21/02/2022 - BERLINALE 2022: The festival has also announced the winners of Perspektive Deutsches Kino, alongside the recipients of the other parallel awards decided on by independent juries

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 [+see also:
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interview: Cem Kaya
film profile] by Cem Kaya was the victor in the Panorama Dokumente category. The prizes are awarded by the Berlinale Panorama section together with radioeins and rbb Television (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg). In Happiness, the main character wears orange for her job as an influencer, and a broad smile. The “Happiness” brand is her doctrine, but her home is a dark place where brute force has ruled for years. This film shows us what it costs to escape the trap of misogyny. Meanwhile, Kaya’s documentary Love, Deutschmarks and Death celebrates 60 years of Turkish music in Germany. During the Berlinale, all cinemagoers were invited to rate the films in the section on a voting card. In total, around 8,000 votes were cast and evaluated.

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 [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Taviani
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interview: Bertrand Bonello
film profile] (France), Jorge Jácome’s Super Natural [+see also:
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film profile] and Lutz Pehnert’s Bettina [+see also:
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interview: Lutz Pehnert
film profile] (Germany) won the Jury Prizes in the Encounters, Forum and Panorama categories, respectively.

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 [+see also:
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interview: Maryna Er Gorbach
film profile] – Maryna Er Gorbach (Ukraine/Turkey)

3^rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Fogaréu [+see also:
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Panorama Audience Award Winner - Panorama Dokumente
Love, Deutschmarks and Death [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Cem Kaya
film profile] – Cem Kaya (Germany)

2^nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Panorama Dokumente
Into My Name [+see also:
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interview: Nicolò Bassetti
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3^rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner Panorama Dokumente
Myanmar Diaries [+see also:
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Compass-Perspektive-Award
Ladies Only – Rebana Liz John (Germany/India)

Ecumenical jury prizes

Prize Winner Competition
One Year, One Night [+see also:
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interview: 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 [+see also:
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interview: Paolo Taviani
film profile] – Paolo Taviani (Italy)

Prize Winner Encounters
Coma [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Bertrand Bonello
film profile] – Bertrand Bonello (France)

Prize Winner Panorama
Bettina [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Lutz Pehnert
film profile] – Lutz Pehnert (Germany)

Prize Winner Forum
Super Natural [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] – Jorge Jácome (Portugal)

CICAE Art Cinema Award

Prize Winner Panorama
Convenience Store [+see also:
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interview: Michael Borodin
film profile] – Michael Borodin (Russia/Slovenia/Turkey)

Prize Winner Forum
Geographies of Solitude – Jacquelyn Mills

Guild Film Prize
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush [+see also:
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interview: Andreas Dresen
interview: Meltem Kaptan
film profile] – Andreas Dresen (Germany/France)

Europa Cinemas Label
Beautiful Beings [+see also:
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interview: Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson
film profile] – Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/ Netherlands/Czech Republic)

Teddy Awards

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

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

Jury Award
Nelly & Nadine [+see also:
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interview: Magnus Gertten
film profile] – Magnus Gertten (Sweden/Belgium/Norway)

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)