titles for the festival were announced,[3][4] and on 13 January 2023, many world premieres were added to out-of-competition lineup, including Israeli filmmaker Guy Nattiv's Golda—a biographical film about Golda Meir, first female Prime Minister of Israel.[5]
 Official festival poster | |
| Opening film | She Came to Me by Rebecca Miller |
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| Closing film | On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert |
| Location | Berlin, Germany |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Awards |
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| Directors | Mariette Rissenbeek |
| Artistic director | Carlo Chatrian |
| Festival date | Opening: 16 February 2023 Closing: 26 February 2023 |
| Website | Berlinale |
The festival opened with American filmmaker and novelist Rebecca Miller's drama film She Came to Me.[6] A live video stream with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was part of the opening ceremony.[7][8] On 21 February 2023, American filmmaker Steven Spielberg was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement by Irish singer-songwriter Bono.[9] Spielberg's films were screened in the Homage section for the occasion.[10][11] At the award ceremony held on 25 February hosted by Hadnet Tesfai, On the Adamant, a documentary film about a daycare centre in Paris for people with mental disorders, directed by French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert, won the Golden Bear. The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Afire by German filmmaker Christian Petzold. The highlight of the award ceremony was the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance won by Sofía Otero for the role of eight-year-old Lucía in 20,000 Species of Bees; Otero, at age nine, became the youngest winner of the award in the Berlinale history.[12][13]
Festival closed on 26 February with total sales of tickets touching 320,000, and around 20,000 accredited professionals from 132 countries including 2,800 media representatives attending the festival.[14]
Background
The film registration for the festival began in September 2022 with the closing date for submission fixed on 23 November 2022.[15] On 13 October 2022, with the slogan of "Let's Get Together", signifying in-person interactions in all the programmes of the festival after two years of the programmes held online due to COVID-19. It was also announced that Berlinale Series Award would be inaugurated in 2023.[16][17]
The festival poster was designed by Claudia Schramke, who had also created the previous year's Berlinale poster. The executive director of the Berlinale, Mariette Rissenbeek, described the poster as the key visual for the 2023 Berlinale, saying that it directed the attention toward the audience—the indispensable core of the festival. Rissenbeek said, "We're very pleased that with this year's poster, we can honour those whose curiosity, enthusiasm, and applause make the Berlinale a vibrant, inspiring, and joyful event."[18]
Opening and closing ceremonies
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The opening ceremony of the festival was held on 16 February with jury members and international and German stars walking the red carpet. The jury president Kristen Stewart, in her opening speech, pointed out about "oppressions against our physical selves". She said that, albeit she was a woman, she represented "the least marginal version of a woman". On that topic, Golshifteh Farahani, Iranian-French actress and one of the jury members, noted that "some women are not as fortunate."[1]
Russia's war on Ukraine and Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran were topical discussions at the ceremony. After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared via satellite and introduced by American actor and filmmaker Sean Penn, Zelenskyy remarked, "A logical question comes up: On which side should culture and art be?" and added, "Can art be outside of politics? Should cinema be outside of politics? It's an eternal question but today it is extremely [pertinent]." Afterward, the opening film of the festival, Rebecca Miller's drama film She Came to Me, was screened.[1]
