Further Prizes

All Berlinale visitors can use the voting cards to choose the winners of the Audience Award in the Panorama section. The Panorama Audience Award was inaugurated in 1999 and is presented by radioeins radio station, rbb television and the Panorama section.

Prize Winner Fiction Film 2025

Sorda (Deaf) by Eva Libertad

The second and third place go to:
Lesbian Space Princess by Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese
Hjem kaere hjem (Home Sweet Home) by Frelle Petersen

Prize Winner Documentary Film 2025

Die Möllner Briefe (The Moelln Letters) by Martina Priessner

The second and third place go to:
Yalla Parkour by Areeb Zuaiter
Khartoum by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox

The jury is made up of twelve readers of the daily newspaper "Berliner Morgenpost". The prize is awarded to a feature film in the Competition section.

Prize Winner 2025
O último azul (The Blue Trail) by Gabriel Mascaro

Jury Statement: O último azul explores age, freedom, self-determination, and friendship in a dystopian and hostile world with a cheerful and colorful approach – a true gem of hope at this year’s Berlinale.

Members of the Jury 2025
Martin Chaudhuri
Thomas Gebauer
Elisabeth Gregor
Harald Günther
Michaela Habeck
Hans Krestel
David Mechelhoff
Alexandra Nagel
Annette von Schönfeld
Annette Sichler
Hanne Slodowsky
Kathrin Sommer

Since the 2007 Berlinale, the Berlin-based national daily newspaper “Tagesspiegel” has awarded a Readers' Prize. The "Tagesspiegel" Readers' Jury Award is given to the best film in the Forum section.

Prize Winner 2025
The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov by Yuri Semashko

Jury Statement: The story of a young musician who absolutely wants to write a good song before the impending end of the world, the film empathetically shows a (im)possible way of dealing with today’s lack of future prospects. We were won over by its original structure and humorous dialogue. The exhilarating first feature of a Belarusian director and an ensemble of immigrants living in Polish exile.

Members of the Jury 2025
Maximilian Simbolon
Manuela Ziegler
Theresa Wiesweg
Katja Horstmann
Amari Barash
Julian Gabrysch
Akito Ruhl

Since 2011, ARTE has presented the ARTEKino International Award, which is worth 6,000 euros and goes to one of the projects selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

Award winner 2025
Dreamgirl by Kaan Müjdeci, produced byTato Film & Asteros Film

Jury Members 2025
Rémi Burah, Arte Kino Foundation & Arte France Cinema, France
Julie Savary, Arte France Cinema, France

In 2015 the renowned Eurimages Co-Production Development Award, which comes with a prize money of 20,000 euros, was given to the producers of one of around 25 projects selected from the Berlinale Co-Production Market for the first time. Eligible for the award are Co-Production Market projects that have been conceived from the outset as theatrical co-productions involving at least two eligible Eurimages countries. These co-productions may not, however, be solely financial in nature. Outstanding artistic quality and a project’s chances of being realised as a majority European co-production are the main criteria for selecting the winner.

Award winner 2025
Ibicaba - Visions of Paradise by Andrea Štaka, produced by Cinédokké & Okofilm Productions

Jury Members 2025
Øistein Refseth, Mer Film, Norway
Eleni Chandrinou, National Representative of Greece to Eurimages, Greece
Labina Mitevska, Sisters and Brother Mitevski, North Macedonia

Eurimages Special Co-Production Development Award

(also endowed with 20,000 euros)
Award winner 2025
The Earth Is Flat – I Flew Around and Saw It by Maksym Nakonechnyi, produced by Tabor, Ukraine

The Talent Project Market offers ten producers taking part in Berlinale Talents the opportunity to present their project to potential coproducers and backers at the Berlinale Co-Prouduction Market. Since 2004, the 10,000 euros VFF Talent Highlight Award has been donated by the VFF copyright agency for film and TV producers during the Talent Project Market. In addition to presenting the main award an international jury appoints two nominees, who will receive 1,000 euros each.

