A chair that remained empty: in 2011 the jury member Jafar Panahi was not allowed to leave Iran. In 2015 he received the golden bear for his film “Taxi”, which he had smuggled out of the country.
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1951: The first International Film Festival Berlin takes place – in June and especially in the Waldbühne. At the instigation of the American and British occupying powers, it should be a West Berlin “Show window of the Free World”, which radiates according to East Berlin. The first festival director is Alfred Bauer. He remains until 1976 and is considered a “apolitical” film historian. It was not until 2020 that he had been involved in Nazis’ film policy. The audience chooses the Disney film “Cinderella” for the best film.
1956: The Berlinale is appointed A Festival what its main competitors Cannes and Venice are. Only then can a specialist jury vote on the best films.
1958: The festival wins “Wild strawberries” by Ingmar Bergmann. Sidney Poitier starts his career with a silver bear as the best leading actor in “Escape in chains”.
1959: Golden bear for “cry if you can” by Claude Chabrol. The first film of the Nouvelle Vague in Berlin.
1960: Silver bear for “outside of breath” by Jean-Luc Godard. The German press reacts without understanding and sees it a “impression on criminal offenses”.
1965: The Berlinale gets sections. In addition to the competition, there is an “information show” and a “representation show” for the film fair.
1967: The states of real socialism are invited for the first time. But they don’t come because the GDR was expressly excluded.
1970: Scandal for »OK«, a film against Michael Verhoeven’s Vietnam War. The jury does not want to show the film, there are protests and demolition of the festival.
1971: The critics are brought on board: For authors and documentaries, the “International International Forum of the Young Film” is introduced, led by Ulrich Gregor and Manfred Salzgeber.
1974: For the first time, a Soviet film can run in the official program: “S Toboj I Bes Tebja – with you and without you” from Rodion Nachapetow.
1975: Late premiere: Defa films take part in the Berlinale.
1977: The left -liberal film critic Wolf Donner becomes the festival president.
1978: The Berlinale takes place for the first time in winter. And there is now a program for children: “Cinema for people from six”.
1979: Again, a film against the Vietnam War provides protest-this time from the east. In Michael Cimino’s “The Deer Hunter” the struggle of the North Vietnamese is being disparaged – Eastern Europe withdraws its films.
1980: Moritz de Hadeln becomes head of the Berlinale and opens it towards Hollywood.
1982: First golden bear for Rainer Werner Fassbinder, for “the longing of the Veronika Voss”. Four months later he is dead.
1986: The Federal Ministry of the Interior under Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU) wants to prevent Reinhard Hauff’s RAF process film “Stammheim”. But does not work. In the forum »Shoa« by Claude Lanzmann runs. The “Infoschau” section is renamed “Panorama”.
1987: Perestroika: Previously banned films run from the Soviet Union. “Tema” by Gleb Panfilow from 1979 wins the Golden Bear.
1990: First Berlinale for “for all of Berlin”, with the East Berlin cinemas cosmos, Colosseum and International.
2002: Ex- »concrete« editor Dieter Kosslick becomes a leader, he doesn’t just think until Hollywood.
2003: Protest against the US Iraq war by the US directors Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze and Oliver Stone. Fidel Castro, about which Stone made a documentary, canceled his visit.
2004: Fatih Akins “against the wall” wins the golden bear, scandalized by “Bild”, because leading actress Sibel Kekilli had played in porn.
2011: Iranian film director Jafar Panahi is not allowed to go to the international jury because Iran, where he has a job ban, does not let him leave.
2013: New record: The Berlinale sells more than 300,000 tickets.
2015: Jafar Panahi gets the golden bear in absence for “taxi”, which he could smuggle from Iran.
2020: New line duo: Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian.
2021: Pandemic. There is another Berlinale in summer after there was an online edition in winter.
2023: A year after the beginning of the Russian war against Ukraine, Russian films are not closed, but “checked” how state they are. Result: Only one can run – “Zumich”, a co -production Russia/United Arab Emirates.
2024: The Iranian regime prohibits filmmakers Maryam Moghaddam and Behtassh Sanaeha to go to the Berlinale, where their film »My Favourite Cake« is competing. “No other Land” over a village in the West Bank, which is supposed to give way to an Israeli military training country, wins the panorama audience award. The political thank-you speech of the Palestinian-Israeli director of Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham is accused by Berlin local politicians of anti-Semitism. When the film comes to cinemas in autumn, there is no longer any question in the press.
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