63rd Berlin International Film Festival
{{Short description|2013 film festival in Berlin, Germany}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox film festival
| name = 63rd Berlin Film Festival
| image = 63BIFFPoster.jpg
| caption = Festival poster
| host = Anke Engelke
| number = 404 films
| opening = The Grandmaster
| closing = Child's Pose
| location = Berlin, Germany
| awards = Golden Bear: Child's Pose
| date = 7–17 February 2013
| founded = 1951
| website = [http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html Website]
| chronology = Berlin International Film Festival
| preceded_by = 62nd
| followed_by = 64th
}}
The 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival took place in Berlin, Germany, between 7 and 17 February 2013.{{Cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/01_jahresblatt_2013/01_jahresblatt_2013.html |title=Berlinale |access-date=13 December 2012|work=berlinale.de| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407135758/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/01_jahresblatt_2013/01_jahresblatt_2013.html| archive-date=7 April 2014 | url-status= live}} Chinese film director Wong Kar-wai was announced as the president of the jury{{cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/04_jury_2013/04_jury_2013.html |title=JURIES 2013 |access-date=10 June 2014 |work=berlinale.de | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140605054157/https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/04_jury_2013/04_jury_2013.html| archive-date=5 June 2014 | url-status= live}} and his film The Grandmaster was the opening film of the festival.{{Cite web|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-berlin-idUKBRE91600120130207 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307164833/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-berlin-idUKBRE91600120130207 |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 March 2016 |title=Martial arts drama kicks off Berlin film festival |access-date=7 February 2013 |work=reuters}}
The Golden Bear was awarded to Child's Pose directed by Călin Peter Netzer, which also served as the closing film.{{cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/03_preistraeger_2013/03_preistraeger_2013.html |title=PRIZES & HONOURS 2013|access-date=10 June 2014 |work=berlinale.de| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105044335/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/03_preistraeger_2013/03_preistraeger_2013.html| archive-date=5 January 2014 | url-status= live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21485735 |title=Romanian film Child's Pose wins Golden Bear in Berlin |access-date=16 February 2013 |work=BBC News|date=16 February 2013 }}
The French documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear.{{Cite web|url=http://www.screendaily.com/news/claude-lanzmann-to-receive-berlins-honorary-golden-bear/5049510.article |title=Claude Lanzmann to receive Berlin's Honorary Golden Bear |access-date=13 December 2012 |work=screendaily}} Italian actress Isabella Rossellini and German film director Rosa von Praunheim were awarded with the Berlinale Camera.
Juries
File:Wong Kar-Wai (Berlin Film Festival 2013).jpg, jury president, along with his wife at the festival]]The following people were on the jury for the festival:
= Main Competition =
- Wong Kar-wai, Chinese/Hong Kong filmmaker and producer - President of the jury
- Susanne Bier, Danish filmmaker
- Andreas Dresen, German filmmaker
- Ellen Kuras, American filmmaker and director of photography
- Shirin Neshat, Iranian visual artist and filmmaker
- Tim Robbins, American actor, filmmaker and producer
- Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greek filmmaker and producer
= First Feature Award =
- Oren Moverman, Israeli filmmaker and producer
- Taika Waititi, New Zealand actor and filmmaker
- Lucy Walker, British filmmaker
= Short Films Competition =
- Javier Fesser, Spanish filmmaker
- Hyung-sook Hong, South Korean filmmaker
- Susanne Pfeffer, German art historian and curator
Official Sections
=Main Competition=
The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:{{cite web|url=https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/02_programm_2013/02_programm_2013.html |title=PROGRAMME 2013|access-date=10 June 2014 |work=berlinale.de| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131109155643/https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/02_programm_2013/02_programm_2013.html| archive-date=9 November 2013 | url-status= live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/berlin-2013-denis-cote-vic-and-flo-saw-a-bear-412166 |title=Berlin 2013: Denis Côté's 'Vic and Flo Saw a Bear' in Competition |access-date=17 January 2013 |work=hollywoodreporter|date=14 January 2013 }}
