12th Berlin International Film Festival
The 12th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June – 3 July 1962. The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film A Kind of Loving directed by John Schlesinger.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:International feature film jury
- King Vidor, director, screenwriter and producer - Jury President
- André Michel, director and screenwriter
- Emeric Pressburger, director, screenwriter and producer
- Hideo Kikumori, film critic
- Dolores del Río, actress
- Jurgen Schildt, film critic
- Max Gammeter, president of Filmgilde Biel
- Günther Stapenhorst, producer
- Bruno E. Werner, writer and art critic
- Olavi Linnus, writer and screenwriter - Jury President
- Dorothy Macpherson, art film curator
- Abdellah Masbahi, screenwriter
- Karl-Otto Alberty, actor
- Pia Maria Plechl, journalist and writer
- Fridolin Schmid, producer and director of Film and Picture Institute, Munich
- A. L. Srinivasan, producer
Films in competition
| English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| A Kind of Loving | John Schlesinger | United Kingdom | |
| Wife Number 13 | الزوجة ١٣ Al zouga talattashar | Fatin Abdel Wahab | Egypt |
| Badai-Selatan | Sofia W. D. | Indonesia | |
| Under the Same Skin | Bajo un mismo rostro | Daniel Tinayre | Argentina |
| Redhead | Die Rote | Helmut Käutner | West Germany, Italy |
| Give Me Ten Desperate Men | Donnez-moi dix hommes désespérés | Pierre Zimmer | France, Israel |
| The Duel | Duellen | Knud Leif Thomsen | Denmark |
| The Backet-maker and the Miracle | El tejedor de milagros | Francisco del Villar | Mexico |
| Galapagos | Galapagos – Trauminsel im Pazifik | Heinz Sielmann | West Germany |
| Hum Dono | हम दोनों Hum Dono | Amarjeet | India |
| A Train Leaves in Every Hour | Il y a un train toutes les heures | André Cavens | Belgium |
| To the Last Day | 이 생명 다하도록 Isaengmyeong dahadorok | Sang-ok Shin | South Korea |
| The End of Summer | 小早川家の秋, Kohayagawa-ke no aki | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan |
| Love at Twenty | L'Amour à vingt ans | François Truffaut, Andrzej Wajda, Renzo Rossellini, Shintarō Ishihara and Marcel Ophüls | France, Italy, West Germany, Poland, Japan |
| She Got What She Asked For | La bellezza di Ippolita | Giancarlo Zagni | Italy |
| La Poupée | Jacques Baratier | France, Italy | |
| La steppa | Alberto Lattuada | Italy, France, Yugoslavia | |
| The Elusive Corporal | Le Caporal épinglé | Jean Renoir | France |
| The Robbers | Los atracadores | Francisco Rovira Beleta | Spain |
| A Full Life | 充たされた生活 Mitasareta seikatsu | Susumu Hani | Japan |
| Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Henry Koster | USA | |
| Without Date | Ohne Datum | Ottomar Domnick | West Germany |
| No Exit | Tad Danielewski | USA, Argentina | |
| The Unscrupulous Ones | Os Cafajestes | Ruy Guerra | Brazil |
| Out of the Tiger's Mouth | Tim Whelan, Jr. | USA | |
| Little Presents | Pikku Pietarin piha | Jack Witikka | Finland |
| Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | Italy | |
| Through a Glass Darkly | Såsom i en spegel | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| The Hands | Ta heria | John G. Contes | Greece |
| Tonny | Nils R. Müller and Per Gjersøe | Norway |
Key
Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:International jury awards
- Golden Bear: A Kind of Loving by John Schlesinger
- Silver Bear for Best Director: Francesco Rosi for Salvatore Giuliano
- Silver Bear for Best Actress: Rita Gam and Viveca Lindfors for No Exit
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: James Stewart for Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
- Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize: Isaengmyeong dahadorok by Sang-ok Shin
- Silver Bear, special award : Galapagos - Trauminsel im Pazifik by Heinz Sielmann
- Short Film Golden Bear: De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel by Jan Vrijman
- Silver Bear for Best Short Film: Le Grand Magal de Touba by Blaise Senghor
- Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize: ex aequo
The Ancestors by André Libik
Venedig by Kurt Steinwendner
' by Franz Baake
Independent jury awards'
- FIPRESCI Award
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