# 42nd Berlin International Film Festival

The 42nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 February 1992. The festival opened with The Inner Circle by Andrei Konchalovsky.
The Golden Bear was awarded to American film Grand Canyon directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
The retrospective dedicated to Babelsberg Studios films was shown at the festival.

## Jury

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
* Annie Girardot, French actress - Jury President
* Charles Champlin, American writer and film critic
* Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress and filmmaker
* Ildikó Enyedi, Hungarian filmmaker
* Irving N. Ivers, Canadian 20th Century Fox executive
* Wolfgang Klaue, German archivist, former president of FIAF
* Fernando Lara, Spanish film critic and writer
* Eldar Shengelaya, Georgian filmmaker
* Dahlia Shapira, Israeli film distributor
* Michael Verhoeven, German actor, filmmaker and producer
* Susannah York, British actress

## Official Selection
### Main Competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| The Beloved | Rcheuli | Mikheil Kalatozishvili | Russia |
| An Independent Life | Самостоятельная жизнь | Vitali Kanevsky | Russia |
| Bugsy | Bugsy | Barry Levinson | United States |
| Cape Fear | Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Céline | Céline | Jean-Claude Brisseau | France |
| Center Stage | 阮玲玉 | Stanley Kwan | Hong Kong |
| Dead Again | Dead Again | Kenneth Branagh | United States |
| The Frontier | La frontera | Ricardo Larraín | Spain, Chile |
| Gas Food Lodging | Gas Food Lodging | Allison Anders | United States |
| Grand Canyon | Grand Canyon | Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
| Gudrun | Gudrun | Hans W. Geißendörfer | Germany |
| Il Capitano: A Swedish Requiem | Il capitano | Jan Troell | Sweden, Finland, Germany |
| Infinitas | Infinitas | Marlen Khutsiev | Russia |
| The Inner Circle | The Inner Circle | Andrei Konchalovsky | Italy, United States, Russia |
| The Last Days of Chez Nous | The Last Days of Chez Nous | Gillian Armstrong | Australia |
| Light Sleeper | Light Sleeper | Paul Schrader | United States |
| The Long Winter | El largo invierno | Jaime Camino | Spain, France |
| Luminous Moss | ひかりごけ | Kei Kumai | Japan |
| Naked Lunch | Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | Canada, United Kingdom, Japan |
| Nothing But Lies | Rien que des mensonges | Paule Muret | France, Switzerland |
| Prince of Shadows | Beltenebros | Pilar Miró | Spain, Netherlands |
| Rising to the Bait | Der Brocken | Vadim Glowna | Germany |
| Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe | Édes Emma, drága Böbe – vázlatok, aktok | István Szabó | Hungary |
| A Tale of Winter | Conte d'hiver | Eric Rohmer | France |
| Tous les matins du monde | Tous les matins du monde | Alain Corneau | France |
| Utz | Utz | George Sluizer | Germany, Italy, United Kingdom |

## Official Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
* Golden Bear: Grand Canyon by Lawrence Kasdan
* Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe by István Szabó
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Jan Troell for Il capitano
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Maggie Cheung for Center Stage
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Armin Mueller-Stahl for Utz
* Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement: Ricardo Larraín for La frontera
* Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Beltenebros
* Honourable Mention: Gudrun by Hans W. Geißendörfer
* Alfred-Bauer Prize: Infinitas by Marlen Khutsiev

### Berlinale Camera

* Hal Roach

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Award

* A Tale of Winter by Eric Rohmer