For the first time, Berlinale Generation is cooperating with the Beirut Shorts International Film Festival and will present a ...

There is Blixa Bargeld, skinny as a rake, getting people drunk in the bar ‘Risiko’, and an earnest-looking Nick Cave collecting ‘German Gothic’ on a wall of his room in a Berlin flat. Cool Gudrun Gut ...

Formally trained as a dancer and choreographer, independent filmmaker and artist Elysa Wendi investigates the dislocation and displacement of memories and identities in her practice. Straddling the ...

In the run-up to the next festival, you will be able to access the programme on this page. The programme and films of past festival years can be accessed in the archive.

Fausta is ill with a disease contracted from her mother’s breast milk known as “the milk of sorrow”. However, this is not a sickness caused by bacteria or infection: it is a condition that only ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websitePhotos from a family album reveal a city that perhaps used to exist. It was built for refinery workers and university employees; its streets were ...

Loving mother and full-time carer, every day is a battle for Mary. Wading through the bureaucratic mess that comes with caregiving has her isolated, unsupported and sleep deprived. Simultaneously, she ...

A black cloak of forgetting, suppressing and covering has descended on the events that took place in Bangkok in spring 2010. Black as the night of complete darkness in which the film opens. Two men ...

In 1980, two biographies cross paths in a Paris cinema: those of young cinema-goer Alexander Horwath and the actor Henry Fonda. Horwath recognised early on that the popular view of Fonda as a “typical ...

The Berlinale 2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the Berlin International Film Festival. The 75th Berlinale is also the first edition under the direction of Tricia Tuttle. For the first time, an ...

Chaired by Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Claudia Roth, the Board of Supervisors of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH (KBB) today approved the selection ...

The 76th Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 12 to 22, 2026. “After the great success of this year's anniversary edition, we are now starting to plan for 2026. We look ...