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BERLINALE 2018 Awards

Berlin's FIPRESCI Prize goes to The Heiresses

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- BERLIN 2018: Styx received the Europa Cinemas Label, while Profile and The Silence of Others got the Audience Awards in the Panorama section

Berlin's FIPRESCI Prize goes to The Heiresses
The Heiresses by Marcelo Martinessi

The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) has handed out its trophies ahead of the awards ceremony of the 68th Berlin Film Festival. For the competition, the International Critics' Prize was bestowed upon The Heiresses [+see also:
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by Paraguay’s Marcelo Martinessi. For the Panorama selection, victory was claimed by River's Edge by Japanese director Isao Yukisada, and as for the Forum section, the awarded film was An Elephant Sitting Still by China's Hu Bo.

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This year, the Audience Awards in the Panorama section went to Profile [+see also:
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by Timur Bekmambetov and Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar's US-Spanish co-production The Silence of Others [+see also:
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in the Panorama Dokumente section.

As for the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in the Panorama section, the award was given to Wolfgang Fischer's German-Austrian co-production Styx [+see also:
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.

Find the most relevant prizes of the independent juries here:

FIPRESCI Prize, Competition
The Heiresses [+see also:
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 - Marcelo Martinessi (Paraguay/Germany/Brazil/Uruguay/Norway)

FIPRESCI Prize, Panorama
River's Edge - Isao Yukisada (Japan)

FIPRESCI Prize, Forum
An Elephant Sitting Still - Hu Bo (China)

Audience Award, Panorama
Profile [+see also:
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 - Timur Bekmambetov (United States/United Kingdom/Cyprus/Russian Federation)

Audience Award, Panorama Dokumente
The Silence of Others [+see also:
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interview: Almudena Carracedo, Esther …
film profile
]
 - Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar (USA/Spain)

Europa Cinemas Label
Styx [+see also:
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interview: Wolfgang Fischer
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]
 - Wolfgang Fischer (Germany/Austria)

Ecumenical Jury Prize, Competition
In the Aisles [+see also:
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interview: Franz Rogowski
interview: Thomas Stuber
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]
 - Thomas Stuber (Germany/Austria)
Special Mention
U - July 22 [+see also:
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interview: Erik Poppe
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]
- Erik Poppe (Norway)

Ecumenical Jury Prize, Panorama
Styx - Wolfgang Fischer

Ecumenical Jury Prize, Forum
Theatre of War [+see also:
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- Lola Arias (Argentina/Spain)

CICAE Art Cinema Award, Panorama
Hard Paint - Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher (Brazil)

CICAE Art Cinema Award, Forum
In the Realm of Perfection - Julien Faraut (France)

Teddy Award - Feature Film
Hard Paint - Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher

Teddy Award - Documentary Film
Tranny Fag - Claudia Priscilla, Kiko Goifman (Brazil)

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