66th Berlin International Film Festival

Opening film: Hail, Caesar!

Festival date: 11–21 February 2016

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Jury

Main Competition

• Meryl Streep (Jury president) - Actress
• Lars Eidinger - Actor
• Nick James - Film critic
• Brigitte Lacombe - Photographer
• Clive Owen - Actor
• Alba Rohrwacher - Actress
• Małgorzata Szumowska - Film director

First Feature

• Michel Franco - Film director and producer
• Enrico Lo Verso - Actor
• Ursula Meier - Film director

Short Film

• Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi - Curator, artist and lecturer
• Katerina Gregos - Curator, writer and lecturer
• Avi Mograbi - Filmmaker, video artist and lecturer

In competition

• "Boris Without Béatrice" ("Boris sans Béatrice") directed by Denis Côté (Canada)
• "Genius" directed by Michael Grandage (United Kingdom, United States)
• "Alone in Berlin" directed by Vincent Pérez (Germany, France, United Kingdom)
• "Midnight Special" directed by Jeff Nichols (United States)
• "Zero Days" directed by Alex Gibney (United States)
• "Letters from War" ("Cartas da Guerra") directed by Ivo Ferreira (Portugal)
• "A Dragon Arrives!" ("Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!") directed by Mani Haghighi (Iran)
• "Fire at Sea" ("Fuocoammare") directed by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)
• "A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery" ("Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis") directed by Lav Diaz (Philippines, Singapore)
• "The Commune Kollektivet" directed by Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands)
• "Things to Come" ("L'Avenir") directed by Mia Hansen-Løve (France, Germany)
• "Being 17" ("Quand on a 17 ans") directed by André Téchiné (France)
• "Death in Sarajevo" ("Mort à Sarajevo / Smrt u Sarajevu") directed by Danis Tanović (France, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• "United States of Love ("Zjednoczone stany miłości") directed by Tomasz Wasilewski (Poland, Sweden)
• "24 Weeks" ("24 Wochen") directed by Anne Zohra Berrached (Germany)
• "Crosscurrent" ("Chang Jiang Tu") directed by Yang Chao (China)
• "Hedi" ("Inhebbek Hedi") directed by Mohamed Ben Attia (Tunisia, Belgium, France)
• "Soy Nero" directed by Rafi Pitts (Germany, France, Mexico)

Out of competition

• "Hail, Caesar!" directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (United States)
• "Chi-Raq" Spike Lee (United States)
• "News from Planet Mars" ("Des nouvelles de la planète Mars") directed by Dominik Moll (France, Belgium)
• "The Patriarch" ("Mahana") directed by Lee Tamahori (New Zealand)
• "Saint-Amour" directed by Benoît Delépine (France, Belgium)

