My personal Berlinale Ranking - 2006
A ranking from films I saw at the Berlinale 2006.
Average Vote for the Festival: 5,96
Average Vote for the Festival: 5,96
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- DirectorJasmila ZbanicStarsMirjana KaranovicLuna Zimic MijovicLeon LucevA woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.Competition - 9/10
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsSima Mobarak-ShahiShayesteh IraniAyda SadeqiThe struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.Competition - 9/10
- DirectorDorota KedzierzawskaStarsPiotr JagielskiAgnieszka NagórzyckaEdyta JungowskaA self-reliable 11-year-old boy runs away from children's home to be with his dysfunctional mother. She doesn't want him back so he starts living on an old barge.Children Section - 9/10
- DirectorYuan ZhangStarsBowen DongYuanyuan NingManyuan ChenA young boy starting school for the first time struggles to fit in to a strictly regimented society in in post-revolutionary China.Section Panorama - 9/10
- DirectorFeliks FalkStarsAndrzej ChyraMalgorzata KozuchowskaKinga PreisLucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.Section Panorama - 8/10
- DirectorNeil ArmfieldStarsHeath LedgerAbbie CornishGeoffrey RushA poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.Competition - 8/10
- DirectorBen HopkinsMuhammet Ekber KutluStarsSereban AslanSuleyman AtanisevIsmail AtilganTo preserve their culture, the Pamir Kirghiz people have migrated across Central Asia from the U.S.S.R to China to Afghanistan to Pakistan and finally to remote eastern Turkey, but now they face the most serious threat to their traditions, globalization.Forum - 8/10
- DirectorToa FraserStarsRuby DeeMia BlakeRene NaufahuA matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor.Section Panorama - 8/10
- DirectorMani HaghighiStarsAtila PesianiMahmoud KalariAhmad HamedA political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but...Forum - 7/10
- DirectorPrzemyslaw WojcieszekStarsMichal CzerneckiMagdalena PoplawskaJerzy StuhrForum - 7/10
- DirectorAtsushi FunahashiStarsKavi RazJoe OdagiriChloe SnyderForum - 7/10
- DirectorChristian VincentStarsJosé GarciaRenée Le CalmIsabelle CarréFranssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she grasps the opportunity and goes to the French Riviera in order to take it easy in luxury. In the four-star hotel where she rents a room she comes across Stéphane, a strange guy who is in the process of arranging Elton John's next coming to the place. Intrigued by the noisy ostentatious fellow, she follows him until she finally comes into contact with him. She knows Stéphane is at bay and decides to take advantage of it.Section Panorama - 7/10
- DirectorVardit BiluDalia HagerStarsSmadar SayarNaama SchendarDanny GevaRebellious and outgoing Smadar can't stand types like Mirit. Mirit, introverted and frightened, keeps away from the likes of Smadar. But the two are thrown together as they are assigned to a patrol in Jerusalem as part of their compulsory military service. Their job is to stop Palestinian passersby, to ask for their identity cards, and to write down their details on special forms. You don't move from this place, don't sit down, don't smoke, don't eat, don't talk on your cell phones, says their commander, leaving them alone on the street with their patrol forms. What will they do now? This is the story of two 18-year-old girls who are busy with their own worlds--falling in love, break-ups, and the volatile relationship between the two--in an attempt to ignore the political reality in a city that slowly makes its way into their lives. As women, this film is our own way of soul searching, about our army service and the occupationForum - 6/10
- DirectorDjamila SahraouiStarsRachida BrakniFettouma Ousliha-BouamariZahir BouzerarSet amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.Forum - 6/10
- DirectorRafi PittsStarsMitra HajjarAli NicksaulatSaid OrkaniThe struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.Competition - 6/10
- DirectorVanessa JoppStarsMeret BeckerHinnerk SchönemannHeidrun BartholomäusDrama "in the improvisational style of Andreas Dresen or Mike Leigh" about three drifted apart sisters (Meret Becker, Stephanie Stappenbeck and Heidrun Bartholomäus) finding back together after the death of their mother.Section Panorama - 6/10
- DirectorAnnette K. OlesenStarsMohammed Al-BakierJoy K. PetersenAnette StøvelbækIn a Copenhagen suburb the 19-year-old Per is found unconscious after having been badly beaten up. He is taken to hospital in a coma. The police have no clues, but the air is thick with suspicion. His mother struggles to maintain her faith in his survival. His younger sister, Mie, begins to pick up rumors. Her boyfriend, Shadi, suspects that his elder brother is behind the assault but he cannot tell anyone. Many well-meaning people find themselves at sea in a fable about emotions leading us astray.Section Panorama - 6/10
- DirectorTudor GiurgiuStarsMaria PopistasuIoana BarbuTudor ChirilaIn order to spend more time with her girlfriend, Kiki, the young student Alex decides to give up her room at the student's hostel and move into the house where Kiki lives. A few months later, Alex and Kiki are a couple. Alex suggests to Kiki that they spend the summer at her parents' house in the country. Theirs is a peaceful, idyllic summer. Until Kiki's jealous brother Sandu appears on the scene, wanting to take Kiki back to town.Section Panorama - 4/10
- DirectorMary HarronStarsGretchen MolLili TaylorChris BauerThe life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation because of her risqué bondage photos.Section Panorama - 4/10
- DirectorTizza CoviRainer FrimmelStarsBabooska GerardiMichele PellegriniAzzurra GerardiA year in the life of members of a troupe of circus performers. The circus is named Il Floriciccio.Forum - 4/10
- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsFernanda MontenegroFernanda TorresRuy GuerraA woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.Section Panorama - 3/10
- DirectorJohn HillcoatStarsRay WinstoneGuy PearceEmily WatsonA lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.Section Panorama - 3/10
- DirectorDominik GrafStarsMax RiemeltJessica SchwarzRonald ZehrfeldA coming-of-age story set in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.Section Panorama - 3/10
- DirectorKatharina Otto-BernsteinStarsRobert WilsonArnold AronsonRobin BrentanoFrom director, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, a provocative and moving documentary on the life and work of Robert Wilson, one of the most visionary and controversial theater artists of our time. The film delivers a surprisingly candid look at Robert Wilson, who drops his characteristic reticence and speaks with unprecedented candor about his personal life. Nothing is left in the shadows, as he discusses his troubled and lonely childhood as the son of the Mayor of Waco, Texas, his early learning disabilities, his work with disabled children using therapy as a tool for artistic expression, his departure from Texas at the time of his coming out and his fascination with the downtown New York avant-garde scene of the late 60's. What emerges is a life full of impressions, colors and rhythms, making it all the more poignant how Wilson's early hardships ultimately shaped his ground-breaking aesthetic vision. More than a biography, the film becomes an exhilarating exploration of the transformative power of creativity itself and the inspirational tale of a shy, stuttering boy who grew up to become a fearless artist with a profoundly original perspective to share with the world.Section Panorama - 3/10
- DirectorHenner WincklerStarsKim SchnitzerGordon SchmidtFeo AladagEighteen-year-old Maggy has a baby, Lucy, eight months old. Maggy still lives with her mother, who often takes care of the baby so that Maggy can go out for an evening. At a disco she meets Gordon and soon falls in love with him.Forum - 3/10
- DirectorBrice CauvinStarsLaurent LucasHélène FillièresAnouk AiméeAfter 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them to a different journey. A journey of doubt where reality never quite lies where it seems, leading from separation to reconciliation.Forum - 2/10