A jury is considered independent when its members are not selected by the Berlinale. A number of independent juries award prizes at the Berlinale. The high level of quality and diversity of the films are an invitation for critical examination and discerning judgment that opens up new directions. Accordingly the independent juries award their prizes along different criteria, in accordance to the special intention linked to each award.
Berlinale: Prizes Independent Juries
Prizes of the Independent Juries
Since 1992, the international film organisations of the Protestant and Catholic Churches - INTERFILM and SIGNIS - have been represented by the Ecumenical Jury. It consists of six members and awards its main prize to a film entered in the Competition. It also awards two other prizes, both worth 2,500 Euros, one to a film from the Panorama and one to a film in the Forum.
The prizes go to directors who have succeeded in portraying actions or human experiences that are in keeping with the Gospels, or in sensitising viewers to spiritual, human or social values.
Prize Winner Competition 2013
Gloria
by Sebastián Lelio
Jury Statement:
For its refreshing and contagious plea that life is a celebration to which we are all invited, regardless of age or condition, and that its complexities only add to the challenge to live it in full.
Special Mention:
Epizoda u životu berača željeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker)
by Danis Tanović
Jury Statement:
For spotlighting people who are often invisible, and portraying their dignity, resilience, and invincible will to live.
Prize Winner Panorama 2013
The Act of Killing
by Joshua Oppenheimer
Jury Statement:
This deeply unsettling film exposes the evil mass murders which took place in Indonesia in 1965 and reveals the monstrosity of these crimes. It re-opens a deep wound with the conviction that it is worthwhile to unearth such atrocities.
Special Mention:
Inch'Allah
by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Jury Statement:
For its use of poignant metaphors, images and stories to instill compassion, for foregrounding women’s lives and points of view in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and for showing that certain life situations make it hard not to take sides.
Prize Winner Forum 2013
Krugovi (Circles)
by Srdan Golubović
Jury Statement:
For its compelling presentation of the human capacity to overcome seemingly invincible prejudices, and to achieve healing through reconciliation.
Special Mention:
Senzo ni naru (Roots)
by Kaoru Ikeya
Jury Statement:
For showing a deeply impressive example of the beginning of new life after the Tsunami catastrophe in 2011. The protagonist finds inspiration to rebuild his home in the rich spiritual heritage of Japan.
Members of the Jury 2013:
Gustavo Andujar (Jury president)
Jean-Luc Gadreau
Markus Leniger
Charles Martig
Maggie Morgan
Roland Wicher
The juries of the "Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique" (FIPRESCI), the international film critics association, view films from the Competition programme and the Panorama and Forum sections. They award a prize for the best film in each of these sections.
Prize Winner Competition 2013
Poziţia Copilului (Child's Pose)
by Călin Peter Netzer
Prize Winner Panorama 2013
Inch'Allah
by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Prize Winner Forum 2013
Hélio Oiticica
by Cesar Oiticica Filho
Members of the Jury 2013
Alin Tasciyan (Jury President)
Mohammed Rouda
Mode Steinkjer
Ninos Feneck Mikelides
Baptiste Etchegaray
Eberhard von Elterlein
Dana Linssen
Anjelika Artyukh
Christoph Schmitz
The jury of the "Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater“ (Guild of German Art House Cinemas) is composed of three members who run cinemas and are members of the Guild. The jury awards its prize to a film screened in the Competition.
Prize Winner 2013
Gloria
by Sebastián Lelio
Members of the Jury 2013
Adrian Kutter
Gerhard Bingenheimer
Petra Rockenfeller
The "Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai" (C.I.C.A.E.), the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas, forms one jury for the Panorama and one for the Forum. Each jury awards one prize in its section.
Prize Winner Panorama 2013
Rock the Casbah
by Yariv Horowitz
The jury honors unanimously the force of the mise-en-scène and the subject. The director shows great intelligence in talking about a very personal situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on one side and on the other side he tells the universal story of the nonsense of war.
Prize Winner Forum 2013
Grzeli nateli dgeebi (In Bloom)
by Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß
Members of the Panorama Jury 2013
Iris Praefke
Marianne Piquet
Francesca Bolognesi
Members of the Forum Jury 2013
Gabor Böszörményi
Mario Fortin
Dirk Van der Straaten
Launched for the first time in 2003 within the Cannes Film Festival, the "Europa Cinemas Label" has been created in order to help European films increase their distribution and raise their profile with audiences and media. The Label is since then awarded by a jury of five member exhibitors to a European film selected in the Directors' Fortnight section in Cannes and since 2004 in the Venice Days. Since 2005, Europa Cinemas has been cooperating with the Berlinale to award the Label in the Panorama section.
