56th Berlin International Film Festival

File:Charlotte Rampling 2016.jpg, Jury President]]

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:{{cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2006/04_jury_2006/04_Jury_2006.html |title=JURIES 2006 |access-date=10 June 2014 |work=berlinale.de | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131023110715/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2006/04_jury_2006/04_Jury_2006.html| archive-date=23 October 2013 | url-status= live}}

• Charlotte Rampling, British actress - Jury President
• Matthew Barney, American director and artist
• Yash Chopra, Indian director and producer
• Marleen Gorris, Dutch filmmaker
• Janusz Kamiński, Polish director of photography
• Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
• Fred Roos, American producer
• Lee Young-ae, South Korean actress

• Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
• Goran Paskaljević, Serbian director
• Hans Weingartner, Austrian director and producer

• Mariela Besuievsky, Spanish producer
• Florian Gallenberger, German director and screenwriter
• Jung-Wan Oh, South Korean producer

The following films were selected for the main competition:{{cite web|url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2006/02_programm_2006/02_Programm_2006.html |title=PROGRAMME 2006|access-date=10 June 2014 |work=berlinale.de| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140802191143/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2006/02_programm_2006/02_Programm_2006.html| archive-date=2 August 2014 | url-status= live}}

File:Jasmila Zbanic KVIFF.jpg, winner of the Golden Bear at the festival]]

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:{{cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2006/03_preistr_ger_2006/03_Preistraeger_2006.html |title=PRIZES & HONOURS 2006|access-date=10 June 2014 |work=berlinale.de| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015121547/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2006/03_preistr_ger_2006/03_Preistraeger_2006.html| archive-date=15 October 2013 | url-status= live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.berlinale.de/media/pdf_word/pm_1/56_berlinale_de/PRESSEDOSSIER-1-2006.pdf |title=Awards and Announcements|access-date=10 June 2014 |work=berlinale.de| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908210302/https://www.berlinale.de/media/pdf_word/pm_1/56_berlinale_de/PRESSEDOSSIER-1-2006.pdf| archive-date=8 September 2014 | url-status= live}}

• Golden Bear: Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams by Jasmila Žbanić
• Silver Bear for Best Actor: Moritz Bleibtreu for The Elementary Particles
• Silver Bear for Best Actress: Sandra Hüller for Requiem
• Silver Bear for Best Director: Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross for The Road to Guantanamo
• Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Jürgen Vogel for The Free Will
• Silver Bear for Jury Grand Prix: En soap by Pernille Fischer Christensen
• Silver Bear for Best Film Music: Isabella by Peter Kam
• Alfred Bauer Prize: Rodrigo Moreno for The Minder

• Andrzej Wajda
• Ian McKellen

• Never Like the First Time! by Jonas Odell
• Honorable Mention: Maryam Keshavarz for El día que morí

• Michael Ballhaus
• Jürgen Böttcher
• Laurence Kardish
• Peter B. Schumann
• Hans Helmut Prinzler

• En soap by Pernille Fischer Christensen (director) & Lars Bredo Rahbek (producer)

• Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls
• Short Film: Talya Lavie for The Substitute

• Best Short Film: Cameron B. Alyasin for Never an Absolution
• Special Mention: Irina Boiko for The Thief
• Best Feature Film: Niels Arden Oplev for We Shall Overcome
• Special Mention: Auraeus Solito for The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
• 14Plus Best Feature Film: Henry Meyer for Four Weeks in June
• Special Mention: Claude Gagnon for Kamataki

• The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus Solito
• Special Award: A Fish with a Smile by C. Jay Shih
• Special Mention:
• Best Short Film: Vika by Tsivia Barkai
• Best Feature Film: I Am by Dorota Kędzierzawska

• Best Short Film: El día que morí by Maryam Keshavarz
• Best Documentary Film: Beyond Hatred by Olivier Meyrou
• Best Feature Film: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros by Auraeus Solito
• Jury Award: Patrick Carpentier for Combat

• Competition: Requiem by Hans-Christian Schmid
• Forum of New Cinema: So Yong Kim for In Between Days
• Panorama: Knallhart by Detlev Buck

• Competition: Grbavica by Jasmila Žbanić
• Forum of New Cinema: Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon by Khalo Matabane
• Panorama: The Collector by Feliks Falk

• Forum of New Cinema: Close to Home by Dalia Hager
• Panorama: Zhang Yuan for Little Red Flowers

• Dear Pyongyang by Yong-hi Yang

• The Fence by Ricardo Íscar

• Detlev Buck for Knallhart

• Ben Hopkins for 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep

• Bülent Akinci for Running on Empty
• Special Mention: Florian Gaag for Wholetrain

• Phillip Van for High Maintenance

• Anna Azevedo for BerlinBall

• Alasdair Reid

• Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls

• Rony Sasson for Swanettes

• Jasmila Žbanić for Grbavica

• Masoud Arif Salih for Narcissus Blossom

• Tizza Covi for Babooska

• Matthias Glasner for The Free Will

• Yasmin Khalifa for Bye Bye Berlusconi!

• Robert Altman for A Prairie Home Companion

• Shion Sono for Strange Circus

• Tomer Heymann for Paper Dolls

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/awards.php?award_id=berlin&year=2006 56th Berlin International Film Festival 2006]
• [https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000091/2006 56th Berlin International Film Festival] at the IMDb
• [http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2006/02_programm_2006/02_Programm_2006.html Official website of program]

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