UK documentary Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, filmed on the frontline in Afghanistan, also wins.

The Second Mother

Brazilian drama The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) has picked up the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival’s 17th Panorama Audience Awards.

Anna Muylaert’s film explores barriers of class when the estranged daughter of a live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, throwing the home into disarray.

UK documentary Tell Spring Not To Come This Year, directed by Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy, won the documentary audience award.

The directors accompanied an Afghan National Army company during a year of frontline duty in Helmand.

During the Berlinale, filmgoers were asked to rate the titles shown in the Panorama section. A total of 31,200 votes were cast and counted.

This year the Panorama presented 52 feature-length films from 38 countries, of which 18 screened in the Panorama Dokumente series.


Winners of the Panorama Audience Award - Fiction Film 2015

Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second Mother)
Brazil 2015
Directed by Anna Muylaert

2nd Place Panorama Audience Award – Fiction Film 2015:
Stories of Our Lives

Kenya 2014
Directed by Jim Chuchu

3rd Place Panorama Audience Award – Fiction Film 2015:
Härte (Tough Love)

Germany 2015
Directed by Rosa von Praunheim

Winners of the Panorama Audience Award - Documentary Film 2015

Tell Spring Not To Come This Year
UK 2015
Directed by Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy

2nd Place Panorama Audience Award – Documentary Film 2015:
The Yes Men Are Revolting

USA / Germany / France / Denmark / Netherlands 2014
Directed by Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno

3rd Place Panorama Audience Award – Documentary Film 2015:
Iraqi Odyssey

Switzerland / Germany / Iraq / United Arab Emirates 2014
Directed by Samir