The Golden Bear is the top prize for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival, known as the Berlinale, one of the major European film festivals alongside Cannes and Venice. The statuette takes the form of the bear that is the symbol of Berlin. The festival began in West Berlin in 1951, partly as a showcase of Western film during the Cold War, and has been held every year since, usually in February. The prize has gone to films from around the world, among them Asghar Farhadi's A Separation and Gianfranco Rosi's Fire at Sea, and its jury chooses among the competition entries.
Before and after
- 2 November 1950Death of George Bernard Shaw
- 4 November 1950European Convention on Human Rights
- from 27 November 1950 to 13 December 1950Battle of Changjin Reservoir
- 14 December 1950Founding of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- 1951Golden Bear
- 1951Founding of Goethe-Institut
- 1951First edition of Sanremo Music Festival
- 1951Founding of International Organization for Migration
- from 1951 to 2009Founding of European Communities
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- 15 August 1947India and Pakistan become independent
- 10 December 1948Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- from 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953Korean War
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