# Short Film Golden Bear

The Golden Bear for the Best Short Film (German: Goldener Bär für den Besten Kurzfilm) is the top prize for the short film competition of the Berlin International Film Festival.

## Winners
### 1950s

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 1956 | Paris at Night | Paris la nuit | Jacques Baratier & Jean Valère | France |
| 1957 | Distant People | Gente lontana | Lionetto Fabbri | Italy |
| 1958 | La lunga raccolta | La lunga raccolta | Lionetto Fabbri | Italy |
| 1959 | Praise the Sea | Prijs de zee | Herman van der Horst | Netherlands |

### 1960s

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 1960 | Dream of the Wild Horses | Le songe des chevaux sauvages | Denys Colomb de Daunant | France |
| 1961 | Gesicht von der Stange? | Gesicht von der Stange? | Raimund Ruehl | West Germany |
| 1962 | The Reality of Karel Appel | De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel | Jan Vrijman | Netherlands |
| 1963 | Bowspelement | Bowspelement | Charles Huguenot van der Linden | Netherlands |
| 1964 | Kirdi | Kirdi | Max Lersch | Austria |
| 1965 | Yeats Country | Yeats Country | Patrick Carey | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| 1966 | Knud | Knud | Jørgen Roos | Denmark |
| 1967 | Through the Eyes of a Painter | Through the Eyes of a Painter | M. F. Husain | India |
| 1968 | Portrait: Orson Welles | Portrait: Orson Welles | François Reichenbach & Frédéric Rossif | France |
| 1969 | To See or Not to See | Psychocratie | Bretislav Pojar | Canada |

### 1970s

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 1971 | 1501 ½ | 1501 ½ | Paul B. Price | United States |
| 1972 | Flyaway | Flyaway | Robin Lehman | United Kingdom |
| 1973 | Colter's Hell | Colter's Hell | Robin Lehman | United Kingdom |
| 1974 | The Concert | The Concert | Claude Chagrin | United Kingdom |
| 1975 | See | See | Robin Lehman | United Kingdom |
| 1976 | Horu - munakata shiko no sekai | Horu - munakata shiko no sekai | Takeo Yanagawa | Japan |
| 1977 | Ortsfremd... wohnhaft vormals Mainzerlandstraße | Ortsfremd... wohnhaft vormals Mainzerlandstraße | Hedda Rinneberg & Hans Sachs | West Germany |
| 1978 | Co jsme udelali slepicím | Co jsme udelali slepicím | Vladimír Jiránek & Josef Hekrdle | Czechoslovakia |
| 1979 | Ubu | Ubu | Geoff Dunbar | United Kingdom |

### 1980s

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 1980 | The Heads | Hlavy | Petr Sís | Czechoslovakia |
| 1981 | History of the World in Three Minutes Flat | History of the World in Three Minutes Flat | Michael Mills | Canada |
| 1982 | The Puppet, A Friend of Man | Loutka, přítel člověka | Ivan Renč | Czechoslovakia |
| 1983 | Dimensions of Dialogue | Možnosti dialogu | Jan Švankmajer | Czechoslovakia |
| 1984 | The Bicycle Symphony | Cykelsymfonien | Åke Sandgren | Denmark, Sweden |
| 1985 | From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services Part 1 | Nr. 1 - Aus Berichten der Wach- und Patrouillendienste | Helke Sander | West Germany |
| 1986 | Tom Goes to the Bar | Tom Goes to the Bar | Dean Parisot | United States |
| 1987 | Curriculum vitae | Curriculum vitae | Pavel Koutský | Czechoslovakia |
| 1988 | Oblast | Oblast | Zdravko Barišić | Yugoslavia |
| 1989 | Pas à deux | Pas à deux | Monique Renault and Gerrit van Dijk | Netherlands |

### 1990s

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 1990 | Mister Tao | Mister Tao | Bruno Bozzetto | Italy |
| 1991 | Six Point Nine | Six Point Nine | Dan Bootzin | United States |
| 1993 | Bolero | Bolero | Ivan Maximov | Russia |
| 1994 | Ashes | Hamu | Ferenc Cakó | Hungary |
| 1995 | Repeat | Repete | Michaela Pavlátová | Czech Republic |
| 1996 | The Arrival of the Train | Pribitie poezda | Andrei Zhelezniakov | Russia |
| 1997 | The Latest News | Senaste Nytt | Per Carleson | Sweden |
| 1998 | I Move, So I Am | Ik beweeg, dus ik besta | Gerrit van Dijk | Netherlands |
| 1999 | Faraon | Faraon | Sergei Ovcharov | Russia |
| 1999 | Masks | Maski | Piotr Karwas | Germany |

### 2000s

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 2000 | Tribute to Alfred Lepetit | Hommage à Alfred Lepetit | Jean Rousselot | France |
| 2001 | Black Soul | Âme noire | Martine Chartrand | Canada |
| 2002 | At Dawning | At Dawning | Martin Jones | United Kingdom |
| 2003 | (A)Torsion | (A)Torzija | Stefan Arsenijević | Slovenia |
| 2004 | Cigarettes and Coffee | Un cartus de kent si un pachet de cafea | Cristi Puiu | Romania |
| 2005 | Milk | Milk | Peter Mackie Burns | United Kingdom |
| 2006 | Never Like the First Time! | Aldrig som första gången! | Jonas Odell | Sweden |
| 2007 | Contact | Raak | Hanro Smitsman | Netherlands |
| 2008 | A Good Day for a Swim | O zi buna de plaja | Bogdan Mustață | Romania |
| 2009 | Please Say Something | Please Say Something | David O'Reilly | Ireland |

### 2010s

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 2010 | Incident by a Bank | Händelse vid bank | Ruben Östlund | Sweden |
| 2011 | Night Fishing | 파란만장 | Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-kyong | South Korea |
| 2012 | Rafa | Rafa | João Salaviza | Portugal |
| 2013 | The Runaway | La fugue | Jean-Bernard Marlin | France |
| 2014 | As Long As Shotguns Remain | Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe | Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel | France |
| 2015 | Hosanna | Hosanna | Young-kil Na | South Korea |
| 2016 | Batrachian's Ballad | Balada de um Batráquio | Leonor Teles | Portugal |
| 2017 | Small Town | Cidade Pequena | Diogo Costa Amarante | Portugal |
| 2018 | The Men Behind the Wall | The Men Behind the Wall | Inés Moldavsky | Israel |
| 2019 | Umbra | Umbra | Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell | Germany |

### 2020s

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 2020 | T | T | Keisha Rae Witherspoon | United States |
| 2021 | My Uncle Tudor | Nanu Tudor | Olga Lucovnicova | Moldova |
| 2022 | Trap | Trap | Anastasia Veber | Russia, Lithuania |
| 2023 | Les Chenilles | Les Chenilles | Michelle Keserwany and Noel Keserwany | France |
| 2024 | An Odd Turn | Un movimiento extraño | Francisco Lezama | Argentina |
| 2025 | Lloyd Wong, Unfinished | Lloyd Wong, Unfinished | Lesley Loksi Chan | Canada |