Natural Light 2021

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.

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The Guardian's countdown of the best films released in the UK during 2021

List compiled from: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/30/the-50-best-films-of-2021-in-the-uk

Ranked as in the list (since there are 2 films at #17, the list actually includes 51 films)

1: The Power of the Dog
2: The Green Knight
3: Petite Maman
4: Drive My Car
5: Nomadland
6: Dune
7: West Side Story
8: Azor
9: The Lost Daughter
10: The Tragedy of Macbeth
11: The Father
12: First Cow
13: No Time to Die
14: Dear Comrades!
15: Minari
16: Quo Vadis, Aida?
17: Getting Away with Murder(s)
18: The Humans
19: Summer of Soul
20: Limbo
21: After Love
22: The Story of Looking
23: Passing
24: Identifying Features
25: Palm Springs
26: The Killing of Two Lovers
27: The World to Come
28: tick, tick … BOOM!
29: Procession
30: The Nest
31: Ammonite
32: Rose Plays Julie
33: I Care a Lot
34: House of Gucci
35: The Velvet Underground
36: Never Gonna Snow Again
37: Censor
38: Annette
39: New Order
40: The Reason I Jump
41: Souad
42: Black Bear
43: Martin Eden
44: C’mon C’mon
45: Shiva Baby
46: State Funeral
47: Titane
48: Last Night in Soho
49: Natural Light
50: Boiling Point
51: Promising Young Woman

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