Opening film | My Salinger Year |
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Closing film | There Is No Evil |
Location | Berlin, Germany |
Founded | 1951 |
Awards | Golden Bear: There Is No Evil |
Festival date | 20 February – 1 March 2020 |
Website | http://www.berlinale.de |
The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020. [1] [2] It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival board: business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian. [3]
The festival opening gala was presented by actor Samuel Finzi, followed by the world premiere My Salinger Year , directed by Philippe Falardeau. [4] The Golden Bear was awarded to the Iranian film There Is No Evil , directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. [5]
The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards: [12] [13]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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All the Dead Ones | Todos os mortos | Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra | Brazil, France |
Bad Tales | Favolacce | Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo | Italy, Switzerland |
Berlin Alexanderplatz | Burhan Qurbani | Germany, Netherlands, France | |
DAU. Natasha | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel | Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia | |
Days | 日子 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
Delete History | Effacer l'historique | Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern | France, Belgium |
First Cow | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
Hidden Away | Volevo nascondermi | Giorgio Diritti | Italy |
The Intruder | El Prófugo | Natalia Meta | Argentina, Mexico |
Irradiated | Irradiés | Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia |
My Little Sister | Schwesterlein | Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond | Switzerland |
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Eliza Hittman | United States | |
The Roads Not Taken | Sally Potter | United Kingdom | |
The Salt of Tears | Le sel des larmes | Philippe Garrel | France, Switzerland |
Siberia | Abel Ferrara | Italy, Germany, Mexico | |
There Is No Evil | شیطان وجود ندارد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany, Czech Republic, Iran |
Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany, France | |
The Woman Who Ran | 도망친 여자 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
The following films were selected for the new Encounters section: [14]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Funny Face | Tim Sutton | United States | |
Gunda | Victor Kossakovsky | Norway, United States | |
Isabella | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina | |
Kill It and Leave This Town | Zabij to i wyjedz z tego miasta | Mariusz Wilczyński | Poland |
Los Conductos | Camilo Restrepo | Brazil, Colombia, France | |
The Last City | Die letzte Stadt | Heinz Emigholz | Germany |
Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Bosnia, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland | |
The Metamorphosis of Birds | A metamorfose dos pássaros | Catarina Vasconcelos | Portugal |
Naked Animals | Nackte Tiere | Melanie Waelde | Germany |
Orphea | Khavn and Alexander Kluge | Germany | |
Servants | Služobníci | Ivan Ostrochovský | Czech Republic, Ireland, Romania, Slovakia |
The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs | Laila aur satt geet | Pushpendra Singh | India |
Shirley | Josephine Decker | United States | |
The Trouble with Being Born | Sandra Wollner | Austria, Germany | |
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | Anders Edström and C.W. Winter | Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States |
The following films were selected for the Panorama section: [15] [16] [17] [18]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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All Hands on Deck | À L'abordage | Guillaume Brac | France |
Always Amber | Alltid Amber | Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen | Sweden |
The Assistant | Kitty Green | United States | |
Black Milk | Schwarze Milch | Uisenma Borchu | Germany, Mongolia |
A Common Crime | Un crimen común | Francisco Márquez | Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland |
Digger | Georgis Grigorakis | Greece, France | |
Dry Wind | Vento Seco | Daniel Nolasco | Brazil |
Eeb Allay Ooo! | Prateek Vats | India | |
Exile | Exil | Visar Morina | Belgium, Germany, Kosovo |
Father | Otac | Srdan Golubović | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia |
Hope | Håp | Maria Sødahl | Norway, Sweden |
If It Were Love | Si c'était de l'amour | Patric Chiha | France |
Mare | Andrea Štaka | Croatia, Switzerland | |
Minyan | Eric Steel | United States | |
Mughal Mowgli | Bassam Tariq | United Kingdom | |
