75th Berlin International Film Festival Award Winners

Last Update as post has become final. Have to admit that awards ceremony was quite different from other festivals as was fast and efficient like if organizers knew all the interest was on finding which film won an award. Very German like efficinecy which is surprising as new festival director is not German. Still, I do miss the good old times when show was funny and entertaining, the times of Dieter Kosslick and Anke Engelke, those two had great chemistry and a very darkish superb sense of humor. Sigh.

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February 19, 2025
As the first winners were announced yesterday the post starts win the Development Awards given in the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

Post will be In Progress until after the award ceremony that will be on Saturday, February 22 starting with the Red Carpet at 16:30 and the Gala at 18:00.

The Winners List

Golden Bear for Best Film:  Drømmer (Dreams [Sex Love]), Dag Johan Haugenud, Norway

Silver Bear Jury Grand Prize:  O último azul (The Blue Trail), Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Netherlands
Silver Bear Jury Prize:  El Mensaje (The Message), Iván Fund, Argentina and Spain

Silver Bear for Best Director:  Huo Mengo for 生息之地 Sheng xi zhi di (Living the Land), Huo Meng, China

Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance:  Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Mary Bronstein, USA
Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance:  Andrew Scott in Blue Moon, Richard Linklater, USA and Ireland

Silver Bear for Best Screenplay:  Radu Jude for Kontinental '25, Radu Jude, Romania, Brazil, Switzerland, UK and Luxembourg

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution:  Creative Ensemble of La Tour de Glace (The Ice Tower), Lucile Hadžihalilović, France and Germany

Best First Feature Award: El Diablo Fuma [y guarda las cabezas de los cerillos quemados en la misma caja] (The Devil Smokes [and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box]), Ernesto Martínez Bucio, Mexico (debut film)
Special Mention:  On vous croit (We Believe You), Arnaud Dufeys and Charlotte Devillers, Belgium

Documentary Award: Holding Liat, Brandon Kramer, USA (documentary)
Special Mentions:
Canone effimero, Gianluca De Serio and Massimiliano De Serio, Italy (documentary)
La Memoria de las Mariposas (The Memory of Butterflies), Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, Peru and Portugal (debut film) (documentary)

Short Films
Golden Bear: Lloyd Wong, Unfinished, Lesley Loksi Chan, Canada 29' (documentary)
Silver Bear: Futsu no seikatsu (Ordinary LIfe), Yoriko Mizushiri, France and Japan 10' (animation)
Filmmaker Award: Quenton Miller for Koki, Ciao, Quenton Miller, Netherlands 11' (documentary)
Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards: Comment ça va? (How Are You?), Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, France 31' (animation)

Generation

Generation Kplus
Prizes of Children's Jury
Crystal Bear for Best Film: Maya, donne-moi un titre (Maya, Give Me a Title), Michel Gondry, France (animation)
Special Mention: Zirkuskind (Circusboy), Julia Lemke and Anna Koch, Germany (documentary)
Crystal Bear for Best Short Film: Little Rebels Cinema Club, Khozy Rizal, Indonesia 17'
Special Mention:  Down in the Dumps, Vera van Wolferen, Netherlands 18' (animation)
Prizes of the International Jury
Crystal Bear for Best Film: Zhi Wu Xue Jia (The Botanist), Jing Yi, China (debut film)
Special Mention: Umibe é Iku Michi (Seaside Serendipity), Satoko Yokohama, Japan
Crystal Bear for Best Short Film: Autokar, Sylwia Szkiłądź, Belgium and France 18' (animation)
Special Mention:  Akababuru: Expresión de Asombro (Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment), Irati Dojura Landa Yagari, Colombia 13'

Generation 14Plus
Prizes of Children's Jury
Crystal Bear for Best Film: Sunshine, Antoinette Jadaone, Philippines
Special Mention: Hora do recreio (Playtime), Lucia Murat, Brazil (documentary)
Crystal Bear for Best Short Film: Wish You Were Ear, Mirjana Balogh, Hungary 11' (animation)
Special Mention: Atardecer en América (Sunset over America), Matias Rojas Valencia, Brazil, Chile and Colombia 17' (documentary)
Prizes of International Jury
Grand Prix for Best Film: Christy, Brendan Canty, Irealand and UK (debut film)
Special Mention: Têtes Brûlées, Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama, Belgium (debut film)
Special Prize for Best Short Film: Ne réveillez pas l'enfant qui dort (Don't Woke the Sleeping Child), Kevin Aubert, Senegal, France and Morocco 28'
Special Mention: Beneath Which Rivers Flow, Ali Yahya, Iraq 16' (documentary)

