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The Silver Bear for the Best Short Film is the second place in the short film competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.
| Year | Film | Director | Country |
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| 1950s | |||
| 1956 | Rythmetic | Norman McLaren | Canada |
| 1957 | Plitvicka jezera | Dragoslav Holub | Yugoslavia |
| 1958 | Glas | Bert Haanstra | Netherlands |
| 1959 | Das Knalleidoskop | Herbert Hunger | West Germany |
| 1960s | |||
| 1960 | Diario | Juan Berend | Argentina |
| 1961 | Chimichimito | José Martín | Venezuela |
| 1962 | Le grand Magal de Touba | Blaise Senghor | Senegal |
| 1963 | Tori | Erkko Kivikoski | Finland |
| 1964 | Sunday Lark | Sanford Semel | United States |
| 1965 | Een zondag op het eiland van de Grande Jatte | Frans Weisz | Netherlands |
| 1966 | Rosalie | Walerian Borowczyk | France |
| 1967 | Fleá Ceoil | Louis Marcus | Ireland |
| 1968 | Krek | Borivoj Dovniković-Bordo | Yugoslavia |
| 1969 | Presadjivanje osecanja | Dejan Djurković | Yugoslavia |
| 1970s | |||
| 1971 | Il continuo | Vlatko Gilić | Yugoslavia |
| 1972 | The Selfish Giant | Peter Sander | Canada |
| 1973 | 1501 1/2 | Paul B. Price | United States |
| 1975 | SSS | Václav Bedřich | Czechoslovakia |
| 1976 | Trains | Caleb Deschanel | United States |
| 1977 | Etuda o zkousce | Evald Schorm | Czechoslovakia |
| 1978 | Une vieille soupière | Michel Longuet | France |
| 1979 | Phantom | René Perraudin and Uwe Schrader | West Germany |
| 1980s | |||
| 1980 | Rod Gröth | Jörg Moser-Metius | West Germany |
| 1981 | Ter land, ter zee en in de lucht | Paul Driessen | Netherlands |
| 1982 | San ge heshang | A Da (Xu Jingda) | China |
| 1983 | Was das Leben so verspricht | Egon Haase | West Germany |
| 1984 | Yu bang xiang zheng | Hu Jinqing | China |
| 1985 | Paradise | Ishu Patel | Canada |
| 1986 | Auguszta etet | Csaba Varga | Hungary |
| 1987 | Luxo Jr. | John Lasseter | United States |
| 1988 | Láska na první pohled | Pavel Koutský | Czechoslovakia |
| 1989 | Údel | Jaroslava Havettová | Czechoslovakia |
| 1990s | |||
| 1990 | Ilha das Flores | Jorge Furtado | Brazil |
| 1991 | Posledních 100 let Marx-Leninismu v Cechách | Pavel Koutský | Czechoslovakia |
| 1993 | At zije mys! | Pavel Koutský | Czech Republic |
| 1994 | Balthazar | Christophe Fraipont | France |
| 1996 | Maalaislääkäri | Katariina Lillqvist | Finland |
| 1997 | Late at Night | Stefanie Jordan, Stefanie Saghri and Claudia Zoller | Germany |
| 1998 | Cinema Alcázar | Florence Jaugey | Nicaragua |
| 1999 | Desserts | Jeff Stark | England |
| 2000s | |||
| 2000 | Média | Pavel Koutský | Czech Republic |
| 2001 | Jungle Jazz: Public Enemy #1 | Frank Fitzpatrick | United States |
| 2002 | Bror min | Jens Jonsson | Sweden |
| 2003 | En ausencia | Lucía Cedrón | Argentina |
| 2004 | Vet! | Karin Junger and Brigit Hillenius | Netherlands |
| 2005 | Jam Session | Izabela Plucinska | Germany |
| 2006 | Gratte-papier | Guillaume Martinez | France |
| 2007 | Mei | Arvin Chen | Taiwan |
| 2008 | Udedh Bun | Siddharth Sinha | India |
| 2009 | Jade | Daniel Elliott | United Kingdom |
| 2010s | |||
| 2010 | Hayerida | Shai Miedzinski | Israel |
| 2011 | Pu-seo-jin bam | Hyo-joo Yang | South Korea |
| 2012 | Gurêto rabitto | Atsushi Wada | Japan |
| 2013 | Die Ruhe bleibt | Stefan Kriekhaus | Germany |
| 2014 | Laborat | Guillaume Cailleau | Germany |
| 2015 | Bad at Dancing | Joanna Arnow | United States |
| 2016 | A Man Returned | Mahdi Fleifel | Denmark |
| 2017 | Ensueño en la Pradera | Esteban Arrangoiz Julien | Mexico |
| 2018 | Imfura | Samuel Ishimwe | Rwanda |
| 2019 | Blue Boy | Manuel Abramovich | Argentina |
| 2020 | Filipiñana | Rafael Manuel | Philippines |
| 2021 | Xia Wu Guo Qu Le Yi Ban | Zhang Dalei | China |
| 2022 | Manhã der Domingo | Bruno Ribeiro | Brazil |
| 2023 | Dipped in Black | Matthew Thorne and Derik Lynch | Germany; Australia |
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The Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's "Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the "Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year.
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The 6th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June to 3 July 1956. The FIAPF granted the festival the "A status" during this year, which was previously only reserved for Cannes and Venice. The awards for the first time, were given by an international jury.
The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Truffaut. The Golden Bear was awarded to the French film Les Cousins directed by Claude Chabrol.
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The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 February 2015, with American film director Darren Aronofsky as the president of the jury. German film director Wim Wenders was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The first seven films of the festival were announced on 15 December 2014.
The 66th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 21 February 2016, with American actress Meryl Streep as the president of the jury. The Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement was presented to German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus.
The 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 18 February 2017 with Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven as president of the jury.
The 68th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 15 to 25 February 2018. German filmmaker Tom Tykwer served as Jury President.
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The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival board: business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian.
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