The jury awards its Prize to "Ladybird, Ladybird" for its convincing portrayal of the causes and consequences of violence in family and society, and its powerful bid for a way out of an unbearable situation via love and trust.
44th International Film Festival Berlin
10.02.1994 to 21.02.1994
Berlin
The Ecumenical Jury Berlin 1994, from left: Felix Premawardhana, Guido Convents, Robin Gurney, Bernhard Natschläger, Martin Ammon, Michael Kuhn, Reinhold Zwick (standing), Latavra Doularidse, Hans Hodel (President), Anita Uzulniece (sitting); Foto: © Ekko von Schwichow)
Awards
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1994
Strawberry and Chocolate
Erdbeer und Schokolade
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1993
This sensitive film is impressive on account of its plea for tolerance and its respect for personal freedom, individuality and dignity.
The Strategy of the Snail
Die Strategie der Schnecke
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1993
The jury awards its Prize to "La estrategia del caracol" for its clever and witty parable on the importance of solidarity and the need to act collectively. The film depicts the final triumph of the community over greed and aggressive individualism in an exploitative and unjust situation. (Foto: © trigon-film)
Satan's Tango
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1994
The film displays formal rigour and opens up the realities of new spheres for cinematical portrayal. SATANTANGO is an alarming depiction of the disintegration of social and moral orders: it is also a meditation on time, transience, hope and destruction, which, in the context of creation and apocalypse, succeeds in attaining a metaphysical dimension.
Der letzte Klezmer - Leopold Koslowski: Sein Leben und seine Musik
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1993
In the art of the Jewish musician Leopold Koslowski, Yale Strom documents the power of Klezmer music. It is able to express grief over the almost complete annihilation of the Jewish people in the Holocaust and to mobilize resistance against fate. In that respect it is a symbol of the Jewish people and their indestructible hope.
