Berlinale ’16: The 66th Berlin Film Festival Award Winners

The 66th Berlin Film Festival has come to a close, and the winners of this year’s top awards have been announced.

Meryl Streep and her interbational jury took to the stage at the Berlinale Palast to dish out the awards in front of a packed auditorium.

The Golden Bear went to the superb documentary Fire At Sea, which is directed by Gianfranco Rosi, an outstanding film from Italy and France that focuses on a Mediterranean island, just 20km in diameter that impressed very early on in this year’s festival. The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize went to Danis Tanovic’s Death In Sarajevo.

Golden Bear winner Fire At Sea

In terms of the acting prizes, Clive Owen presented the Silver Bear for Best Actor to Majd Mastoura for Inhebbek Hedi, and Meryl Streep handed the Best Actress award to Trine Dyrholm for her performance in the outstanding The Commune.

Here’s how the rest fared. For all of our Berlinale coverage, including reviews of all of the main award winners, click it here.

Golden Bear for Best Film
Fire At Sea – Italy/France
Dir: Gianfranco Rosi

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
Death In Sarajevo – France/Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dir: Danis Tanovic

Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives
A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery – Philippines/Singapore
Dir: Lav Diaz

Silver Bear for Best Director
Mia Hansen-Love, Things To Come

Silver Bear for Best Actress
Trine Dyrholm, The Commune

Silver Bear for Best Actor
Majd Mastoura, Inhebbek Hedi

Silver Bear for Best Script
Tomasz Wasilewski, United States Of Love (Poland/Sweden)

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Mark Lee Ping-Bing, Cinematographer, Crosscurrent (China)

Best First Feature
Inhebbek Hedi – Tunisia/Belgium/France
Dir: Mohamed Ben Attia

Golden Bear for Best Short Film
Balada De Um Batráquio – Portugal
Dir: Leonor Teles

Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film)
A Man Returned – UK/Denmark/Netherlands
Dir: Mahdi Fleifel

Audi Short Film Award
Jin Zhi Xia Mao – Taiwan
Dir: Chiang Wei Liang