# 63rd Berlin International Film Festival

The 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival took place in Berlin, Germany, between 7 and 17 February 2013. Chinese film director Wong Kar-wai was announced as the president of the jury and his film The Grandmaster was the opening film of the festival.
The Golden Bear was awarded to Child's Pose directed by Călin Peter Netzer, which also served as the closing film.
The French documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear. Italian actress Isabella Rossellini and German film director Rosa von Praunheim were awarded with the Berlinale Camera.

## Juries

The following people were on the jury for the festival:

### Main Competition

* Wong Kar-wai, Chinese/Hong Kong filmmaker and producer - President of the jury
* Susanne Bier, Danish filmmaker
* Andreas Dresen, German filmmaker
* Ellen Kuras, American filmmaker and director of photography
* Shirin Neshat, Iranian visual artist and filmmaker
* Tim Robbins, American actor, filmmaker and producer
* Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greek filmmaker and producer

### First Feature Award

* Oren Moverman, Israeli filmmaker and producer
* Taika Waititi, New Zealand actor and filmmaker
* Lucy Walker, British filmmaker

### Short Films Competition

* Javier Fesser, Spanish filmmaker
* Hyung-sook Hong, South Korean filmmaker
* Susanne Pfeffer, German art historian and curator

## 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 |
| A Long and Happy Life | Долгая счастливая жизнь | Boris Khlebnikov | Russia |
| An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker | Epizoda u životu berača željeza | Danis Tanović | Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia |
| Camille Claudel 1915 | Camille Claudel 1915 | Bruno Dumont | France |
| Child's Pose | Poziția Copilului | Călin Peter Netzer | Romania |
| Closed Curtain | Parde | Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi | Iran |
| Gloria | Gloria | Sebastián Lelio | Chile, Spain |
| Gold | Gold | Thomas Arslan | Germany |
| Harmony Lessons | Асланның сабақтары | Emir Baigazin | Kazakhstan, Germany |
| In the Name Of | W imię... | Małgorzata Szumowska | Poland |
| Layla Fourie | Layla Fourie | Pia Marais | Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands |
| Nobody's Daughter Haewon | 누구의 딸도 아닌 해원 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| On My Way | Elle s'en va | Emmanuelle Bercot | France |
| Paradise: Hope | Paradies: Hoffnung | Ulrich Seidl | Austria, France, Germany |
| Prince Avalanche | Prince Avalanche | David Gordon Green | United States |
| Promised Land | Promised Land | Gus Van Sant | United States |
| Charlie Countryman | The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman | Fredrik Bond | United States, Romania |
| The Nun | La Religieuse | Guillaume Nicloux | France, Germany, Belgium |
| Side Effects | Side Effects | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| Vic and Flo Saw a Bear | Vic et Flo ont vu un ours | Denis Côté | Canada |

### Out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Before Midnight | Before Midnight | Richard Linklater | United States, Greece |
| The Croods | The Croods | Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco | United States |
| Dark Blood | Dark Blood | George Sluizer | Netherlands |
| The Grandmaster (opening film) | 一代宗師 | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong, China |
| Night Train to Lisbon | Night Train to Lisbon | Bille August | Germany, Switzerland, Portugal |

### Panorama

The following films were selected for the Panorama section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Act of Killing | Jagal | Joshua Oppenheimer | Denmark, United Kingdom, Norway |
| A Fold in My Blanket | Chemi Sabnis Naketsi | Zaza Rusadze | Georgia |
| The Attacks of 26/11 | The Attacks of 26/11 | Ram Gopal Varma | India |
| Behind the Camera | Dduit-dam-hwa: Gam-dok-i-mi-cheot-eo-yo | E J-yong | South Korea |
| Belated | Deshora | Barbara Sarasola-Day | Argentina, Columbia, Norway |
| The Broken Circle Breakdown | Alabama Monroe | Felix van Groeningen | Belgium |
| Don Jon's Addiction | Don Jon's Addiction | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | United States |
| Fatal | Kashi-ggot | Lee Don-ku | South Korea |
| Frances Ha | Frances Ha | Noah Baumbach | United States |
| Habi, the Foreigner | Habi, la extranjera | Maria Florencia Alvarez | Argentina, Brazil |
| I Have Cut | Kai Po Che! | Abhishek Kapoor | India |
| Inch'Allah | Inch'Allah | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette | Canada |
| Lovelace | Lovelace | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | United States |
| Rock the Casbah | רוק בקסבה | Yariv Horowitz | Israel |
| My Sisters | Meine Schwestern | Lars Kraume | Germany |
| So Much Water | Tanta Agua | Ana Guevara Pose, Leticia Jorge Romero | Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany |
| The Swimming Pool | La Piscina | Carlos Machado Quintela | Cuba, Venezuela |
| White Night | Baek Ya | Hee-il LeeSong | South Korea |

