My personal Berlinale Ranking - 2006
by dziwnytenswiat | created - 18 Feb 2012 | updated - 24 Feb 2013 | PublicA ranking from films I saw at the Berlinale 2006. Average Vote for the Festival: 5,96
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1. Grbavica (2006)
90 min | Drama
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic
Votes: 6,889 | Gross: $0.04M
Competition - 9/10
2. Offside (2006)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Mohammad Asarian
Votes: 8,613 | Gross: $0.18M
Competition - 9/10
3. Jestem (2005)
93 min | Drama
A self-reliable 11-year-old boy runs away from children's home to be with his dysfunctional mother. She doesn't want him back so he starts living on an old barge.
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Piotr Jagielski, Agnieszka Nagórzycka, Edyta Jungowska, Barbara Szkaluba
Votes: 1,053
Children Section - 9/10
4. Kan shang qu hen mei (2006)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
A young boy starting school for the first time struggles to fit in to a strictly regimented society in in post-revolutionary China.
Director: Yuan Zhang | Stars: Bowen Dong, Yuanyuan Ning, Manyuan Chen, Rui Zhao
Votes: 1,557
Section Panorama - 9/10
5. Komornik (2005)
94 min | Drama
Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.
Director: Feliks Falk | Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Kinga Preis, Grzegorz Wojdon
Votes: 2,127
Section Panorama - 8/10
6. Candy (2006)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
Director: Neil Armfield | Stars: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge
Votes: 47,761 | Gross: $0.04M
Competition - 8/10
7. 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (2006)
84 min | Documentary
To preserve their culture, the Pamir Kirghiz people have migrated across Central Asia from the U.S.S.R to China to Afghanistan to Pakistan and finally to remote eastern Turkey, but now they face the most serious threat to their traditions, globalization.
Directors: Ben Hopkins, Muhammet Ekber Kutlu | Stars: Sereban Aslan, Suleyman Atanisev, Ismail Atilgan, Alpaslan Kutlu
Votes: 196
Forum - 8/10
8. Naming Number Two (2006)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor.
Director: Toa Fraser | Stars: Ruby Dee, Mia Blake, Rene Naufahu, Miriama McDowell
Votes: 610
Section Panorama - 8/10
9. Men at Work (2006)
Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama
A political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. A brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but...
Director: Mani Haghighi | Stars: Atila Pesiani, Mahmoud Kalari, Ahmad Hamed, Omid Roohani
Votes: 643
Forum - 7/10
10. Doskonale popoludnie (2005)
91 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Przemyslaw Wojcieszek | Stars: Michal Czernecki, Magdalena Poplawska, Jerzy Stuhr, Slawomir Orzechowski
Votes: 94
Forum - 7/10
11. Big River (2005)
104 min | Drama
Director: Atsushi Funahashi | Stars: Kavi Raz, Joe Odagiri, Chloe Snyder, Tracy Ahumada
Votes: 190
Forum - 7/10
12. Quatre étoiles (2006)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy
Franssou, a charming Parisian English teacher, who shares part of her life with a boring middle-aged lover, dreams of another life. So, when she unexpectedly inherits 50,000 euros, she ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Vincent | Stars: José Garcia, Renée Le Calm, Isabelle Carré, Raymond Gil
Votes: 1,343
Section Panorama - 7/10
13. Close to Home (2005)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Rebellious and outgoing Smadar can't stand types like Mirit. Mirit, introverted and frightened, keeps away from the likes of Smadar. But the two are thrown together as they are assigned to ... See full summary »
Directors: Vardit Bilu, Dalia Hager | Stars: Smadar Sayar, Naama Schendar, Danny Geva, Katia Zinbris
Votes: 950 | Gross: $0.02M
Forum - 6/10
14. Barakat! (2006)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.
Director: Djamila Sahraoui | Stars: Rachida Brakni, Fettouma Ousliha-Bouamari, Zahir Bouzerar, Malika Belbey
Votes: 149
Forum - 6/10
15. It's Winter (2006)
86 min | Drama
The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home.
