One of the "A" festivals in Europe. The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the "Berlinale" is held annually in February and started 1951 after an initiative of the American, who occupied part of the city after World War II. The jury always placed special emphasis on representing films from all over the world, from the former Eastern Bloc Countries as well as from Western countries. The award are called Golden and Silver Bears (as the Bear is the symbol of Berlin).
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List of Winners
Golden Bear
| Year | Film | Director | Country |
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| 2003 | In this World | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| 2002 | Spirited Away | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
| Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | UK/Ireland | |
| 2001 | Intimacy | Patrice Chéreau | France |
| 2000 | Magnolia | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| 1999 | The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | United States |
| 1998 | Central Station | Walter Salles | Brazil |
| 1997 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Milos Forman | United States |
| 1996 | Sense and Sensibility | Ang Lee | United States |
| 1995 | Fresh Bait | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| 1994 | In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | UK/Ireland |
| 1993 | The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls | Xie Fei | China |
| The Wedding Banquet | Ang Lee | Taiwan | |
| 1992 | Grand Canyon | Lawrence Kasdan | United States |
| 1991 | La Casa del sorriso | Marco Ferreri | Italy |
| 1990 | Music Box | Costa-Gavras | United States |
| Larks on a String | Jiri Menzel | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1989 | Rain Man | Barry Levinson | United States |
| 1988 | Red Sorghum | Yimou Zhang | China |
| 1987 | Tema | Gleb Panfilov | Soviet Union |
| 1986 | Stammheim | Reinhard Hauff | West Germany |
| 1985 | Die Frau und der Fremde | Rainer Simon | East Germany |
| Wetherby | David Hare | United Kingdom | |
| 1984 | Love Streams | John Cassavetes | United States |
| 1983 | Ascendancy | Edward Bennett | United Kingdom |
| The Beehive | Mario Camus | Spain | |
| 1982 | Veronika Voss | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| 1981 | Faster, Faster | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| 1980 | Heartland | Richard Pearce | United States |
| Palermo or Wolfsburg | Werner Schroeter | West Germany | |
| 1979 | Daivd | Peter Lilienthal | West Germany |
| 1978 | Trout | José Luis García Sánchez | Spain |
| What Max Said | Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Spain | |
| 1977 | Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union |
| 1976 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians | Robert Altman | United States |
| 1975 | Adoption | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
| 1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada |
| 1973 | Distant Thunder | Satyajit Ray | India |
| 1972 | The Canterbury Tales | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
| 1971 | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Vittorio De Sica | Italy/W. Germany |
See also other film festivals, Oscars