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Winners of Filmfest Hamburg
by the KinoCritics

The Hamburg Producers Award for International Cinema Co-Productions (€25,000)
Dorothe Beinemeier (Red Balloon Film, Hamburg Production) for HAPPY HOLIDAYS directed by Scandar Copti

The Hamburg Producers Award for German Cinema Productions (€25,000)
Dietmer Güntsche, Martin Rohé, and Svenja Vanhoefer (Neue Bioskop Film Production) for VENA by Chiara Fleischhacker

The Hamburg Producers Award for German TV Productions (€25,000)
Bernd von Fehrn, René Jamm, Roxana Richters, and Alexander Wadouh for VON UNS WIRD ES KEINER SEIN, by Simon Ostermann.

The Political Film of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (€5,000)
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie for SUGARCANE

Arthouse Cinema Award (€5,000)
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE by Matthew Rankin

NDR Young Talent Award (€5,000)
DICIANNOVE by Giovanni Tortorici

Critics’ Choice Award
THE SPARROW IN THE CHIMNEY, by Ramon Zürcher

Filmfest Hamburg Audience Award (€5,000)
SOULS UNSHACKLED – LET US BE IN A HURRY TO BE HUMAN BY (Freiheit im Herzen – Lasst es und eilig haben, menschlich zu sein) Roxana Samadi

Albert Wiederspiel Award (€10,000)
Dea Kulumbegashvili for APRIL

Douglas Sirk Prizes
Andrea Arnold for BIRD
Jacques Audiard for EMILIA PÉREZ

MAJA (€10,000)
LARS IST LOL by Eirik Sæter Stordahl.

The Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
Scythian Deer National Competition ($2,000)