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Sorda, Moelln Letters take top honor

The Berlin International Film Festival declared the winners of the 2025 audience awards, with the Spanish drama Sorda (Deaf) Eva Libertad by taking the main prize for best feature film and German documentary film Möllner’s letters (Moelln letters) Martina Priessner Victory in the Panorama Documents category. The awards, which decided to vote of the audience, were presented in collaboration with Radioeins and RBB television.

Libertadov Sorda The following is ángelo (Miriam Garlo) and Héctor (álvaro Cervantes), a couple in Spain who is preparing for the birth of their child. Ángelo, who is deaf, is surrounded by a strong community of deaf friends, but struggles with the pressure of their hearing parents to carry hearing aids. After giving birth to her daughter, she begins to question whether she will be able to fully connect with her child and the world around her, the fear that sets a new burden on her relationship with her hearing husband Héctor. Produced by Distinto Films, Nexus Creafilms and Contracorriente Movies, Sorda For sale around the world from Madrid based in Madrid.

The winners of second and third place in the feature film category were Lesbian space princess from Australian directors Emma Hough Houbs and Leela Varghese – one of Hollywood reporterthis year Berlinale hidden gems – and Home, Dear Home (Home Sweet House)The drama focused on home carer, from the Danish filmmaker Frelle Petersen.

In a documentary category, Priessner’s Möllner’s letters The 1992 revision of the origin of 1992 in the German city of Mölln, in which neo-Nazis lit the homes of Turkish-German families, killing three people and injuring several others. The film follows the survivors, including Ibrahim Arslan, who was a child at the time, while discovering hundreds of letters of condolences that the public sent, but never delivered to the families of the victims. Priessner examines the long -term influence of the attack, the bureaucratic misconduct of historical memory and intergenerational trauma, which lasts more than 30 years later.

The documentary was produced by the Berlin Insiahmm Production, and new documents sell it around the world.

Second and third place in the Panorama category documents went to Areeb Zuaiter’s Yalla Parkourabout the fearless athletes of Parkour in Gaza; and CartumThe view of five very different residents of the Sudanese capital, filmed by Sudanese filmmakers Ana Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timea M Ahmed and British director Phil Cox.

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