"Un año, una noche" (One Year, One Night) by Isaki Lacuesta has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in the International Competition of the Berlinale 2022. In the Panorama, the jury awarded its prize to the Ukrainian film "Klondike" by Maryna Er Gorbach, in the Forum to "Geographies of Solitude" by Jacquelyn Mills from Canada, which also won the Caligari Film Prize and the CICAE Jury Prize. The Golden Bear went to "Alcarràs" by Carla Simon (Spain, Italy 2022), the Grand Jury Prize to "So-seol-ga-ui yeong hwa" (The Novelist's Film) by Hong Sangsoo from South Korea and the Best Director Award to Claire Denis for "Avec amour et acharnement" (Both Sides of the Blade, France 2021). The Fipresci jury of the International Film Critics awarded "Leonora addio" by Paolo Taviani (Italy 2021) in the Competition, "Bettina" by Lutz Pehnert (Germany 2022) in the Panorama and "Super Natural" by Jorge Jácome (Portugal 2022) in the Forum. The Best Film Award in the Encounters section was given to "Mutzenbacher" by Ruth Beckermann (Austria 2022).
The Berlinale 2022 took place under corona-related protective measures. The festival events were subject to the 2G-Plus rule and masks were compulsory (FFP2 masks), access was only possible with tickets booked online in advance. The competition was shortened to 10-16 February. The awards ceremony took place on 16 February, the remaining four days of the festival were for the non-professional audience. In order to cope with the viewing programme despite the shortened competition period, the Ecumenical Jury has been expanded to nine people, three of whom observed each of the different sections. The festival was opened by a film by François Ozon, "Peter von Kant", which refers to the Fassbinder film from 1972, "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant". A total of 18 films was screened in the International Competition.