| class="wikitable" width="100%" cellpadding="5" | |||
| scope="col" width="30%"| English title
!scope="col" width="30%"| Original title !scope="col" width="25%"| Director(s) !scope="col" width="15%"| Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| A Long and Happy Life | Долгая счастливая жизнь | Boris Khlebnikov | Russia |
| An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker | Epizoda u životu berača željeza | Danis Tanović | Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia |
| Camille Claudel 1915 | Camille Claudel 1915 | Bruno Dumont | France |
| style="background:#FFDEAD;" | Poziția Copilului | Călin Peter Netzer | Romania |
| Closed Curtain | Parde | Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi | Iran |
| colspan="2" | Gloria | Sebastián Lelio | Chile, Spain | |
| colspan="2" | Gold | Thomas Arslan | Germany | |
| Harmony Lessons | Асланның сабақтары | Emir Baigazin | Kazakhstan, Germany |
| In the Name Of | W imię... | Małgorzata Szumowska | Poland |
| colspan="2" | Layla Fourie | Pia Marais | Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands | |
| Nobody's Daughter Haewon | 누구의 딸도 아닌 해원 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| On My Way | Elle s'en va | Emmanuelle Bercot | France |
| Paradise: Hope | Paradies: Hoffnung | Ulrich Seidl | Austria, France, Germany |
| colspan="2" | Prince Avalanche | David Gordon Green | rowspan="2" |United States | |
| colspan="2" | Promised Land | Gus Van Sant | ||
| Charlie Countryman
|The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman | Fredrik Bond | United States, Romania | |
| The Nun | La Religieuse | Guillaume Nicloux | France, Germany, Belgium |
| colspan="2" | Side Effects | Steven Soderbergh | United States | |
| Vic and Flo Saw a Bear | Vic et Flo ont vu un ours | Denis Côté | Canada |
=Out of competition=
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| class="wikitable" width="85%" cellpadding="5" | ||
| scope="col" width="30%"| English title
!scope="col" width="30%"| Original title !scope="col" width="25%"| Director(s) !scope="col" width="15%"| Production country | ||
|---|---|---|
| colspan="2" | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater | United States, Greece |
| colspan="2" | The Croods | Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco | United States |
| colspan="2" | Dark Blood | George Sluizer | Netherlands |
| The Grandmaster (opening film)
|一代宗師 |Hong Kong, China | ||
| colspan="2" | Night Train to Lisbon | Bille August | Germany, Switzerland, Portugal |
=Panorama=
The following films were selected for the Panorama section:
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| scope="col" width="30%"| English title
!scope="col" width="30%"| Original title !scope="col" width="25%"| Director(s) !scope="col" width="15%"| Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The Act of Killing | Jagal | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, United Kingdom, Norway |
| A Fold in My Blanket | Chemi Sabnis Naketsi | Zaza Rusadze | Georgia |
| colspan="2" | The Attacks of 26/11 | Ram Gopal Varma | India | |
| 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 |
| The Broken Circle Breakdown
|Alabama Monroe | Felix van Groeningen | Belgium | |
| colspan="2" | Don Jon's Addiction | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | United States | |
| Fatal | Kashi-ggot | Lee Don-ku | South Korea |
| colspan="2" | 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 |
| colspan="2" | Inch'Allah | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette | Canada | |
| colspan="2" | Lovelace | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | United States | |
| Rock the Casbah | רוק בקסבה | Yariv Horowitz | Israel |
| My Sisters | Meine Schwestern | Lars Kraume | Germany |
| So Much Water | Tanta Agua | Ana Guevara Pose, Leticia Jorge Romero | Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany |
| The Swimming Pool | La Piscina | Carlos Machado Quintela | Cuba, Venezuela |
| White Night | Baek Ya | Hee-il LeeSong | South Korea |
=Forum=
The following films were selected for the Forum section:
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| scope="col" width="30%"| English title