No Hard Feelings | Futur Drei | Faraz Shariat | Germany |
Notes from the Underworld | Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt | Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel | Austria |
One in a Thousand | Las Mil y Una | Clarisa Navas | Argentina, Germany |
One of These Days | Bastian Günther | Germany, United States | |
Pari | Siamak Etemadi | Bulgaria, France, Greece, Netherlands | |
Shine Your Eyes | Cidade Pássaro | Matias Mariani | Brazil |
Sow the Wind | Semina il vento | Danilo Caputo | France, Greece, Italy |
Suk Suk | Ray Yeung | Hong Kong | |
Surge | Aneil Karia | United Kingdom | |
Wildland | Kød & Blod | Jeanette Nordahl | Denmark |
Panorama Dokumente | |||
Amazon Mirror | O reflexo do lago | Fernando Segtowick | Brazil |
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets | Bill and Turner Ross | United States | |
Days of Cannibalism | Teboho Edkins | France, Netherlands, South Africa | |
The Foundation Pit | Kotlovan | Andrey Gryazev | Russia |
I Dream of Singapore | Lei Yuan Bin | Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom | |
If It Were Love | Si c'était de l'amour | Patric Chiha | France |
Little Girl | Petite fille | Sébastien Lifshitz | France, Belgium |
Nardjes A. | Karim Aïnouz | Algeria, Brazil, France, Germany, Qatar | |
Running on Empty | Jetzt oder morgen | Lisa Weber | Austria |
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence | Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien | Bettina Böhler | Germany |
Welcome to Chechnya | David France | United States |
The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The American Sector | Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez | United States | |
Charlatan | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia | |
Curveball | Johannes Naber | Germany | |
DAU. Degeneration | DAU. Degeneratsia | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Ilya Permyakov | Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia |
Golda Maria | Patrick Sobelman and Hugo Sobelman | France | |
High Ground | Stephen Maxwell Johnson | Australia | |
Hillary | Nanette Burstein | United States | |
Last and First Men | Jóhann Jóhannsson | Iceland | |
Minamata | Andrew Levitas | United Kingdom | |
My Salinger Year | Philippe Falardeau | Canada, Ireland | |
Night Shift | Police | Anne Fontaine | France |
Numbers | Nomera | Oleg Sentsov in collaboration with Akhtem Seitablaiev | Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, France |
The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | United States | |
Onward | Dan Scanlon | ||
Paris Calligrammes | Ulrike Ottinger | Germany, France | |
Persian Lessons | Vadim Perelman | Russia, Germany, Belarus | |
Pinocchio | Matteo Garrone | Italy, France, United Kingdom | |
Speer Goes to Hollywood | Vanessa Lapa | Israel | |
Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue | 一直游到海水变蓝 | Jia Zhangke | China |
Time to Hunt | 사냥의 시간 | Yoon Sung-hyun | South Korea |
The following films were selected for the Berlinale shorts section: [19]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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2008 | Blake Williams | Canada | |
À l'entrée de la nuit | Anton Bialas | France | |
Aletsch Negative | Laurence Bonvin | Switzerland | |
Atkūrimas | Laurynas Bareisa | Lithuania | |
Cause of Death | Jyoti Mistry | South Africa/Austria | |
A Demonstration | Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner | Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom | |
Filipiñana | Rafael Manuel | Philippines, United Kingdom | |
Foam | Écume | Omar Elhamy | Canada |
Genius Loci | Adrien Mérigeau | France | |
Girl and Body | Charlotte Mars | Australia | |
Gumnaam Din | Ekta Mittal | India | |
HaMa'azin | Omer Sterenberg | Israel | |
How to Disappear | Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf | Austria | |
Huntsville Station | Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone | United States | |
Inflorescence | Nicolaas Schmidt | Germany | |
It Wasn't the Right Mountain, Mohammad | Mili Pecherer | France | |
My Galactic Twin Galaction | Sasha Svirsky | Russia | |
Playback | Ensayo de una despedida | Agustina Comedi | Argentina |
She Who Wears the Rain | Celle qui porte la pluie | Marianne Métivier | Canada |
So We Live | Rand Abou Fakher | Belgium | |
Stump the Guesser | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada | |
T | Keisha Rae Witherspoon | United States | |
Union County | Adam Meeks | ||
Veitstanz/Feixtanz (1988) | Gabriele Stötzer | East Germany |
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The Series section, introduced in 2015, [23] is devoted to longform television series. In 2020, there were two Australian entries: Stateless and Mystery Road Series 2. [24] [25]
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