Berlin International Film Festival 2023 : 73rd annual Berlin International film Festival.

 Berlin International Film Festival 2023 : 73rd annual Berlin International film Festival. 

  The 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale is taking place from 16 to 26 February 2023 in person. This year the festival has added award for best TV series also.[1] On 15 December 2022 the first Panorama and Generation titles for the festival were announced,[2][3] and on 13 January, many world premieres were added to out-of-competition lineup including Guy Nattiv’s Golda, a political biopic.[4]

73rd Berlin International Film Festival

Opening film
She Came to Me by Rebecca Miller

Location
Berlin, Germany

Founded
1951

Awards
Honorary Golden Bear: Steven Spielberg

Directors
Mariette Rissenbeek

Artistic director
Carlo Chatrian

Festival date
Opening: 16 February 2023
Closing: 26 February 2023

The festival opened with Rebecca Miller's drama film She Came to Me.[5] A live video stream with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was highlight of the opening ceremony.[6][7] Steven Spielberg will be honoured with a special homage at the festival by presenting him with the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement and screening his films in Homage section.

The following were on the jury for the Berlinale Competition section. 

Kristen Stewart, American actor, director and screenwriter - Jury President

Golshifteh Farahani, Iranian-French actor
Valeska Grisebach, German director and screenwriter

Radu Jude, Romanian director and screenwriter
Francine Maisler, casting director and producer (United States)

Carla Simón, Spanish director and screenwriter
Johnnie To, Hong Kong director and producer

Encounters

The following people were on the jury for the Encounters Awards

Angeliki Papoulia, Greek actress and theatre director
Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgian film director and writer
Paolo Moretti, Italian festival programmer and academic

International Short Film jury

Cătălin Cristuțiu, Romanian editor
Sky Hopinka, American visual artist and filmmaker
Isabelle Stever, German director and screenwriter
Generation Kplus International jury

Venice Atienza, Filipino documentarist
Alise Ģelze, Latvian producer
Gudrun Sommer, German festival programmer
Generation 14plus International jury

Kateryna Gornostai, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film editor
Fion Mutert, German cinematographer and media educator
Juanita Onzaga, Colombian filmmaker and artist

GWFF Best First Feature Award jury

Judith Revault d’Allonnes, French festival programmer
Ayten Amin, Egyptian director
Cyril Schäublin, Swiss film director
Documentary Award juryEdit
Emilie Bujès, artistic director of Switzerland’s Visions du Réel
Diana Bustamante, Colombian producer, director and programmer
Mark Cousins, Northern Irish director and writer
Berlinale Series Award juryEdit
The jury for the Berlinale Series Award consists of. 

André Holland, American actor
Danna Stern, Israeli international executive, founder of Shtisel and Your Honor firm, Yes Studios
Mette Heeno, Danish screenwriter, showrunner and executive producer
Perspektive Deutsches Kino section juryEdit
Dela Dabulamanzi, German actor
Anne Fabini, German film editor
Jöns Jönsson, Swedish director
Heiner Carow Prize juryEdit
Freya Arde, German film composer, guitarist and music producer
Peter Kahane, German director
Mirko Wiermann, German film archivist

The following 19 films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards. 

Highlighted title indicates award winner.
English title
Original title
Director(s)

1) Production country
20,000 Species of Bees
20.000 especies de abejas
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Spain

2) The Shadowless Tower
白塔之光
Zhang Lü
People’s Republic of China

3) Till the End of the Night
Bis ans Ende der Nacht
Christoph Hochhäusler
Germany

4) BlackBerry
Matt Johnson
Canada

5) Disco Boy
Giacomo Abbruzzese
Italy

6) The Plough
Le grand chariot
Philippe Garrel
France, Switzerland

7) Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert
Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüste
Margarethe von Trotta
Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg

8) Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
Irgendwann werden wir uns alles erzählen
Emily Atef
Germany

9)Limbo
Ivan Sen
Australia

10) Bad Living
Mal Viver
João Canijo
Portugal, France

11)Manodrome
John Trengove
United Kingdom, United States

12) Music
Angela Schanelec
Germany, France, Serbia

13) Past Lives
Celine Song
United States

14) Afire
Roter Himmel
Christian Petzold
Germany

15) The Survival of Kindness
Rolf de Heer
Australia

16) Tótem
Lila Avilés
Mexico, Denmark, France

17)Animation
Art College 1994
Liu Jian
People’s Republic of China

18)Suzume
Makoto Shinkai
Japan

19)Documentary Form
On the Adamant
Sur l’Adamant
Nicolas Philibert
France, Japan