The 21st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June to 6 July 1971. The Young Filmmakers Forum (in 1987 renamed International Forum for New Cinema) section was introduced at the festival.
The Golden Bear was awarded to The Garden of the Finzi-Continis directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
Official Sections
Main Competition
The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear award:
Young Filmmakers Forum
- The Murder of Fred Hampton, directed by Howard Alk (United States)
- Bananera libertad, directed by Peter von Gunten (Switzerland)
- La bandera que levantamos, directed by Mario Jacob and Eduardo Terra (Uruguay)
- La Bataille des dix millions, directed by Chris Marker and Valérie Mayoux (France, Cuba)
- The Ceremony, directed by Nagisa Ã
Âshima (Japan)
- Chicago 70, directed by Kerry Feltham (United States, Canada)
- Geschichten vom Kübelkind, directed by Edgar Reitz and Ula Stöckl (West Germany)
- The Big Mess, directed by Alexander Kluge (West Germany)
- ', directed by (West Germany)
- James ou pas, directed by Michel Soutter (Switzerland)
- Leave Me Alone, directed by Gerhard Theuring (West Germany)
- La memoria di Kunz, directed by Ivo Barnabò Micheli (Italy)
- Monangambé, directed by Sarah Maldoror (Angola)
- It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives, directed by Rosa von Praunheim (West Germany)
- No pincha!, directed by Tobias Engel (Burkina Faso, France)
- Olimpia agli amici, directed by Adriano AprÃÂ (Italy)
- Ossessione, directed by Luchino Visconti (Italy)
- Ostia, directed by Sergio Citti (Italy)
- Ramparts of Clay, directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli (France, Algeria)
- The Reconstruction, directed by Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
- The Salamander, directed by Alain Tanner (Switzerland, France)
- Happiness, directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin (Soviet Union)
- A Sixth Part of the World, directed by Dziga Vertov (Soviet Union)
- Tropici, directed by Gianni Amico (Italy)
- Umano, non umano, directed by Mario Schifano (Italy)
- Voto + fusil, directed by Helvio Soto (Chile)
- Wechma, directed by Hamid Benani (Morocco)
- The Woman's Film, directed by Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith and Ellen Sorren (United States)
- ', directed by DuÃ
¡an Makavejev (Yugoslavia, West Germany)
Official Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
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