10 Prizes for German Films at Berlinale 2014
64th Berlin International Film Festival (6 - 16 February 2014)
It was a successful 64th Berlinale for German films. German cinema already had a high profile in this year's Competition with four titles, and it also featured prominently among the prize-winners: a total of ten awards went to German films and co-productions at the weekend. Anna and Dietrich Brüggemann received the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for STATIONS OF THE CROSS (KREUZWEG, UFA Fiction, cine plus Filmproduktion), which screened in the Competition. The film also won the Award of the Ecumenical Jury.
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL by Wes Anderson (UK/DE), shot in and co-produced by Studio Babelsberg, received the Silver Bear – Grand Jury Prize. LABORAT (CaSk Films) was also awarded an official festival prize. The film by the Berlin-based French film-maker Guillaume Cailleau received the Silver Bear for Best Short Film.
Other prizes for German films and co-productions came from the independent juries: the feature film ANYWHERE ELSE (ANDERSWO) by Ester Amrami (Dirk Manthey Film, HFF “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam Babelsberg) was awarded with the €5,000 Dialogue en perspective Prize from the German-French Youth Office (GFYO). FOG (NEBEL) by Nicole Vögele (Filmakademie Baden Württemberg), an experimental documentary, received a Special Mention in the same section. The DEFA Foundation's Heiner Carow Prize - recognising a German feature film, documentary or essay film from the Panorama section – went to the documentary MY MOTHER, A WAR AND ME (MEINE MUTTER, EIN KRIEG UND ICH) by Johann Feindt und Tamara Trampe.
At the presentation of the Teddy Awards, the German-Canadian co-production PIERROT LUNAIRE by Bruce LaBruce (Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion) received the Jury Special Prize. The Award of the Ecumenical Jury for a film from the Forum went to the Greek-German co-production AT HOME by Athanasios Karanikolas (SHPN3 Filmproduktion, Oxymoron Film); and the Jury of the International Association of Art House Cinemas CICAE gave the CICAE ART CINEMA AWARD to a film from the Panorama programme THE LAMB (KUZU) by Kutluğ Ataman (TK/DE, Detailfilm).
The Berlin International Film Festival, which took place for the 64th time from 6 to 16 February 2014, is one of the world's most important film festivals. This year had again
seen German Films having a presence at the European Film Market with an umbrella stand shared with Focus Germany, FFA/DFFF, AG Dok and AG Kurzfilm.
