After a disgruntled two weeks of coverage, critics were heard loudly lamenting the lacklustre quality of this year’s selections, especially in the Competition section. When such buzzy titles such as Chomet’s enormously impacting The Illusionist and Lisa Cholodenko’s easily entertaining The Kids Are Alright are unceremoniously shunted to off-centre locales in favour of Caterpillar, a widely reviled “paraplegic Kama Sutra” flick, such consternation is more than understandable. So it is with some surprise that we report “Honey” as the film that came up tops in a jury headed by director Werner Herzog. In a nod to the troubled Roman Polanski, currently on house arrest in Switzerland while facing child sex charges, The Ghost Writer took out Best Director honours while Caterpillar’s Shinobu Terajima and “How I Ended the Summer” leads Grigory Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis seized the Actress and Actor trophies.
Full list of winners (courtesy of In Contention) after the jump:
Golden Bear: “Honey”
Grand Prix: “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle”
Best Director: Roman Polanski, “The Ghost Writer”
Best Actor: Grigory Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis, “How I Ended This Summer”
Best Actress: Shinobu Terajima, “Caterpillar”
Outstanding Artistic Achievement: “How I Ended This Summer”
Best Screenplay: Wang Quanan, “Apart Together”
Alfred Bauer Prize: “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle”
Best First Feature: “Sebbe”
INDEPENDENT JURIES
Ecumenical Jury Prize (Competition): “Honey”
Ecumenical Jury Prize (Panorama): “Kawasaki’s Rose”
Ecumenical Jury Prize (Forum): “Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza”
FIPRESCI Prize (Competition): “A Family”
FIPRESCI Prize (Panorama): “Parade”
FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): “Crab Trap”
Teddy Prize (Features): “The Kids Are All Right”
Teddy Prize (Documentary): “The Mouth of the Wolf”
Teddy Jury Award: “Open”
Prize of the Guild of German Art Cinemas: “Shahada”
CICAE Award (Panorama): “Kawasaki’s Rose”
CICAE Award (Forum): “Winter’s Bone”
NETPAC Prize: “Au Revoir, Taipei”
Label Europa Cinemas Award: “When We Leave”
Caligari Prize: “The Mouth of the Wolf”
Peace Film Award: “Son of Babylon”
Amnesty International Prize: “Son of Babylon” and “Waste Land”
Femina Film Prize: Reinhild Blaschke (production designer), “In the Shadows”
Audience Award: “Waste Land”
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