63rd Berlin International Film Festival

63rd Berlin Film Festival
	Festival poster
Opening film	The Grandmaster
Closing film	Child's Pose'
Location	Berlin, Germany
Founded	1951
Awards	Golden Bear (Child's Pose)
Hosted by	Anke Engelke
No. of films	404 films
Festival date	7–17 February 2013
Website	Website

The 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival took place in Berlin, Germany between 7 and 17 February 2013.[1] Chinese film director Wong Kar-wai was announced as the President of the Jury[2] and his film The Grandmaster was the opening film of the festival.[3] The Golden Bear was awarded to the Romanian film Child's Pose directed by Călin Peter Netzer, which also served as the closing film.[4][5]

The French documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear.[6] Italian actress Isabella Rossellini and German film director Rosa von Praunheim were awarded with the Berlinale Camera.

Competition

Wong Kar-wai, Jury President along with his wife at the festival

Jury

The following people were on the jury for the festival:[2]

International jury

Wong Kar-wai, director, screenwriter and producer (China) - President of the jury
Susanne Bier, director and screenwriter (Denmark)
Andreas Dresen, director and screenwriter (Germany)
Ellen Kuras, director and director of photography (United States)
Shirin Neshat, visual artist and film director (Iran)
Tim Robbins, actor, director, screenwriter and producer (United States)
Athina Rachel Tsangari, director, screenwriter and producer (Greece)

Best First Feature Award Jury

Oren Moverman, director, screenwriter and producer (Israel)
Taika Waititi, actor, director and screenwriter (New Zealand)
Lucy Walker, director (United Kingdom)

International Short Film Jury

Javier Fesser, director and screenwriter (Spain)
Hyung-sook Hong, director and screenwriter (South Korea)
Susanne Pfeffer, art historian and curator (Germany)

In competition

The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:[7][8]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Gloria	Gloria	Sebastián Lelio	Chile, Spain
Nobody's Daughter Haewon	Nugu-ui Ddal-do Anin Haewon	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
Paradise: Hope	Paradies: Hoffnung	Ulrich Seidl	Austria, France, Germany
Child's Pose	Poziția Copilului	Călin Peter Netzer	Romania
Promised Land	Promised Land	Gus Van Sant	United States
Camille Claudel 1915	Camille Claudel 1915	Bruno Dumont	France
On My Way	Elle s'en va	Emmanuelle Bercot	France
An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker	Epizoda u životu berača željeza	Danis Tanović	Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia
Gold	Gold	Thomas Arslan	Germany
The Nun	La Religieuse	Guillaume Nicloux	France, Germany, Belgium
Layla Fourie	Layla Fourie	Pia Marais	Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman	The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman	Fredrik Bond	United States
Closed Curtain	Parde	Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi	Iran
Side Effects	Side Effects	Steven Soderbergh	United States
Vic and Flo Saw a Bear	Vic et Flo ont vu un ours	Denis Côté	Canada
A Long and Happy Life	Долгая счастливая жизнь	Boris Khlebnikov	Russia
Prince Avalanche	Prince Avalanche	David Gordon Green	United States
Harmony Lessons	Uroki garmonii	Emir Baigazin	Kazakhstan, Germany
In the Name Of	W imię...	Małgorzata Szumowska	Poland

Out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[7]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Croods	The Croods	Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco	United States
Before Midnight	Before Midnight	Richard Linklater	United States, Greece
Dark Blood	Dark Blood	George Sluizer	Netherlands
Night Train to Lisbon	Night Train to Lisbon	Bille August	Germany, Switzerland, Portugal

