# 65th Berlin International Film Festival

The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 February 2015, with American film director Darren Aronofsky as the president of the jury. German film director Wim Wenders was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The first seven films of the festival were announced on 15 December 2014.
Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night was the festival's opening film. Iranian docu-drama Taxi, directed by Jafar Panahi, won the Golden Bear, and was the closing film of the festival.
For the first time in 2015, a Berlin Critics' Week ran parallel to the official festival. Similar to Cannes Critics' Week, the section was a sidebar run by the German Film Critics Association dedicated to independent filmmakers.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* Darren Aronofsky, American filmmaker and producer- Jury President
* Daniel Brühl, German actor
* Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter
* Martha De Laurentiis, American film producer
* Claudia Llosa, Peruvian film director, screenwriter and producer
* Audrey Tautou, French actress
* Matthew Weiner, American director, screenwriter and producer

### First Feature Award

* Fernando Eimbcke, Mexican film director and screenwriter
* Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian actress
* Joshua Oppenheimer, American film director

### Short Film Competition

The following people were on the jury for the Best Short Film:
* Halil Altındere, Turkish artist (Turkey)
* Madhusree Dutta, Indian director, curator and author (India)
* Wahyuni A. Hadi, Singaporean author and curator
* Main Competition jury members
* Daniel Brühl
* Bong Joon-ho
* M. De Laurentiis
* Claudia Llosa
* Audrey Tautou
* Matthew Weiner

## Official Sections
### Main Competition

The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 45 Years | 45 Years | Andrew Haigh | United Kingdom |
| Aferim! | Aferim! | Radu Jude | Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic |
| As We Were Dreaming | Als wir träumten | Andreas Dresen | Germany, France |
| Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories | Cha và con và | Phan Đăng Di | Vietnam |
| Body | Ciało | Małgorzata Szumowska | Poland |
| Chasuke's Journey | 天の茶助 | Sabu | Japan |
| Diary of a Chambermaid | Journal d'une femme de chambre | Benoît Jacquot | Belgium, France |
| Eisenstein in Guanajuato | Eisenstein in Guanajuato | Peter Greenaway | Netherlands, Mexico, Belgium, Finland |
| Gone with the Bullets | 一步之遥 | Jiang Wen | China |
| Ixcanul | Ixcanul | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala, France |
| Knight of Cups | Knight of Cups | Terrence Malick | United States |
| Nobody Wants the Night | Nadie quiere la noche | Isabel Coixet | Spain, France, Bulgaria |
| Queen of the Desert | Queen of the Desert | Werner Herzog | United States, Morocco |
| Sworn Virgin | Vergine giurata | Laura Bispuri | Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Kosovo |
| Taxi | تاکسی | Jafar Panahi | Iran |
| The Club | El Club | Pablo Larraín | Chile |
| The Pearl Button | El botón de nácar | Patricio Guzmán | France, Chile, Spain |
| Under Electric Clouds | Под электрическими облаками | Aleksei Alekseivich German | Russia, Ukraine, Poland |
| Victoria | Victoria | Sebastian Schipper | Germany |

### Out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 13 Minutes | Elser | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Germany |
| Cinderella | Cinderella | Kenneth Branagh | United States |
| Every Thing Will Be Fine | Every Thing Will Be Fine | Wim Wenders | Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway |
| Mr. Holmes | Mr. Holmes | Bill Condon | United Kingdom, United States |

