Berlinale 2012: track record of the 62nd Berlin Film Festival

Marked by the high presence of social issues and committed as well as low-budget film, the jury headed by British filmmaker Mike Leigh, reveals the list of winners at the 62nd International film festival in Berlin. A prize list is well distributed both in regard to the winning films as countries that each represents. Because none of them is shot in English, one might almost say that it is the year of the triumph of international film and also the youth, because if we exclude veterans Taviani brothers, that rose with the main prize, the rest is distributed among the new generations of filmmakers from countries like Germany, Portugal, Congo, Denmark and Switzerland.

Latin American cinema also had recognition. If on one hand the Luso-Brazilian film, Tabu, directed by Miguel Gomes was one of the most important awards, Delay, co-production between Mexico and Uruguay, which has led Rodrigo Pla, screened out of competition, received the award of readers of a German newspaper, the "film strength and social sensitivity of his portrait." Also, Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa, who in 2009 won the Golden Bear with The Empty Nest, looked like his short film was also Loxoro awarded a Teddy Award for its homosexual theme.

• Golden Bear for best film: Cesare should morire (Italy), directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
• Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: Csak to szél (Just the Wind, Hungary), directed by Bence Filegauf
• Silver Bear for Best Director: Christan by Barbara Petzold (Germany)
• Silver Bear for Best Actress: Rachel Mwanza by Rebelle (War Witch, Canada), directed by Kim Nguyen
• Silver Bear for Best Actor: Mikkel Boe Folsgaard by Kongeling Affaere In (A Royal Affair, Denmark), directed by Nikolaj Arcel
• Silver Bear for artistic contribution: Lutz Reitemeir for photography Bai lu yuan (White Deer Plain, China), directed by Wang Quan'an
• Silver Bear for Best Screenplay: Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg by Kongelig Affaere In (A Royal Affair, Denmark), directed by Nikolaj Arcel
• Special Silver Bear: L'enfant d'en huata (Sister, Switzerland), directed by Benedek Fliegauf
• Alfred Bauer Award (in memory of the founder of innovative film festival) Tabu (Brazil, Portugal, Germany & France), directed by Miguel Gomes

• Golden Bear for Best Short Film: Rafa (Portugal & France), directed by Joao Salaviza
• Silver Bear for best short film: Gurehto Rabitto (France), directed by Atsushi Wada
  - Prize for Best Debut: Kauwboy (Netherlands), directed by Boudewijn Koole
• International Critics Prize FIPRESCI: Tabu (Brazil, Portugal, Germany & France), directed by Miguel Gomes International Critics Prize FIPRESCI Panorama: L'âge atomique (France), directed by Helena Klotz
• International Critics Prize FIPRESCI Forum section: Hemel (Holland & Spain), directed by Sacha Polak
• Ecumenical Jury Prize and the Prize of the readers of the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel: The delay (Urugay, Mexico & Germany), directed by Rodrigo Pla
  - Teddy Awards gay-themed cinema: Keep The Lights On (USA), directed by Ira Sachs, Jaurès (Germany), directed by Vincent Dieutre, and the short Loxoro (Spain, Peru & Argentina), directed by Claudia Llosa