by Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE

The winners of jury prizes at the 2005 Berlinale were announced at a brief press conference today with festival competition jury president Roland Emmerich and jurors Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Bai Ling, Franka Potente, Wouter Barendrecht, Nino Cerruti, and Andrei Kurkov.

The Golden Bear went to Marc Dornford-May's South African film "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha" an adaption of the opera "Carmen" set in a South African township and translated into the Xhosa language.

Noted cinematographer Gu Changwei's directorial debut "Kong que" (Peacock), from the People's Republic of China, won the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix. It is a portrayal of daily life within a small-town working class family in China between 1977 and 1984.

[A scene from "U-Carmen eKhayelitsha", image provided by the Berlinale.]

Marc Rothemund won the Silver Bear for best director for the German film "Sophie Scholl - Die Letzen Tage" (Sophie Scholl - The Final Days), with actress Julia Jentsch winning the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in the film, set in Germany in the spring of 1943 as a young student who faces a trial by the Nazis.

Lou Taylor Pucci, star of Mike Mills' U.S. film "Thumbsucker" won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. He was also honored for his acting last month at the Sundance Film Festival for his role as a teenager who voraciously sucks his thumb.

Tsai Ming Liang won a Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution for "Tian Bian Yi Duo Yun" (The Wayward Cloud) and was also awarded the festivals Alfred Bauer Prize, presented in memory of the Berlinale founder and recognizing a movie for "taking the art of film in a new direction."

Alexandre Desplat won the Silver Bear for Best Film Music for his work on "De Battre Mon Coeur S'Est Arrete" (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) by Jacques Audiard.

The AGICOA Blue Angel Award for best European film went to Hany Abu-Assad's "Paradise Now".

The Panorama Audience Award, chosen by attendees of the popular Panorama section of the festival, went to "Va, Vis Et Deviens" (Live and Become), directed by Radu Mihaieanu. "Hoi Maya" (Hi Maya), directed by Claudia Lorenz won the Panorama short film audience prize.

The Wolfgang Staudte Prize for best film in the Forum section of the festival went to "Yan Mo" (Before the Flood), directed by Yan Yu and Li Yifan.

Friday night in Berlin, the Teddy Award jury announced the winners of the prizes for the best queer films at the 2005 Berlinale. Anahi Berneri won the Teddy for Best Feature for "Un Año Sin Amor" (A Year Without Love). The Teddy for Best Documentary went to "Katzenball" (Feline Masquerade), directed by Veronika Minder. And the Teddy for best short went to Jay Duplass for "The Intervention". The Siegessaule Reader's Prize for best queer film went to Duncan Tucker's "Transamerica".

Numerous other prizes were also announced here in Berlin, they include:

Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film (Kinderfilmfest): "Bluebird", directed by Mijke de Jong

Crystal Bear for Best Feature Film (14 Plus): "Voces Inocentes" (Innocent Voices) directed by Luis Mandoki

FIPRESCI Prize (Competition): "Tian Bian Yi Duo Yun" (The Wayward Cloud), directed by Tsai Ming Liang

FIPRESCI Prize (Panorama): "Massker" (Massacre), directed by Monika Borgmann, Lokman Slim, Hermann Theissen

FIPRESCI Prize (Forum): "Niu Pi" (Oxhide), directed by Liu Jiayin

Berliner Morgenpost Reader's Prize: "Paradise Now", directed by Hany Abu-Assad

The complete list of award winners is available on the Berlinale website.