Sofía Otero, with the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance for 20,000 Species of Bees
The closing ceremony or award night was held on 25 February, hosted by the German radio and television presenter Hadnet Tesfai. French documentary film On the Adamant, about a Paris daycare centre for people with mental disorders, by Nicolas Philibert won the Golden Bear. Stewart called the film "masterfully crafted" and a "cinematic proof of the vital necessity of human expression." Philibert asked in his acceptance speech if the jury members were "crazy"[19] and yet nevertheless thanked them, saying "that documentary can be considered to be cinema in its own right touches me deeply."[20]
The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was won by Afire by Christian Petzold. Sofía Otero, a nine-year-old girl was the winner of Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance for the role of eight-year-old Lucía in 20,000 Species of Bees. She became the youngest winner of the gender-neutral award in the Berlinale history. Stewart commented that Otero had defied "a system designed to diminish the intelligence of the performer", particularly that of child performers. After the ceremony, Otero said to the press that she wanted to dedicate her life to acting. The ceremony closed with a screening of the Golden-Bear winning film On the Adamant.[19][20]
Juries
Managing Director, Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Artistic Director, Carlo Chatrian
Main Competition
Main Competition jury
Kristen Stewart, Jury President
The following were on the jury for the Berlinale Main Competition section:[21][22][23][24]
- Kristen Stewart, American actor, director, and screenwriter (Jury President)
- Golshifteh Farahani, Iranian-French actor
- Valeska Grisebach, German director and screenwriter
- Radu Jude, Romanian director and screenwriter
- Francine Maisler, American casting director and producer
- Carla Simón, Spanish director and screenwriter
- Johnnie To, Hong Kong director and producer
Encounters
- Angeliki Papoulia, Greek actress and theatre director[25]
- Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgian film director and writer
- Paolo Moretti, Italian festival programmer and academic
International Short Film
- Cătălin Cristuțiu, Romanian editor
- Sky Hopinka, American visual artist and filmmaker
- Isabelle Stever, German director and screenwriter
Generation Kplus International
- Venice Atienza, Filipino documentarist
- Alise Ģelze, Latvian producer
- Gudrun Sommer, German festival programmer
Generation 14plus International
- Kateryna Gornostai, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film editor
- Fion Mutert, German cinematographer and media educator
- Juanita Onzaga, Colombian filmmaker and artist
GWFF Best First Feature Award
- Judith Revault d'Allonnes, French festival programmer
- Ayten Amin, Egyptian director
- Cyril Schäublin, Swiss film director
Documentary Award
- Emilie Bujès, artistic director of Switzerland's Visions du Réel
- Diana Bustamante, Colombian producer, director and programmer
- Mark Cousins, Northern Irish director and writer
Berlinale Series Award
- André Holland, American actor[26]
- Danna Stern, Israeli international executive, founder of Shtisel and Your Honor firm, Yes Studios
- Mette Heeno, Danish screenwriter, showrunner and executive producer
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
- Dela Dabulamanzi, German actor
- Anne Fabini, German film editor
- Jöns Jönsson, Swedish director
Heiner Carow Prize
- Freya Arde, German film composer, guitarist and music producer
- Peter Kahane, German director
- Mirko Wiermann, German film archivist .
Competition
The following 19 films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:[27][28][29]
- Highlighted title indicates the Golden Bear winner.
Encounters
The following 16 films are selected for the Encounters section:[31]
- Highlighted title indicates award winner.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absence[lower-alpha 1] | 雪云 | Wu Lang | China |
| The Adults | Dustin Guy Defa | United States | |
| The Cage is Looking for a Bird[lower-alpha 1] | Kletka ishet ptitsu | Malika Musaeva | France, Russian Federation |