Prize Winner 2013
The Broken Circle Breakdown
by Felix van Groeningen
Jury Statement:
Felix van Groeningen is a real filmmaker. This is a beautiful and original way of looking at a mother and father's relationship with their terminally sick daughter. We especially liked the cinematography, the non-linear structure of the story, and the fact that he avoids easy emotional manipulation while dealing with a tough subject. The music from the parents' bluegrass band is not just the soundtrack but a source of energy and hope for everyone. The clear message is that we must invest in scientific research and not allow religion or politics to interfere.
Members of the Jury 2013
Tanja Milicic
Gerardo De Vivo
Anne Kellner
Irina Efstratiou
The TEDDY AWARD – the most outstanding queer film prize in the world – is a socially engaged, political honour presented to films and people who communicate queer themes on a broad social platform, thereby contributing to tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society.
During the Berlinale the award is presented in the following categories: Best Feature, Best Documentary/Essay Film and Best Short Film as well as the Special TEDDY AWARD which goes to extraordinary personalities. Every year films from all sections of the Berlin International Film Festival compete for the TEDDY AWARDS.
Best Feature Film 2013
W imię... (In the Name of)
by Małgośka Szumowska
Teddy Jury Award 2013
Concussion
by Stacie Passon
Best Documentary/Essay Film 2013
Bambi
by Sébastien Lifshitz
Best Short Film 2013
Ta av mig (Undress Me)
by Victor Lindgren
Members of the Jury 2013
Martha Arredondo
Benoît Arnulf
Dilcia Barrera
Katja Briesemeister
Ljosha Chashchyn
Pavel Cortés
Johanna Hakanen
Sophie Lin
Gerardo Pérez Meliá
In 2012, the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section’s eleventh year, the Berlinale launched the “Made in Germany - Perspektive Fellowship”, funded by Glashütte Original. The 15,000-euro fellowship is conceived to support emerging German directors in developing a film project, material and screenplay, and will be awarded to a talented new filmmaker from Perspektive Deutsches Kino. All of the directors who presented films in the Perspektive programme of the previous year can apply.
Prize Winner 2013
Jan Speckenbach
for Das Klopfen der Steine (The sound of stones), his treatment for a musical set among the ruins of post-World War II Berlin.
Members of the Jury 2013
Hans-Christian Schmid
Nicolette Krebitz
Heino Deckert
Since 2004, the prize "FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective", has been awarded to a film entry in the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino. The French-German Youth Office (FGYO) is already for the tenth time the sponsor of the “FGYO-Award Dialogue en perspective”, endowed with 5,000 €. The prize is the result of an intercultural dialogue on film between young people from three different countries: France, Germany and an annually changing third country.
The prize is awarded to the film that equally impresses the young and critical jury members from the three nations. The prize jury is composed of seven members and is headed by a president. The jury members are selected by the prize donators by means of a public call for application. The president of the jury is a professional whose work enriches the cinematographic dialogue between France and Germany.This jury is the only one at the Berlin International Film Festival which is constituted after an open call for tender. Further information on conditions of participation is available here (in German and French only!).
Prize Winner 2013
Zwei Mütter (Two Mothers)
by Anne Zohra Berrached
The jury found Anne Zohra Berrached’s entry Two Mothers not only compelling in its aesthetic form but also in the profundity of its content and authenticity. With its subtle use of colour and the genuine performances of the two protagonists, the film took a very gentle approach to a political issue without trying to politicize it.
Through its outward form and the outstanding direction of the many non-professional actors, the film gives a very convincing portrait of a difficult relationship between two women, and their desire for togetherness and family. With intelligence, the director finds a way to open up a new perspective between the classic genres of documentary and fictional film, one in which both forms have a place and merge.
Special Mention:
Chiralia
by Santiago Gil
Jury 2013
Emily Atef (Jury President)
Tatiana Ilona Braun
Clara Chapus
Théophile Foucart
Regina Karl
Johannes Lehnen
Florian Targa
Jorge Henrique Vieira Rodriguez
A three-person jury awards the Caligari Film Prize to a film in the Forum. The prize is sponsored by the "German Federal Association of Communal Film Work" and “filmdienst” magazine. The winning film is honoured with 4,000 Euros, half of which is given to the director, the other half is meant to fund distribution.
