35th Berlin International Film Festival

The 35th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1985. The retrospective was dedicated to Special effects.

The Golden Bear was jointly awarded awarded to The Woman and the Strangler directed by Rainer Simon and Wetherby directed by David Hare.

Juries
The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival:
 * Jean Marais, French actor - Jury President
 * Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
 * Alberto Sordi, Italian actor and filmmaker
 * Regimantas Adomaitis, Soviet actor
 * Sheila Benson, American journalist and film critic
 * Wolfgang Kohlhaase, East German writer
 * Onat Kutlar, Turkish poet, essayist and screenwriter
 * Luis Megino, Spanish writer and producer
 * Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart, West-German head of the Goethe-Institut of New York
 * Chris Sievernich, West-German producer
 * István Szabó, Hungarian filmmaker

Main Competition
The following films were in competition for the Golden Bear:

Out of competition

 * 2010: The Year We Make Contact, directed by Peter Hyams (United States)
 * Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam (United Kingdom)
 * Country, directed by Richard Pearce (United States)
 * Grünstein's Clever Move, directed by Bernhard Wicki (West Germany)
 * Niemanns Zeit – Ein deutscher Heimatfilm, directed by Horst Kurnitzky and Marion Schmid (West Germany)
 * International Military Tribunal for the Far East, directed by Masaki Kobayashi (Japan)
 * Yamaha yudang, directed by Liang Zhang (China)

Retrospective
The following films were shown in the retrospective "Special Effects":

Official Awards
The following prizes were awarded by the Jury:
 * Golden Bear:
 * The Woman and the Strangler by Rainer Simon
 * Wetherby by David Hare
 * Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize: Flowers of Reverie by László Lugossy
 * Silver Bear for Best Director: Robert Benton for Places in the Heart
 * Silver Bear for Best Actress: Jo Kennedy for Wrong World
 * Silver Bear for Best Actor: Fernando Fernán Gómez for Stico
 * Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement: Tolomush Okeyev for The Descendant of Snow Leopard
 * Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution: Ronja Rövardotter
 * Honourable Mention:
 * Damiano Damiani for Pizza Connection
 * Les enfants
 * Tarık Akan for Pehlivan

FIPRESCI Award

 * Tōkyō saiban by Masaki Kobayashi

Literature

 * Brigitte Tast: Als Farbe das Grau, als Format der Innenblick. 35. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin 1985, Schellerten 2014, ISBN 978-3-88842-045-0