Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn 2021

Missing:
Caps (Capace) 2017
Loverboy, 2011

Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the year-end Top Ten lists. Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse. (We do include unranked lists of 11-20 titles, though each film gets just one-half of a point.) In case of a tie for first or second, each film will receive the full points for that position.
https://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critics-pick-10-best-movies-of-2021
Updated: 2022-01-23

Full list at https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/50-best-films-2021

Movies where the nudity is highly rated

Up to 400 films are shown every year as part of the Berlinale's public programme, the vast majority of which are world or European premieres. Films of every genre, length and format can be submitted for consideration. The Golden Bear (German Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film shown during this festival.

Source:
https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2017/03_preistrger_2017/03_preistraeger_2017.html

Source:
Years 1931-2018 come from:
The New York Times: Book of Movies
the essential 1,000 films to see
2019 ed

Years after 2018 come from NYT website.

work in progress
There are discrepancies between the website and the book, particular for years after 2003. Please leave a comment for any errors you find.

71st Berlin International Film Festival:
- 01-15: Competition
- 16-26: Berlinale Special
- 27-38: Encounters
- 39-57: Panorama
- 58-74: Forum
- 75-89: Generation
- 90-95: Perspektive Deutsches Kino
- 96-115: Berlinale Shorts

Awards:
- Competition Golden Bear: 01 - Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Radu Jude).
- Competition Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: 02 - Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Ryusuke Hamaguchi).
- Competition Silver Bear Jury Prize: 15 - Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth).
- Competition Silver Bear For Best Director: 03 - Natural Light (Dénes Nagy).
- Competition Silver Bear Best Leading Performance: 04 - I’m Your Man (Maren Eggert).
- Competition Silver Bear Best Supporting Performance: 05 - Forest: I See You Everywhere (Lilla Kizlinger).
- Competition Silver Bear Best Screenplay: 06 - Introduction (Hong Sangsoo).
- Competition Silver Bear Outstanding Artistic Contribution: 07 - A Cop Movie (Yibrán Asuad - editing).
- Encounters Best Film: 36 - We (Alice Diop).
- Encounters Special Jury Award: 27 - Taste (Lê Bảo).
- Encounters Best Director (ex-aequo): 28 - The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher).
- Encounters Best Director (ex-aequo): 29 - Social Hygiene (Denis Côté).
- Encounters Special Mention: 37 - Rock Bottom Riser (Fern Silva).
- Generation Grand Prix for the Best Film in the Kplus competition: 75 - Summer Blur (Han Shuai).
- Generation Grand Prix for the Best Film in the 14plus competition: 76 - The Fam (von Fred Baillif).
- Generation Special Mention in the Kplus competition: 77 - A School in Cerro Hueso (Betania Cappato).
- Generation Special Mention in the 14plus competition: 78 - Cryptozoo (Dash Shaw).
- GWFF Best First Feature Award: 30 - The Scary of Sixty-First Dasha Nekrasova).
- Berlinale Documentary Award: 39 - The Last Forest.
- Short Film Golden Bear: 96 - My Uncle Tudor (Olga Lucovnicova).
- Short Film Silver Bear Jury Prize: 97 - Day is Done (von Zhang Dalei).
- Short Film Berlin Candidate for the European Film Awards: 98 - Easter Eggs (Nicolas Keppens).
- Berlinale Competition Audience Award: 15 - Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth).
- Panorama Audience Awards: 39 - The Last Forest.
- FIPRESCI Prize Competition: 08 - What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze).
- FIPRESCI Prize Encounters: 28 - The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher).
- FIPRESCI Prize Panorama: 40 - Brother‘s Keeper (Ferit Karahan).
- FIPRESCI Prize Forum: 73 - Ski (Manque La Banca).
- Compass-Perspektive Award: 90 - Instructions for Survival.

Updated at 2024-05-27

Films showing during the Zürich Film Festival 2021.

https://zff.com/en/programme/

Movies about labor movements, civil rights struggles, anti-war efforts, or community organizing. These movies often blend strong narrative storytelling with a deep exploration of social and political themes, providing viewers with not just a compelling story, but also a thought-provoking examination of the human condition and the power of collective action.

Berlino

A list of my favorite movies

Notable Foreign Films

2021 would seem like the strangest year for moviegoing in all of our respective lifetimes were it not for 2020. Things didn’t exactly return to normal over the last 12 months; we’re still very much in a pandemic, and in fact are facing the very real possibility of a return to strict lockdown conditions, if those Omicron numbers are any indication. But thanks to the rollout of vaccines (and subsequent booster shots), movie theaters did scrape out some wins, welcoming audiences again with all the blockbusters delayed over the previous year. Those looking for symbolic evidence that #MoviesAreBack could find it in the triumphant return of James Bond, suiting up for a climactic adventure on the big screen, 18 months after the dramatic announcement that No Time To Die would not be coming soon to a theater near anyone.

Movies never left, of course. Not really. We got plenty of fine ones last year, when theaters were mostly dormant or sparsely occupied, and plenty more over the course of 2021, regardless of fluctuating attendance numbers. As in any other year, most of the films on The A.V. Club’s best-of list were not the kind of major-studio productions mounting some measure of comeback right now; only one of the 25 films in our ranked rundown had a giant budget, and its spectacle was more song-and-dance than cape-and-cowl. You want superheroes? Look for them on the box office charts, not here.

So what did our 10 ballot-filing contributors gravitate towards instead? Westerns and musicals. Anthology projects and stage adaptations. A joyous concert film and a melancholy animated documentary. If these movies had anything in common beyond their general excellence, it was the opportunity to see each of them on the big screen—a once-normal privilege that became an abnormal (and sometimes stressful) treat in 2021, and which we hope won’t become a total pleasure of the past, again, in 2022.

https://www.avclub.com/the-best-films-of-2021-1848243866

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The Goldener Bär is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin, featured on both the coat of arms and flag of Berlin. The winners of the first Berlin International Film Festival in 1951 were determined by a German panel, and there were five winners of the Golden Bear, divided by categories and genres. Between 1952 and 1955, the winners of the Golden Bear were determined by the audience members. In 1956, the FIAPF (Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films) formally accredited the festival, and since then the Golden Bear has been awarded by an international jury.