| Eastern Front[lower-alpha 3] | Shidniy front | Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko | Latvia, Czechia, Ukraine, United States |
| The Echo[lower-alpha 3] | El eco | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico, Germany |
| Here | Bas Devos | Belgium | |
| Family Time[lower-alpha 1] | Mummola | Tia Kouvo | Finland, Sweden |
| In the Blind Spot | Im toten Winkel | Ayşe Polat | Germany |
| In Water | 물 안에서 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| The Klezmer Project[lower-alpha 1] | Adentro mío estoy bailando | Leandro Koch, Paloma Schahmann | Argentina, Austria |
| Living Bad | Viver Mal | João Canijo | Portugal, France |
| My Worst Enemy | Mon pire ennemi | Mehran Tamadon | France, Switzerland |
| Orlando, My Political Biography[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4] | Orlando, ma biographie politique | Paul B. Preciado | France |
| Samsara | Lois Patiño | Spain | |
| The Walls of Bergamo[lower-alpha 3] | Le mura di Bergamo | Stefano Savona | Italy |
| White Plastic Sky | Müanyag égbolt | Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó | Hungary, Slovakia |
Berlinale Special Events
The following titles received were selected for the sections below:[32][33][34][35][36]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlinale Special Gala | |||
| Golda | Guy Nattiv | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Kiss the Future[lower-alpha 3] | Nenad Cicin-Sain | Slovenia | |
| Last Night of Amore | L'ultima notte di Amore | Andrea Di Stefano | Italy |
| Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes | Robert Schwentke | Germany, Morocco | |
| She Came to Me | Rebecca Miller | US | |
| Sun and Concrete | Sonne und Beton | David Wnendt | Germany |
| Superpower[lower-alpha 3] | Sean Penn, Aaron Kaufman | United States | |
| Tár | Todd Field | United States, Germany | |
| Boom! Boom!: The World vs. Boris Becker | Alex Gibney | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Berlinale Special | |||
| 100 Years of Disney Animation – a Shorts Celebration | Walt Disney, Dave Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, Lauren Jackson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Hannah, Jon Kahrs, Brian Menz, Jacob Frey, Hillary Bradfield | United States | |
| Infinity Pool | Brandon Cronenberg | Canada | |
| The Innocents | Les Innocentes | Anne Fontaine | France, Poland |
| Kill Boksoon | 길복순 | Byun Sung-hyun | South Korea |
| Loriot's Great Cartoon Revue | Peter Geyer, Loriot | Germany | |
| Love to Love You, Donna Summer[lower-alpha 3] | Roger Ross Williams, Brooklyn Sudano | United States | |
| Mad Fate | 命案 | Soi Cheang | Hong Kong, China |
| #Manhole | ＃マンホール | Kazuyoshi Kumakiri | Japan |
| Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me | Laggiù qualcuno mi ama | Mario Martone | Italy |
| Measures of Men | Der vermessene Mensch | Lars Kraume | Germany |
| Talk to Me | Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou | Australia | |
Berlinale Series Competition
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent | Nikolaj Lie Kaas | Denmark | |
| The Architect | Arkitekten | Kerren Lumer-Klabbers | Norway |
| Bad Behaviour | Corrie Chen | Australia | |
| The Good Mothers | Le buone madri | Elisa Amoruso, Julian Jarrold | Italy |
| Roar | Dahaad | Reema Kagti, Ruchika Oberoi | India |
| Spy/Master | Christopher Smith | Germany, Romania | |
| Why Try to Change Me Now | 平原上的摩西 | Zhang Dalei | China |
| Out of Competition | |||
| The Swarm | Der Schwarm | Barbara Eder, Philipp Stölzl, Luke Watson | Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland |
Berlinale Short Films Competition
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Anaïs-Tohé Commaret | France | |
| A Kind of Testament | Stephen Vuillemin | ||
| Back | Yazan Rabee | Netherlands | |
| A Woman in Makueni | Mwanamke Makueni | Daria Belova, Valeri Aluskina | Germany |
| All Tomorrow's Parties | 我的朋友 | Zhang Dalei | China |
| The Beads | As Miçangas | Rafaela Camelo, Emanuel Lavor | Brazil |
| Bear | Ours | Morgane Frund | Switzerland |
| Daughter and Son | 亲密 | Cheng Yu | China |
| Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays | La herida luminosa | Christian Avilés | Spain |
| Dipped in Black | Marungka tjalatjunu | Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch | Australia |