### Forum

The following films were selected for the Forum section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The 727 Days Without Karamo | Die 727 Tage ohne Karamo | Anja Salomonowitz | Austria |
| A Single Shot | A Single Shot | David M. Rosenthal | United States, United Kingdom, Canada |
| The Battle of Tabatô | A batalha de Tabatô | João Viana | Guinea-Bissau, Portugal |
| Boundary | Fahtum pandinsoong | Nontawat Numbenchapol | Thailand, Cambodia, France |
| Circles | Krugovi | Srdan Golubović | Republic of Serbia, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, France |
| Coming Forth by Day | Al-khoroug lel-nahar | Hala Lotfy | Egypt, United Arab Emirates |
| Crossroads of Youth | Cheongchun-eui sipjaro | Ahn Jong-hwa | Korea |
| Computer Chess | Computer Chess | Andrew Bujalski | United States |
| The Daughter | Η Κόρη | Thanos Anastopoulos | Greece, Italy |
| Echolot | Echolot | Athanasios Karanikolas | Germany |
| Elelwani | Elelwani | Ntshavheni Wa Luruli | South Africa |
| Engagement Ring | Konyaku yubiwa | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas | Η αιώνια επιστροφή του Αντώνη Παρασκευά | Elina Psykou [el] | Greece |
| Everyday Objects [de] | Halbschatten | Nicolas Wackerbarth [de] | Germany, France |
| Fynbos | Fynbos | Harry Patramanis | South Africa, Greece |
| Hélio Oiticica | Hélio Oiticica | Cesar Oiticica Filho | Brazil |
| I'm Not Dead | Je ne suis pas mort | Mehdi Ben Attia | France |
| In Bloom | გრძელი ნათელი დღეები | Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß | Georgia |
| I Used to Be Darker | I Used to Be Darker | Matt Porterfield | United States |
| Jubilation Street | Kanko no machi | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| La Paz | La Paz | Santiago Loza | Argentina |
| The Strange Little Cat [de] | Das merkwürdige Kätzchen | Ramon Zürcher [de] | Germany |
| The Town of Whales | Kujira no machi | Keiko Tsuruoka | Japan |
| What Happened to This City? | Kya hua is shahar ko? | Deepa Dhanraj | India |
| When I Saw You | Lamma shoftak | Annemarie Jacir | Palestinian Territories, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Greece |
| The Plague | La plaga | Neus Ballús | Spain |
| Cousin Jules | Le cousin Jules | Dominique Benicheti | France |
| The Meteor | Le météore | François Delisle | Canada |
| Killing Strangers | Matar extraños | Jacob Secher Schulsinger, Nicolás Pereda | Mexico, Denmark |
| Dark Matter | Materia oscura | Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti | Italy |
| Char... The No-Man's Island | ...Moddhikhane Char | Sourav Sarangi | India, Japan, Italy, Denmark, Norway |
| Forgetting to Know You | Mo sheng | Quan Ling | People's Republic of China |
| A Stranger | Obrana i zastita | Bobo Jelcic | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia |
| Woman | Onna | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| Portrait of Jason | Portrait of Jason | Shirley Clarke | United States |
| Powerless | Katiyabaaz | Fahad Mustafa, Deepti Kakkar | India |
| Cold Bloom | Sakura namiki no mankai no shita ni | Atsushi Funahashi | Japan |
| Roots | Senzo ni naru | Kaoru Ikeya | Japan |
| Shirley: Visions of Reality | Shirley: Visions of Reality | Gustav Deutsch | Austria |
| A Legend or Was It? | Shito no densetsu | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| Sieniawka | Sieniawka | Marcin Malaszczak | Germany, Poland |
| Stemple Pass | Stemple Pass | James Benning | United States |
| To the Wolf | Sto lyko | Christina Koutsospyrou, Aran Hughes | Greece, France |
| No Man's Land | Terra de ninguém | Salomé Lamas | Portugal |
| The Weight of Elephants | Das Gewicht der Elefanten | Daniel Joseph Borgman | New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden |
| Together | Tian mi mi | Hsu Chao-jen | Taiwan |
| Father's Garden: The Love of My Parents | Vaters Garten – Die Liebe meiner Eltern | Peter Liechti | Switzerland |
| Viola | Viola | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina |
| Farewell to Dream | Yuyake gumo | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan |
| For Marx... | Za Marksa... | Svetlana Baskova | Russian |

## Official awards

The following prizes were awarded:
* Golden Bear: Child's Pose by Călin Peter Netzer
* Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix: An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker by Danis Tanović
* Alfred Bauer Prize: Vic and Flo Saw a Bear by Denis Côté
* Silver Bear for Best Director: David Gordon Green for Prince Avalanche
* Silver Bear for Best Actress: Paulina García for Gloria
* Silver Bear for Best Actor: Nazif Mujić for An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
* Silver Bear for Best Script: Jafar Panahi for Closed Curtain
* Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Aziz Zhambakiyev for Harmony Lessons
* Special Mentions:
** Promised Land by Gus Van Sant
** Layla Fourie by Pia Marais

## Independent awards
### Ecumenical Jury Prize

* The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer (panorama)
* Circles by Srdan Golubović (forum)

### FIPRESCI Jury Prize

* Hélio Oiticica by Cesar Oiticica Filho

### Panorama Audience Award

* The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer

### Forum

* NETPAC Award Best Asian Film: When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir
* C.I.C.A.E. Jury Prize: In Bloom by Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß