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BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

      • FESTIVAL CENTRAL
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    Golden Berlin Bear

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    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Mister Tao

      5.8 (127)
      Bruno Bozzetto
    • [object Object]

      Mind the Steps!

      7.0 (305)
      István Orosz
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Music Box

      7.4 (9.4K)
      Costa-Gavras
      Tied with Larks on a String (1969).
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Larks on a String

      7.3 (2.3K)
      Jirí Menzel
      Tied with Music Box (1989)
    • [object Object]

      Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

      7.0 (34K)
      Pedro Almodóvar
    • [object Object]

      Angels

      6.0 (38)
      Jacob Berger
    • [object Object]

      The Asthenic Syndrome

      6.5 (1.5K)
      Kira Muratova
    • [object Object]

      Ben ming nian

      7.3 (601)
      Fei Xie
    • [object Object]

      Born on the Fourth of July

      7.2 (122K)
      Oliver Stone
    • [object Object]

      Coming Out

      7.0 (2K)
      Heiner Carow
    • [object Object]

      Driving Miss Daisy

      7.3 (122K)
      Bruce Beresford
    • [object Object]

      Fat Man and Little Boy

      6.5 (9.6K)
      Roland Joffé
    • [object Object]

      A halálraítélt

      7.3 (32)
      János Zsombolyai
    • [object Object]

      The Handmaid's Tale

      6.0 (12K)
      Volker Schlöndorff
    • [object Object]

      Herzlich willkommen

      7.5 (61)
      Hark Bohm
    • [object Object]

      The Guard

      7.0 (204)
      Aleksandr Rogozhkin
    • [object Object]

      Les noces de papier

      7.2 (179)
      Michel Brault
    • [object Object]

      The Nasty Girl

      7.3 (2.9K)
      Michael Verhoeven
    • [object Object]

      Il segreto

      4.5 (51)
      Francesco Maselli
    • [object Object]

      Silent Scream

      5.6 (169)
      David Hayman
    • [object Object]

      The Winter War

      7.6 (9K)
      Pekka Parikka
    • [object Object]

      A Woman's Revenge

      5.9 (289)
      Jacques Doillon
    • [object Object]

      The War of the Roses

      6.8 (60K)
      Danny DeVito

    Silver Berlin Bear

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    Best Acting Performance

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Silent Scream

      5.6 (169)
      Iain Glen

    Best Acting Team

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Driving Miss Daisy

      7.3 (122K)
      Jessica Tandy
      Morgan Freeman

    Best Director

    • Michael Verhoeven
      Winner
      • Michael Verhoeven
      • The Nasty Girl

    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Isle of Flowers

      8.5 (6.9K)
      Jorge Furtado

    Outstanding Single Achievement

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Ben ming nian

      7.3 (601)
      Fei Xie
      For a moving film about chinese reality.

    Special Jury Prize

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Asthenic Syndrome

      6.5 (1.5K)
      Kira Muratova
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Coming Out

      7.0 (2K)
      Heiner Carow
      For a sensible movie about the dilemma of minorities and for the deep respect for human rights, humanity and tolerance expressed with it.

    Honorable Mention

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    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Cow

      7.4 (1.1K)
      Aleksandr Petrov
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Darkness/Light/Darkness

      7.9 (5.1K)
      Jan Svankmajer
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Breakdown

      6.1 (27)
      Klaus Georgi
      Lutz Stützner

    Honorary Golden Berlin Bear

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    • Oliver Stone
      Winner
      • Oliver Stone
      For his close relationship to the festival. The award was presented as Special Prize of the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.

    Berlinale Camera

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    • Bernhard Wicki
      Winner
      • Bernhard Wicki
    • Winner
      • Karel Vachek
    • Frank Beyer
      Winner
      • Frank Beyer
    • Martin Landau at an event for City of Ember (2008)
      Winner
      • Martin Landau

    Children's Film Festival: Award of the Maria Schell Foundation

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tunnelkind

      6.1 (9)
      Erhard Riedlsperger

    Children's Film Festival: Award of the Senator for Women, Youth and Family

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Kunst en Vliegwerk

      6.8 (44)
      Karst van der Meulen

    Children's Film Festival: Honorable Mention

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Bulten

      7.4 (12)
      Lennart Gustafsson

    Teddy

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    Best Documentary Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tongues Untied

      7.1 (2.1K)
      Marlon Riggs

    Best Feature Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Coming Out

      7.0 (2K)
      Heiner Carow
    • David Wojnarowicz and Keith Haring in Silence = Death (1990)
      Diamanda Galás in Die Aids-Trilogie: Positiv - Die Antwort schwuler Männer in New York auf AIDS (1990)
      Winners
      • Silence = Death
      • Die Aids-Trilogie: Positiv - Die Antwort schwuler Männer in New York auf AIDS
      Rosa von Praunheim

    Best Short Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Trojans

      4.6 (17)
      Constantine Giannaris

    FIPRESCI Prize

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    Competition

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Guard

      7.0 (204)
      Aleksandr Rogozhkin

    Forum of New Cinema

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Near Death

      8.3 (306)
      Frederick Wiseman

    FIPRESCI Prize - Honorable Mention

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    Competition

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Larks on a String

      7.3 (2.3K)
      Jirí Menzel
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Trace of Stones

      7.4 (1K)
      Frank Beyer

    Forum of New Cinema

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Born in '45

      6.5 (284)
      Jürgen Böttcher
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam

      6.4 (47)
      Egon Günther
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Berlin um die Ecke

      7.1 (82)
      Gerhard Klein
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Rabbit Is Me

      7.2 (434)
      Kurt Maetzig
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Der Frühling braucht Zeit

      6.7 (34)
      Günter Stahnke
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Karla

      7.5 (213)
      Herrmann Zschoche
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Just Don't Think I'll Cry

      6.6 (71)
      Frank Vogel

    Interfilm Award

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    Competition

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Nasty Girl

      7.3 (2.9K)
      Michael Verhoeven

    Forum of New Cinema

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Match Factory Girl

      7.5 (13K)
      Aki Kaurismäki

    Panorama

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

      8.1 (1.2K)
      Rob Epstein
      Jeffrey Friedman

    Interfilm Award - Honorable Mention

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    Forum of New Cinema

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Born in '45

      6.5 (284)
      Jürgen Böttcher
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam

      6.4 (47)
      Egon Günther
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Berlin um die Ecke

      7.1 (82)
      Gerhard Klein
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Rabbit Is Me

      7.2 (434)
      Kurt Maetzig
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Der Frühling braucht Zeit

      6.7 (34)
      Günter Stahnke
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Karla

      7.5 (213)
      Herrmann Zschoche
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Just Don't Think I'll Cry

      6.6 (71)
      Frank Vogel

    OCIC Award

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    Competition

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Silent Scream

      5.6 (169)
      David Hayman

    Forum of New Cinema

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Meiyou taiyang de rizi

      7.7 (51)
      Kei Shu

    OCIC Award - Honorable Mention

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    Competition

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Mister Tao

      5.8 (127)
      Bruno Bozzetto

    Forum of New Cinema

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Match Factory Girl

      7.5 (13K)
      Aki Kaurismäki

    C.I.C.A.E. Award

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    Forum of New Cinema

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Drugstore Cowboy

      7.2 (43K)
      Gus Van Sant

    Panorama

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Rikyu

      7.1 (892)
      Hiroshi Teshigahara

    C.I.F.E.J. Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      En verden til forskel

      4.9 (116)
      Leif Magnusson

    UNICEF Award

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    Best Short Film

    • Winner

      In and Out

      6.8 (43)
      David Fine
      Alison Snowden
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Fish

      6.8 (37)
      Kambuzia Partovi

    UNICEF Award - Honorable Mention

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tarzan Mama Mia

      5.9 (501)
      Erik Clausen

    Alfred Bauer Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Guard

      7.0 (204)
      Aleksandr Rogozhkin

    Caligari Film Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Untama giru

      7.1 (104)
      Go Takamine

    Peace Film Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      My Private War

      7.4 (208)
      Harriet Eder
      Thomas Kufus

    Peace Film Award - Honorable Mention

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Roger & Me

      7.5 (28K)
      Michael Moore
    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Girlfriend

      5.6 (137)
      Jeanine Meerapfel

    Wolfgang Staudte Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Freedom Is Paradise

      6.8 (354)
      Sergei Bodrov

    Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost"

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Nasty Girl

      7.3 (2.9K)
      Michael Verhoeven

    Reader Jury of the "Zitty"

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Last Images of the Shipwreck

      7.0 (484)
      Eliseo Subiela

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    • Berlinale
    • Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale)

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    Event date

    February 19, 1990

    Event location

    Berlin, Germany

    Event links

    • http://www.berlinale.de/
    • http://www.teddyaward.org/
    • http://www.fipresci.org/
    • http://www.signis.net/
    • http://www.cifej.com/
    • http://www.filmklubb.no/ficc/introdu.htm
    • http://www.friedensfilmpreis.de/
    • http://www.gwff.de/
    • http://www.fdk-berlin.de/
    • http://www.ippnw.de/frieden/ffp/index.htm

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