The Berlinale, which this year unspooled from 15-25 February, has announced the winners of its Panorama strand, along with the recipients of its numerous parallel awards.

The 26th Panorama Audience Award for the best fiction feature went to Memories of a Burning Body [+lire aussi :
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Meanwhile, the Palestinian-Norwegian film No Other Land [+lire aussi :
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This year’s Teddy Awards saw the triumph of Ray Leung’s All Shall Be Well (Hong Kong/China), crowned Best Feature Film. In it, Patra Au Ga Man and Maggie Li Lin Lin play Angie and Pat, a well-off lesbian couple in their mid-sixties. They have lived together for 30 years in the flat Pat owns in Hong Kong. Their relationship is accepted by their friends and families, and they are valued and loved by those around them. The first turning point takes place when Pat unexpectedly dies one night.

Next, FIPRESCI awarded four films in the main competition, and in the Encounters, Panorama and Forum strands. Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha’s My Favourite Cake [+lire aussi :
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Finally, Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex [+lire aussi :
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Here is the list of the main parallel award winners:

Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Memories of a Burning Body [+lire aussi :
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2nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Crossing [+lire aussi :
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3rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
All Shall Be Well - Ray Yeung (Hong Kong/China)

Panorama Audience Award Winner – Panorama Dokumente
No Other Land [+lire aussi :
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2nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Panorama Dokumente
My Stolen Planet [+lire aussi :
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3rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner Panorama Dokumente
Teaches of Peaches [+lire aussi :
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Ecumenical jury prizes

Prize Winner Competition
My Favourite Cake [+lire aussi :
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Prize Winner Panorama
Sex [+lire aussi :
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Prize Winner Forum
Maria’s Silence [+lire aussi :
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Special Mention
Intercepted [+lire aussi :
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FIPRESCI jury prizes

Prize Winner Competition
My Favourite Cake - Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha

Prize Winner Encounters
Sleep with Your Eyes Open [+lire aussi :
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Prize Winner Panorama
Faruk [+lire aussi :
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interview : Asli Özge
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Prize Winner Forum
The Human Hibernation [+lire aussi :
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interview : Anna Cornudella
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CICAE Art Cinema Award

Prize Winner Panorama
Sex - Dag Johan Haugerud

Prize Winner Forum
Shahid [+lire aussi :
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Guild Film Prize
Dying [+lire aussi :
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Europa Cinemas Label
Sex - Dag Johan Haugerud

Teddy Awards

Best Feature Film
All Shall Be Well - Ray Yeung

Best Documentary/Essay Film
Teaches of Peaches - Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer

Best Short Film
Grandmamauntsistercat - Zuza Banasińska (Netherlands/Poland)

Jury Award
Crossing - Levan Akin

Special Teddy Award
Lothar Lambert

Caligari Film Prize
Shahid - Narges Kalhor

Peace Film Prize
Favoriten [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ruth Beckermann
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Amnesty International Film Award
The Strangers’ Case - Brandt Andersen (Jordan)

Heiner Carow Prize
Ivo [+lire aussi :
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AG Kino Gilde – Cinema Vision 14plus
Last Swim [+lire aussi :
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Honourable Mention
Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story [+lire aussi :
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