The 70th annual Berlin International Film Festival took place from 20 February to 1 March 2020.
It was the first under the leadership of new Berlin Film Festival board: business administration director Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian.
Opening film | My Salinger Year |
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Closing film | There Is No Evil |
Location | Berlin, Germany |
Founded | 1951 |
Awards | Golden Bear: There Is No Evil |
Festival date | 20 February – 1 March 2020 |
Website | http://www.berlinale.de |
The festival opening gala was presented by actor Samuel Finzi, followed by the world premiere My Salinger Year, directed by Philippe Falardeau. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Iranian film There Is No Evil, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof.
The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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All the Dead Ones | Todos os mortos | Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra | Brazil, France |
Bad Tales | Favolacce | Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo | Italy, Switzerland |
Berlin Alexanderplatz | Burhan Qurbani | Germany, Netherlands, France | |
DAU. Natasha | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Jekaterina Oertel | Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia | |
Days | 日子 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
Delete History | Effacer l'historique | Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern | France, Belgium |
First Cow | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
Hidden Away | Volevo nascondermi | Giorgio Diritti | Italy |
The Intruder | El Prófugo | Natalia Meta | Argentina, Mexico |
Irradiated | Irradiés | Rithy Panh | France, Cambodia |
My Little Sister | Schwesterlein | Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond | Switzerland |
Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Eliza Hittman | United States | |
The Roads Not Taken | Sally Potter | United Kingdom | |
The Salt of Tears | Le sel des larmes | Philippe Garrel | France, Switzerland |
Siberia | Abel Ferrara | Italy, Germany, Mexico | |
There Is No Evil | شیطان وجود ندارد | Mohammad Rasoulof | Germany, Czech Republic, Iran |
Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany, France | |
The Woman Who Ran | 도망친 여자 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
The following films were selected for the new Encounters section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Funny Face | Tim Sutton | United States | |
Gunda | Victor Kossakovsky | Norway, United States | |
Isabella | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina | |
Kill It and Leave This Town | Zabij to i wyjedz z tego miasta | Mariusz Wilczyński | Poland |
Los Conductos | Camilo Restrepo | Brazil, Colombia, France | |
The Last City | Die letzte Stadt | Heinz Emigholz | Germany |
Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Bosnia, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland | |
The Metamorphosis of Birds | A metamorfose dos pássaros | Catarina Vasconcelos | Portugal |
Naked Animals | Nackte Tiere | Melanie Waelde | Germany |
Orphea | Khavn and Alexander Kluge | Germany | |
Servants | Služobníci | Ivan Ostrochovský | Czech Republic, Ireland, Romania, Slovakia |
The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs | Laila aur satt geet | Pushpendra Singh | India |
Shirley | Josephine Decker | United States | |
The Trouble with Being Born | Sandra Wollner | Austria, Germany | |
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | Anders Edström and C.W. Winter | Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States |
The following films were selected for the Panorama section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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All Hands on Deck | À L'abordage | Guillaume Brac | France |
Always Amber | Alltid Amber | Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikainen | Sweden |
The Assistant | Kitty Green | United States | |
Black Milk | Schwarze Milch | Uisenma Borchu | Germany, Mongolia |
A Common Crime | Un crimen común | Francisco Márquez | Argentina, Brazil, Switzerland |
Digger | Georgis Grigorakis | Greece, France | |
Dry Wind | Vento Seco | Daniel Nolasco | Brazil |
Eeb Allay Ooo! | Prateek Vats | India | |
Exile | Exil | Visar Morina | Belgium, Germany, Kosovo |
Father | Otac | Srdan Golubović | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia |
Hope | Håp | Maria Sødahl | Norway, Sweden |
If It Were Love | Si c'était de l'amour | Patric Chiha | France |
Mare | Andrea Štaka | Croatia, Switzerland | |
Minyan | Eric Steel | United States | |
Mughal Mowgli | Bassam Tariq | United Kingdom | |
No Hard Feelings | Futur Drei | Faraz Shariat | Germany |
Notes from the Underworld | Aufzeichnungen aus der Unterwelt | Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel | Austria |
