The Berlinale, which this year unspools from 13-23 February, has announced the winners of its Panorama strand, along with the recipients of its numerous parallel awards.

The 27th Panorama Audience Award for Best Fiction Feature went to Deaf [+lire aussi :
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Meanwhile, Martina Priessner’s The Moelln Letters [+lire aussi :
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Among the other prominent European victors of the independent awards are Dag Johan Haugerud’s final instalment in his trilogy, Dreams (Sex Love) [+lire aussi :
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Here is the list of the main parallel award winners:

Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Deaf [+lire aussi :
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2nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Lesbian Space Princess - Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese (Australia)

3rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Feature Film
Home Sweet Home [+lire aussi :
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Panorama Audience Award Winner – Documentary
The Moelln Letters [+lire aussi :
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2nd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Documentary
Yalla Parkour [+lire aussi :
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3rd Place Panorama Audience Award Winner – Documentary
Khartoum [+lire aussi :
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Ecumenical jury prizes

Prize Winner Competition
The Blue Trail [+lire aussi :
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Prize Winner Panorama
The Heart Is a Muscle - Imran Hamdulay (South Africa/Saudi Arabia)

Prize Winner Forum
Holding Liat - Brandon Kramer (USA)

FIPRESCI jury prizes

Prize Winner Competition
Dreams (Sex Love) [+lire aussi :
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Prize Winner Perspectives
Little Trouble Girls [+lire aussi :
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Prize Winner Panorama
Under the Flags, the Sun [+lire aussi :
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Prize Winner Forum
The Memory of Butterflies [+lire aussi :
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interview : Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski
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CICAE Art Cinema Award

Prize Winner Panorama
Deaf – Eva Libertad

Prize Winner Forum
If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile [+lire aussi :
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Guild Film Prize
Dreams (Sex Love) – Dag Johan Haugerud
Special Mention
What Marielle Knows [+lire aussi :
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interview : Frédéric Hambalek
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Europa Cinemas Label
Hysteria [+lire aussi :
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interview : Devrim Lingnau
interview : Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
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Teddy Awards

Best Feature Film
Lesbian Space Princess – Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese

Best Documentary/Essay Film
Satanic Sow - Rosa von Praunheim (Germany)

Best Short Film
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished - Lesley Loksi Chan (Canada)

Jury Award
If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile – Marie Luise Lehner

Special Teddy Award
Todd Haynes

Caligari Film Prize
Fwends - Sophie Somerville (Australia)

Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury Award
The Blue Trail – Gabriel Mascaro

Tagesspiegel Readers' Award
The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov [+lire aussi :
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interview : Yuri Semashko
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Amnesty International Film Award
The Moelln Letters – Martina Priessner

Heiner Carow Prize
Palliative Care Unit [+lire aussi :
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AG Kino Gilde – Cinema Vision 14plus
Paternal Leave [+lire aussi :
interview : Alissa Jung
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Honourable Mention
Têtes brûlées [+lire aussi :
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interview : Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama
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