Further Prizes

Audience Awards

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 2024

Memorias de un cuerpo que arde (Memories of a Burning Body) by Antonella Sudasassi Furniss

The second and third place go to:
Crossing by Levan Akin
All Shall Be Well by Ray Yeung

Prize Winner Documentary Film 2024

No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

The second and third place go to:
Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man (My Stolen Planet) by Farahnaz Sharifi
Teaches of Peaches by Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer

Readers' Juries

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 2024
Sterben (Dying) by Matthias Glasner

Members of the Jury 2024
Geraldine Burmeister
Frederic Bertrand
Thomas Helbing
Katharina Hock
Melanie Jung
Gundula Lang
Herbert Quelle
Lise-Lott Sagebiel
Konstantin Shaev
Ann-Kristin Spindler
Fernando Walukouw
Angela Zumpe

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 Encounters section.

Prize Winner 2024
Une famille (A Family) by Christine Angot

Members of the Jury 2024
Otto Brink
Paula Isabel Glamann
Christine Jung
Nina Müller
Torben Schläger
Christoph Ulleweit
Liz Vliegenthart

Development Awards

From 2023 onwards, Berlinale Talents is awarding the Kompagnon Fellowship – initiated in 2017 together with Perspektive Deutsches Kino – alone but in accordance with the Berlinale’s intention of promoting up-and-coming German talent throughout the festival.
Directors and screenwriters of a short or feature-length film from the 2023 edition of the now discontinued Perspektive Deutsches Kino section can still apply for the Fellowship in 2024, as can participants of the Script Station, the Doc Station, the Short Form Station and the Talent Project Market of the current edition of Berlinale Talents who are permanently resident in Germany.

A jury, comprised of three film professionals, will select one winner from Berlinale Talents and one from Perspektive Deutsches Kino. In addition to a stipend of 5,000 euros (2,500 euros for short films) for the independent development of a screenplay or project, the “Kompagnon” also provides a mentoring programme to help strengthen the filmmaker’s artistic signature, alongside professional coaching and improved industry networking opportunities.

Kompagnon Fellowship 2024

The Shore by Vladimir Beck (Berlinale Talents 2024, Script Station)
Traversée by Tizian Stromp Zargari (Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2023, Alumnus)

Members of the Jury 2024

Julia Daschner
Timm Kröger
Nataly Kudiabor

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 2024
Ich bin Marika by Hajni Kis, produced by Proton Cinema

Members of the Jury 2024
Rémi Burah
Julie Savary

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 2024
Screaming Girl by Antonio Lukich, produced by ForeFilms

Members of the Jury 2024
Emma Scott
Oscar Alonso
Uljana Kim

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 2024
Silence Sometimes by Álvaro Robles, produced by Mireia Vilanova (Cartuna)

Members of the Jury 2024
Mmabatho Kau
Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
Gabor Greiner
Alexander Thies

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.

Prize Winners 2024

Esther Kemi Gbadamosi, Radioxity Stop Motion Animation Academy
Perivi John Katjavivi, Return to the Source: Film Workshop & Residency Programme
Shuchi Talati, UnderCurrent
Sydelle Willow Smith, Sunshine Cinema

Members of the Jury 2024

Sadaf Foroughi
Thelma Buabeng
Marene Arnold

Prizes of Independent Juries

A jury is considered independent when its members are not selected by the Berlinale. A number of independent juries award prizes at the Berlinale. The high level of quality and diversity of the films are an invitation for critical examination and discerning judgment that opens up new directions. Accordingly the independent juries award their prizes along different criteria, in accordance to the special intention linked to each award.

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 2024

Wettbewerb
Keyke mahboobe man (My Favourite Cake) by Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha

Panorama
Sex by Dag Johan Haugerud

Forum
Marijas klusums (Maria’s Silence) by Dāvis Sīmanis

Special Mention: Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych

Members of the Jury 2024

Karin Becker
Jacques Champeaux
Anita Nemes
Brent Rodriguez-Plate
Marta Romanova-Jēkabsone
Sr. Francesca Šimuniová

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

Prize Winners 2024

Competition
Keyke mahboobe man (My Favourite Cake) by Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha

Encounters
Dormir de olhos abertos (Sleep with Your Eyes Open) by Nele Wohlatz

Panorama
Faruk by Aslı Özge

Forum
The Human Hibernation by Anna Cornudella Castro

Members of the Jury 2024

Competition
Ninos Mikelides
Barbara Schweizerhof
György Báron

Encounters
Nace Zavrl
Cerina Dārta
Deniz Sertkol

Panorama
Joyce Yang
Ron Fogel
Barbara Lorey de Lacharriere

Forum
Schayan Riaz
Sebastian Khouw
Medina Nicolás Carlos
Susanne Gietl
Elena Rubashevska

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 2024
Sterben (Dying) by Matthias Glasner

Members of the Jury 2024
Kristin Klemann
Jörg Jakob
Nicole Düser

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 2024

Panorama
Sex by Dag Johan Haugerud

Forum
Shahid by Narges Kalhor

Members of the Jury 2024

Panorama
Anna Kruse
Ilona Van Heeckeren
Victor Courgeon

Forum
Anca Caramelea
Andrea Crozzoli
Stefan Malešević

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 2024
Sex by Dag Johan Haugerud

Members of the Jury 2024
Jure Matičič
Marc Velinsky
Giuditta Ricci
Autumn Scott

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.

Prize Winners 2024

BEST FEATURE
All Shall Be Well by Ray Yeung

BEST DOCUMENTARY / ESSAY FILM
Teaches of Peaches by Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer

BEST SHORT FILM
Grandmamauntsistercat by Zuza Banasińska

JURY AWARD
Crossing by Levan Akin

SPECIAL TEDDY AWARD
Lothar Lambert

Members of the Jury 2024

Cerise Howard
Luís Fernando Moura
Diego Armando Aparicio
Kami Sid
Vic Carmen Sonne

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 2024
Shahid by Narges Kalhor

Members of the Jury 2024
Maximilian Grenz
Christiane Schleindl
Andreas Vogel

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.

Preisträger 2024
Favoriten by Ruth Beckermann

Special Mention
No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

Members of the Jury 2024
Galina Amashukeli
Frank Domhan
Melanie Macher
Christian Römer
Sharon Ryba-Kahn
Muschirf Shekh-Zeyn
Ahmet Taş

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 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 2024
The Strangers' Case by Brandt Andersen

Special Mention
Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych

Members of the Jury 2024
Dr. Alice Brauner
Jannick Schümann
Anne-Catherine Paulisch

The Heiner Carow Prize for the promotion of German cinematic art is awarded to a feature-length film from the Competition, Berlinale Special, Encounters, 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 2024
Ivo by Eva Trobisch

Jury Statement: Through precise observation of the everyday work of a palliative care nurse, the director draws the psychogram of a woman who, fortunately, is not portrayed as a heroine or victim. The film challenges its audience: the characters are fragile, and there are no clear answers to the ethical questions the film raises. Its strength lies in the immediacy of the production, which seems to have been taken directly from life. The film doesn't tell, it shows! The director succeeds in creating a clever, nuanced work of art in which the script, acting, camera and editing mesh perfectly. All top league!

Members of the Jury 2024
Evelyn Schmidt
Linda Söffker
Cem Kaya

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 2024
Last Swim by Sasha Nathwani

Honorable Mention: Disco Afrika : une histoire malgache (Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story) by Luck Razanajaona

Members of the Jury 2024
Josefine Natalie Kraft
Nicole Zeiler
Max Roth

Award Winners from earlier festival years are available in the archive.