Prize Winner 2013
Hélio Oiticica
by Cesar Oiticica Filho
Jury Statement:
Very much in the spirit of Jack Smith, Hélio Oiticica really has to be called a flaming film. The found-footage cinematic mosaic by Cesar Oiticica Filho, the nephew of the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticia, is a frenzied narrative of images, movements and textures, colors, rhythms and sounds. The film uses Oiticica's position as a crossover artist – as one working between art and film, between painting, sculpture and physical experience – as its central formal principle. Different, in part heterogeneous materials and media collide with one another and organically intertwine – from film and sound archive material to photographs, from sketches and drawings to scratchy and wildly flickering grainy frames of film and the smooth surfaces of digital visuals. Hélio Oiticica is a musical film, and not just because beautiful music is to be heard in it: the film itself is determined by rhythms and tempo changes. The film sometimes just flows along only to revert once again into a barely controllable overabundance as fluid tracking shots through rooms and installations by the artist alternate with rapidly cut sequences of still images.
The lustrous narrator of the film is Hélio Oiticica himself. In the same way that the artist extends the painterly into the environment and transmutes the corporal into the sculptural, his narratives go far beyond the boundaries of an artist's biography. The slums of Rio de Janeiro, the Tropicália Movement as an alternative to the repressive politics of the military dictatorship, artistic productivity in London, and the art of idleness in New York: Oiticica roams through urban life as well as the Brazilian music and film scene and the New York underground. And now and again he shares with literal abandon his multifarious interests, influences and encounters, telling of the beauty and dangers of the streets – a "sexual initiation" – and of samba, cocaine, Jimi Hendrix's intensive relationship with his electric guitar, carnival processions, the labyrinthine architecture of the favela, and of the navigational abilities of ants. Hélio Oiticica is an anti-academic (art) historiography and a refutation of joyless curatorial administrative labor. Most recently, the artist has dubbed his creative method as "Delirium Ambulatório" – whatever that might mean, Hélio Oiticica itself is an invitation to get infected by it.
Members of the Jury 2013
Jutta Beyrich
Lena Martin
Esther Buss
The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) is an alliance of festival organisers and film critics whose aim is to support Asian film. The jury awards a prize to an Asian film screened in the Forum.
Prize Winner 2013
Lamma shoftak (When I Saw You)
by Annemarie Jacir
Members of the Jury 2013
Ken'ichi Okubo
Nora Hoppe
Ahmet Boyacioglu
The jury comprises nine members who view films from all sections. The Peace Film Prize is awarded in the form of a bronze sculpture by Otmar Alt and includes prize money of 5,000 euros. It is awarded under the patronage of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and supported by the Zehlendorf Peace Intiative, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the International Auschwitz Committee and the IPPNW.
Prize Winner 2013
A World Not Ours
by Mahdi Fleifel
Jury Statement:
The Danish-Palestinian film director Mahdi Fleifel comes from the refugee camp Ain el-Helweh, one of the oldest camps in the southern part of Lebanon. Together with his father he documents the life of the family and the camp with a camera; with an affectionate gaze and sense of humor over a time period of thirty years. The grueling and hopeless situation of the people inside the camp is obvious as the camp turns into an isolated island.
Fleifels memories establish a dense picture of this life in a no man’s land. The film is free of the usual patterns classifying the conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians. It thus evolves into a plea for a new peace process in the Middle East.
More and more people around the world have to live in refugee camps for long periods of time. They continue hoping for a life in dignity and to be able to return to their homelands.
Members of the Jury 2013
Christoph Heubner
Mehdi Benhadj-Djilali
Monica Ch. Puginier
Marianne Wündrich-Brosien
Helgard Gammert-Jakli
Pary El-Qalqili
Sobo Swobodnik
Claudia Gehre
Martin Zint
The German branch of Amnesty International has awarded the Amnesty International Film Prize for the first time at the Berlinale 2005. The prize is worth 5,000 Euros. The jury will view films entered into the Competition, Panorama, Forum and Generation sections, paying special attention to documentaries. The aim of the prize is to draw the attention of audiences and representatives of the film industry to the theme of human rights and encourage filmmakers to tackle this topic.
Prize Winner 2013
The Rocket (Die Rakete)
by Kim Mordaunt
Members of the Jury 2013
Aelrun Goette
Katja Riemann
Markus Beeko
With this special developmental award, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development honours a film that addresses a global issue and encourages discussion in an extraordinary way - whether climate change, migration, education or human rights violations. The award is presented to a feature or documentary film in the Competition, Forum, Panorama or Generation sections. "What does this have to do with me?", "What can I do?" - all eight nominated films answer such questions in their own creative way.
