The Berlinale, which this year unspooled from 10-20 February, has announced the winners of its Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino categories, along with the recipients of its numerous parallel awards.

The 24^th Panorama Audience Award for Best Feature went to Happiness (Kazakhstan) by Askar Uzabayev, whilst Love, Deutschmarks and Death [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Cem Kaya
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Next, a jury of three – consisting of Sara Fazilat, Carlotta Kittel and Henning Beckhoff – presented the Compass-Perspektive-Award for Best Film in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme. The award, consisting of a €5,000 cash prize and a trophy in the form of a compass, was bestowed upon Rebana Liz John’s Ladies Only (Germany/India).

This year’s Teddy Awards saw the triumph of Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter by Gustavo Vinagre (Brazil), crowned Best Feature Film. The movie is set in São Paulo and takes place in a dystopian near future, wherein a virus is circulating, one that mainly attacks the brain and the ability to remember.

Finally, FIPRESCI awarded four films in the main competition and in the Encounters, Panorama and Forum strands. Paolo Taviani’s Leonora addio [+leggi anche:
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Here is the list of the main parallel award winners:

Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Happiness – Askar Uzabayev (Kazakhstan)

2^nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Klondike [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maryna Er Gorbach
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3^rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Fogaréu [+leggi anche:
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Panorama Audience Award Winner - Panorama Dokumente
Love, Deutschmarks and Death [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Cem Kaya
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2^nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Panorama Dokumente
Into My Name [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nicolò Bassetti
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3^rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner Panorama Dokumente
Myanmar Diaries [+leggi anche:
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Compass-Perspektive-Award
Ladies Only – Rebana Liz John (Germany/India)

Ecumenical jury prizes

Prize Winner Competition
One Year, One Night [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Isaki Lacuesta
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Prize Winner Panorama
Klondike – Maryna Er Gorbach

Prize Winner Forum
Geographies of Solitude – Jacquelyn Mills (Canada)

FIPRESCI jury prizes

Prize Winner Competition
Leonora addio [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Paolo Taviani
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Prize Winner Encounters
Coma [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bertrand Bonello
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Prize Winner Panorama
Bettina [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lutz Pehnert
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Prize Winner Forum
Super Natural [+leggi anche:
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CICAE Art Cinema Award

Prize Winner Panorama
Convenience Store [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Michael Borodin
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Prize Winner Forum
Geographies of Solitude – Jacquelyn Mills

Guild Film Prize
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Andreas Dresen
intervista: Meltem Kaptan
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Europa Cinemas Label
Beautiful Beings [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
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Teddy Awards

Best Feature Film
Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter – Gustavo Vinagre (Brazil)

Best Documentary/Essay Film
Alis [+leggi anche:
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Best Short Film
Exalted Mars – Jean-Sébastien Chauvin (France)

Jury Award
Nelly & Nadine [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Magnus Gertten
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Caligari Film Prize
Geographies of Solitude – Jacquelyn Mills

Peace Film Prize
All Was Good – Teresa A Braggs (India)

Amnesty International Film Awards
Myanmar Diaries – The Myanmar Film Collective

Heiner Carow Prize
Rafael Starman – Gewalten (Germany)

AG Kino Gilde – Cinema Vision 14plus
Stay Awake – Jamie Sisley (USA)