Director: Rafi Pitts | Stars: Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat, Said Orkani, Hashem Abdi
Votes: 658
Competition - 6/10
16. Komm näher (2006)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Drama "in the improvisational style of Andreas Dresen or Mike Leigh" about three drifted apart sisters (Meret Becker, Stephanie Stappenbeck and Heidrun Bartholomäus) finding back together after the death of their mother.
Director: Vanessa Jopp | Stars: Meret Becker, Hinnerk Schönemann, Heidrun Bartholomäus, Stefanie Stappenbeck
Votes: 237
Section Panorama - 6/10
17. 1:1 (2006)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
In a Copenhagen suburb the 19-year-old Per is found unconscious after having been badly beaten up. He is taken to hospital in a coma. The police have no clues, but the air is thick with ... See full summary »
Director: Annette K. Olesen | Stars: Mohammed Al-Bakier, Joy K. Petersen, Anette Støvelbæk, Helle Hertz
Votes: 327
Section Panorama - 6/10
18. Love Sick (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
In order to spend more time with her girlfriend, Kiki, the young student Alex decides to give up her room at the student's hostel and move into the house where Kiki lives. A few months ... See full summary »
Director: Tudor Giurgiu | Stars: Maria Popistasu, Ioana Barbu, Tudor Chirila, Catalina Murgea
Votes: 3,245
Section Panorama - 4/10
19. The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)
R | 91 min | Biography, Drama
The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation because of her risqué bondage photos.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Gretchen Mol, Lili Taylor, Chris Bauer, Jared Harris
Votes: 11,660 | Gross: $1.41M
Section Panorama - 4/10
20. Babooska (2005)
100 min | Documentary
A year in the life of members of a troupe of circus performers. The circus is named Il Floriciccio.
Directors: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel | Stars: Babooska Gerardi, Michele Pellegrini, Azzurra Gerardi, Naike Gerardi
Votes: 68
Forum - 4/10
21. Casa de Areia (2005)
R | 115 min | Drama
A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.
Director: Andrucha Waddington | Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra, Seu Jorge
Votes: 3,273 | Gross: $0.53M
Section Panorama - 3/10
22. The Proposition (2005)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Western
A lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother.
Director: John Hillcoat | Stars: Ray Winstone, Guy Pearce, Emily Watson, Richard Wilson
Votes: 54,993 | Gross: $1.90M
Section Panorama - 3/10
23. The Red Cockatoo (2006)
128 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A coming-of-age story set in the German Democratic Republic in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Max Riemelt, Jessica Schwarz, Ronald Zehrfeld, Ingeborg Westphal
Votes: 876
Section Panorama - 3/10
24. Absolute Wilson (2006)
Unrated | 105 min | Documentary
From director, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, a provocative and moving documentary on the life and work of Robert Wilson, one of the most visionary and controversial theater artists of our time.... See full summary »
Director: Katharina Otto-Bernstein | Stars: Robert Wilson, Arnold Aronson, Robin Brentano, David Byrne
Votes: 148 | Gross: $0.07M
Section Panorama - 3/10
25. Lucy (2006)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Eighteen-year-old Maggy has a baby, Lucy, eight months old. Maggy still lives with her mother, who often takes care of the baby so that Maggy can go out for an evening. At a disco she meets Gordon and soon falls in love with him.
Director: Henner Winckler | Stars: Kim Schnitzer, Gordon Schmidt, Feo Aladag, Polly Hauschild
Votes: 220
Forum - 3/10
26. Hotel Harabati (2006)
95 min | Drama
After 10 years and two children together, Philippe and Marion, finally decide to take a honeymoon Holiday in Venice. At the train station, a abandoned bag filled with money will bring them ... See full summary »
Director: Brice Cauvin | Stars: Laurent Lucas, Hélène Fillières, Anouk Aimée, Julie Gayet
Votes: 172
Forum - 2/10
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