| Festival poster | |
| Opening film | La Vie En Rose |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Angel |
| Location | Berlin, Germany |
| Founded | 1951 |
| Awards | Golden Bear: Tuya's Marriage |
| No. of films | 305 films [1] |
| Festival date | 8–18 February 2007 |
| Website | Website |
The 57th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 8 to 18 February 2007. [2] The opening film of this year's festival was Olivier Dahan’s La Vie En Rose . [3] Angel by François Ozon served as the closing night film. [4] American director Paul Schrader was the jury president of the main competition. [5]
The Golden Bear was awarded to the Chinese film Tuya's Marriage directed by Wang Quan'an. [6] 224,181 tickets of the festival were sold. [7]
The festival held a Retrospective programme about women in silent era films. The films which were shown in the retrospective included a restored colour version of the 1921 film Hamlet , starring Asta Nielsen, the 1914 Italian film Cabiria and Berlin Alexanderplatz . [7] [8]
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: [9]
The following films were selected in competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards: [1] [3] [10] [11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angel | The Real Life of Angel Deverell | François Ozon | United Kingdom, France, Belgium |
| Beaufort | בופור | Joseph Cedar | Israel |
| Bordertown | Gregory Nava | United States, United Kingdom | |
| The Counterfeiters | Die Fälscher | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Austria, Germany |
| Desert Dream | 경계 | Zhang Lü | South Korea, France |
| The Duchess of Langeais | Ne touchez pas la hache | Jacques Rivette | France |
| Goodbye Bafana | Bille August | South Africa, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg | |
| The Good German | Steven Soderbergh | United States | |
| The Good Shepherd | Robert De Niro | ||
| Hallam Foe | David Mackenzie | United Kingdom | |
| I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK | 싸이보그지만 괜찮아 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| In Memory of Me | In memoria di me | Saverio Costanzo | Italy |
| Irina Palm | Sam Garbarski | Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Germany, France | |
| I Served the King of England | Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále | Jiří Menzel | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| La Vie En Rose | La Môme | Olivier Dahan | France, Canada |
| Lost in Beijing | 苹果 | Li Yu | China |
| The Other | El otro | Ariel Rotter | Argentina, France, Germany |
| Tuya's Marriage | 圖雅的婚事 | Wang Quan'an | China |
| When a Man Falls in the Forest | Ryan Eslinger | United States, Canada | |
| The Witnesses | Les Témoins | André Téchiné | France |
| The Year My Parents Went on Vacation | O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias | Cao Hamburger | Brazil, Argentina |
| Yella | Christian Petzold | Germany | |
The following awards were presented at the festival. [12] [13]