A touching tale of a father fighting bureaucracy to win back his family and a doc about the real-life fight for LGBTQI rights in Chechnya have won this year's Audience Awards for Panorama at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale2020
A touching tale of a father fighting bureaucracy to win back his family and a documentary about the real-life fight for LGBTQI* rights in Chechnya have won this year's Audience Awards for the Panorama sidebar at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival. took the top prize for best feature film screening in the 2020 Panorama.
The Panorama Audience Awards, which have been handed out since 1999, are voted on by the Berlin cinema-going public. This year, some 20,000 votes were cast and evaluated. Panorama screened a total of 36 feature films from 30 production countries this year, 13 of them were in Panorama's documentary section.
The prizes are awarded by the Berlinale's Panorama section together with local radio network radioeins and public broadcaster rbb television. The official Panorama Audience Award ceremony will take place at the CinemaxX 7 theater in Berlin at 5 pm local time on Sunday, March 1, the offical "audience day" which closes the 2020 Berlinale.
from French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz were the second and third place winners in the documentary category.
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