| Eeva | Morten Tšinakov, Lucija Mrzljak | Estonia, Croatia | |
| From Fish to Moon | Kevin Contento | United States | |
| Happy Doom | Billy Roisz | Austria | |
| It's a Date | Nadia Parfan | Ukraine | |
| Jill, Uncredited | Anthony Ing | United Kingdom | |
| Les chenilles | Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany | France | |
| Sleepless Nights | Nuits blanches | Donatienne Berthereau | France |
| Terra Mater – Mother Land | Kantarama Gahigiri | Rwanda, Switzerland | |
| The Veiled City | Natalie Cubides-Brady | United Kingdom | |
| The Waiting | Das Warten | Volker Schlecht | Germany |
Panorama
The following films are selected for the Panorama section:[37][38][39][40]
- Highlighted title indicates award winner.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| After | Anthony Lapia | France | |
| All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] | Babatunde Apalowo | Nigeria | |
| Ambush | Ghaath[lower-alpha 1] | Chhatrapal Ninawe | India |
| The Burdened | Al Murhaqoon | Amr Gamal | Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia |
| The Beast in the Jungle | La Bête dans la jungle | Patric Chiha | France, Belgium, Austria |
| The Castle | El castillo | Martín Benchimol | Argentina |
| Drifter[lower-alpha 2] | Hannes Hirsch | Germany | |
| Do You Love Me? | Ty mene lubysh? | Tonia Noyabrova | Ukraine, Sweden |
| Femme[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] | Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping | United Kingdom | |
| Green Night[lower-alpha 2] | 绿夜 | Han Shuai | Hong Kong, China |
| Hello Dankness | Soda Jerk | Australia | |
| Heroic | Heroico | David Zonana | Mexico, Sweden |
| Inside | Vasilis Katsoupis | Greece, Germany, Belgium | |
| Matria[lower-alpha 1] | Álvaro Gago | Spain | |
| Midwives | Sages-femmes | Léa Fehner | France |
| Opponent[lower-alpha 2] | Motståndaren | Milad Alami | Sweden |
| Passages[lower-alpha 2] | Ira Sachs | France | |
| Perpetrator[lower-alpha 2] | Jennifer Reeder | United States, France | |
| Property | Propriedade | Daniel Bandeira | Brazil |
| The Quiet Migration[lower-alpha 1] | Stille Liv | Malene Choi | Denmark |
| Reality[lower-alpha 1] | Tina Satter | United States | |
| Silver Haze[lower-alpha 2] | Sacha Polak | Netherlands, United Kingdom | |
| Sira | Apolline Traoré | Burkina Faso, France, Germany, Senegal | |
| The Siren (opening film) | La Sirène | Sepideh Farsi | France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium |
| Sisi & I | Sisi & Ich | Frauke Finsterwalder | Germany, Switzerland, Austria |
| The Teachers' Lounge | Das Lehrerzimmer | İlker Çatak | Germany |
| Documentary Competition | |||
| And, Towards Happy Alleys | Sreemoyee Singh | India | |
| The Cemetery of Cinema[lower-alpha 3] | Au cimetière de la pellicule | Thierno Souleymane Diallo | France, Senegal, Guinea, Saudi Arabia |
| The Eternal Memory | Maite Alberdi | Chile | |
| Iron Butterflies | Roman Liubyi | Ukraine, Germany | |
| Joan Baez: I Am a Noise | Karen O'Connor, Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle | United States | |
| Kokomo City[lower-alpha 4] | D. Smith | United States | |
| Stams[lower-alpha 3] | Bernhard Braunstein | Austria | |
| Transfariana[lower-alpha 4] | Joris Lachaise | France, Colombia | |
| Under the Sky of Damascus[lower-alpha 3] | Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh | Denmark, Germany, United States, Syria | |
Perspektive Deutsches Kino
The following films are selected for the Perspektive Deutsches Kino (lit. 'Perspective on German Cinema') section:[41][42]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Hologram for the King | Tom Tykwer | United States, Germany | |
| Ararat[lower-alpha 1] | Engin Kundag | Germany | |
| Ash Wednesday | Bárbara Santos, João Pedro Prado | ||
| Bones and Names[lower-alpha 2] | Knochen und Namen | Fabian Stumm | |
| Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents | Dora oder die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern | Stina Werenfels | |
| Elaha | Milena Aboyan | ||
| Jacob the Liar | Jakob der Lügner | Frank Beyer | |
| Kash Kash | Lea Najjar | ||
| The Kidnapping of the Bride | El secuestro de la novia | Sophia Mocorrea | |
