Berlin 2024: The full list of film festival winners
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The Berlin Film Festival is one of the most well-respected events in the world of cinema. Alongside Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Sundance, it is considered to be one of the “big five” film festivals, showing hundreds of films each year to thousands of viewers.
It also hands out some highly coveted accolades to the best of those films, many of them including the highest prize, the Golden Bear, decided upon by an international jury.
This year, the international jury has decided on Mati Diop’s documentary Dahomey as the winner of the Golden Bear award. It becomes the second documentary to take home the prize. Meanwhile, the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize went to Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs, while Bruno Dumont’s The Empire took home the Silver Bear Jury Prize.
Sebastian Stan and Emily Watson both take home awards for acting, for their performances in A Different Man and Small Things Like These, respectively. Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias takes home the Best Director win for his drama Pepe, while Matthias Glasner’s writing for Dying won him the Best Screenplay award.
Short films such as An Odd Turn and Remains of the Hot Day were celebrated outside the international jury prizes. No Other Land took home the Berlinale Documentary Film Award, with a special metion going to Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell’s Direct Action. Find the full list of winners below.
Full list of Berlin Film Festival 2024 winners:
International jury prizes:
Golden Bear
Dahomey, Mati Diop
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
A Traveler’s Needs, Hong Sang-soo
Silver Bear Jury Prize
The Empire, Bruno Dumont
Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance
Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance
Emily Watson, Small Things Like These
Silver Bear for Best Director
Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias, Pepe
Silver Bear for Best Screenplay
Matthias Glasner, Dying (Sterben)
Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Martin Gschlacht for cinematography, The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad)
Encounters jury prizes:
Best Film
Direct Action, Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
Special Jury Award
The Great Yawn of History, Aliyar Rasti
Some Rain Must Fall, Qiu Yang
Best Director
Juliana Rojas, Cidade; Campo
GWFF Best First Feature Award
Cu Li Never Cries (Cu Li Không Bao Gio Khóc), Phạm Ngọc Lân
Berlinale Documentary Film Award
No Other Land, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor
Special mention to Direct Action, Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
Shorts
Golden Bear for Best Short Film
An Odd Turn (Un Movimiento extraño), Francisco Lezama
Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film)
Remains of the Hot Day (Re tian wu hou), Wenqian Zhang