Award winner 2025
March 14th by Alberto Gross Molo, produced byLaura Egidos Plaja (Contraria Media)

Jury Members 2025
Gabor Greiner, Films Boutique, Germany
Alexander Thies, VFF, Germany
Lorna Tee, mylab, Malaysia
Sarika Hemi Lakhani, X-Filme, Germany

In accordance with the UN’s 17 sustainability goals, Berlinale Talents is focusing on improved access to education, gender equality and diversity, environmental protection and the major role culture plays in maintaining peace and international understanding. From 2020 on, the Berlinale Talents’ "Mastercard Enablement Programme" is supporting three talents and alumni every year (with a grant of 5,000 euros and 5,000 euros worth of mentoring and coaching) to help them develop and expand their film-related social initiatives.

Jury Members 2025
Dieu Hao Do
Sibel Kekilli
Vincenza Cristina Saccà

The Gen Z Audience Award, endowed with 5,000 euros by the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ), is awarded to a feature film project from the Berlinale Co-Production Market that a jury of five film students from German and French universities considers to be particularly attractive to a young adult cinema audience (Generation Z, 20-28 years).

Award winner 2025
30 Days of Summer by Anastasiia Solonevych (Bosonfilm)

Jury Members 2025
Billy Betulius (Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Germany)
Charbel Habib (Université Paris 8, France)
Constanza Schmidt (Filmakademie Ludwigsburg, Germany)
Juliette Bultel (Université Paris 8, France)
Yusuf Celik (dffb, Germany)

Since 1992, the international film organisations of the Protestant and Catholic Churches - INTERFILM and SIGNIS - have been represented by the Ecumenical Jury. It consists of six members and awards its main prize to a film entered in the Competition. It also awards two other prizes, both worth 2,500 Euros, one to a film from the Panorama and one to a film in the Forum.

The prizes go to directors who have succeeded in portraying actions or human experiences that are in keeping with the Gospels, or in sensitising viewers to spiritual, human or social values.

Prize Winners 2025

Competition
O último azul (The Blue Trail) by Gabriel Mascaro

Jury Statement: This Brazilian dystopic fable follows an unlikely hero in a search for freedom. A 77 years-old woman escapes from a future that has been written for her by an authoritarian state. In the beautifully shot fierce landscape of the Amazonas river, her adventure, full of challenges but also unexpected friendships and humor, warns of the dangers of exclusion in our modern societies today and fosters the hope of finding a way out.

Panorama
The Heart Is a Muscle by Imran Hamdulay

Jury Statement: Hearts as muscles can be trained. In Imran Hamdulay's film, a young father from a violent family background, starts with the training. After violently assaulting a man and discovering that the victim also has a son, he learns two things: Forgiveness cannot be bought but only dwell from mutual understanding. Facing future needs facing justice as well. With beautiful and realistic cinematography and Afrikaans rap music the director opens the doors to the little-known world and culture of Capetown outskirts where violence and poverty rub shoulders with friendship, loyalty and love. With some chance to find a gym for hearts.

Forum
Holding Liat by Brandon Kramer

Jury Statement: Holding Liat deals with the fate of one of an Israeli woman, who has been abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Without knowing the outcome of the hostage crisis the filmmakers started a respectful and focused chronicle of a family in anguish. This documentary shows exactly what our time so desperately needs: the willingness to have differentiated conversations and to endure complexities and controversies, without breaking off the discussion.

Members of the Jury 2025
Juan Carlos Carrillo Cal y Mayor
Peter Ciaccio
Valérie de Marnhac
Christian Olding
Dr. Brigitta Rotach
Dr. Stefanie Schardien

The juries of the “Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique” (FIPRESCI), the international film critics association, view films from the Competition programme and the Perspectives, Panorama and Forum sections. They award a prize for the best film in each of these sections.

