2013 Berlin International Film Festival: Award Winners

The closing ceremony of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, hosted by Anke Engelke, was held Saturday evening in the storied Berlinale-Palast at Potsdamer Platz.

The winner of the 2013 Golden Bear for Best Feature Film is Child's Pose from Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer.

The best director Silver Bear was awarded to American director David Gordon Green for Prince Avalanche.

The Silver Bear for best actor went to Nazif Mujic for An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker. The film also won the Jury Grand Prix, which went to director Danis Tanovic

The best actress award went to Paulina García for her role in the Chilean film Gloria.

The best first feature film award went to Australian feature The Rocket, directed by Kim Mordaunt. The story of a Laotian boy who has lost his home, and embarks on a tense journey with his family through a spectacular landscape.

Read on for the full list of award winners from the 63rd Berlinale:

International Jury

Golden Bear: Best Film

• Pozitia Copilului • Child's Pose
  directed by Calin Peter Netzer
  Romania

Jury Grand Prix

• Epizoda u životu berača željeza • An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
  directed by Danis Tanovic
  Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia

Best Director

• David Gordon Green for
  Prince Avalanche
  USA

Best Actress

• Paulina García for her role in
  Gloria
  directed by Sebastián Lelio
  Chile, Spain

Best Actor

• Nazif Mujic for his role in
  Epizoda u životu berača željeza • An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
  directed by Danis Tanovic
  Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia

Silver Bear: Outstanding Artistic Contribution

• Aziz Zhambakiyev for the camera work in
  Uroki Garmonii • Harmony Lessons
  directed by Emir Baigazin
  Kazakhstan, Germany, France

Best Script

• Pardé • Closed Curtain
  directed by Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi
  Iran

Alfred Bauer Prize

• Vic+Flo ont vu un ours • Vic+Flo Saw a Bear
  directed by Denis Côté
  Canada

Special Mention

• Layla Fourie
  directed by Pia Marais
  South Africa, Germany, France, Netherlands

Special Mention

• Promised Land
  directed by Gus Van Sant
  USA
  
  International Jury: Wong Kar Wai (President), Susanne Bier, Tim Robbins, Shirin Neshat, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Andreas Dresen, Ellen Kuras

First Feature Jury

Best First Feature €50,000

• The Rocket
  directed by Kim Mordaunt
  Australia

Special Mention

• The Battle of Tabatô
  directed by João Viana
  Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
  
  Best First Feature Jury: Oren Moverman, Taika Waititi, Lucy Walker

Short Film Jury

Golden Bear: Best Short Film

• La Fugue • The Runaway
  directed by Jean-Bernard Marlin
  France

Jury Prize (Silver Bear): Short Film

• die ruhe bleibt • remains quiet
  directed by Stefan Kriekhaus
  Germany

Berlin Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards

• Misterio
  directed by Chema García Ibarra
  Spain
  
  Short Film Jury: Javier Fesser, Hong Hyosook, Susanne Pfeffer

Honorary Awards

Honorary Golden Bear

• Claude Lanzmann (documentary filmmaker and producer)

Berlinale Camera

• Isabella Rossellini (actress/director)
• Rosa von Praunheim (writer/director)
• Richard Linklater (writer/director)

Generation 14plus Youth Jury

Crystal Bear: Best Film

• Baby Blues
  directed by Kasia Rosłaniec
  Poland

Special Mention

• Pluto
  directed by Shin Su-won
  South Korea

Crystal Bear: Short Film

• Rabbitland
  directed by Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak
  Serbia

Special Mention: Short Film

• Treffit • The Date
  directed by Jenni Toivoniemi
  Finland
  
  Generation 14plus Youth Jury: Indira Geisel, Maxim Mersini, Jonas Mileta, Zoë Noack, Sarah Rheinfurth, Carla Romagna, Kalvin Schmidt-Rimpler Dinh

Generation 14plus International Jury

Grand Prix €7,500

• Shopping
  directed by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland
  New Zealand

Special Mention

• Baby Blues
  directed by Kasia Rosłaniec
  Poland

Special Prize €2,500

• Första gången • The First Time
  directed by Anders Hazelius
  Sweden

Special Mention

• Barefoot
  directed by Danis Goulet
  Canada
  
  Generation 14plus International Jury: Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, Lucy Mulloy, Xavier García Puerto

Generation Kplus Children's Jury

Crystal Bear: Best Film

• The Rocket
  directed by Kim Mordaunt
  Australia

Special Mention

• Satellite Boy
  directed by Catriona McKenzie
  Australia

Crystal Bear: Short Film

• The Amber Amulet
  directed by Matthew Moore
  Australia

Special Mention: Short Film

• Ezi un lielpilseta • Hedgehogs and the City
  directed by Ēvalds Lācis
  Latvia
  
  Generation Kplus Children's Jury: Hannah Bulling, Matthias Caspari, Rosa Elina Ehrlich, Rocco Görhardt, Lenius Jung, Felix Katulski, Magdalena Kollmann, Ada Maria Nardi, Lonja Emily, Louise Siebenmann, Maja Tischmann, Fabian Welke

Generation Kplus International Jury

Grand Prix €7,500

• Mammu, es Tevi mīlu • Mother I Love You
  directed by Jānis Nords
  Latvia

Special Mention

• Satellite Boy
  directed by Catriona McKenzie
  Australia

Special Prize €2,500

• Cheong
  directed by Kim Jung-in
  South Korea

Special Mention: Short Film

• Ezi un lielpilseta • Hedgehogs and the City
  directed by Ēvalds Lācis
  Latvia
  
  Generation Kplus International Jury: Jan Naszewski, Rosario Garcia-Montero, Katharina Reschke

Visit the official Berlinale website, for the full list including independent jury awards.

See our other coverage of the 63rd Berlinale:

• Day 1: (The Grandmaster)
• Day 2: (In the Name Of, Promised Land, Paradise: Hope)
• Days 3-4: (A Long and Happy Life, Gold, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman, Gloria, The Nun, Vic+Flo Saw a Bear)
• Day 5: (Child's Pose, Before Midnight, Layla Fourie)
• Day 6: (Closed Curtain, Side Effects, Camille Claudel 1915)
• Day 7: (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Prince Avalanche, Night Train to Lisbon)
• Day 8: (Harmony Lessons, Dark Blood)
• Day 9: (Nodody's Daughter Haewon, The Croods, On My Way)