One in a Thousand | Las Mil y Una | Clarisa Navas | Argentina, Germany |
One of These Days | Bastian Günther | Germany, United States | |
Pari | Siamak Etemadi | Bulgaria, France, Greece, Netherlands | |
Shine Your Eyes | Cidade Pássaro | Matias Mariani | Brazil |
Sow the Wind | Semina il vento | Danilo Caputo | France, Greece, Italy |
Suk Suk | Ray Yeung | Hong Kong | |
Surge | Aneil Karia | United Kingdom | |
Wildland | Kød & Blod | Jeanette Nordahl | Denmark |
Panorama Dokumente | |||
Amazon Mirror | O reflexo do lago | Fernando Segtowick | Brazil |
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets | Bill and Turner Ross | United States | |
Days of Cannibalism | Teboho Edkins | France, Netherlands, South Africa | |
The Foundation Pit | Kotlovan | Andrey Gryazev | Russia |
I Dream of Singapore | Lei Yuan Bin | Singapore, Malaysia, United Kingdom | |
If It Were Love | Si c'était de l'amour | Patric Chiha | France |
Little Girl | Petite fille | Sébastien Lifshitz | France, Belgium |
Nardjes A. | Karim Aïnouz | Algeria, Brazil, France, Germany, Qatar | |
Running on Empty | Jetzt oder morgen | Lisa Weber | Austria |
Schlingensief – A Voice That Shook the Silence | Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien | Bettina Böhler | Germany |
Welcome to Chechnya | David France | United States |
The following films were selected for the Berlinale Special section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The American Sector | Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez | United States | |
Charlatan | Agnieszka Holland | Czech Republic, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia | |
Curveball | Johannes Naber | Germany | |
DAU. Degeneration | DAU. Degeneratsia | Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Ilya Permyakov | Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Russia |
Golda Maria | Patrick Sobelman and Hugo Sobelman | France | |
High Ground | Stephen Maxwell Johnson | Australia | |
Hillary | Nanette Burstein | United States | |
Last and First Men | Jóhann Jóhannsson | Iceland | |
Minamata | Andrew Levitas | United Kingdom | |
My Salinger Year | Philippe Falardeau | Canada, Ireland | |
Night Shift | Police | Anne Fontaine | France |
Numbers | Nomera | Oleg Sentsov in collaboration with Akhtem Seitablaiev | Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, France |
The Nutty Professor | Jerry Lewis | United States | |
Onward | Dan Scanlon | ||
Paris Calligrammes | Ulrike Ottinger | Germany, France | |
Persian Lessons | Vadim Perelman | Russia, Germany, Belarus | |
Pinocchio | Matteo Garrone | Italy, France, United Kingdom | |
Speer Goes to Hollywood | Vanessa Lapa | Israel | |
Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue | 一直游到海水变蓝 | Jia Zhangke | China |
Time to Hunt | 사냥의 시간 | Yoon Sung-hyun | South Korea |
The following films were selected for the Berlinale shorts section:
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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2008 | Blake Williams | Canada | |
À l'entrée de la nuit | Anton Bialas | France | |
Aletsch Negative | Laurence Bonvin | Switzerland | |
Atkūrimas | Laurynas Bareisa | Lithuania | |
Cause of Death | Jyoti Mistry | South Africa/Austria | |
A Demonstration | Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner | Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom | |
Filipiñana | Rafael Manuel | Philippines, United Kingdom | |
Foam | Écume | Omar Elhamy | Canada |
Genius Loci | Adrien Mérigeau | France | |
Girl and Body | Charlotte Mars | Australia | |
Gumnaam Din | Ekta Mittal | India | |
HaMa'azin | Omer Sterenberg | Israel | |
How to Disappear | Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf | Austria | |
Huntsville Station | Jamie Meltzer, Chris Filippone | United States | |
Inflorescence | Nicolaas Schmidt | Germany | |
It Wasn't the Right Mountain, Mohammad | Mili Pecherer | France | |
My Galactic Twin Galaction | Sasha Svirsky | Russia | |
Playback | Ensayo de una despedida | Agustina Comedi | Argentina |
She Who Wears the Rain | Celle qui porte la pluie | Marianne Métivier | Canada |
So We Live | Rand Abou Fakher | Belgium | |
Stump the Guesser | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada | |
T | Keisha Rae Witherspoon | United States | |
Union County | Adam Meeks | ||
Veitstanz/Feixtanz (1988) | Gabriele Stötzer | East Germany |
The Berlinale retrospective included more than 30 films by Hollywood filmmaker King Vidor. The homage was dedicated to Helen Mirren, with Mirren awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear. The Berlinale Camera was awarded to Ulrike Ottinger followed by the world premiere of Ottinger's documentary Paris Calligrammes.
The Series section, introduced in 2015, is devoted to longform television series. In 2020, there were two Australian entries: Stateless and Mystery Road Series 2.
The following prizes were awarded:
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