Prize Winners 2025

Competition
Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) by Dag Johan Haugerud

Perspectives
Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls) by Urška Djukić

Panorama
Bajo las banderas, el sol (Under the Flags, the Sun) by Juanjo Pereira

Forum
La memoria de las mariposas (The Memory of Butterflies) by Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski

Members of the Jury 2025

Competition
Ahmed Shawky
Maja Korbecka
Bianca Jasmina Rauch

Perspectives
Sara D’Ascenzo
Olivia Popp
Bidhan Rebeiro

Panorama
Ivonete Pinto
Cerise Howard
Ariel Schweitzer

Forum
Timmy Chih-Ting Chen
Sofia Alvarez Salas
David Katz

The jury of the “Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse cinemas in Competition” is composed of three members who run cinemas and are members of the AG Kino - Gilde e.V. (association of German Art House Cinemas).

Prize Winner 2025
Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) by Dag Johan Haugerud

Special Mention: Was Marielle weiß (What Marielle Knows) by Frédéric Hambalek

Members of the Jury 2025
Carla Molino
Claudia Dostal
Diana Linz

The "Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai" (C.I.C.A.E.), the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas, forms one jury for the Panorama and one for the Forum. Each jury awards one prize in its section.

Prize Winners 2025

Panorama
Sorda (Deaf) by Eva Libertad

Jury Statement: A powerful and emotionally resonant exploration of identity, love, motherhood and the unspoken challenges of navigating in a world that often fails to listen. Rather than making a statement about deafness, the film immerses us in the lives of its characters portrayed not by limitation but driven by strength and ambitions. With deeply intimate cinematography, sound design as an extension of perspective, it masterfully captures the nuances of both the deaf and hearing worlds — seeking connection while acknowledging the tensions that arise. Through raw performances and deeply human storytelling, Sorda transcends boundaries, delivering a sensitive and profoundly moving cinematic experience.

Forum
Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst (If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile) by Marie Luise Lehner

Jury Statement: The three of us feel we were given a warm embrace by a very open, frivolous and nonjudgemental film that does not put it's characters into boxes, but rather lets them openly express themselves. Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst just might be a new catch phrase for the three of us. It is a rich, complex and rewarding film from a new voice. Marie Luise Lehner has made a remarkable artistic achievement, tackling a lot of timely social issues with a diverse cast of characters, allowing and empowering us to be ourselves. But above all, we had a wonderful time with this film, and we sincerely hope it will reach the broadest of audiences.

Members of the Jury 2025

Panorama
Panos Achtsioglou
Laura Bartusevičiūtė
Samira Zaibat

Forum
Juliette Duret
Marlene Hofmann
Jure Matičič

Launched for the first time in 2003 within the Cannes Film Festival, the "Europa Cinemas Label" has been created in order to help European films increase their distribution and raise their profile with audiences and media. The Label is since then awarded by a jury of member exhibitors to a European film selected in the Directors' Fortnight section in Cannes and since 2004 in the Venice Days. Since 2005, Europa Cinemas has been cooperating with the Berlinale to award the Label in the Panorama section.

Prize Winner 2025
Hysteria by Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay

Jury Statement: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s Hysteria is a really well-crafted conspiracy thriller. There are plenty of twists and turns, and the film builds towards a very exciting climatic final ten minutes. The audience here in Berlin were clearly relishing the ride. But beyond the enjoyment to be had with the film, we feel that its incendiary subject matter can really promote dialogue and a greater insight into the tensions in our society today.

Members of the Jury 2025
Klaudia Elsässer
David Kelly
Constanze Oedl
Cenk Sezgin

The TEDDY AWARD – the most outstanding queer film prize in the world – is a socially engaged, political honour presented to films and people who communicate queer themes on a broad social platform, thereby contributing to tolerance, acceptance, solidarity and equality in society.

During the Berlinale the award is presented in the following categories: BEST FEATURE, BEST DOCUMENTARY / ESSAY FILM, BEST SHORT FILM and JURY AWARD as well as the SPECIAL TEDDY AWARD which is awarded to outstanding personalities. Every year films from all sections of the Berlin International Film Festival compete for the TEDDY AWARDS.

