Karim Aïnouz’s “Rosebush Pruning,” Ilker Çatak’s “Yellow Letters” and Lance Hammer’s “Queen at Sea” are among the films hoping for gold as the 76th Berlin Film Festival wraps with tonight’s awards ceremony. Awards will be presented in the festival’s main Competition, with jury head Wim Wenders presiding, as well as in separately juried competitions for short films, documentaries and first features. This post will be updated live with the winners, as they are announced.
Meanwhile, films such as Faraz Sharia’s courtroom drama “Prosecution” and Fernando Eimbcke’s family study “Flies” are among the multiple prizewinners from the festival’s various independently juried awards, listed in full below.
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED:
PANORAMA AUDIENCE AWARDS
Audience Award (Fiction): “Prosecution,” Faraz Sharia
First Runner-up: “Four Minus Three,” Adrian Goiginger
Second Runner-up: “Mouse,” Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson
Audience Award (Documentary): “Traces,” Alisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk
First Runner-up: “The Other Side of the Sun,” Tawfik Sabouni
Second Runner-up: “Bucks Harbor,” Pete Muller
GENERATION COMPETITION
International Jury
Grand Prix for the Best Film in Generation Kplus: “Gugu’s World,” Allan Deberton
Special Mention: “Atlas of the Universe,” Paul Negoescu
Special Prize for the Best Short Film in Generation Kplus: “Spi,” Navroz Shaban
Special Mention: “Under the Wave off Little Dragon,” Luo Jian
Grand Prix for the Best Film in Generation 14plus: “Sad Girlz,” Fernanda Tovar
Special Mention: “Matapanki,” Diego Mapache Fuentes
Special Prize for the Best Short Film in Generation 14plus: “The Thread,” Fenn O’Meally
Special Mention: “Memories of a Window,” Mehraneh Salimian and Amin Pakparvar
Youth Jury
Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation Kplus: “Gugu’s World,” Allan Deberton
Special Mention: “Not a Hero,” Rima Das
Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film in Generation Kplus: “Whale 52 – Suite for Man, Boy, and Whale,” Daniel Neiden
Special Mention: “Under the Wave off Little Dragon,” Luo Jian
Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation 14plus: “Sad Girlz,” Fernanda Tovar
Special Mention: “A Family,” Mees Peijnenburg
Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film in Generation 14plus: ”Memories of a Window,” Mehraneh Salimian and Amin Pakparvar
Special Mention: ”Nobody Knows the World,” Roddy Dextre
TEDDY AWARDS
Best Feature Film: “Ivan & Hadoum,” Ian de la Rosa
Best Documentary: “Barbara Forever,” Brydie O’Connor
Best Short Film: “Taxi Moto,” Gaël Kamilindi
Jury Award: “Trial of Hein,” Kai Stänicke
Special Award: Céline Sciamma
FIPRESCI AWARDS
Competition: “Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars,” Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Perspectives: “Animol,” Ashley Walters
Panorama: “Narciso,” Marcelo Martinessi
Forum: “AnyMart,” Yusuke Iwasaki
ECUMENICAL JURY AWARDS
Competition: “Flies,” Fernando Eimbcke
Panorama: “Bucks Harbor,” Pete Muller
Forum: “River Dreams,“ Kristina Mikhailova
LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS AWARD
“Four Minus Three,” Adrian Goiginger
PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ARTHOUSE CINEMAS
“Yellow Letters,” İlker Çatak
Special Mention: “The Loneliest Man in Town,” Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
READERS’ JURIES
Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Award: “Flies,” Fernando Eimbcke
Tagesspiegel Readers’ Award: “I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival,” Janaína Marques
CALIGARI FILM PRIZE
“If Pigeons Turned to Gold,” Pepa Lubojacki
PEACE FILM PRIZE
“Tutu,” Sam Pollard
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDd
“What Will I Become?,” Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos
HEINER CAROW PRIZE
“Prosecution,” Faraz Shariat
PRIZE AG KINO – GILDE – CINEMA VISION 14PLUS
“What Will I Become?,” Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos
Special Mention: ”Sunny Dancer,” George Jaques
C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award
“Prosecution,” Faraz Shariat
“On Our Own,” Tudor Cristian Jurgiu