Panorama

• "I, Olga Hepnarová" ("Já, Olga Hepnarová") directed by Tomáš Weinreb, Petr Kazda (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, France)
• "Junction 48" directed by Udi Aloni (Israel, Germany, United States)
• "The First, the Last" ("Les Premiers, les Derniers") directed by Bouli Lanners (France, Belgium)
• "Maggie's Plan" directed by Rebecca Miller (United States)
• "Nakom" directed by Kelly Daniela Norris, T. W. Pittman (Ghana, United States)
• "Remainder" directed by Omer Fast (United Kingdom, Germany)
• "On the Other Side" ("S one strane") directed by Zrinko Ogresta (Croatia, Serbia)
• "Starve Your Dog" directed by Hicham Lasri (Morocco)
• "Sand Storm" ("Sufat Chol") directed by Elite Zexer (Israel)
• "Paris 05:59" ("Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau") directed by Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau (France)
• "The Ones Below" directed by David Farr (United Kingdom)
• "War on Everyone" directed by John Michael McDonagh (United Kingdom)
• "Aloys" directed by Tobias Nölle (Switzerland, France)
• "The Tenth Man" ("El rey del Once") directed by Daniel Burman (Argentina)
• "Goat" directed by Andrew Neel (United States)
• "Fukushima, mon Amour" ("Grüße aus Fukushima") directed by Doris Dörrie (Germany)
• "Indignation" directed by James Schamus (United States)
• "Jonathan" directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski (Germany)
• "Tomcat" ("Kater") directed by Händl Klaus (Austria)
• "The Black Frost" ("La helada negra") directed by Maximiliano Schonfeld (Argentina)
• "Lantouri" directed by Reza Dormishian (Iran)
• "Little Men" directed by Ira Sachs (United States)
• "The Wounded Angel" ("Ranenyy Angel") directed by Emir Baigazin (Kazakhstan, France, Germany)
• "While the Women Are Sleeping" directed by Wayne Wang (Japan)
• "Time Was Endless" ("Antes o tempo não acabava") directed by Sérgio Andrade, Fábio Baldo (Brazil, Germany)
• "All of a Sudden" ("Auf Einmal") directed by Aslı Özge (Germany, Netherlands, France)
• "Much Ado About Nothing" ("Aquí no ha pasado nada") Alejandro Fernández Almendras (Chile, United States, France)
• "The Bacchus Lady" ("Jug-yeo-ju-neun Yeo-ja") directed by E J-yong (South Korea)
• "Road to Istanbul" ("La Route d'Istanbu") directed by Rachid Bouchareb (Algeria, France, Belgium)
• "Don't Call Me Son" ("Mãe só há uma") directed by Anna Muylaert (Brazil)
• "You'll Never Be Alone" ("Nunca vas a estar solo") directed by Álex Anwandter (Chile)
• "Dog Days" ("San Fu Tian") directed by Jordan Schiele (Hong Kong, China)
• "Shelley" directed by Ali Abbasi (Denmark, Sweden)
• "Shepherds and Butchers" directed by Oliver Schmitz (South Africa, United States, Germany)

Panorama Dokumente

• "Don't Blink - Robert Frank" directed by Laura Israel (United States, France)
• "Hotel Dallas" directed by Livia Ungur, Sherng-Lee Huang (Romania, United States)
• "The GDR Complex" ("Der Ost-Komplex") directed by Jochen Hick (Germany)
• "Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures" directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato (United States, Germany)
• "Mariupolis" directed by Mantas Kvedaravicius (Lithuania, Germany, France, Ukraine)
• "Uncle Howard" directed by Aaron Brookner (United Kingdom, United States)
• "Brothers of the Night" ("Brüder der Nacht") directed by Patric Chiha (Austria)
• "Curumim" directed by Marcos Prado (Brazil)
• "Europe, She Loves" directed by Jan Gassmann (Switzerland, Germany)
• "Inside the Chinese Closet" directed by Sophia Luvarà (Netherlands)
• "Kiki" directed by Sara Jordenö (Sweden, United States)
• "Strike a Pose" directed by Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan (Netherlands)
• "The Lovers and the Despot" directed by Rob Cannan, Ross Adam (United Kingdom)
• "Weekends" directed by Lee Dong-ha (South Korea)
• "Who's Gonna Love Me Now?" directed by Tomer Heymann, Barak Heymann (Israel, United Kingdom)
• "My Land" ("Wu Tu") directed by Fan Jian (China)
• "Zona Norte" directed by Monika Treut (Germany)

Teddy30

• "1 Berlin Harlem" directed by Lothar Lambert, Wolfram Zobus West Germany
• "Different from the Others" ("Anders als die Andern") directed by Richard Oswald (Germany)
• "Before Stonewall" directed by Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg (United States)
• "The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors" ("Die Betörung der Blauen Matrosen") directed by Ulrike Ottinger (West Germany)
• "The Meadow of Things" ("Die Wiese der Sachen") directed by Heinz Emigholz (West Germany)
• "Gendernauts - A Journey Through Shifting Identities" ("Gendernauts - Eine Reise durch die Geschlechter") directed by Monika Treut (Germany)
• "I Shot Andy Warhol" directed by Mary Harron (United States)
• "I, You, He, She" ("Je, tu, il, elle") directed by Chantal Akerman (France, Belgium)
• "Looking for Langston" directed by Isaac Julien (United Kingdom)
• "Hide and Seek" ("Machboim") directed by Dan Wolman (Israel)
• "Marble Ass" directed by Želimir Žilnik (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
• "Nitrate Kisses" directed by Barbara Hammer (United States)
• "The Watermelon Woman" directed by Cheryl Dunye (United States)
• "Tongues Untied" directed by Marlon Riggs (United States)
• "A Whole Night" ("Toute une nuit") directed by Chantal Akerman (France, Belgium)
• "In a Glass Cage" ("Tras el cristal") directed by Agustí Villaronga (Spain)

Berlinale Special

• "A Serious Game" ("Den allvarsamma leken") directed by Pernilla August (Sweden, Denmark, Norway)
• "Miles Ahead" directed by Don Cheadle (United States)
• "A Quiet Passion" directed by Terence Davies (United Kingdom, Belgium)
• "National Bird" directed by Sonia Kennebeck (United States)
• "Creepy" directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
• "The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger" directed by Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Bartek Dziadosz, Tilda Swinton (United Kingdom)
• "Where to Invade Next" directed by Michael Moore (United States)
• "The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble" directed by Morgan Neville (United States)

Awards

Golden Bear: "Fire at Sea" by Gianfranco Rosi

Honorary Golden Bear: Michael Ballhaus

Jury Grand Prix (Silver Bear): "Death in Sarajevo" by Danis Tanović

Alfred Bauer Prize (Silver Bear): "A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery" by Lav Diaz

Silver Bear for Best Director: Mia Hansen-Løve for "Things to Come"

Silver Bear for Best Actress: Trine Dyrholm for "The Commune"

Silver Bear for Best Actor: Majd Mastoura for "Hedi"

Silver Bear for Best Script: Tomasz Wasilewski for "United States of Love"

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for Cinematography: Mark Lee Ping Bin for "Crosscurrent"

Best First Feature Award: Mohamed Ben Attia for "Hedi"

Panoroma Audience Award

• 1st Place: "Junction 48" by Udi Aloni
• 2nd Place: "Greetings from Fukushima" by Doris Dörrie
• 3rd Place: "Shepherds and Butchers" by Oliver Schmitz

Panoroma Audience Award - Panorama Dokumente

• 1st Place: "Who's Gonna Love Me Now?" by Tomer and Barak Heymann
• 2nd Place: "Strike a Pose" by Reijer Zwaan and Ester Gold
• 3rd Place: "Weekends" by Lee Dong-ha

Golden Bear For Best Short Film: "Batrachian's Ballad" by Leonor Teles

Silver Bear Jury Prize (short film): "A Man Returned" by Mahdi Fleifel

Audi Short Film Award: "Anchorage Prohibited" by Chiang Wei Liang

Teddy Award

• Best Feature Film: "Tomcat" by Händl Klaus
• Best Documentary/Essay Film: "Kiki" by Sara Jordenö
• Best Short Film: "Moms On Fire" by Joanna Rytel
• Special Jury Award: "You'll Never Be Alone" by Alex Anwandter
• Special Teddy Award: Christine Vachon
• Teddy Audience Award: "Paris 05:59" by Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel
• Männer Magazine Readers' Jury Award: "Don't Call Me Son" by Anna Muylaert

FIPRESCI Prize

• Competiton: "Death in Sarajevo" by Danis Tanović
• Panorama: "Aloys" by Tobias Nölle
• Forum: "The Revolution Won't Be Televised" by Rama Thiaw

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

• Competiton: "Fire at Sea" by Gianfranco Rosi
• Panorama: "The First, the Last" by Bouli Lanners
• Forum: 
•      "Barakah Meets Barakah" by Mahmoud Sabbagh
•      "Those Who Jump" by Abou Bakar Sidibé, Estephan Wagner and Moritz Sieber
• Europa Cinemas Label: "The First, the Last" by Bouli Lanners
• Arte International Prize: Alvaro Brechner for "Memories from the Cell"
• Eurimages Co-production Development Award: Cinéma Defacto and Proton Cinema for "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman"