21st Berlin International Film Festival
The 21st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 6 July 1971. The Young Filmmakers Forum section was introduced at the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian film Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:- Bjørn Rasmussen writer and film critic - Jury President
- Ida Ehre actress and director of the Hamburg Kammerspiele theatre
- Walter Albuquerque Mello, co-founder of the Festival de Brasília
- Paul Claudon, producer
- Kenneth Harper, producer
- Mani Kaul, director
- Charlotte Kerr, actress, director and screenwriter
- Rex Reed, film critic
- Giancarlo Zagni, director and screenwriter
Films in competition
| English title | Original title | Director | Country |
| 1501 1/2 | Paul B. Price | USA | |
| To Love Again | 愛ふたたび Ai futatabi | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| Ang.: Lone | ' | Franz Ernst | Denmark |
| ' | Octavio Getino, Nemesio Juárez, Rodolfo Kuhn, Jorge Martín, Humberto Ríos, Eliseo Subiela and Pablo Szir | Argentina | |
| Beröringen | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, United States | |
| Bless the Beasts and Children | Stanley Kramer | USA | |
| Bloomfield | Richard Harris | United Kingdom, Israel | |
| How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman | Como Era Gostoso o Meu Francês | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil |
| Desperate Characters | Frank D. Gilroy | USA | |
| The First Day | Die ersten Tage | Herbert Holba | Austria |
| Dulcima | Frank Nesbitt | United Kingdom | |
| The Decameron | Il Decameron | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
| The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
| In continuo | Vlatko Gilić | Yugoslavia | |
| Jaider, the Lonely Hunter | Jaider, der einsame Jäger | Volker Vogeler | West Germany |
| The Cat | Le Chat | Pierre Granier-Deferre | France, Italy |
| Love Is War | Love Is War | Ragnar Lasse-Henriksen | Norway |
| Blushing Charlie | Lyckliga skitar | Vilgot Sjöman | Sweden |
| Nini Tirabusciò | Marcello Fondato | Italy, France | |
| Die Ordnung | Bohumil Stepan and Boris von Borresholm | West Germany | |
| Four Nights of a Dreamer | Quatre nuits d'un rêveur | Robert Bresson | France, Italy |
| Red Wheat | Rdeče klasje | Živojin Pavlović | Yugoslavia |
| Rendezvous at Bray | Rendez-vous à Bray | André Delvaux | France, Belgium |
| He Who Loves in a Glass House | Wer im Glashaus liebt... der Graben | Michael Verhoeven | West Germany |
| Long Live Death | Viva la muerte | Fernando Arrabal | France, Tunisia |
| Whity | Whity | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
Key
Young Filmmakers Forum
- The Murder of Fred Hampton, directed by Howard Alk
- Bananera libertad, directed by Peter von Gunten
- La bandera que levantamos, directed by Mario Jacob and Eduardo Terra
- La Bataille des dix millions, directed by Chris Marker and Valérie Mayoux
- 儀式 Gishiki, directed by Nagisa Ōshima
- Chicago 70, directed by Kerry Feltham
- Geschichten vom Kübelkind, directed by Edgar Reitz and Ula Stöckl
- Der große Verhau, directed by Alexander Kluge
- Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich, directed by Uwe Brandner
- James ou pas, directed by Michel Soutter
- Leave Me Alone, directed by Gerhard Theuring
- La memoria di Kunz, directed by Ivo Barnabò Micheli
- Monangambé, directed by Sarah Maldoror
- Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt, directed by Rosa von Praunheim
- No pincha!, directed by Tobias Engel
- Olimpia agli amici, directed by Adriano Aprà
- Ossessione, directed by Luchino Visconti
- Ostia, directed by Sergio Citti
- Remparts d'argile, directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli
- Αναπαράσταση Anaparastasi, directed by Theo Angelopoulos
- La salamandre, directed by Alain Tanner
- Счастье Schastye, directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin
- Шестая часть мира Shestaya Chast Mira, directed by Dziga Vertov
- Tropici, directed by Gianni Amico
- Umano, non umano, directed by Mario Schifano
- Voto + fusil, directed by Helvio Soto
- وشمة Wechma, directed by Hamid Benani
- The Woman's Film, directed by Louise Alaimo, Judy Smith and Ellen Sorren
- , directed by Dušan Makavejev
Awards
- Golden Bear: Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini by Vittorio De Sica
- Silver Bear for Best Actress:
- * Simone Signoret for Le Chat
- * Shirley MacLaine for Desperate Characters
- Silver Bear for Best Actor: Jean Gabin for Le Chat
- Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement:
- * Ragnar Lasse-Henriksen for Love Is War
- * Frank D. Gilroy for Desperate Characters
- Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize: Il Decameron by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Special Recognition: by Franz Ernst