### Panorama

The following films were selected for the Panorama section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 54 (director's cut) | 54 (director's cut) | Mark Christopher | United States |
| 600 Miles | 600 Millas | Gabriel Ripstein | Mexico |
| Absence | Ausência | Chico Teixeira | Brazil, Chile, France |
| Angelica | Angelica | Mitchell Lichtenstein | United States |
| Bizarre | Bizarre | Étienne Faure | France, United States |
| Blue Blood | Sangue azul | Lírio Ferreira | Brazil |
| The Blue Hour | Onthakan | Anucha Boonyawatana | Thailand |
| Butterfly | Mariposa | Marco Berger | Argentina |
| Chorus | Chorus | François Delisle | Canada |
| Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents | Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern | Stina Werenfels | Switzerland, Germany |
| Dyke Hard | Dyke Hard | Bitte Andersson | Sweden |
| The Fire | El incendio | Juan Schnitman | Argentina |
| How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) | How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) | Josh Kim | Thailand, United States, Indonesia |
| I Am Michael | I Am Michael | Justin Kelly | United States |
| The Last Summer of the Rich | Der letzte Sommer der Reichen | Peter Kern | Austria |
| Love, Theft and Other Entanglements | الحب والسرقة ومشاكل أخرى | Muayad Alayan | Palestine |
| A Minor Leap Down | پریدن از ارتفاع کم | Hamed Rajabi | Iran, France |
| Murder in Pacot | Meurtre à Pacot | Raoul Peck | France, Haiti, Norway |
| Nasty Baby | Nasty Baby | Sebastián Silva | United States |
| Necktie Youth | Necktie Youth | Sibs Shongwe-La Mer | South Africa |
| Ned Rifle | Ned Rifle | Hal Hartley | United States |
| Ode to My Father | 국제시장 | Yoon Je-kyoon | South Korea |
| Out of My Hand | Out of My Hand | Takeshi Fukunaga | United States |
| Out of Nature | Mot naturen | Ole Giæver, Marte Vold | Norway |
| Paradise in Service | 軍中樂園 | Doze Niu | Taiwan |
| Petting Zoo | Petting Zoo | Micah Magee | Germany, Greece, United States |
| Pioneer Heroes | Pionery-geroi | Natalia Kudryashova | Russia |
| The Sea Is Behind | البحر من ورائكم | Hisham Lasri | Morocco |
| The Second Mother | Que Horas Ela Volta? | Anna Muylaert | Brazil |
| Stories of Our Lives | Stories of Our Lives | Jim Chuchu | Kenya |
| The Summer of Sangailė | Sangailė | Alantė Kavaitė | Lithuania, France, Netherlands |
| Thanatos, Drunk | 醉·生夢死 | Chang Tso-Chi | Taiwan |
| Tough Love | Härte | Rosa von Praunheim | Germany |
| Why Me? | De ce eu? | Tudor Giurgiu | Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary |

### Berlinale Special

The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Are You Here | Are You Here | Matthew Weiner | United States |
| Bloodline | Bloodline | Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman, and Glenn Kessler | United States |
| La Bohème | Breathe Umphefumlo | Mark Dornford-May | South Africa |
| Fifty Shades of Grey | Fifty Shades of Grey | Sam Taylor-Johnson | United States |
| Greenery Will Bloom Again | Torneranno i prati | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
| Life | Life | Anton Corbijn | United Kingdom, Canada |
| The Look of Silence | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, Norway, Finland, United Kingdom, Indonesia |
| Love and Mercy | Love and Mercy | Bill Pohlad | United States |
| The Misplaced World [de] | Die abhandene Welt | Margarethe von Trotta | Germany |
| Selma | Selma | Ava DuVernay | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Seventh Fire | The Seventh Fire | Jack Pettibone Riccobono | United States |
| Virgin Mountain | Fúsi | Dagur Kári | Iceland, Denmark |
| Woman in Gold | Woman in Gold | Simon Curtis | United Kingdom, United States |

### Berlinale Classics

The following films were selected to be screened in the Berlinale Classics section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Born in '45 (1966) | Jahrgang 45 | Jürgen Böttcher | East Germany |
| The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968) | Neun Leben hat die Katze | Ula Stöckl | West Germany |
| Goldfinger (1964) | Goldfinger | Guy Hamilton | United Kingdom |
| In Cold Blood (1967) | In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks | United States |
| Variety (1925) | Varieté | Ewald André Dupont | Germany |

### Berlinale Series

The Series section, devoted to long-form television series, was introduced in 2015. Better Call Saul had its premiere at the Berlinale.

## Official Awards

The following prizes were awarded:

### Main Competition

* Golden Bear: Taxi by Jafar Panahi
* Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: The Club by Pablo Larraín
* Alfred Bauer Prize: Ixcanul by Jayro Bustamante
* Silver Bear for Best Director:
** Radu Jude for Aferim!
** Małgorzata Szumowska for Body
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Tom Courtenay for 45 Years
* Silver Bear for Best Screenplay: Patricio Guzmán for The Pearl Button
* Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: (cinematography)
** Sturla Brandth Grøvlen for Victoria
** Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin for Under Electric Clouds

### Best First Feature Award

* 600 Miles by Gabriel Ripstein

### Panorama

* Audience Award:
** 1st Place: The Second Mother by Anna Muylaert
** 2nd Place: Stories of Our Lives by Jim Chuchu
** 3rd Place: Tough Love by Rosa von Praunheim

### Generation

* Rainbow by Nagesh Kukunoor

## Independent Awards
### Teddy Award

* Nasty Baby by Sebastián Silva

### FIPRESCI Prize

* Competition: Taxi by Jafar Panahi
* Panorama: A Minor Leap Down by Hamed Rajabi

## Festival appearance

The festival poster was designed by BOROS agency, who made the previous four posters of the festival. Festival director Dieter Kosslick described the poster as "the glamorous and suspense-packed second that precedes every cinema experience is when the curtain opens to reveal the screen. This year's poster motif aims to stir anticipation for that magical moment".