Panorama

The following films were selected for the Panorama section:[7]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Act of Killing	Jagal	Joshua Oppenheimer	Denmark, UK, Norway
White Night	Baek Ya	Hee-il LeeSong	South Korea
A Fold in My Blanket	Chemi Sabnis Naketsi	Zaza Rusadze	Georgia
Behind the Camera	Dduit-dam-hwa: Gam-dok-i-mi-cheot-eo-yo	E J-yong	South Korea
Belated	Deshora	Barbara Sarasola-Day	Argentina, Columbia, Norway
Don Jon's Addiction	Don Jon's Addiction	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	United States
Frances Ha	Frances Ha	Noah Baumbach	United States
Habi, the Foreigner	Habi, la extranjera	Maria Florencia Alvarez	Argentina, Brazil
I Have Cut	Kai Po Che!	Abhishek Kapoor	India
Inch'Allah	Inch'Allah	Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette	Canada
Fatal	Kashi-ggot	Lee Don-ku	South Korea
The Swimming Pool	La Piscina	Carlos Machado Quintela	Cuba, Venezuela
Lovelace	Lovelace	Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman	United States
My Sisters	Meine Schwestern	Lars Kraume	Germany
Rock the Casbah	Rock the Casbah	Yariv Horowitz	Israel
So Much Water	Tanta Agua	Ana Guevara Pose, Leticia Jorge Romero	Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany
The Attacks of 26/11	The Attacks of 26/11	Ram Gopal Varma	India
The Broken Circle Breakdown	The Broken Circle Breakdown	Felix van Groeningen	Belgium

Forum

The following films were selected for the Forum section:[7]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Battle of Tabatô	A batalha de Tabatô	João Viana	Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
Coming Forth by Day	Al-khoroug lel-nahar	Hala Lotfy	Egypt, United Arab Emirates
A Single Shot	A Single Shot	David M. Rosenthal	United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Crossroads of Youth	Cheongchun-eui sipjaro	Ahn Jong-hwa	Korea
Computer Chess	Computer Chess	Andrew Bujalski	United States
The Strange Little Cat	Das merkwürdige Kätzchen	Ramon Zürcher	Germany
The 727 Days Without Karamo	Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo	Anja Salomonowitz	Austria
Echolot	Echolot	Athanasios Karanikolas	Germany
Elelwani	Elelwani	Ntshavheni Wa Luruli	South Africa
Boundary	Fahtum pandinsoong	Nontawat Numbenchapol	Thailand, Cambodia, France
Fynbos	Fynbos	Harry Patramanis	South Africa, Greece
In Bloom	Grzeli nateli dgeebi	Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß	Georgia, Germany, France
Everyday Objects	Halbschatten	Nicolas Wackerbarth	Germany, France
Hélio Oiticica	Hélio Oiticica	Cesar Oiticica Filho	Brazil
The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas	I aionia epistrofi tou Antoni Paraskeua	Elina Psykou	Greece
The Daughter	I kóri	Thanos Anastopoulos	Greece, Italy
I Used to Be Darker	I Used to Be Darker	Matt Porterfield	United States
I'm Not Dead	Je ne suis pas mort	Mehdi Ben Attia	France
Jubilation Street	Kanko no machi	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japan
Engagement Ring	Konyaku yubiwa	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japan
Circles	Krugovi	Srdan Golubović	Republic of Serbia, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, France
The Town of Whales	Kujira no machi	Keiko Tsuruoka	Japan
What Happened to This City?	Kya hua is shahar ko?	Deepa Dhanraj	India
When I Saw You	Lamma shoftak	Annemarie Jacir	Palestinian Territories, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Greece
La Paz	La Paz	Santiago Loza	Argentina
The Plague	La plaga	Neus Ballús	Spain
Cousin Jules	Le cousin Jules	Dominique Benicheti	France
The Meteor	Le météore	François Delisle	Canada
Killing Strangers	Matar extraños	Jacob Secher Schulsinger, Nicolás Pereda	Mexico, Denmark
Dark Matter	Materia oscura	Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti	Italy
Char... The No-Man's Island	...Moddhikhane Char	Sourav Sarangi	India, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Norway
Forgetting to Know You	Mo sheng	Quan Ling	People's Republic of China
A Stranger	Obrana i zastita	Bobo Jelcic	Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Woman	Onna	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japan
Portrait of Jason	Portrait of Jason	Shirley Clarke	United States
Powerless	Katiyabaaz	Fahad Mustafa, Deepti Kakkar	India
Cold Bloom	Sakura namiki no mankai no shita ni	Atsushi Funahashi	Japan
Roots	Senzo ni naru	Kaoru Ikeya	Japan
Shirley: Visions of Reality	Shirley – Visions of Reality	Gustav Deutsch	Austria
A Legend or Was It?	Shito no densetsu	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japan
Sieniawka	Sieniawka	Marcin Malaszczak	Germany, Poland
Stemple Pass	Stemple Pass	James Benning	United States
To the Wolf	Sto lyko	Christina Koutsospyrou, Aran Hughes	Greece, France
No Man's Land	Terra de ninguém	Salomé Lamas	Portugal
The Weight of Elephants	Das Gewicht der Elefanten	Daniel Joseph Borgman	New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden
Together	Tian mi mi	Hsu Chao-jen	Taiwan
Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents	Vaters Garten – Die Liebe meiner Eltern	Peter Liechti	Switzerland
Viola	Viola	Matías Piñeiro	Argentina
Farewell to Dream	Yuyake gumo	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japan
For Marx...	Za Marksa...	Svetlana Baskova	Russian Federation

