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 ...

Pakis sits in the midst of a floating village, waiting for her father who simply doesn’t come back from fishing one day. The other children say he’s dead, but Pakis refuses to believe this. Instead ...

Die Berlinale ist seit vielen Jahren mit speziell kuratierten Programmen auch außerhalb der Festivalzeit präsent. Diese Aktivitäten firmieren als Berlinale Spotlight. Zum siebten Mal seit 2018 ist die ...

Born in Moscow, USSR in 1975, the director and producer graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1998. His debut film, 4, won a Tiger Award at the International Film ...