Short Film Golden Bear
Award
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The Golden Bear for the Best Short Film (German: Goldener Bär für den Besten Kurzfilm) is the top prize for the short film competition of the Berlin International Film Festival.
| Golden Bear for the Best Short Film | |
|---|---|
| Goldener Bär (German) | |
2026 recipient: Marie-Rose Osta | |
| Location | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Presented by | Berlin International Film Festival |
| First award | 1956 |
| Winner | Someday a Child by Marie-Rose Osta |
| Website | www |
Winners
1950s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Paris at Night | Paris la nuit | Jacques Baratier & Jean Valère | France |
| 1957 | Distant People | Gente lontana | Lionetto Fabbri | Italy |
| 1958 | La lunga raccolta | Lionetto Fabbri | Italy | |
| 1959 | Praise the Sea | Prijs de zee | Herman van der Horst | Netherlands |
1960s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Dream of the Wild Horses | Le songe des chevaux sauvages | Denys Colomb de Daunant | France |
| 1961 | Gesicht von der Stange? | Raimund Ruehl | West Germany | |
| 1962 | The Reality of Karel Appel | De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel | Jan Vrijman | Netherlands |
| 1963 | Bowspelement | Charles Huguenot van der Linden | Netherlands | |
| 1964 | Kirdi | Max Lersch | Austria | |
| 1965 | Yeats Country | Patrick Carey | Ireland, United Kingdom | |
| 1966 | Knud | Jørgen Roos | Denmark | |
| 1967 | Through the Eyes of a Painter | M. F. Husain | India | |
| 1968 | Portrait: Orson Welles | François Reichenbach & Frédéric Rossif | France | |
| 1969 | To See or Not to See | Psychocratie | Bretislav Pojar | Canada[1] |
1970s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 1501 ½ | Paul B. Price | United States | |
| 1972 | Flyaway | Robin Lehman | United Kingdom | |
| 1973 | Colter's Hell | |||
| 1974 | The Concert | Claude Chagrin | ||
| 1975 | See | Robin Lehman | ||
| 1976 | Horu - munakata shiko no sekai | Takeo Yanagawa | Japan | |
| 1977 | Ortsfremd... wohnhaft vormals Mainzerlandstraße | Hedda Rinneberg and Hans Sachs | West Germany | |
| 1978 | Co jsme udelali slepicím | Vladimír Jiránek and Josef Hekrdle | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1979 | Ubu | Geoff Dunbar | United Kingdom | |
1980s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | The Heads | Hlavy | Petr Sís | Czechoslovakia |
| 1981 | History of the World in Three Minutes Flat | Michael Mills | Canada[2] | |
| 1982 | The Puppet, A Friend of Man | Loutka, přítel člověka | Ivan Renč | Czechoslovakia |
| 1983 | Dimensions of Dialogue | Možnosti dialogu | Jan Švankmajer | |
| 1984 | The Bicycle Symphony | Cykelsymfonien | Åke Sandgren | Denmark, Sweden |
| 1985 | From the Reports of Security Guards & Patrol Services Part 1 | Nr. 1 - Aus Berichten der Wach- und Patrouillendienste | Helke Sander | West Germany |
| 1986 | Tom Goes to the Bar | Dean Parisot | United States | |
| 1987 | Curriculum vitae | Pavel Koutský | Czechoslovakia | |
| 1988 | Oblast | Zdravko Barišić | Yugoslavia | |
| 1989 | Pas à deux | Monique Renault and Gerrit van Dijk | Netherlands | |
1990s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Mister Tao | Bruno Bozzetto | Italy | |
| 1991 | Six Point Nine | Dan Bootzin | United States | |
| 1993 | Bolero | Ivan Maximov | Russia | |
| 1994 | Ashes | Hamu | Ferenc Cakó | Hungary |
| 1995 | Repeat | Repete | Michaela Pavlátová | Czech Republic |
| 1996 | The Arrival of the Train | Pribitie poezda | Andrei Zhelezniakov | Russia |
| 1997 | The Latest News | Senaste Nytt | Per Carleson | Sweden |
| 1998 | I Move, So I Am | Ik beweeg, dus ik besta | Gerrit van Dijk | Netherlands |
| 1999 | Faraon | Sergei Ovcharov | Russia | |
| Masks | Maski | Piotr Karwas | Germany | |
2000s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Tribute to Alfred Lepetit | Hommage à Alfred Lepetit | Jean Rousselot | France | |
| 2001 | Black Soul | Âme noire | Martine Chartrand | Canada | [3] |
| 2002 | At Dawning | Martin Jones | United Kingdom | ||
| 2003 | (A)Torsion | (A)Torzija | Stefan Arsenijević | Slovenia | |
| 2004 | Cigarettes and Coffee | Un cartus de kent si un pachet de cafea | Cristi Puiu | Romania | [4] |
| 2005 | Milk | Peter Mackie Burns | United Kingdom | [5] | |
| 2006 | Never Like the First Time! | Aldrig som första gången! | Jonas Odell | Sweden | [6] |
| 2007 | Contact | Raak | Hanro Smitsman | Netherlands | [7] |
| 2008 | A Good Day for a Swim | O zi buna de plaja | Bogdan Mustață | Romania | [8] |
| 2009 | Please Say Something | David O'Reilly | Ireland | [9] | |
2010s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Incident by a Bank | Händelse vid bank | Ruben Östlund | Sweden | [10] |
| 2011 | Night Fishing | 파란만장 | Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-kyong | South Korea | [11] |
| 2012 | Rafa | João Salaviza | Portugal | [12] | |
| 2013 | The Runaway | La fugue | Jean-Bernard Marlin | France | [13] |
| 2014 | As Long As Shotguns Remain | Tant qu'il nous reste des fusils à pompe | Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel | France | [14] |
| 2015 | Hosanna | Young-kil Na | South Korea | [15] | |
| 2016 | Batrachian's Ballad | Balada de um Batráquio | Leonor Teles | Portugal | [16] |
| 2017 | Small Town | Cidade Pequena | Diogo Costa Amarante | [17] | |
| 2018 | The Men Behind the Wall | Inés Moldavsky | Israel | [18] | |
| 2019 | Umbra | Florian Fischer & Johannes Krell | Germany | [19] | |
2020s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | T | Keisha Rae Witherspoon | United States | [20] | |
| 2021 | My Uncle Tudor | Nanu Tudor | Olga Lucovnicova | Moldova | [21] |
| 2022 | Trap | Anastasia Veber | Russia, Lithuania | [22] | |
| 2023 | Les Chenilles | Michelle Keserwany and Noel Keserwany | France | [23] | |
| 2024 | An Odd Turn | Un movimiento extraño | Francisco Lezama | Argentina | [24] |
| 2025 | Lloyd Wong, Unfinished | Lesley Loksi Chan | Canada | [25] | |
| 2026 | Someday a Child | Yawman ma walad | Marie-Rose Osta | France, Romania, Lebanon | [26] |