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Joining previously announced jury president Darren Aronofsky will be Daniel Brühl, Audrey Tautou, Matthew Weiner, Bong Joon-ho, Claudia Llosa, and Martha De Laurentiis.

Weiner's You Are Here and Joshua Oppenheimer's wonderful The Look of Silence will both be screened out of competition.

Pretty mediocre reviews for Herzog's Queen of the Desert. Taxi (Jafar Panahi); Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry) and 45 Years (Andrew Haigh) are all getting excellent reviews.

Saw some very brief excerpts from "Taxi" on German TV today. With all due respect to Panahi and his situation: putting a camera on the dashboard of a car and have the passengers talk so as to create a picture of contemporary Iran sounds (and actually looked) terribly like a remake of Kiarostami's "Ten"...

Where are the reviews of Queen of Earth? The first public screening isn't even for another 13 hours...

Just going by reactions on social media. Press screening was early today but reviews can't be published until the gala screening. Life (Corbijn) screens for critics in a few hours but it's under embargo until Monday. The Wenders and Malick films screen for press on Sunday. I think they do this because most press and buyers (distributors) leave after a few days and don't stay for the whole festival.

Taxi (Jafar Panahi); Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry); 45 Years (Andrew Haigh); The Club (Pablo Larrain) and Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway) seem to be the stand out films at this year's Berlinale.

It's especially nice to see Greenaway make a comeback!

Golden Bear for Best Film
Taxi, Jafar Panahi

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
Pablo Larrain, El Club

Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for a feature film that opens new perspectives
Ixcanul, dir: Jayro Bustamante

Silver Bear for Best Director (tie)
Radu Jude, Aferim!
Małgorzata Szumowska, Body

Silver Bear for Best Actress
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years

Silver Bear for Best Actor
Tom Courtenay, 45 Years

Silver Bear for Best Script
Patricio Guzman, The Pearl Button

Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution in the categories camera, editing, music score, costumes or set design (Tie)
Sturla Brandth Grovlen, Cinematographer: Victoria
Sergey Mikhalchuk and Evgeniy Privin, Cinematographers: Under Electric Clouds

Best First Feature Award for the Best Debut Film
600 Miles, dir: Gabriel Ripstein

Audi Short Film Award
Planet Sigma, dir: Momoko Seto

Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film)
Bad At dancing, dir: Joanna arnow

Golden Bear for Best Short Film
Hosanna, dir: Na Young-kil

Very interesting that a documentary took the best screenplay prize. I'm really looking forward to Taxi; The Club and 45 Years which were all well rewarded.