60th Berlin International Film Festival

The 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 21 February 2010, with Werner Herzog as President of the Jury.[1][2][3] The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an's romantic drama Apart Together, in competition, while the closing film is Japanese director Yoji Yamada's About Her Brother, which was screened out of competition.[4][5] The Golden Bear went to Turkish film Bal directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu. A new record attendance was established with 282,000 sold tickets, according to the organizers. A restored version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis was also shown at the festival.[6]

Jury

Werner Herzog, Jury President

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:[7]

International jury

Best First Feature Award Jury

International Short Film Jury

Countries in competition (incl. co-production countries)

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

Title	Director	Country
Apart Together	Wang Quan'an	China
Bal	Semih Kaplanoğlu	Turkey
Caterpillar	Kōji Wakamatsu	Japan
Der Räuber	Benjamin Heisenberg	Germany
En Familie	Pernille Fischer Christensen	Denmark
En ganske snill mann	Hans Petter Moland	Norway
Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier	Florin Șerban	Romania
Greenberg	Noah Baumbach	USA
Howl	Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman	USA
Kak ya provyol etim letom	Alexei Popogrebski	Russia
Jud Süss – Film ohne Gewissen	Oskar Roehler	Austria, Germany
Mammuth	Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern	France
Na putu	Jasmila Žbanić	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, Croatia
Rompecabezas	Natalia Smirnoff	Argentina, France
San qiang pai an jing qi	Zhang Yimou	China
Shahada	Burhan Qurbani	Germany
Shekarchi	Rafi Pitts	Iran, Germany
Submarino	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark
The Ghost Writer	Roman Polanski	France, Germany, Myanmar
The Killer Inside Me	Michael Winterbottom	USA

The following films made their international debut by screening out of competition at the festival:[8]

Title	Director	Country
About Her Brother	Yoji Yamada	Japan
Exit Through the Gift Shop	Banksy	UK
My Name Is Khan	Karan Johar	India
Arekti Premer Golpo	Kaushik Ganguly	India
Please Give	Nicole Holofcener	USA
Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man	Constantin Popescu	Romania
The Kids are All Right	Lisa Cholodenko	USA
Shutter Island	Martin Scorsese	USA

^†	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.

Semih Kaplanoğlu, winner of the Golden Bear at the festival

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:[9]

Golden Bear for Best Film: Bal by Semih Kaplanoğlu

Silver Bears:

Crystal Bear in the Generation Kplus (Feature Length Film)

Crystal Bear in the Generation 14plus (Feature Length Film)

The Berlinale Camera

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