55th Berlin International Film Festival

The 55th International Film Festival Berlin took place on February 20, 2005 by February 10.

• 3.1 Prices of the international jury
• 3.2 Prices of the International Short Film Jury
• 3.3 Other prices

• 7.1 Honorary Golden Bear
• 7.2 Berlinale Camera

Competition

In the official competition, the following films were shown this year ( in order of performance ):

* = Opening Film

Out of competition

Out of competition following films were shown in competition:

• Hotel Rwanda - Director: Terry George
• Tickets - Director: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach
• Hitch - Director: Andy Tennant
• Kinsey - Director: Bill Condon ( closing film )

International Jury

The jury was led in 2005 by German director Roland Emmerich as president. The other jury members were: Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (actress from Lithuania), Bai Ling (Actress from the PRC ), Franka Potente (Actress from Germany ), Wouter Barendrecht (producer and chairman of the international sales Fortissimo Films from Netherlands ) Nino Cerruti ( fashion designer and founder the fashion label Cerruti 1881 of Italy), Andrei Kurkov ( screenwriter, cinematographer and writer from Ukraine ).

Award winners

Prices of the international jury

Golden Bear: U -Carmen by Mark Dornford-May

Silver Bears in the following categories:

• Grand Jury Prize: Kong Que by Gu Changwei
• Best Director: Marc Rothemund ( Sophie Scholl - The Final Days )
• Best Actress: Julia Jentsch ( Sophie Scholl - The Final Days )
• Best Actor: Lou Taylor Pucci ( Thumbsucker )
• For an outstanding artistic contribution: Tsai Ming -liang ( for the screenplay for The flesh of watermelon)
• Best Original Score: Alexandre Desplat ( The Beat That My Heart )

Agicoa - Price The Blue Angels: Paradise Now by Hany Abu -Assad

Alfred Bauer Prize: The Wayward Cloud by Tsai Ming -liang

Prices of international short film jury

Jury Members: Gabriela Tagliavini (Argentina ), Marten Rabarts (New Zealand), Susan Korda (USA)

• Golden Bear for Best Short Film: Milk by Peter Mackie Burns
• Jury Prize (Silver Bear): The intervention by Jay Duplass and Jam Session by Izabela Plucinska
• Honorable mention: Don Khishot Be'Yerushalaim by Dani Rosenberg

More prices

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Sophie Scholl - The Final Days by Marc Rothemund
• FIPRESCI Award: The flesh of watermelon by Tsai Ming -liang

Panorama

The Panorama section was old in this 20 years. To this end, a photo exhibition was set up, let these 20 years to reminisce. The stars of the Panorama section this year were Kevin Spacey, of his film Beyond the Sea - was music was his life. Rebecca Miller participated with her film The Ballad of Jack and Rose at the panorama. Her husband Daniel Day- Lewis played the lead role. The biggest star of the panorama was George Michael, who presented the documentary A Different Story.

• Panorama Audience Award: Live and Become (Va, vis et deviens ) by Radu Mihaileanu
• Panorama Audience Award for a short film: Hoi Maya by Claudia Lorenz
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Live and Become (Va, vis et deviens ) by Radu Mihaileanu
• Price of FIPRESCI: massacre by Monika Borgmann, Lokmann Slim, Hermann Theissen

Panorama short film awards ( awarded by the International Short Film Jury ):

• Best Short Film: Greenbush Warwick Thornton
• Special Jury Prize: Tama Tu Taika Waititi of

Kinderfilmfest/14plus

The juries of children and 14plus awarded prizes to the following films: the " Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film" went Dutch film Bluebird of Mijke de Jong. The " Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film " award went to The Djarn Djarns by Wayne Blair. The " Crystal Bear for the Best Youth Film " ( 14plus ) went to the film Voces Inocentes by Luis Mandoki.

Cross- section rates

• Teddy for Best Feature Film: Un Año sin Amor Anahi Berneri
• Teddy for Best Documentary: Katzenball by Veronika Minder
• Teddy for the Best Short Film: The intervention by Jay Duplass

Prizes

Honorary Golden Bear

• Im Kwon- taek, Korean filmmakers
• Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director and screenwriter

Berlinale Camera

( awarded by the festival )

• Katrin Sass, German actress ( and Others Good Bye, Lenin! )
• Daniel Day- Lewis, British actor ( inter alia, Gangs of New York)
• Helene Black: " In 1966 she began working as a secretary at the German Film and Television Academy ( DFFB ) and today, with 78 years still operating as a dedicated student counselor " ( from the grounds of the festival ).
• Shochiku, 1895 based Japanese film studio produced films of Ozu and Others Yasujirō, Akira Kurosawa and Takeshi Kitano.

Retrospective

The Retrospective this year's Berlin International Film Festival was dedicated to the scene formers. The film series was entitled Locations - locations - latitude. Production Design & Film. It was divided into five areas and a total of 45 films were shown.

• Veronika Voss by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Production Design: Rolf Zehetbauer
• Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Mike Nichols - Production Design: Richard Sylbert

• The Silence by Ingmar Bergman - Scene Picture: PA Lundgren
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick - Production Design: Ernest Archer, Harry Lange and Anthony Masters

• Gattaca by Andrew Niccol - Production Design: Jan Roelfs
• The Apartment by Billy Wilder - Design by: Alexandre Trauner

• And the Ship Sails by Federico Fellini - Production Design: Dante Ferretti

• Shining by Stanley Kubrick - Design by Roy Walker
• The strategy of the spider by Bernardo Bertolucci - Production Design: Maria Paola Maino