From 2025, winning the TEDDY BEST DOCUMENTARY / ESSAY FILM entitles a film to take part in the competition for the Oscar® for Best Documentary Feature.

Prize Winners 2025

BEST FEATURE
Lesbian Space Princess by Emma Hough Hobbs, Leela Varghese

Jury Statement: In a time when our community desperately needs a reason to smile, this film offers a deliciously subversive vision of a future that is so unabashedly queer in both form and content that it achieves the seemingly impossible – universal appeal through unwavering specificity. In a masterful blend of razor-sharp critique and pure camp delight, the creators have given us everything from sentient royal genitalia to profound meditations on self-worth, proving that revolutionary art works best when it makes us laugh. The jury is profoundly excited to see what worlds these visionaries will create next and hope that today's award serves as a launch pad so that no straight white maliens dare stand in their way. The TEDDY AWARD for the best queer feature film of the festival goes to Lesbian Space Princess by Leela Varghese and Emma Hough Hobbs.

BEST DOCUMENTARY / ESSAY FILM
Satanische Sau (Satanic Sow) by Rosa von Praunheim

Jury Statement: A filmmaker awaits death but sees no need to tidy up the apartment beforehand. The summary of a life unfolds not as monologue but as pagan ritual, performed with an alter ego through shared experiences. Their almost paroxysmal, incessant creative production is fueled by a lifetime of queer encounters with death: HIV, murder threats, and finally, old age – with sex and filmmaking emerging as antidotes to disappearance, silence, and untouchability. The jury honors this document of vitality that refuses closure, make-up, or cinematic coherence. The TEDDY AWARD for the best queer documentary film of the festival goes to Satanic Sow by Rosa von Praunheim.

BEST SHORT FILM
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished by Lesley Loksi Chan

Jury Statement: An unearthed autobiographical archive reveals a body that slowly disappears on fragile VHS footage. Through this material, a young filmmaker excavates forms of aesthetic self-determination, allowing a self-confident, defiant voice from the past to speak ghost-like into our present – a present where AIDS services are being canceled, and queer experiences remain trapped in underfunded archives. The jury was deeply moved by this transmission of queer history through intergenerational artistic exchange, as its empathetic research uncovers a past that we are not yet done with, and that is not yet done with us. The TEDDY AWARD for Best Short Film goes to Lloyd Wong, Unfinished by Lesley Loksi Chan and Lloyd Wong.

JURY AWARD
Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst (If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile) by Marie Luise Lehner

Jury Statement: A twelve-year-old person navigates a precisely drawn sociogeographical landscape, crossing boundaries of both school and milieu. The experience of being marked as special emerges as deeply ambivalent, yet the exploration of identity resists both simple resolution and catastrophe. This film cuts to the heart of our present moment with deceptive ease, populating its world with queer lives while insisting on the fundamental queerness of existence – and finally, asserting that bodily autonomy must never be surrendered to institutional control. The TEDDY Jury Prize goes to If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart Into Your Mouth And Smile by Marie Luise Lehner.

SPECIAL TEDDY AWARD
Todd Haynes

Members of the Jury 2025
Raul Niño Zambrano
Allegra Madsen
Jan Künemund

A three-person jury awards the Caligari Film Prize to a film in the Forum. The prize is sponsored by the "German Federal Association of Communal Film Work" and the streaming portal filmfriend. The winning film is honoured with 4,000 euros, half of which is given to the director, the other half is meant to fund distribution. The award's media partner is the online portal filmdienst.de.

Prize Winner 2025
Fwends by Sophie Somerville

Jury Statement: Fwends is a vivid document of a tangibly pleasurable creative process, a cosmopolitan testimony to the fears and motivations of young women. Freedom of movement and freedom of opinion that cannot be taken for granted by many people are the film's starting point to address issues which often take a back seat to acute political conflicts, which however define both our human interaction and the relationship between the two main characters. At a breathtaking pace, the improvised conversations draw us into a maelstrom of single-mindedness and disorientation, climate change and mental health, nihilism and clown costumes. And all within the space of an overnight visit.

