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 [+leggi anche:
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Meanwhile, the Palestinian-Norwegian film No Other Land [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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Finally, Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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2nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Crossing [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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2nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Panorama Dokumente
My Stolen Planet [+leggi anche:
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3rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner Panorama Dokumente
Teaches of Peaches [+leggi anche:
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Ecumenical jury prizes

Prize Winner Competition
My Favourite Cake [+leggi anche:
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Prize Winner Panorama
Sex [+leggi anche:
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Prize Winner Forum
Maria’s Silence [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dāvis Sīmanis
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Special Mention
Intercepted [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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Prize Winner Panorama
Faruk [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Asli Özge
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Prize Winner Forum
The Human Hibernation [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anna Cornudella
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CICAE Art Cinema Award

Prize Winner Panorama
Sex - Dag Johan Haugerud

Prize Winner Forum
Shahid [+leggi anche:
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Guild Film Prize
Dying [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Matthias Glasner
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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ruth Beckermann
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Amnesty International Film Award
The Strangers’ Case - Brandt Andersen (Jordan)

Heiner Carow Prize
Ivo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Eva Trobisch, Adrian Campean
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AG Kino Gilde – Cinema Vision 14plus
Last Swim [+leggi anche:
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Honourable Mention
Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story [+leggi anche:
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