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THE INTERNATIONAL JURY OF THE 47th BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Jack Lang, President (France) Hark Bohm (Germany), Férid Boughedir (Tunesia), Maggie Cheung (Hong Kong), Fred Gronich (USA), David Hare (Great Britain), Per Holst (Denmark), Boleslaw Michalek (Poland), Ning Ying (PR China), Marianne Sagebrecht (Germany), Humberto Solas (Cuba). awards the following prizes for feature films:

Golden Berlin Bear

Grand Prix of the 47th Berlin International Film Festival

THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT, by Milos Forman

Woody Harrelson

Silver Berlin Bear, Special Jury Prize

HE LIU (The River), by Tsai Ming-liang

Silver Berlin Bear

On the occasion of the screening of his film GENEALOGIES D'UN CRIME (Généalogies of a Crime) to the director Raoul Ruiz for his lifetime contribution to the art of cinema.

Catherine Deneuve et Michel Piccoli

Silver Berlin Bear for the Best Director

Eric Heumann for his film PORT DJEMA

Jean-Yves Dubois

Silver Berlin Bear for the Best Actress

Juliette Binoche for her role in the film THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Anthony Minghella

Juliette Binoche

Silver Berlin Bear for the Best Actor

Leonardo Di Caprio for his role in the film WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO & JULIET by Baz Luhrmann

Leonardo Di Caprio

Silver Berlin Bear for an outstanding single achievement

Zbigniew Preisner for his music in the film THE ISLAND ON BIRD STREET by Sören Kragh-Jacobsen

"The Blue Angel"

the Grand Prize of the European Academy of Film and Television

Montxo Armendariz for his film SECRETOS DEL CORAZON

Alfred Bauer Prize

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO & JULIET by Baz Luhrmann

A special Mention

for the promising performances of the young actress Anna Wielgucica in the film PANNA NIKT (Miss Nobody), by Andrzej Wajda and the young actor Jordan Kiziuk in the film THE ISLAND ON BIRD STREET by Sören Kragh-Jacobsen

Angel Wielgucica

A special Mention

DAS LEBEN IST EINE BAUSTELLE by Wolfgang Becker
for the humorous and ironic portrayal of the changes taking place in present-day Berlin.

Christiane Paul et Jürgen Vogel

A special Mention

GET ON THE BUS by Spike Lee
for the exemplary ensemble acting of the whole team.

The Jury awards the following prizes for short films:

Golden Berlin Bear

SENASTE NYTT (The Latest News), by Per Carleson

Silver Berlin Bear

LATE AT NIGHT by Stefanie Jordan, Stefanie Saghri, Claudia Zoller

PRIZE OF THE CHURCHES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY

The Ecumenical Jury is forrned by the intemational film organisations - INTERFILM and O.C.I.C. - belonging to the Evangelical and Catholic churches. The Jury con sists of ten members and awards their main prize to a film in Competition of the Official Programme. Further more, the Jury awards a prize which is accompanied by a cash award of DM 10,000 in equal parts to a film screened in the 12th International Panorama programme and the 27th Intemational Forum of New Cinema. Furthermore, the Jury gives a Special Prize to a film of the Panorama and of the Forum.

Their members are:

Martin Ammon (Germany), Daniel Bourgeois (France), Alexandre Dorochevitch (Russia), Michael Graff (Ger many), Hans Hodel (Switzerland), Dorothea Holloway (Germany), Matthias Loretan, President (Switzerland), Bernard Natschlager (Austria), Raymond Olsen (Den mark), Adela Peeva (Bulgaria).

The main prize for a Competition film

LENEGED ENAYIM MAARAVIOT (Under Western Eyes), by Joseph Pitchhadze

The prodigal son's search for the father he believed was dead becomes a tragic and yet hopeful parable on the need to find one's identity in the space between exile and the country of one's birth. The film's depiction of architecture and landscape as well as its sparse, black and-white visual style make it a convincing artistic debut.

The award for a Panorama film

BRASSED OFF by Mark Herman

The human tragedy of the fate of an English mining com munity is portrayed with a critical eye for social detail and great solidarity and sympathy. The film's music lends it both humour and a lightness of touch.

The Ecumenical Jury also awards a Special Prize

MUTTER UND SOHN (Mother And Son), by Aleksandr Sokurov

The award for a film shown in the International Forum of New Cinema

NOBODY'S BUSINESS by Alan Berliner

In a persistent conversation with his father, a son confirms his own family history and religious origins, and forces his father to face up to and take responsibility for his repressed personal history. This document of a per sonal history also reflects historical and universal conflicts.

The Special Jury Award for a film of the International Forum of New Cinema

THEY TEACH US HOW TO BE HAPPY by Peter von Gunten

for his committed observational documentary about Sudanese asylum-seekers during their exhaustive jour ney through Swiss bureaucracy. The film is a forceful appeal for a more humane policy on asylum.