Director Sophie Hyde with her Crystal Bear. Photo via Facebook.
Following Saturday’s announcement that Australian feature film 52 Tuesdays had won the Crystal Bear for Best Film in the 64th Berlin International Film Festival’s Generation 14Plus youth section, on Sunday it was announced that the film had also picked up the ELSE – Siegessaule Readers’ Jury Award (a €1,000 prize presented to any a feature-length film screening at the festival, awarded by a panel comprised of readers of readers of Berlin’s gay and lesbian magazine, Siegessäule) during the award ceremony of the Berlinale’s independent juries.
