Memories of a Burning Body, No Other Earth wins audience awards in Berlin

The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the winners of this year’s Panoramic Audience Awards, voted for by regular viewers at the world’s largest public film festival.

Memories of a burned bodyThe second feature film by Costa Rican director Antonella Sudasasi Viernes won the grand prize for best feature film, while No other land Directed by Bassel Adra, Hamdan Bilal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szur received the Audience Panorama Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Memories of a burned body It follows three women in their seventies as they discuss their sexuality and bodies, confronting the taboos and restrictions of living in an oppressive and sexist society. Produced by Substance Films in association with Playlab Films. Memories of a burned body It is published globally by Bendita Film Sales.

No other landFilm, directed by a group of Israeli and Palestinian directors, follows the Israeli government’s attempts to expel Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, a rural village in the occupied West Bank. In our review, Hollywood Reporter He described the film as a “devastating portrait” of the “decades-long legal battles, chronic injustice and daily indignities that Palestinians face in the West Bank.” No other land It was produced as a Palestinian-Norwegian co-production between Yabayay Media and Antipode Films.

In total, more than 24,000 Berlinale viewers cast their votes for 31 films screened in this year’s Panorama and Panorama Dokumente sidebar.

2024 Panoramic Audience Award Winners

Best feature film

Memories of a burned body, monastery. Antonella Sudasasi Vernis

Second place

Transit, monastery. Levan Akin

Third place

Everything will be fine, monastery. Ray Young

Best Documentary Film

No other land, monastery. Basil Adra, Hamdan Bilal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szur

Second place

My stolen planet, monastery. Farnaz Sharifi

Third place

Peaches teaches, monastery. Philip Vossnegger, Judy Landkammer