| Lonely Oaks[lower-alpha 3] | Vergiss Meyn Nicht | Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Mühlhoff | |
| Long Long Kiss | Langer Langer Kuss | Lukas Röder | |
| Nuclear Nomads | Nomades du nucléaire | Kilian Armando Friedrich, Tizian Stromp Zargari | |
| On Mothers and Daughters | Geranien | Tanja Egen | |
| Requiem | Hans-Christian Schmid | ||
| Seven Winters in Tehran[lower-alpha 3] | Sieben Winter in Teheran | Steffi Niederzoll | Germany |
| Tehran Taboo | Teheran Tabu | Ali Soozandeh | Germany, Austria |
Forum
The following films are selected for the Forum section:[43][44][45]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allensworth | James Benning | US | |
| Anqa[lower-alpha 3] | Helin Çelik | Austria, Spain | |
| About Thirty[lower-alpha 2] | Arturo a los treinta | Martin Shanly | Argentina |
| Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait | Luke Fowler | United Kingdom | |
| The Bride[lower-alpha 1] | Myriam U. Birara | Rwanda | |
| Cidade Rabat | Susana Nobre | Portugal, France | |
| Concrete Valley | Antoine Bourges | Canada | |
| Dearest Fiona | Fiona Tan | Netherlands | |
| De Facto | Selma Doborac | Austria, Germany | |
| The Intrusion[lower-alpha 2] | O estranho | Flora Dias, Juruna Mallon | Brazil, France |
| The Temple Woods Gang | Le Gang des Bois du Temple | Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche | France |
| Leaving and Staying[lower-alpha 3] | Gehen und Bleiben | Volker Koepp | Germany |
| Horse Opera | Moyra Davey | United States | |
| Between Revolutions[lower-alpha 2] | Între revoluții | Vlad Petri | Romania, Croatia, Qatar, Iran |
| There Is a Stone | Ishi ga aru | Tatsunari Ota | Japan |
| Where God Is Not[lower-alpha 3] | Jaii keh khoda nist | Mehran Tamadon | France, Switzerland |
| The Trial[lower-alpha 3] | El juicio | Ulises de la Orden | Argentina, Italy, France, Norway |
| Calls from Moscow[lower-alpha 4] | Llamadas desde Moscú | Luís Alejandro Yero | Cuba, Germany, Norway |
| Mammalia | Sebastian Mihăilescu | Romania, Poland, Germany | |
| Our Body[lower-alpha 3] | Notre corps | Claire Simon | France |
| A Golden Life | Or de vie | Boubacar Sangaré | Burkina Faso, Benin, France |
| Notes from Eremocene | Poznámky z Eremocénu | Viera Čákanyová | Slovakia, Czechia |
| The Face of the Jellyfish | El rostro de la medusa | Melisa Liebenthal | Argentina |
| Remembering Every Night | Subete no Yoru wo Omoidasu | Yui Kiyohara | Japan |
| This Is the End[lower-alpha 4] | Vincent Dieutre | France | |
| Forms of Forgetting | Unutma Biçimleri | Burak Çevik | Turkey |
| Regardless of Us[lower-alpha 1] | 우리와 상관없이 | Yoo Heong-jun | South Korea |
| In Ukraine | W Ukrainie | Tomasz Wolski, Piotr Pawlus | Poland |
| Forum Special | |||
| The Devil Queen | A Rainha Diaba | Antonio Carlos da Fontoura | Brazil |
| I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Dick Fontaine | United States | |
| Forum Special Fiktionsbescheinigung | |||
| Aufenthaltserlaubnis | Antonio Skármeta | Germany | |
| An Autumn in the Little Country of Bärwalde | Ein Herbst im Ländchen Bärwalde | Gautam Bora | |
| Battle of the Sacred Tree | Der Kampf um den heiligen Baum | Wanjiru Kinyanjui | Germany, Kenya |
| Black Head | Kara Kafa | Korhan Yurtsever | Turkey |
| A Lover & Killer of Colour | Wanjiru Kinyanjui | Germany | |
| I, Your Mother | Man Sa Yay | Safi Faye | Germany, Senegal |
| My Father the Guestworker | Mein Vater, der Gastarbeiter | Yüksel Yavuz | Germany |
| Other than That, I'm Fine | Onun Haricinde, İyiyim | Eren Aksu | Germany, Turkey |
| All in Order | Ordnung | Sohrab Shahid-Saless | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Oyoyo | Chetna Vora | German Democratic Republic | |
| Forum Expanded | |||
| The Tree | A árvore | Ana Vaz | Spain, Brazil |
| AI: African Intelligence | Manthia Diawara Portugal, Senegal, Belgium | ||
| Black Strangers | Dan Guthrie | United Kingdom | |
| Conspiracy | Simone Leigh, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | United States | |
| Desert Dreaming | Abdul Halik Azeez | Sri Lanka | |
| The early rain which washes away the chaff before spring rains | Der frühe Regen wäscht die Spreu weg vor dem Frühlingsregen | Heiko-Thandeka Ncube | Germany |
| Exhibition | Mary Helena Clark | United States | |