!scope="col" width="30%"| Original title !scope="col" width="25%"| Director(s) !scope="col" width="15%"| Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| The 727 Days Without Karamo | Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo | Anja Salomonowitz | Austria |
| colspan="2" | A Single Shot | David M. Rosenthal | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | |
| The Battle of Tabatô | A batalha de Tabatô | João Viana | Guinea-Bissau, Portugal |
| Boundary | Fahtum pandinsoong | Nontawat Numbenchapol | Thailand, Cambodia, France |
| Circles | Krugovi | Srdan Golubović | Republic of Serbia, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, France |
| Coming Forth by Day | Al-khoroug lel-nahar | Hala Lotfy | Egypt, United Arab Emirates |
| Crossroads of Youth | Cheongchun-eui sipjaro | Ahn Jong-hwa | Korea |
| colspan="2" | Computer Chess | Andrew Bujalski | United States | |
| The Daughter | Η Κόρη | Thanos Anastopoulos | Greece, Italy |
| colspan="2" | Echolot | Athanasios Karanikolas | Germany | |
| colspan="2" | Elelwani | Ntshavheni Wa Luruli | South Africa | |
| Engagement Ring | Konyaku yubiwa | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas | Η αιώνια επιστροφή του Αντώνη Παρασκευά | {{ill|Elina Psykou|el|Ελίνα Ψύκου}} | Greece |
| {{ill|Everyday Objects|de|Halbschatten (Film)}} | Halbschatten | {{ill|Nicolas Wackerbarth|de}} | Germany, France |
| colspan="2" | Fynbos | Harry Patramanis | South Africa, Greece | |
| colspan="2" | Hélio Oiticica | Cesar Oiticica Filho | Brazil | |
| I'm Not Dead | Je ne suis pas mort | Mehdi Ben Attia | France |
| In Bloom | გრძელი ნათელი დღეები | Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß | Georgia |
| colspan="2" | I Used to Be Darker | Matt Porterfield | United States | |
| Jubilation Street | Kanko no machi | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| La Paz | La Paz | Santiago Loza | Argentina |
| {{Ill|The Strange Little Cat|de|Das merkwürdige Kätzchen}} | Das merkwürdige Kätzchen | {{Ill|Ramon Zürcher|de|Ramon Zürcher (Regisseur)}} | Germany |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| colspan="2" | 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 |
| colspan="2" | Shirley: Visions of Reality | Gustav Deutsch | Austria | |
| A Legend or Was It? | Shito no densetsu | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| colspan="2" | Sieniawka | Marcin Malaszczak | Germany, Poland | |
| colspan="2" | 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 |
| colspan="2" | Viola | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina | |
| Farewell to Dream | Yuyake gumo | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| For Marx... | Za Marksa... | Svetlana Baskova | Russian |
Official awards
File:Calin Peter Netzer.jpg (Romania), winner of the Golden Bear at the festival]]
The following prizes were awarded:{{Cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/media/pdf_word/service_7/63_ifb/63_Berlinale_Awards.pdf |title=The Awards of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival |access-date=5 September 2013 |work=berlinale |archive-date=13 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513042435/http://www.berlinale.de/media/pdf_word/service_7/63_ifb/63_Berlinale_Awards.pdf |url-status=dead }}
- Golden Bear: Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer
- Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix: An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanović
- Alfred Bauer Prize: 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
- Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Aziz Zhambakiyev for Harmony Lessons
- Special Mentions:
- Promised Land by Gus Van Sant
- Layla Fourie by Pia Marais
Independent awards
= Ecumenical Jury Prize =
- The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer (panorama)
- Circles by Srdan Golubović (forum)
= [[International Federation of Film Critics|FIPRESCI]] Jury Prize =
- Hélio Oiticica by Cesar Oiticica Filho
= Panorama Audience Award =
= Forum =
- 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
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{official website|http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html}}
- [http://www.berlinale.de/de/archiv/jahresarchive/2013/01_jahresblatt_2013/01_jahresblatt_2013.html Yearbook 2013 at berlinale.de]
- [http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/awards.php?award_id=berlin&year=2013 63rd Berlin International Film Festival 2013]
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