Prize Winner 2013
Art/Violence
by Udi Aloni, Batoul Taleb and Mariam Abu Khaled
Art/Violence shows artistic resistance against oppression and boldly explores a sensitive topic. The Beauty of energy is expressed with an enthusiastic and passionate voice of youth. The different lines of storytelling bring together without fear the old, the new and the future. Art/Violence not only has the heart but also the art in the right place.
Members of the Jury 2013
Thomas Heinze
Ernst Szebedits
Djo Munga
Charles Achaye-Odong
A three-person jury awards the Heiner Carow Prize for the promotion of German cinematic arts to a documentary, feature or essay film in the Panorama section. The award is sponsored by the DEFA Foundation and is worth 5,000 euros. The prize honours films that address the social and political issues of today and in history with extraordinary aesthetic means.
Prize Winner 2013
Naked Opera
by Angela Christlieb
Members of the Jury 2013
Karim Ainouz
Stefanie Eckert
Stefan Carow
Readers' Juries and Audience Awards
All Berlinale visitors can vote for the Panorama Audience Award by filling in a vote sheet. The prize was started in 1999 and is made possible by a joint initiative between the Berlin city magazine tip, the radio channel radioeins and the Panorama section itself.
Prize Winner Fiction Film 2013
The Broken Circle Breakdown
by Felix van Groeningen
Prize Winner Documentary Film 2013
The Act of Killing
by Joshua Oppenheimer
The jury is made up of twelve readers of the daily newspaper "Berliner Morgenpost". The prize is awarded to a feature film in the Competition section.
Prize Winner 2013
Uroki Garmonii (Harmony Lessons)
by Emir Baigazin
Members of the Jury 2013
Holger Beisitzer
Christoph Burtscher
Maria Geczi
Zoe Hagen
Marianne Kunert
Monika Richter
Serafin Fernandez Rodriguez
Claudia Scheede
Uwe Schmidt
Ann-Kristin Spindler
Katja Techritz
Christian Wagner
Since the Berlinale 2007, the Berlin-based national daily newspaper "Tagesspiegel" has awarded a Readers' Prize. The jury consists of nine members and the prize is given to the best film in the Forum.
Prize Winner 2013
Vaters Garten - Die Liebe meiner Eltern (Father's Garden - The Love of My Parents)
by Peter Liechti
The jury, which is made up of seven readers of the Berlin gay and lesbian magazine "Siegessäule", takes into account all films with gay or lesbian content, regardless of which section they are in. The prize is awarded to a feature-length film.
Prize Winner 2013
W imię... (In the Name of)
by Małgośka Szumowska
Jury Statement:
A movie that authentically addresses an issue, long taboo, and at the same time a challenge for the catholic church to finally embrace the many gay priests within its ranks.
Members of the Jury 2013
Johanna Behre
Katjana Brennecke
Thomas Eichinger
Jörn Heller
Olaf Mamczek
Birte Rohles
Cosmo Zwiebler
Prizes of the Berlinale Talent Campus
The Talent Project Market offers about ten producers and directors taking part in the Talent Campus the opportunity to present their project to potential coproducers and backers at the Berlinale Co-Prouduction Market. Since 2011, ARTE has presented the ARTE International Prize, which is worth €6,000 and goes to one of the 10 projects selected for the Talent Project Market.
Award winner 2013
Petar Valchanov from Bulgaria
For The Lesson
The Sound Studio is a hands-on training programme for all sound designers and score composers participating in the Berlinale Talent Campus. The programme features workshops, case studies and presentations, which focus on the use of sound in the filmmaking process and its importance for the narrative structure of a story. The participant with the best sound mark concept for the Campus trailer wins the Dolby® Sound Mark Award, a one-week journey to Dolby® Labs in Los Angeles where the winner will be hosted by Dolby® Sound Consultants and taken behind the scenes to a wide selection of Hollywood studios.
Award winner 2013
Rutger Reinders from the Netherlands
The Talent Project Market offers about ten producers and directors taking part in the Talent Campus the opportunity to present their project to potential coproducers and backers at the Berlinale Co-Prouduction Market. Since 2004, the 10,000 euro VFF Talent Highlight Pitch Award has been donated by the VFF copyright agency for film and TV producers during the Talent Project Market. An international jury presents the award to the most promising project in terms of its realisability and potential as a film production.
Award winner 2013
Geordie Sabbagh from Canada
For Two Guys who Sold the World
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