Berlinale 2013 Awards Announced; Winners Include Jafar Panahi And David Gordon Green

With the Oscars now only a week away, awards are coming right and left, and while most are looking at the year that was, there is one festival that just announced its awards for the best of what we all can expect to see going forward.

This year’s Berlinale concluded with the reveal of its award announcement, and in that there are a cavalcade of intriguing projects that just got a lot more buzz.

The big award, the Golden Bear, went to Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose, with Danis Tanovic’s An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker nabbed the Jury Grand Prix award. Criterion fans will dig the fact that David Gordon Green took home Best Director for Prince Avalanche, and even Jafar Panahi grabbed an award for Best Screenplay for his brand new picture, Closed Curtain.

Acting awards went to Nazif Mujic and Paulina Garcia for An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker and Gloria respectively. Finally, an interesting award to this writer went to Gus Van Sant for his film Promised Land, and while it was just a “Special Mention,” that film deserves to be spoken of more, because last year’s dirty little secret was just how great that film was. No one saw it, and that will hopefully change going forward. Here is the full list of winners:

In Competition

Golden Bear – Child’s Pose, directed by Călin Peter Netzer

Jury Grand Prix – An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, directed by Danis Tanović

Silver Bear for Best Director – Prince Avalanche, directed by David Gordon Green

Best Actor – Nazif Mujić, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker

Best Actress – Paulina Garcia, Gloria

Best Screenplay – Closed Curtain, written by Jafar Panahi

Alfred Bauer Prize – Vic+Flo Saw a Bear, directed by Denis Côté

Outstanding Artistic Contribution – Cinematographer Aziz Zhambakiyev, forHarmony Lessons

Special Mentions – Promised Land, directed by Gus Van Sant & Layla Fourie, directed by Pia Marais

Best First Feature Award

Best First Feature – The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt

Special Mention – The Battle of Tabatô, directed by João Viana

Teddy Awards

Best Feature Film – In the Name Of, directed by Małgośka Szumowska

Jury Award – Concussion, directed by Stacie Passon

Best Documentary – Bambi, directed by Sébastien Lifshitz

Generation Prizes

Crystal Bear, Generation Kplus – The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt

Special Mention – Satellite Boy, directed by Catriona McKenzie

Grand Prix of the Kplus International Jury – Mother, I Love You, directed by Jānis Nords

Crystal Bear, Generation 14plus – Baby Blues, directed by Kasia Rosłaniec

Special Mention – Pluto, directed by Shin Su-won

Grand Prix of the 14plus International Jury – Shopping, directed by Mark Albiston & Louis Sutherland

FIPRESCI Prizes

Competition FIPRESCI Prize – Child’s Pose, directed by Călin Peter Netzer

Panorama FIPRESCI Prize – Inch’Allah, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Forum FIPRESCI Prize – Hélio Oiticica, directed by Cesar Oiticica Filho

Prizes of the Ecumenical Jury

Competition Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Gloria, directed by Sebastián Lelio

Special Mention – An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, directed by Danis Tanović

Panorama Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – The Act of Killing, directed byJoshua Oppenheimer

Special Mention – Inch’Allah, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Forum Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Circles, directed by Srdan Golubovic

Special Mention – Roots, directed by Kaoru Ikeya

Other Collateral Juries and Prizes

Panorama Audience Award, Fiction – The Broken Circle Breakdown, directed by Felix van Groeningen
Panorama Audience Award, Documentary – The Act of Killing, directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas – Gloria, directed by Sebastián Lelio
Panorama CICAE Prize – Rock the Casbah, directed by Yariv Horowitz
Forum CICAE Prize – In Bloom, Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Groß
Label Europa Cinemas Award – The Broken Circle Breakdown, directed by Felix van Groeningen
Caligari Film Prize – Hélio Oiticica, directed by Cesar Oiticica Filho
NETPAC Prize – When I Saw You, directed by Annemarie Jacir
Peace Film Prize – A World Not Ours, directed by Mahdi Fleifel
Amensty International Film Prize – The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt
Heiner Carow Prize – Naked Opera, directed by Angela Christlieb
Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Prize – Harmony Lessons, directed by Emir Baigazin
Tagesspiegel Readers’ Prize – Father’s Garden: The Love of My Parents, directed by Peter Liechti
Siegessäule Readers’ Prize – In the Name Of, directed by Małgośka Szumowska