60th Berlin International Film Festival
The 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11–21 February 2010, with Werner Herzog as President of the Jury. The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an's romantic drama Apart Together, in competition, while the closing film is Japanese director Yoji Yamada's About Her Brother, which was screened out of competition. The Golden Bear went to Turkish film Bal directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu. A new record attendance was established with 282,000 sold tickets, according to the organizers. A restored version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis was also shown at the festival.
Jury
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:International jury
- Werner Herzog, director and screenwriter - Jury President
- Francesca Comencini, director and screenwriter
- Nuruddin Farah, writer
- Cornelia Froboess, actress and singer
- José María Morales, producer
- Yu Nan, actress
- Renée Zellweger, actress
- Michael Verhoeven, actor, director and screenwriter
- Ben Foster, actor
- Lorna Tee, producer
- Zita Carvalhosa, producer
- Max Dax, publisher and producer
- Samm Haillay, producer
In competition
| Title | Director | Country |
| Apart Together | Wang Quan'an | China |
| Bal | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Turkey |
| Caterpillar | Kōji Wakamatsu | Japan |
| Der Räuber | Benjamin Heisenberg | Germany |
| En Familie | Pernille Fischer Christensen | Denmark |
| En ganske snill mann | Hans Petter Moland | Norway |
| Eu când vreau să fluier, fluier | Florin Șerban | Romania |
| Greenberg | Noah Baumbach | USA |
| Howl | Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | USA |
| Kak ya provyol etim letom | Alexei Popogrebski | Russia |
| Oskar Roehler | Austria, Germany | |
| Mammuth | Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern | France |
| Na putu | Jasmila Žbanić | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Germany, Croatia |
| Rompecabezas | Natalia Smirnoff | Argentina, France |
| San qiang pai an jing qi | Zhang Yimou | China |
| Shahada | Burhan Qurbani | Germany |
| Shekarchi | Rafi Pitts | Iran, Germany |
| Submarino | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | France, Germany, UK |
| The Killer Inside Me | Michael Winterbottom | USA |
Out of competition
The following films made their international debut by screening out of competition at the festival:| Title | Director | Country |
| About Her Brother | Yoji Yamada | Japan |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop | Banksy | UK |
| My Name Is Khan | Karan Johar | India |
| Please Give | Nicole Holofcener | USA |
| Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man | Constantin Popescu | Romania |
| The Kids are All Right | Lisa Cholodenko | USA |
| Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese | USA |
Key
Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:Golden Bear for Best Film: Bal by Semih Kaplanoğlu
Silver Bears:
- Jury Grand Prix: Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier by Florin Șerban
- Best Director: Roman Polanski for The Ghost Writer
- Best Actress: Shinobu Terajima for Caterpillar
- Best Actor: Grigoriy Dobrygin and Sergei Puskepalis for How I Ended This Summer
- Best Script: Jin Na and Wang Quan'an for Apart Together
- Outstanding Artistic Contribution : Pavel Kostomarov for Kak ya provel etim letom
- Alfred Bauer Prize: Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier by Florin Șerban
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- Hanna Schygulla
- Echoes of the Rainbow
- Neukölln Unlimited
- Yoji Yamada
- Ulrich Gregor and Erika Gregor
- Fine Art Foundry Noack