35th Berlin International Film Festival

1985 film festival edition

The 35th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1985.^[2] The retrospective was dedicated to Special effects.^[3]

The Golden Bear was jointly awarded awarded to The Woman and the Strangler directed by Rainer Simon and Wetherby directed by David Hare.^[4]

Juries

Jean Marais, Jury President

The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:^[5]

• Jean Marais, French actor - Jury President
• Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
• Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and filmmaker
• Regimantas Adomaitis, Soviet actor
• Sheila Benson, American journalist and film critic
• Wolfgang Kohlhaase, East German writer
• Onat Kutlar, Turkish poet, essayist and screenwriter
• Luis Megino, Spanish writer and producer
• Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, West-German head of the Goethe-Institut of New York
• Chris Sievernich [de], West-German producer
• István Szabó, Hungarian filmmaker

Official Sections

Main Competition

The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:^[1]

Out of competition

• 2010: The Year We Make Contact, directed by Peter Hyams (United States)
• Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam (United Kingdom)
• Country, directed by Richard Pearce (United States)
• Grünstein's Clever Move [de], directed by Bernhard Wicki (West Germany)
• Niemanns Zeit – Ein deutscher Heimatfilm, directed by Horst Kurnitzky and Marion Schmid (West Germany)
• International Military Tribunal for the Far East, directed by Masaki Kobayashi (Japan)
• Yamaha yudang, directed by Liang Zhang (China)

Retrospective

1985 Retrospective poster, dedicated to special effects^[6]

The following films were shown in the retrospective "Special Effects":^[7]

Official Awards

The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:^[4]

• Golden Bear:
  • The Woman and the Strangler by Rainer Simon
  • Wetherby by David Hare
• Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: Flowers of Reverie by László Lugossy
• Silver Bear for Best Director: Robert Benton for Places in the Heart
• Silver Bear for Best Actress: Jo Kennedy for Wrong World
• Silver Bear for Best Actor: Fernando Fernán Gómez for Stico
• Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement: Tolomush Okeyev for The Descendant of Snow Leopard
• Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Ronja Rövardotter
• Honourable Mention:
  • Damiano Damiani for Pizza Connection
  • Les enfants
  • Tarık Akan for Pehlivan

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Award

• Tōkyō saiban by Masaki Kobayashi

Literature

• Brigitte Tast: Als Farbe das Grau, als Format der Innenblick. 35. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1985, Schellerten 2014, ISBN 978-3-88842-045-0

References

1. "PROGRAMME 1985". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
2. "35th Berlin International Film Festival". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
3. "RETROSPECTIVE". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
4. "PRIZES & HONOURS 1985". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 29 April 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
5. "JURIES 1985". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
6. "RETROSPECTIVE". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
7. "RETROSPECTIVE 1985". Retrieved 28 July 2014.

External links

• 35th Berlin International Film Festival 1985
• 1985 Berlin International Film Festival
• Berlin International Film Festival:1985 at Internet Movie Database