51st Berlin International Film Festival
The 51st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 7 to 18, 2001. The festival opened with war-drama film Enemy at the Gates by Jean-Jacques Annaud. 70 mm restored version of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 Sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey was the closing film of the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to French-British film Intimacy directed by Patrice Chéreau. The retrospective dedicated to German-Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter Fritz Lang was shown at the festival. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: Bill Mechanic, producer (United States) - Jury President Jacqueline Bisset, actress (United Kingdom) Diego Galán, director and film critic (Spain) Kyoko Hirano, writer (Japan) Fatih Akın, director, screenwriter, producer and actor (Germany) Dario Argento, director, screenwriter and producer (Italy) Xie Fei, director and screenwriter (China) Héctor Babenco, director, screenwriter and producer (Brazil) Dominique Blanc, actress (France) In competition The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear and Silver Bear awards: Key {| class="wikitable" width="550" colspan="1" | style="background:#ffdead; text-align:center;"| † |Winner of the main award for best film in its section |- | colspan="2"| The opening and closing films are screened during the opening and closing ceremonies respectively. |} Retrospective The following films were shown in the retrospective: Awards The following prizes were awarded by the Jury: Golden Bear: Intimacy by Patrice Chéreau Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: Beijing Bicycle by Wang Xiaoshuai Silver Bear for Best Director: Lin Cheng-sheng for Betelnut Beauty Silver Bear for Best Actress: Kerry Fox for Intimacy Silver Bear for Best Actor: Benicio del Toro for Traffic Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Raúl Pérez Cubero for You're the One Jury Prize: Lone Scherfig for Italian for Beginners Alfred Bauer Prize: La Ciénaga by Lucrecia Martel Blue Angel Award: Intimacy by Patrice Chéreau Honorary Golden Bear: Kirk Douglas Berlinale Camera: Kei Kumai FIPRESCI Award Italian for Beginners by Lone Scherfig References External links Berlin International Film Festival:2001 at Internet Movie Database Berlin International Film Festival 2001 51 2001 film festivals 2001 festivals in Europe 2001 in Berlin 2001 in German cinema February 2001 events in Germany