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Are the bad times, the movie is good. The films of the 59th Berlinale were young, enthusiastic, imaginative, uneasy world cinema - the Golden Bear went to law to Peru. Now just have the audience follow.

 

It was during these ten days full of pictures of one that was particularly impressive. It was almost every morning to see if one half to nine with hochgeschlagenem collar and coffee cup in hand to the Berlinale Palast hurried to the first press screening of the day to see. While in itself for plenty bravely held, perhaps for an inedible piece of cinema so early to be focused on many cinema fans and movie fans have been a happy hour or longer in case the icy winds at Potsdamer Platz, a ticket for one of the demonstrations for wet. The Berlinale, which showed again this year, is a public festival. 270,000 tickets, which is 30,000 more than 2008, were invited to 59th Edition of the festival sold, it was on Saturday, this is a new record.

Cause for concern, there is little for Dieter Kosslick Berlinale and his ship, and from year to year grows more sections, more programs, more journalists, more viewers - the big, evil iceberg called economic and financial crisis was not yet in Visibility in this February.

Even at the European Film Market, the selling market of the festival, there were more than expected degrees, reported the industry magazine "Focus on Film". However, so-called High Quality Projects, films with big stars and lavish facilities can grow, currently better than niche projects.

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At this year's Berlinale Competition terms this means that international co-productions such as Tom Tykwer's "The International", the many Oscar-nominated "readers" or the period drama "Chéri" by Stephen Frears will make their way into the cinemas can be found. Committed films by unknown directors such as the Iranian contribution "Elly Darbareye" Maren Ades concentrated painful relationship drama "All other" or the winning film "La teta asustada" however, have always had difficulty, a lender to find and are therefore in this year's easier.

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The decision of the jury, it is these films primarily reward is even more important. Indeed, during the cinephile audience, which at the Berlinale for one or the other contribution no ticket has gotten more, sometimes up to two years to wait until the movie with a handful of copies to the cinema, you can with silver and gold Bears honored directors, actors and screenwriters gained attention thanks to the work, collect and finance new projects pushing. The principle of this policy is still Festivals A-League, it was always, the two essential aspects of the cinema together: the glamor, the big stars and narrative films exude opulent - and the experimental, ambitious filmmaking, the new image and tried unvarnished language of social life reported. Berlin is once again this year managed to work out this calculation for you.

Of course you can always argue: Is the Golden Bear for a bit esoteric, more difficult to access Peruvian contribution really justified? Had the jury, chaired by the actress Tilda Swinton is not actually in its depiction of everyday life of Iranian reality radically open "Darbareye Elly" must reward, rather than merely director Asghar Farhadi with a silver bear to honor? Or would not the wonderfully simple parable told of a possible world cultural understanding, Rachid Boujarebs "London River" earned more than just the actor award for the 72-year-old Sotigui Kouyaté? And why has actually "All other" only the Grand Jury Prize will receive, and why was "Storm", the second German film competition, totally empty?

Berlinale-winner

Category
Prize Winners

Golden Bear
"La Teta Asustada"

Grand Jury Prize
"All others" / "Gigante"

Best Director
"Everything about Elly

Best Actress
Birgit Minichmayr

Best Actor
Sotigui Kouyaté

Outstanding artistic achievement
Gábor Erdélyi / Tamás Székely

Best Screenplay
"The Messenger"

Best First Film
"Gigante"

Alfred Bauer Prize
"Gigante"

Of course, there are no satisfactory answers to these questions, but it does not matter. Indeed, one of so many successful movies passable and there were outstanding contribution this year in competition, so the jury is the only right thing done: Parity and after - often unanimously - Gusto prizes. Even two more than planned, because both the Alfred Bauer prize for outstanding artistic achievements, as well as the Grand Prize of the Jury, there were two winners. Of these, especially the Argentine debut film "Giant" benefit, with a total of three awards of actual winner of the festival is: The young director Adrián Biniez also still got the prize for best first film.

His film tells the story of a security official who is in love with a collaborator, but no one dares to address. With a growing obsession with the beloved one he watched on surveillance cameras in the supermarket, where both are working - and directed his whole life according to the daily lives of strangers from. There are those miniatures on the life of ordinary people who are inconspicuous, but large and deep impression truths include. Whether "Gigante", "La teta asustada", "London River" or "all others": In order to films like these amid the roar of event movies and blockbuster sequels to give attention and viewers that, there are festivals like the Berlinale.

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And while there is an audience there that morning at eight in the wind and weather into a long snake is, not "Harry Potter" or "KeinOhrHasen" to see, but small, alien, committed films in Spanish, Farsi and Polish view, can not speak of crisis. "We have in the past few days celebrating the cinema and we have celebrated the stars", has Berlinale Kosslick boss, always a friend of the simple words, at the Closing Gala said. That can leave so times.