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The happy winners of 2009: several images of the main awards of the 59th International Film Festival – the Golden and Silver Bears, the Alfred Bauer Prize and the Best First Feature Award endowed by the GWFF. Further awards ceremonies: presentation of the Honorary Golden Bear to Maurice Jarre and three Berlinale Cameras for Claude Chabrol, Rohrbach and Manoel de Oliveira respectively.

The Berlinale’s festive occasions, such as the opening and closing events in the Berlinale Palast, often lend the festival a special touch. A small selection of photos of the many guests of festival director Dieter Kosslick and moderator Katrin Bauerfeind, as well as the International Jury chaired by actress Tilda Swinton.

Again in 2009, the Competition hosted great international film directors and actors – in the programme as well as at press conferences, photo calls and on the Red Carpet. Alongside the well-known stars, numerous filmmakers demonstrated their abilities for the first time in the Competition and joined the ranks of the distinguished faces of this year’s Berlinale.

After “30 years of programming”, the Panorama again presented, for its anniversary, a successful mixture of works with a personal style, new approaches and promising films – complemented by a cinematic look back of the past decades. With guests like Gus Van Sant, Julie Delpy and Michael Winterbottom, the section was happy to welcome countless extraordinary personalities from the world of film. Images from all the Panorama events, including the Panorama Audience Award, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009.

Once again the Forum was a showcase for international auteur cinema, current political documentaries, essays and formal experiments. The programme this year showed once more an international mix of unconventional, extraordinary productions. Besides renowned directors like Ulrike Ottinger and Harun Farocki, primarily younger filmmakers such as Esther Rots, Andrew Bujalski and Atsushi Funahashi presented their innovative work. The complimentary Forum expanded programme showed artistic and installation-based works.

This year Maryanne Redpath and her deputy Florian Weghorn formed the new team in charge of the children’s and youth film section Generation. Once more the programme delighted not only young viewers while living up to its reputation of presenting several of the best insider tips. Photos of the juries for Generation Kplus and 14plus, directors, actors and the happy winners of the Crystal Bears.

For the third time, Berlinale Shorts, as an independent section, demonstrated how short films communicate cinematic insights in their own way and concentrate the intensity of the film experience. Curator Maike Mia Höhne put the programme together. A selection of photos from film premieres, events at the Berlinale Talent Campus as well as the jury and the winners of the Golden and Silver Bears provide a glimpse of this year’s Shorts section.

In Perspektive Deutsches Kino, section director Alfred Holighaus presented this year’s cream of the crop of next-generation German films, which as usual awakened the curiosity of many filmgoers and managed to win over audiences with different formats and poignant social themes. Here you will find press images of invited directors and film crews, snapshots of the “Deutsche Filme Party” and the jury of the “Dialogue en perspective” award with this year’s jury president Matthias Luthardt.

This year the Retrospective was dedicated to the unique, powerful imagery of 70mm film. Twenty-two film programmes in wide format were presented to audiences for the occasion, with productions from the USA, the Soviet Union and Europe. The programme was complimented by a series of events in the Museum for Film and Television with lectures, discussions and readings. The Homage was dedicated to the French film composer Maurice Jarre.

In three new festival venues, the Friedrichstadtpalast, the Cinema Paris in the Insitut Français and the Cosima, the Berlinale Special 2009 showed extraordinary new productions and special film highlights. The programme included Claude Chabrol’s Bellamy, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected and Singularidades de uma rapariga loura by Manoel de Oliveira, but also exceptional German productions such as Hilde by Kai Wessel, John Rabe by Florian Gallenberger and Effi Briest by Hermine Huntgeburth.

The Berlinale Talent Campus again served as a platform for 350 young film talents by helping them share ideas with professionals, experts and creatives from all sectors of the film industry and to develop their own career opportunities in an atmosphere of exchange. Under the banner “Suddenly, it all happened – the turning point in close-up”, different kinds of turning points – from dramatic to biographical – provided the central theme of this year’s Campus.

The European Film Market defied the difficult economic situation in 2009 and again demonstrated its significance as an important meeting point and market for the film industry: 408 companies from 55 countries presented themselves and their projects at the Market. In the historical atmosphere of the Martin-Gropius-Bau and the new “EFM-Marriott Offices”, more than 6,300 professional visitors got a good look at current developments in the international production scene as well as an opportunity to develop promising contacts for lasting business relationships.

Together with MDM and MEDIA, the Berlinale Co-Production Market enables cooperation between talented writers and filmmakers and international representatives of the film production sector. The goal of the preparatory phase of many months and the three festival days is the bringing together of potential co-production partners and the realisation of quality film material. Thirty-six film projects from 23 countries were presented at this year’s Co-Production Market. Future co-productions were discussed in different types of event such as Speed Matchings, Theme Talks and Case Studies.

Together with the Federal Culture Foundation, the Berlinale supports film projects from structurally disadvantaged regions and strengthens their international presence via the World Cinema Fund. The fund works year-round and uses the festival and the European Film Market as an important communication platform for projects receiving support. At this year’s Berlinale, WCF Day took place on February 11, 2009. Here one could get informed about the WCF programme, past successes, funding strategies, films, initiatives and the partners of the World Cinema Fund.

The Culinary Cinema once more addressed the many connections between film and food. With the screening and discussion on the Berlinale Special Food, Inc. by Robert Kenner, the section took a critical look at industrial food production. In the “Gropius Mirror” restaurant, guests were served culinary highlights inspired by the films in the main programme.

As part of Special Presentations, “After Winter Comes Spring – Films Presaging the Fall of the Wall” showed a selection of German and eastern European films made between 1977 and 1989 which anticipated in different ways the coming societal upheaval. Claus Löser curated the series, which was initiated by the Federal Cultural Foundation with the Deutsche Kinemathek.

Portraits by festival director Dieter Kosslick, programme manager Thomas Hailer, Generation director Maryanne Redpath as well as the directors of the Berlinale Talent Campus Mathijs Wouter Knol and Christine Tröstrum. The poster for the Berlinale 2009 was created by designer Paul Snowdon. In contrast to previous years, one motif stood for the entire Berlinale this year. In order to communicate a unified message, there were no individual section posters. A special poster was conceived by Jörg Eschenburg for the 30-year anniversary of the Panorama programme.