Kolkata-born Abhiroop Banerjee has yet to finish his bachelor’s degree in film, and he has become the recipient of a top award at the Berlin Independent Film Festival. In February, his documentary, Beyond the Berlin Wall—Reports from Stasi Prisoners, won the Best Documentary Feature award at the festival’s 2025 edition. Banerjee shares it with his co-directors Berglind Sley Elstermann Jansdttir, Marcela Faganello Galluzzi and Matthias Leupold.
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