Newsflash: EAVE producers scoop 19 awards in Berlin!

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We are proud to announce the big success at the 75th Berlinale: EAVE graduates win 4 Silver Bears and a Crystal Bear, in total 19 awards and 2 development awards in 2025!

COMPETITION

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize

• THE BLUE TRAIL by Gabriel Mascaro, producers: EAVE graduates Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay, co-producers: EAVE graduates Giancarlo Nasi, Marleen Slot

Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance

• BLUE MOON by Richard Linklater, executive producers: EAVE graduates Macdara Kelleher, John Keville

Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

• KONTINENTAL '25 by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate Alexandru Teodorescu

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution

• THE ICE TOWER by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ingmar Trost

PERSPECTIVES JURY

GWFF Best First Feature Award

• PUENTES project THE DEVIL SMOKES (AND SAVES THE BURNT MATCHES IN THE SAME BOX) by Ernesto Martínez Bucio, producer: PUENTES graduate Carlos Hernandez Vazquez

THE DEVIL SMOKES © Odei Zabaleta

 

BERLINALE DOCUMENTARY AWARD

Berlinale Documentary Award Special Mention

• CANNONE EFFIMERO by Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Seri, producer: PUENTES graduate Alessandro Borrelli

PANORAMA AWARDS

Panorama Documentary Audience Award Second Prize

• EAVE project YALLA PARKOUR by Areeb Zuaiter, producer: EAVE graduate Basel Mawlawi, executive producer: EAVE graduate Lisa Nyed

YALLA PARKOUR © PK Gaza

 

GENERATION AWARDS

Crystal Bear for Best Film by the Youth Jury Generation 14plus

• SUNSHINE by Antoinette Jadaone, producer: TTB group leader and group leader Bianca Balbuena

Special Mention by the Generation Kplus Jury  

• CIRCUSBOY by Anna Koch, Julia Lemke, producers: EAVE participant Katharina Bergfeld, EAVE graduate Martin Heisler

Special Mention for Best Short Film by the Generation Kplus Jury  

• DOWN IN THE DUMPS by Vera van Wolferen, producer: EAVE graduate Noortje Wilschut

INDEPENDENT JURY PRIZES

Ecumenical Jury prizes

• THE BLUE TRAIL by Gabriel Mascaro, producers: EAVE graduates Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay, co-producers: EAVE graduates Giancarlo Nasi, Marleen Slot (Prize Winner Competition)
• THE HEART IS A MUSCLE by Imran Hamdulay, producer: EAVE graduate Khosie Dali (Prize Winner Panorama)

THE BLUE TRAIL © Guillermo Garza / Desvia

 

FIPRESCI Jury prizes

• LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS by Urska Djukic, producer: EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar, EAVE graduate Miha Cernec, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marina Gumzi, Dragana Jovovic, Katarina Prpic (Prize Winner Perspectives)
• UNDER THE FLAGS, THE SUN by Juanjo Pereira, producers: PUENTES graduates Gabriela Sabaté, Paula Zyngierman, Leandro Listorti (Prize Winner Panorama)

Teddy Jury Award

• IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU PUT YOUR HEART INTO YOUR MOUTH AND SMILE by Marie Luise Lehner, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger

CICAE Art Cinema Award

• IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU PUT YOUR HEART INTO YOUR MOUTH AND SMILE by Marie Luise Lehner, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger (Prize Winner Forum)

AG Kino Gilde – Cinema Vision 14plus

• PATERNAL LEAVE by Alissa Jung, producer: FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa

OTHER PRIZES

Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award

• THE BLUE TRAIL by Gabriel Mascaro, producers: EAVE graduates Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay, co-producers: EAVE graduates Giancarlo Nasi, Marleen Slot

Tagesspiegel Readers’ Jury Award

• THE SWAN SONG OF FEDOR OZEROV by Juri Semashko, producer: EAVE+ graduate Kestutis Drazdauskas

DEVELOPMENT AWARDS

Gen Z Audience Award

• 30 DAYS OF SUMMER by Anastasiia Solonevych, producer: EAVE MW graduate Aleksandra Kostina

ArteKino International Prize

• DREAMGIRL by Kaan Müjdeci, producer: EAVE graduate Olena Yershova

Page published 24 February 2025.