Berlin 2005

		Eleven days of "films around the clock". The Berlinale gets bigger from year to year: more films, more sections, more events. The critics, member of our jury, followed three main sections: the Competition, the Panorama and the International Forum of New Cinema. Read their reports.
		Young critics participated in the "Talent Press" (initiative organized in cooperation with FIPRESCI) and reported daily.

The Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) was presented to
The Wayward Cloud (Tian bian yi duo yun) by Tsai Ming Liang (Taiwan, 2005) (Competition)
Massacre (Massaker), documentary by Monica Borgmann, Lokman Slim, Hermann Theissen (Germany, 2005) (Panorama)
Oxhide (Niu Pi) by Liu Jiayin (China, 2005)(Forum)
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Reports:
The Good, the Bad and the Indifferent. Leonardo García Tsao was left cold by most of the films in competition, especially the German and American entries, but was warmed by Alexander Sokurov's The Sun, and encouraged by the French and Asian films.
Histoire d'Eau. Andrei Plakhov explains why he considers The Wayward Cloud, directed by Tsai Ming-liang, "the most unexpected and impossible screen love story ever made".
Magic Asian Moments / Massacre. Helmut Merker describes many of the 'inventive and innovative' Asian films, and, in stark contrast, analyses the ethical questions that Massacre raises.
Banal Fragments of Banal Lives. Liu Jiayin's Oxhide (Niu pi) convinced Pamela Biénzobas that experimentation can go hand in hand with "tenderness, gentle irony and a sense of humor".
The Surrealistic Brazil of "Redeemer". Read Carlos Augusto Brandão's review of the Berlinale's Panorama opening film directed by Claudio Torres.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Although Ruth Pombo has little time between films in the Panorama section to look at the real world, she reaches the conclusion that films should not be too separated from it.
Life with Father. Ninos Feneck Mikelides is seduced by a sensuality of Rebecca Miller's The Ballad of Jack and Rosie, which focuses on a father-daughter relationship which 'verges on the incestuous.'
The Darling of the Public. Angelika Kettelhack is impressed by the enthusiasm for film among "ordinary" filmgoers at the Berlinale, and the taste of the public in choosing the Israeli-French co-production, Live and Become, by Radu Mihaileanu, as their favorite.
Love Across Barricades. Dubravka Lakic casts her expert eye on The Red Colored Grey Truckdedicated by the director Srdjan Koljevic "to all those who see things differently".

Talent Press
In a cooperation between the Berlinale Talent Campus, Goethe Institute and FIPRESCI, young critics were invited to attend the festival and to get trained by experienced colleagues.
Introduction
The Talents
Walter Salles on the Campus
The talents report:
1st day — Sunday, Feb. 13
2nd day — Monday, Feb. 14
3rd day — Tuesday, Feb. 15
4th day — Wednesday, Feb. 16
5th day — Thursday, Feb. 17
6th day — Friday, Feb. 18

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