Members of the Jury 2025
Katja Krause
Nikolas Ditz
Tobias Dietrich

The independent Peace Film Prize is awarded annually to films that distinguish themselves through a powerful message of peace and the skilful aesthetic execution of their themes. The jury for the award is composed of seven members, who view films from all sections. The Peace Film Prize is endowed with 5,000 euros in prize money and is presented in the form of a bronze sculpture designed by Otmar Alt.
The award is made possible with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Weltfriedensdienst e.V.

Prize Winner 2025
Khartoum by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox

Jury Statement: The documentary Khartoum follows five people in the Sudanese capital as they go about their daily lives in a burgeoning democracy. When war breaks out in April 2023, it is impossible to continue filming on location. The filmmakers decide to flee and also help the protagonists to flee. In exile, the five re-enact their traumatic war experiences in a confined space and encourage each other to keep pursuing their dreams. The skillful combination of documentary material and fictional elements creates images that are emotionally moving and at the same time make visible the processes of coming to terms with the past. Khartoum strikes a unique balance between political urgency and poetry. The film is a plea for the healing power of sharing stories. In doing so, it creates a hopeful outlook for the future and for building peace.

Special Mention
Queer as Punk by Yihwen Chen

Jury Statement: The jury also gives an honorable mention to the film Queer as Punk by Yihwen Chen. "The film vividly shows the challenges faced by trans and LGBTQI+ people in Malaysia, making an incredibly powerful yet light-hearted plea for freedom, equality and human rights”, praised the jury.

Members of the Jury 2025
Jakob Alexander Grasböck
Therese Berg
Billie Mind
Jakobine Motz
Jasmina Barckhausen

The German branch of Amnesty International has presented the Amnesty International Film Award for the first time at the Berlinale 2005. The prize is worth 5,000 euros. The jury will view films entered into the Competition, Perspectives, Panorama, Forum and Generation sections. The aim of the prize is to draw the attention of audiences and representatives of the film industry to the theme of human rights and encourage filmmakers to tackle this topic.

Prize Winner 2025
Die Möllner Briefe (The Moelln Letters) by Martina Priessner

Special Mention
Khartoum by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, Phil Cox

Members of the Jury 2025
Soleen Yusef
Myriam Vitovec
Florence Kasumba

The Heiner Carow Prize for the promotion of German cinematic art is awarded to a feature-length film from the Competition, Berlinale Special, Perspectives, Panorama, Forum, Forum Expanded or Generation section which has its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. The prize is sponsored by the DEFA Foundation and is endowed with 5,000 euros. It is presented to a filmmaker who is currently based and working in Germany for their first or second, chiefly German-made documentary or fiction film. The three-person jury is appointed by the Berlinale’s artistic director and the DEFA Foundation and changes every year.

Prize Winner 2025
Palliativstation (Palliative Care Unit) by Philipp Döring

Members of the Jury 2025
Jide Tom Akinleminu
Barbara Bartlet
Annika Pinske

AG Kino – Gilde e.V. (association of German Art House Cinemas) together with Berlinale Generation are appointing an independent jury aimed at strengthening innovative cinema for young people beyond the festival.

The three members of the jury, composed by cinema operators, award an outstanding feature film from the Generation 14plus competition. Following the festival, the winning films of the last two years will be accompanied by AG Kino – Gilde in cooperation with VISION KINO on a nationwide cinema tour and will be given the chance to unfold their potential in different arthouse cinemas. Accompanied by film education elements, they strike out to capture young audiences.

Prize Winner 2025
Paternal Leave by Alissa Jung

Special Mention: Têtes brûlées by Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama

Members of the Jury 2025
Nico Zeiler
Nadine Melzer
Magda Kokolashvili