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The Berlin film festival began in 1951

Its top prize takes its name from the bear on Berlin's coat of arms The Berlin International Film Festival held its first edition in June 1951 as a showcase for free world cinema in a divided city. Its top prize, the Golden Bear, takes the bear from Berlin's coat of arms. The festival later became a major venue for political and art cinema. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Its top prize takes its name from the bear on Berlin's coat of arms. The figure is taken from Berlinale, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.