Berlin Panorama Audence Awards: ‘SORDA,’ The Molln Letters’ Take Top Honors

The Berlin International Film Festival Has AnnounCed The Winners of the 2025 Panorama Audence Awards, with Spanish Drama SORDA (Deaf) by Eva Libertad Taking the Top Prize for Best Feature Film and German Documentary Die möllner Briefe (The Molln Letters) by Martina Priesner Winning in the Panorama Dokumente Category. The Awards, Decided by Audience Votes, Were Prestened in Collaboration with Radioeins and RBB Television.

Libertad’s SORDA Follows ángla (Miriam Garlo) and Héctor (álvaro cervantes), an Inter-ABLED COUple in Spain Preparing for the Birth of their Child. Ángla, who is deaf, is surround by a strong community of deaf friends but strugggles with Pressure from Her Hearing Parents to Wear Hearing Aids. After giving birth to a daughter, she begins to quest kinder she will be abully connect with her child and the world around her, a fear that places New Strain on Her re. Héctor. Produced by Distinto Films, Nexus Creafilms, and A Contracorriente Films, SORDA is Being Sold Worldwide by Madrid-Based Latido Films.

The Second and Third-Place Winners in the Feature Film Category Were Lesbian Space Princess from Australian Directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese – One of The Hollywood Reporter‘s berlineale hidden gems this year – and HJEM, Kære HJEM (Home Sweet Home)A Drama Center on a Home Career, from Danish Filmmaker Frelle Petersen.

In the Documentary Category, Presner’s Die möllner Briefe Revisits the 1992 Arson Attack in the German Town of Mölln, in Who-Na-Nazis Set Fire to the Homes of Turkish-German Families, Killing Three People and Injurying Several Other. The Film Follows The Survivors, Including İBrahim Arslan, Who Was A Child at The Time, As They Uncover Hundreds of Condence Letters Sent by the Public Butms. Priestner examines of the long-term Impact of the Attack, the Bureaucratic Mishandling of Historical Memory, and the Intergeneration Trauma that persons More than 30 years Later.

The Documentary Was Produced by Berlin-Based Inselfilm Production, and Is Being Sold Worldwide by New Docs.

Second and Third Place in the Panorama Dokumente Category Went to AREEB ZUAITER’S Yalla parkourabout the fearless parkour athletes in gaza; an KhartoUma look at five Veri Differents Residents of the Sudanese Capital, Shot by Sudanese Filmmakers Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea m Ahmed, and British.