56th Berlinale
Germany, February 9 - February 19 2006
The jury
Diego Lerer (Argentina), Vladimir Ignatovski (Bulgaria), Nils Saeveras (), Christiane Dancie (France), Nenad Dukic (Serbia), Angelika Kettelhack (Germany), Gabriele Barrera (Italy), Zlatko Vidackovic (Croatia), Rüdiger Suchsland (Germany)
Awarded films
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In Between Days by
So Yong Kim
(USA/ Kanada, 2006, 83 mins) -
Requiem by
Hans-Christian Schmid
(Switzerland, 1992, 81 mins) -
Tough Enough by
Detlev Buck
(Germany, 2006, 98 mins)
Reports
- "Requiem" The Sad Song of a Religious Trauma By Nils Olav Saeveras by Nils Saeveras
- Tough and Tender By Christiane Dancie by Christiane Dancie
- "In Between Days": A Waste Land Between You and Me By Gabriele Barrera by Gabriele Barrera
- Two Daring Films: "El Custodio" and "Longing" By Diego Lerer by Diego Lerer
- New films from South East Asia Silence, Candy Colours and Outsiders By Rüdiger Suchsland by Rüdiger Suchsland
- "The Elementary Particles": Settling Accounts with the Generation 68 or How Leftwing Sex-Maniacs Deformed Their Children By Angelika Kettelhack by Angelika Kettelhack
- "Broken Sky" Passionate Relationship By Zlatko Vidackovic by Zlatko Vidackovic
- German Films: Specificity in Diversity By Nenad Dukic by Nenad Dukic
- "The Road to Guantanamo": Questions on the Road By Vladimir Ignatovski by Vladimir Ignatovski
It seems that the Berlinale gets bigger every year — more films, more stars, more events, more guests. Fest director Dieter Kosslick, go-getting and good-tempered as always, managed that the whole city of Berlin celebrated cinema, in spite of the extraordinarily cold temperature outside the festival venues around Potsdamer Platz (the historical center of the city, re-built after reunification). Besides the red-carpet competition show, two sidebars found the interest of critics and public: Panorama (headed by Wieland Speck) and the “International Forum of New Cinema” (headed by Christoph Terhechte).