Berlinale 2022 Awards

Last updated on February 20, 2022

For once we were not able to cover the Berlinale as we usually do (loss of papers, covid, health restrictions, and protocols slowed us down). But the festival went well. If Isabelle Hupper was not able to go there to receive the Golden Bear that was awarded to her as an honorary title, other Frenchmen were able to pull their weight. Claire Denis left with a Silver Bear, confirming her status as the Raymond Poulidor of French cinema (which suits her so poorly as her talent is internationally recognized).

Here are the winners

OFFICIAL COMPETITION

Golden Bear

Alcarràs by Carla Simon

Silver Bear

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize : The Novelist’s film de Hong Sang-soo

Jury Prize : : Robe of Gems de Natalia Lopez Gallardo

Best Director / Directress : Claire Denis pour Avec amour et acharnement

Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance: Meltem Kaptan in Rabiye Kurnaz contre George W. Bush by Andreas Dresen

Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance : Laura Basuki in Before, Now and Then (Nana) by Kamila Andini

Best screenplay : Rabiye Kurnaz contre George W. Bush by Andreas Dresen, written by Laila Stieler

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Rithy Pahn for Everything Will Be Okay

Special Mention : A Piece of sky (Drii Winter) byMichael Koch

ENCOUNTERS

Special Jury Prize: See you Friday, Robinson by Mitra Farahani

Best Director : Cyril Schaublin for Unrest

Best film : Mutzenbacher by Ruth Beckermann

DOCUMENTARY PRIZE

Myanmar Diaries by the Myanmar Film Collective

Panorama

The Panorama Audience Awards Go to Baqyt (Happiness) and Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm (Love, Deutschmarks and Death)

The audience has voted: The 24th Panorama Audience Award for the best feature film goes to Baqyt (Happiness) by Askar Uzabayev. Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm (Love, Deutschmarks and Death) by Cem Kaya wins in the category Panorama Dokumente. The prizes are awarded by the Berlinale section Panorama together with radioeins and rbb television (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg).

In the film Baqyt, the main character wears orange for her job as an influencer and a broad smile. The “Happiness” brand is her doctrine, but her home is a dark place where brute force has ruled for years. This film shows us what it costs to escape the trap of misogyny.

Cem Kaya’s dense documentary essay Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm (Love, Deutschmarks and Death) celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. An alternative post-war history that is at the same time a musical Who’s Who – from Yüksel Özkasap to Derdiyoklar and Muhabbet.

The award-winning feature film will be shown on Sunday, February 20, at 6 pm, the winner of the Panorama Dokumente at 9 pm. Both screenings will take place at Zoo Palast 1.

The Panorama Audience Award has been bestowed since 1999. As of 2011, both the best feature film and the best documentary have been honoured. During the Berlinale, all cinema-goers are invited to rate the films in the Panorama section on a voting card. In total around 8,000 votes were cast and evaluated.

This year, Panorama presented a total of 29 feature films from 33 production countries, ten of them were in Panorama Dokumente.

Panorama Audience