BERLIN, Germany - The
public has cast its votes: the 19th
Panorama Audience Awards –
presented by the Berlinale
Panorama
section in collaboration with radioeins and for the first time in co-operation
with rbb television (Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting) - go to
Insyriated by Philipp Van Leeuw for best fiction film and
I Am Not Your
Negro by Raoul Peck
for best documentary.
Insyriated
is a tautly-constructed chamber drama about trying to live a normal life in a
war zone. It is the second film starring Hiam Abbass that has won the
Panorama Audience Award (she also played
the lead in Eran Riklis’s
Lemon Tree
in 2008).
Raoul
Peck’s filmic essay
I Am Not Your
Negro about James Baldwin and his three assassinated friends - civil rights
activists Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X –
has also been nominated for an Academy
Award as Best Documentary
Feature.
The
official award ceremony will be held at 5 pm on Sunday, February 19 in Cinemax X
7 at Potsdamer Platz. The prizes will be awarded by rbb director Patricia
Schlesinger. Knut Elstermann, radioeins film expert, and
Panorama curator Wieland Speck will host
the event. Directly after the ceremony, the winning fiction film will be shown.
The
Panorama
Dokumente winner will be screened at 8
pm, also in CinemaxX 7.
The
Panorama Audience Award has been
given since 1999. Since 2011, not only the best fiction film but also the best
documentary film have received awards. During the festival, moviegoers are asked
to rate the films shown in
Panorama
on voting cards after the screenings. In 2017 a total of 29,000 votes were
cast and counted.
This
year
Panorama presented 50
feature-length films from 43 countries, of which 21 screened in the
Panorama Dokumente
series.
Panorama
Audience
Award Winner Fiction Film 2017
Insyriated
Belgium /
France / Lebanon 2017
By
Philippe Van Leeuw
2nd place
Panorama Audience Award Fiction Film
2017
Karera ga Honki de
Amu toki wa
(
Close-Knit)
Japan
2017
By Naoko
Ogigami
3rd place
Panorama Audience Award Fiction Film
2017
1945
Hungary
2017
By
Ferenc Török
Panorama
Audience
Award Winner
Panorama
Dokumente
2017
I
Am Not Your Negro
France
/ USA / Belgium / Switzerland 2016
By
Raoul Peck
2nd place
Panorama Audience Award
Panorama
Dokumente 2017
Chavela
USA
2017
By
Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi
3rd place
Panorama Audience Award
Panorama
Dokumente 2017
Istiyad
Ashbah (
Ghost Hunting)
France /
Palestine / Switzerland / Qatar
2017
By Raed
Andoni
Press
Office
February
18, 2017