Collateral Awards

FIPRESCI Awards
Competition: Drømmer (Dreams [Sex Love]), Dag Johan Haugenud, Norway
Perspectives: Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls), Urška Djukić, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia and Serbia (debut film)
Panorama: Bajo las Banderas, el Sol (Under the Flags, the Sun), Juanjo Pereiro, Paraguay, Argentina, USA, France, and Germany (debut film) (documentary)
Forum: La Memoria de las Mariposas (The Memory of Butterflies), Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, Peru and Portugal (debut film) (documentary)

Ecumenical Jury Awards
Competition: O último azul (The Blue Trail), Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Netherlands
Panorama: The Heart is a Muscle, Imran Hamdulay, South Africa and Saudi Arabia (debut film)
Forum: Holding Liat, Brandon Kramer, USA (documentary)

AG Kino -  Gilde - Cinema Vision 14Plus: Paternal Leave, Alissa Jung, Germany and Italy (debut film)
Special Mention: Têtes Brûlées, Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama, Belgium (debut film)

Amnesty International Film Award: Die Möllner Briefe (The Moelin Letters), Martina Priessner, Germany (documentary)

Caligari Film Prize:  FWENDS, Sophie Somerville, Australia (debut film)

Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai (CICAE)
Panorama: Sorda (Deaf), Eva Libertad, Spain
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), Marie Luise Lehner, Austria (debut film)

Europa Cinemas Label: Hysteria, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Germany

Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse cinemas: Drømmer (Dreams [Sex Love]), Dag Johan Haugenud, Norway
Special Mention: Was Marielle weiß (What Marielle Knows), Frédéric Hambalek, Germany

Heiner Carow Prize: Palliativstation (Palliative Care Unit), Philipp Döring, Germany (debut film) (documentary)

Peace Film Prize: Khartoum, Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Brahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, and Phil Cox, Sudan, UK, Germany and Qatar (documentary)
Special Mention: Queer as Punk, Yihwen Chen, Malaysia and Indonesia (documentary)

Teddy Awards
Best Film: Lesbian Space Princess, Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, Australia (debut film ) (Animation) 
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), Marie Luise Lehner, Austria (debut film)
Best Documentary:  Satanische Sau (The Satanic Sow), Rosa von Praunheim, Germany (documentary)
Best Short Film: Lloyd Wong, Unfinished, Lesley Loksi Chan, Canada 29' (documentary)
Special Teddy: Todd Haynes

Development Awards

Berlinale Co-Production Market
Euroimages Co-Production Development Award: Ibicaba - Visions of Paradise, Andrea Štaka, Switzerland
Euroimages Special Co-Production Development Award: The Earth is Flat - I Flew Around and Saw It, Maksym Nakonechnyl, Ukraine
Generation Z Audience Award: 30 Days of Summer, Anastasiia Solonevych, Ukraine

VFF Talent Highlight Award: March 14th, Alberto Gross Molo, Spain,
Nominations prizes
All That We Could Be, Rohena Gera, France
The Serpent, Diogo Hayashi, Brazil

ArteKino International Award: Dreamgirl, Kaan Müjdeci, Turkey
World Cinema Fund Audience Strategies Award: The Sun Sees Everything, Wissam Tanios, Lebanon

Talents Footprints
Bavaneedha Loganathan, Sri Lanka
Kit Hung, Hong Kong
Carlos Ormeño Palma, Peru
Laura Bermúdez, Honduras

Audience Awards

Panorama Audience Awards
1st Place:  Sorda (Deaf), Eva Libertad, Spain
2nd Place: Lesbian Space Princess, Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, Australia (debut film ) (Animation) 
3rd Place: Hjem kaere hjem (Home Sweet Home), Frelle Petersen, Denmark

Prize Winner Documentary Film
1st Place: Die Möllner Briefe (The Moelin Letters), Martina Priessner, Germany (documentary)
2nd Place: Yalla Parkour, Areeb Zuaiter, Sweden, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Palestine (debut film) (documentary)
3rd Place: Khartoum, Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Brahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed, and Phil Cox, Sudan, UK, Germany and Qatar (documentary)

Readers' Juries
Berliner Morgenpost Readers' Jury Award: O último azul (The Blue Trail), Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Netherlands
Tagesspiegel Readers' Jury Award: The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov, Yuri Semashko, Lithuania and Germany (debut film)

Honorary Golden Bear: Tilda Swinton
Berlinale Camera:Rainer Rother

To check winners of Independent Juries at official site go here.