Key

^†	Winner of the main award for best film in its section
The opening and closing films are screened during the opening and closing ceremonies respectively.

Awards

Călin Peter Netzer (Romania), winner of the Golden Bear at the festival

The following prizes were awarded:[4][9]

Golden Bear: Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer
Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear): An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanović
Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear): Vic and Flo Saw a Bear by Denis Côté
Silver Bear for Best Director: David Gordon Green for Prince Avalanche
Silver Bear for Best Actress: Paulina García for Gloria
Silver Bear for Best Actor: Nazif Mujić for An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
Silver Bear for Best Script: Jafar Panahi for Closed Curtain
Award for an outstanding artistic contribution: Aziz Zhambakiyev for Harmony Lessons
Special Mentions:
- Promised Land by Gus Van Sant
- Layla Fourie by Pia Marais
Panorama:
- Ecumenical Jury Prize: The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer
- Panorama Audience Award: The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer
Forum:
- Ecumenical Jury Prize: Circles by Srdan Golubović
- FIPRESCI Jury Prize: Hélio Oiticica by Cesar Oiticica Filho
- NETPAC Award Best Asian Film: When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir
- C.I.C.A.E. Jury Prize: In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß

References

"Berlinale". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
"JURIES 2013". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
"Martial arts drama kicks off Berlin film festival". reuters. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
"PRIZES & HONOURS 2013". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
"Romanian film Child's Pose wins Golden Bear in Berlin". BBC News. 16 February 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
"Claude Lanzmann to receive Berlin's Honorary Golden Bear". screendaily. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
"PROGRAMME 2013". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
"Berlin 2013: Denis Côté's 'Vic and Flo Saw a Bear' in Competition". hollywoodreporter. 14 January 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
"The Awards of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival" (PDF). berlinale. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.

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[1] "Berlinale". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2012.

[JURY-2] "JURIES 2013". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

[reuters-3] "Martial arts drama kicks off Berlin film festival". reuters. Retrieved 7 February 2013.

[BerlinPrizes-4] "PRIZES & HONOURS 2013". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

[BBCBerlin-5] "Romanian film Child's Pose wins Golden Bear in Berlin". BBC News. 16 February 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2013.

[Lanzmann-6] "Claude Lanzmann to receive Berlin's Honorary Golden Bear". screendaily. Retrieved 13 December 2012.

[PROGRAMME-7] "PROGRAMME 2013". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2014.

[8] "Berlin 2013: Denis Côté's 'Vic and Flo Saw a Bear' in Competition". hollywoodreporter. 14 January 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2013.

[BerlinCompleteAwards-9] "The Awards of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival" (PDF). berlinale. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.