Berlin International Film Festival 2012

20.02.2012
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During the last week, the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival had the attention of the global media. The Berlinale has "established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour and commerce". We want to give you a short overview about what happened.

Berlinale 2012, The Jury

: Zoom; berlinale jury

The Jury 2012 was presided by the brilliant Mike Leigh. It included Jake Gyllenhaal, Anton Corbijn, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Francois Ozon, Boualem Sansal, Barbara Sukowa and last year's Golden Bear recipient Asghar Farhadi.

Main Prizes, Golden Bear

The winner this year was the Italian documentary "Caesar Must Die" about a group of maximum security prisoners rehearsing for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Silver Bear Grand Prize

"Just The Wind" by Bence Fliegauf is about the murder of a gypsy family in a Hungarian village. Another family living in the aftermath of the moblike violence tries to escape.

Silver Bear Best Director

Christian Petzold for "Barbara", a movie about a female doctor in East Germany in 1980 whose lover in the west tries to help her escape.

Silver Bear Best Actress

Rachel Mwanza plays a child soldier in an African civil war drama "War Witch".

Silver Bear Best Actor

Mikkel Boe Folsgaard won for playing an insane Danish king in the 18th century in "A Royal Affair" but it is top billed Mads Mikkelsen, his physician, who is having the affair. With Folsgaard's queen.