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unusual facts about Berlin Film Festival



Anthony Sperduti

He has also conceived and produced on award-winning short film projects, "Pol Pot's Birthday" and "Dimmer," shown at Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Berlin Film Festival.

Italian for Beginners

The film won the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the Golden Spike Award for the best film of the year at the Seminci film festival in Valladolid, Spain, and the Audience Award at the Warsaw International Film Festival in Poland.

Kenneth Bi

In 1998 Bi line-produced Slow Fade for first time director Daniel Chan Fai which was selected into 1999 Berlin Film Festival.

Killer of Sheep

Though the film won the Critics' Award at the Berlin Film Festival and was acclaimed at the Toronto International Film Festival, it never saw popular release due to complications in securing the music rights for the 22 songs on the soundtrack, which included such big names as Dinah Washington, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong and Earth, Wind and Fire.

Maren Ade

Her second feature, Everyone Else, debuted at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, where it was awarded the Jury Grand Prix and the Best Actress Silver Bear for Birgit Minichmayr.

Necati Cumalı

One of his best known works is the short-novel, "Dry Summer" (Susuz Yaz), adapted by the film director Metin Erksan to cinema in 1964, starring Hülya Koçyiğit and Erol Taş, and which won the Golden Bear award in Berlin Film Festival that year.

Porque te vas

Only when the song was used in Carlos Saura's 1976 film Cría Cuervos (Raising Crows), and the film went on to be honored at the Cannes Film Festival (Jury grand prize) and the Berlin Film Festival (jury special prize), did the song become internationally known and a hit.

Richard Flanagan

The 1998 film of The Sound of One Hand Clapping, written and directed by Flanagan, was nominated for the Golden Bear at that year's Berlin Film Festival.

Rodrigo Rey Rosa

It premièred at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah in 2004 and has also been shown at the Berlin Film Festival.

Wing Lee Street

But after Echoes of the Rainbow was filmed at this street and won the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the Children's Jury "Generation Kplus" category at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival, the redevelopment plan was scrapped.

Yōko Satomi

Also in 1999 she appeared (as Saki Shiratori) with male AV-star Chocoball Mukai in Shungo Kaji's mock documentary film, Ekiben, a spoof of the AV industry which was shown at the Berlin Film Festival.


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Niko von Glasow

Following his studies at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland, von Glasow made his first feature film, "Wedding Guests", which won the German Critics Prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

Taketo Gohara

Specializing in music for movies in surround sound, he has mixed "Primo Amore" by Matteo Garrone winner of Silver Bear as the best soundtrack composed by Banda Osiris for the Berlin Film Festival.