| Home Invasion | Graeme Arnfield | United Kingdom | |
| If You Don't Watch the Way You Move | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| Mangosteen | Tulapop Saenjaroen | Thailand | |
| The Man Who Envied Women | Yvonne Rainer | United States | |
| In-between World | Zwischenwelt | Cana Bilir-Meier | Germany |
| Forum Expanded Exhibition | |||
| Achala | Tenzin Phuntsog | United States | |
| Borrowing a Family Album | Tamer El Said | Egypt | |
| Comrade leader, comrade leader, how nice to see you | Walid Raad | United States | |
| Dancing Boy | Tenzin Phuntsog | ||
| Dreams | Tenzin Phuntsog | ||
| Father Mother | Pala Amala | Tenzin Phuntsog | |
Generation
Generation Kplus
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animation | |||
| Aaaah! | Osman Cerfon | France | |
| Cinderella | Walt Disney, Wilfred Jackson, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske | United States | |
| Dede Is Dead | Deniska umřela | Philippe Kastner | Czech Republic |
| Deep Sea | 深海 | Tian Xiaopeng | People's Republic of China |
| A Greyhound of a Girl | Enzo D'Alò | Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, Latvia, Estonia, Germany | |
| Just Super | Helt super | Rasmus A. Sivertsen | Norway |
| Pond | Tümpel | Lena von Döhren, Eva Rust | Switzerland |
| Somni | Sonja Rohleder | Germany | |
| Spin & Ella | An Vrombaut | Belgium | |
| To Be Sisters | Entre deux sœurs | Darvazeye royaha | France |
| Animation - Documentary | |||
| George-Peterland | Gösta Petter-land | Christer Wahlberg | Sweden |
| Feature Film | |||
| Closing Dynasty | Lloyd Lee Choi | United States | |
| Dancing Queen | Aurora Gossé | Norway | |
| Dusk | Timis | Awa Moctar Gueye | Senegal |
| I Woke Up With a Dream | Desperté con un sueño | Pablo Solarz | Argentina |
| Gaby's Hills | Gaby les collines | Zoé Pelchat | Canada |
| Kiddo | Zara Dwinger | Netherlands | |
| Magma | Luca Meisters | ||
| Nanitic | Carol Nguyen | Canada | |
| Sea Sparkle | Zeevonk | Domien Huyghe | Belgium, Netherlands |
| She – Hero | Mimi | Mira Fornay | Slovakia |
| The Shift | Sværddrage | Møller Hansen | Denmark |
| Sweet As | Jub Clerc | Australia | |
| Xiaohui and His Cows | 小晖和他的牛 | Xinying Lao | People's Republic of China |
| Documentary Feature | |||
| Of Dreams in the Dream of Another Mirror | De songes au songe d'un autre miroir | Yunyi Zhu | France |
| Waking Up in Silence | Mila Zhluktenko, Daniel Asadi Faezi | Germany | |
Generation 14plus
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documentary Competition | |||
| And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine | Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck | United States | |
| Crushed | Ella Rocca | Switzerland | |
| Dreams' Gate | Darvazeye royaha | Negin Ahmadi | Iran, Norway, France |
| Hummingbirds[lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4] | Silvia Del Carmen Castaños | United States | |
| When a Rocket Sits on the Launch Pad | 火箭发射时 | Bohao Liu | People's Republic of China, United States |
| Ramona | Victoria Linares Villegas | Dominican Republic | |
| To Write From Memory | Emory Chao Johnson | United States | |
| We Will Not Fade Away[lower-alpha 3] | Alisa Kovalenko | Ukraine, France, Poland | |
| Feature or Short Competition | |||
| Adolfo | Sofía Auza | United States, Mexico | |
| Autobio-Pamphlet | Aatmapamphlet | Ashish Avinash Bende | India |
| Almamula[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] | Juan Sebastian Torales | Argentina, France, Italy | |
| Before Madrid | Antes de Madrid | Ilén Juambeltz, Nicolás Botana | Uruguay |
| Delegation | Ha'Mishlahat | Asaf Saban | Israel, Poland, Germany |
| Hito | Stephen Lopez | Philippine | |
| Incroci | Francesca de Fusco | United States, Germany | |
| Infantry | Infantaria | Laís Santos Araújo | Brazil |
| The Lost Boys[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] | Le Paradis | Zeno Graton | Belgium, France |
| Madden | [Malin Ingrid Johansson | Sweden | |
| Ma mère et moi | Emma Branderhorst | Netherlands | |
| Mirror Mirror | Sandulela Asanda | South Africa | |
| Catching Birds | Mise à nu | with Anna Stanic, Fethi Aidouni, Marin Judas | Germany, Austria, France |
| And Me, I'm Dancing Too | Man khod, man ham miraghsam | Mohammad Valizadegan | Germany, Czechia, Iran |
