During the official award ceremony of the 58th Berlinale Asyl – Park and Love Hotel by Kumasaka Izuru was honored with the Best First Feature Award. The jury awards the best debut film, considering films from the Competition, the Panorama, the Generation or the Forum programs.
The readers' jury of the "Tagesspiegel" assigns the award of 3.000 Euro for the best film in the Forum of the 58th Berlinale to God Man Dog by Singing Chen.
The Independent Jurys of the Berlinale donated five more awards to films in this year's Forum program: Corridor #8, God Man Dog, United Red Army as well as Be Like Others and Paruthiveeran.
The Award of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Award) for a film in this year's Forum was presented to Shahida – Brides of Allah by Natalie Assouline.
On February 13 (11.30 a.m.) the World Cinema Fund (WCF) is hosting the panel "We Can Do More! – How to Optimize our Potential/New Strategies for Cooperation und Funding". Among the participants is Khavn De La Cruz (The Muzzled Horse of an Engineer in Search of Mechanical Saddles).
On February 13, Miroslav Janek, Jarmila Poláková and Martin Krafl will talk about the long term documentation Občan Havel (Citizen Havel), which is presented as a Special Screening in the Forum.