The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 February 2015, with American film director Darren Aronofsky as the president of the jury. German film director Wim Wenders was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear. The first seven films of the festival were announced on 15 December 2014.
Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night was the festival's opening film. Iranian docu-drama Taxi, directed by Jafar Panahi, won the Golden Bear, and was the closing film of the festival.
For the first time in 2015, a Berlin Critics' Week ran parallel to the official festival. Similar to Cannes Critics' Week, the section was a sidebar run by the German Film Critics Association dedicated to independent filmmakers.
Juries
Main Competition
First Feature Award
Short Film Competition
The following people were on the jury for the Best Short Film:
Official Sections
Main Competition
The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:
Out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
Panorama
The following films were selected for the Panorama section:
Forum
The following films were selected for the Forum section:
- Abaabi ba boda boda (The Boda Boda Thieves) by Yes! That's Us
- Al-wadi (The Valley) by Ghassan Salhab
- Balikbayan #1 (Memories of Overdevelopment Redux) by Kidlat Tahimik
- Beira-Mar (Seashore) by Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon
- Ben Zaken by Efrat Corem
- Brasil S/A (Brazilian Dream) by Marcelo Pedroso
- Ce gigantesque retournement de la terre (This Gigantic Furrowing of the Ground) by Claire Angelini
- Chaiki (The Gulls) by Ella Manzheeva
- Cheol won gi haeng (End of Winter) by Kim Dae-hwan
- Counting by Jem Cohen
- Dari Marusan by Izumi Takahashi
- The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Marcin Malaszczak
- Le dos rouge (Portrait of the Artist) by Antoine Barraud
- Exotica, Erotica, Etc. by Evangelia Kranioti
- Flotel Europa by Vladimir Tomic
- The Forbidden Room by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
- Freie Zeiten (After Work) by Janina Herhoffer
- Futaba kara toku hanarete dainibu (Nuclear Nation II) by Atsushi Funahashi
- Der Geldkomplex (The Money Complex) by Juan Rodriganez
- Il gesto delle mani (Hand Gestures) by Francesco Clerici
- H. by Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia
- Hedi Schneider steckt fest (Hedi Schneider is Stuck) by Sonja Heiss
- Histoire de Judas (The Story of Judas) by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
- Hotline by Silvina Landsmann
- K by Emyr ap Richard, Darhad Erdenibulag
- Koza by Ivan Ostrochovský
- Madare ghalb atomi (Atom Heart Mother) by Ali Ahmadzadeh
- La maldad (Evilness) by Joshua Gil
- Mar by Dominga Sotomayor
- Mizu no koe o kiku (The Voice of Water) by Masashi Yamamoto
- La mujer de barro (The Mud Woman) by Sergio Castro San MartÃÂn
- Nefesim kesilene kadar (Until I Lose My Breath) by Emine Emel Balc?
- La nuit et l'enfant (The Night and the Kid) by David Yon
- Queen of Earth by Alex Ross Perry
- Rabo de Peixe (Fish Tail) by Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel
- La sirene de Faso Fani (The Siren of Faso Fani) by Michel K. Zongo
- Suenan los androides (Androids Dream) by Ion de Sosa
- Superwelt (Superworld) by Karl Markovics
- Thamaniat wa ushrun laylan wa bayt min al-sheir (Twenty-Eight Nights and A Poem) by Akram Zaatari
- Uber die Jahre (Over the Years) by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
- Viaggio nella dopo-storia (Journey into Post-History) by Vincent Dieutre
- Violencia (Violence) by Jorge Forero
- Zurich by Sacha Polak
Berlinale Special
The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:
Berlinale Classics
The following films were selected to be screened in the Berlinale Classics section:
Berlinale Series
The Series section, devoted to long-form television series, was introduced in 2015. Better Call Saul had its premiere at the Berlinale.
Official Awards
The following prizes were awarded:
Main Competition
Best First Feature Award
Panorama
Generation
Independent Awards
Festival appearance
The festival poster was designed by BOROS agency, who made the previous four posters of the festival. Festival director Dieter Kosslick described the poster as "the glamorous and suspense-packed second that precedes every cinema experience is when the curtain opens to reveal the screen. This year's poster motif aims to stir anticipation for that magical moment".
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