| Tomorrow Is a Long Time[lower-alpha 1] | 明天比昨天长久 | Jow Zhi Wei | Singapore, Taiwan, France, Portugal |
| Mutt[lower-alpha 2] | Vuk Lungulov-Klotz | United States | |
| From the Corner of My Eyes | Szemem sarka | Domonkos Erhardt | Hungary |
| Sica[lower-alpha 1] | Carla Subirana | Spain | |
| Simo | Aziz Zoromba | Canada | |
| When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before | Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war | Sonja Heiss | Germany |
| Now.Here | 一时一刻 | Hao Zhao | China |
Steven Spielberg during Berlinale Events
Homage films
This section of the 73rd Berlinale was dedicated to American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Steven Spielberg, who was awarded an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement.[47]
| Year | Original Title | Director | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Bridge of Spies | Steven Spielberg | United States, Germany, United Kingdom |
| 1971 | Duel | United States | |
| 1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | ||
| 2022 | The Fabelmans | ||
| 1975 | Jaws | ||
| 2005 | Munich | United States, Canada, France | |
| 1981 | Raiders of the Lost Ark | United States | |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | ||
The Retrospective
This section presented the following films:[48][49]
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | To Our Loves | À nos amours | Maurice Pialat | France |
| 1956 | Unvanquished | অপরাজিত | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 1988 | Sound and Fury | De bruit et de fureur | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France |
| 1973 | The Spirit of the Beehive | El espíritu de la colmena | Víctor Erice | Spain |
| 1986 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | John Hughes | United States | |
| 1969 | The Beautiful Girl | Gražuolė | Arūnas Žebriūnas | USSR, Lithuania |
| 1993 | Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | United States | |
| 1974 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | Werner Herzog | Germany |
| 1996 | Bag of Rice | Kiseye Berendj | Mohammad-Ali Talebi | Iran, Japan |
| 1971 | The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | United States | |
| 1953 | Little Fugitive | Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin | United States | |
| 1975 | Manila in the Claws of Light | Maynila, sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag | Lino Brocka | Philippines |
| 1994 | Muriel's Wedding | P. J. Hogan | Australia | |
| 1964 | Before the Revolution | Prima della rivoluzione | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| 1955 | Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | United States | |
The Classics
A 4K restoration of David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch opened the classics section.[50]
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | Stanley Kramer | United States | |
| 1988 | Mapantsula | Oliver Schmitz | South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom | |
| 1991 | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | Canada, United Kingdom, Japan | |
| 1941 | Romeo and Juliet in the Village | Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe | Valerien Schmidely, Hans Trommer | Switzerland |
| 1981 | Sweet Dreams | Sogni d'oro | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| 1990 | Twilight | Szürkület | György Fehér | Hungary |
| 1923 | A Woman of Paris | Charlie Chaplin | United States | |
| 1956 | Night River | 夜の河 | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Japan |
Awards
Nicolas Philibert, with the Golden Bear for On the Adamant
Christian Petzold, with the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for Afire
Philippe Garrel, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director
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Sofía Otero, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance for 20,000 Species of Bees
Bas Devos, with the Best Film (Encounters) for Here
Tatiana Huezo, with the Berlinale Documentary Film Award for The Echo
Steven Spielberg, Honorary Golden Bear award winner
Caroline Champetier, Berlinale Camera award for lifetime achievement award winner
