the 75th Berlin Film Festival Winners

 

COMPETITION

 

Golden Bear for Best Film: “Dreams (Sex Love)” by Dag Johan Haugerud

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: “The Blue Trail”

Silver Bear Jury Prize: “The Message”

Silver Bear for Best Director: Huo Meng, “Living the Land”

Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance: Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You”

Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance: Andrew Scott, “Blue Moon”

Silver Bear for Best Screenplay: “Kontinental ’25,” Radu Jude

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: The creative ensemble of “The Ice Tower,” Lucile Hadžihalilović

 

BERLINALE DOCUMENTARY AWARD

Best Documentary: “Holding Liat,” Brandon Kramer

 

PERSPECTIVES JURY

GWFF Best First Feature: “The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box),” Ernesto Martínez Bucio

 

BERLINALE SHORTS

Golden Bear: “Lloyd Wong, Unfinished,” Lesley Loksi Chan

Silver Bear: “Ordinary Life,” Yoriko Mizushiri 

 

PANORAMA AWARDS

Panorama Audience Award: “Sorda,” Eva Libertad

Second Prize: “Lesbian Space Princess,” Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese

Third Prize: “Home Sweet Home,” Frelle Petersen

 

Panorama Documentary Audience Award: “Die Möllner Briefe,” Martina Priessner

Second Prize: “Yalla Parkour Sweden,” Areeb Zuaiter

Third Prize: “Khartoum,” Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox

 

GENERATION AWARDS

Generation International Jury

Grand Prix for Best Film in Generation 14plus: “Christy,” Brendan Canty

Special Mention: “Têtes Brûlées,” Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama

 

Special Prize for Best Short Film in Generation 14plus: “Don’t Wake the Sleeping Child,” “Kevin Aubert A Bird Flew,” Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz

Special Mention: “Beneath Which Rivers Flow,” Ali Yahya

Grand Prix for Best Film in Generation Kplus: “The Botanist,” Jing Yi

Special Mention: “Seaside Serendipity,” Satoko Yokohama

 

Special Prize for Best Short Film in Generation Kplus: “Autokar,” Sylwia Szkiłądź

Special Mention: “Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment,“ Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí

 

Youth Jury Generation 14plus

Crystal Bear for Best Film: “Sunshine,” Antoinette Jadaone

Special Mention: ”Playtime,” Lucia Murat

Crystal Bear for Best Short Film: “Wish You Were Ear,” Mirjana Balogh

Special Mention: “Sunset Over America,” Matías Rojas Valencia

 

Children’s Jury Generation Kplus

Crystal Bear for Best Film: “Maya, Give Me a Title,” Michel Gondry

Special Mention: “Circusboy,” Julia Lemke

Crystal Bear for Best Short Film: “Little Rebels Cinema Club,” Khozy Rizal

Special Mention: “Down in the Dumps,” Vera van Wolferen

 

INDEPENDENT JURY PRIZES

Ecumenical Jury Prizes

Competition: “The Blue Trail,” Gabriel Mascaro

Panorama: “The Heart Is a Muscle,” Imran Hamdulay

Forum: “Holding Liat,” Brandon Kramer

 

FIPRESCI Jury Prizes

Competition: “Dreams (Sex Love),” Dag Johan Haugerud

Encounters: “Little Trouble Girls,” Urška Djukić

Panorama: “Under the Flags, the Sun,” Juanjo Pereira

Forum: “The Memory of Butterflies,” Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski

 

Teddy Awards

Best Feature Film: “Lesbian Space Princess,” Leela Varghese, Emma Hough Hobbs

Best Documentary/Essay Film: “Satanic Sow,” Rosa von Praunheim

Best Short Film: “Lloyd Wong,” Lesley Loksi Chan

Jury Award: “If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile,” Marie Luise Lehner

Special Teddy Award: Todd Haynes

 

CICAE Art Cinema Award

Panorama: “Deaf” (Sorda), Eva Libertad

Forum: “If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart Into Your Mouth and Smile,” Marie Luise Lehner

Guild Film Prize: “Dying,” Matthias Glasner

Label Europa Cinemas: “Hysteria by Mehmet,” Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay

Caligari Film Prize: “Fwends,” Sophie Somerville

Peace Film Prize: “Khartoum,” Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox

Special Mention: “Queer as Punk,” Yihwen Chen

 

Amnesty International Film Award: “The Moelln Letters,” Martina Priessner

Special Mention: “Khartoum,” Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox

 

Heiner Carow Prize: “Palliative Care Unit,” Philipp Döring

AG-Kino Gilde Cinema Vision 14Plus: “Paternal Leave,” Alissa Jung

Special Mention: “Têtes brûlées,” Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama

 

OTHER PRIZES

Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award: “The Blue Trail,” Gabriel Mascaro

Tagesspiegel Readers’ Jury Award: “The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov,” Yuri Semashko

 

DEVELOPMENT AWARDS

Artekino International Award: “Dreamgirl,” Kaan Müjdeci, produced byTato Film & Asteros Film

Eurimages Co-Production Development Award: “Ibicaba – Visions of Paradise,” Andrea Štaka

VFF Talent Highlight Award: “March 14th,” Alberto Gross Molo

Gen Z Audience Award: “30 Days of Summer,” Anastasiia Solonevych