Main Competition
- Silver Bear Jury Prize: Bad Living by João Canijo
- Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Hélène Louvart for Disco Boy (cinematography)
Encounters
- Best Film: Here by Bas Devos
- Best Director: Tatiana Huezo for The Echo
- Special Jury Award:
- Orlando, My Political Biography by Paul B. Preciado
- Samsara by Lois Patiño
Berlinale Series Award
- The Good Mothers by Elisa Amoruso and Julian Jarrold[51]
- Jury Special Mention: The Architect (Arkitekten) by Kerren Lumer-Klabbers
Short Films Competition
- Golden Bear: Les Chenilles by Michelle Keserwany, Noel Keserwany
- Silver Bear: Dipped in Black by Matthew Thorne, Derik Lynch
- Special Mention: It's a Date by Nadia Parfan
Youth Jury Awards
Source:[52]
- Crystal Bear for the Best Film: Adolfo by Sofía Auza
- Special Mention: And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine by Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck
- Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film: And Me, I'm Dancing Too (Man khod, man ham miraghsam) by Mohammad Valizadegan
- Special Mention: From the Corner of My Eyes (Szemem sarka) by Domonkos Erhardt
Generation 14plus
- Grand Prix: Hummingbirds by Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía “Beba” Contreras
- Special Mention: Mutt by Vuk Lungulov-Klotz
- Special Prize for the Best Short Film: Infantry (Infantaria) by Laís Santos Araújo
- Special Mention: Incroci by Francesca de Fusco
The Perspektive Deutsches Kino Award
- Compass-Perspektive-Award: Seven Winters in Tehran by Steffi Niederzoll[53]
- Honorable Mention: The Kidnapping of the Bride (El secuestro de la novia) by Sophia Mocorrea
- Kompagnon Fellowships:
- Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove by Mareike Wegener
- My Beloved Man's Female Body by Anna Melikova
- Heiner Carow Prize: Bones and Names by Fabian Stumm
- GWFF Best First Feature Award: The Klezmer Project by Leandro Koch, Paloma Schachmann
Documentary Award
- The Echo by Tatiana Huezo
Panorama Audience Award 2023 winner – Feature film
- 1st place: Sira by Apolline Traoré[54]
- 2nd place: The Burdened by Amr Gamal
- 3rd place: Midwives (Sages-femmes) by Léa Fehner
Panorama Audience Award Winner – Documentary
- 1st place: Kokomo City by D. Smith
- 2nd place: The Eternal Memory by Maite Alberdi
- 3rd place: The Cemetery of Cinema (Au cimetière de la pelliculle) by Thierno Souleymane Diallo
Honorary awards
- Berlinale Camera award for lifetime achievement: Caroline Champetier[36]
Independent awards
Babatunde Apalowo and Tope Tedela, with the Teddy Award for All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
Teddy Award
- Best Feature Film: All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White by Babatunde Apalowo
- Best Documentary Film: Orlando, My Political Biography by Paul B. Preciado[55]
- Jury Award: Vicky Knight as Franky for Silver Haze by Sacha Polak
- Best Short Film: Dipped in Black by Matthew Thorne and Derik Lynch
Amnesty International Film Award
Prizes of the Ecumenical Jury
- Competition: Tótem by Lila Avilés
- Panorama: Midwives by Léa Fehner
- Forum: Where God Is Not by Mehran Tamadon
- Special Mention: On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert
Prize of the FIPRESCI
- Competition: The Survival of Kindness by Rolf de Heer
- Encounters: Here by Bas Devos
- Panorama: The Quiet Migration (Stille Liv) by Malene Choi
- Forum: Between Revolutions (Între revoluții) by Vlad Petri
Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas
- 20,000 Species of Bees by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
AG KINO GILDE – CINEMA VISION 14plus
- And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine by Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck
Cicae Art Cinema Prizes
- Panorama: The Teachers' Lounge by İlker Çatak
- Forum: The Face of Jellyfish by Melisa Liebenthal
Berliner Morgenpost Reader's Jury Award
- 20,000 Species of Bees by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Tagesspiegel Reader's Jury Award
Caligari Film Prize
- De Facto by Selma Doborac
Peace Film Prize
- Seven Winters in Tehran by Steffi Niederzoll
ARTEKino International Award
- Peeled Skin by Leonie Krippendorff[56]
Notes
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