In January 2020, media publications revealed that the role of the first director of the Berlinale, Alfred Bauer, in the Reichsfilmintendanz, the central institution for controlling film production in ...

Pepa Lubojacki (they/she) is a Prague-based screenwriter and documentary film director whose work focuses on topics such as gender binarity and stereotypes, addiction, and intergenerational trauma.

A key feature of the Forum and Forum Expanded are their close affiliation with Arsenal and its year-round cinema programme, distribution arm and in-house archive (the Living Archive). Arsenal’s ...

Leyla is her confidante and companion. With her reddish-white fur and calm, supple gestures, the cat fits perfectly to Suna, who is on her way to her nephew’s wedding and driving her rental car ...

Two years earlier, film critic Enno Patalas had demanded that the Berlinale distinguish itself from its model Cannes. Then, in Cannes happened this: protesting students and striking workers occupy the ...

In 2004 the WCF started as an initiative of the German Federal Cultural Foundation in cooperation with the Berlin International Film Festival, with the goal of creating a unique funding structure ...

Impressive independent filmmaking, documentary works poised between the poetic and the urgent, strong newcomers and established masters – the 2026 Berlinale Panorama offers a glimpse into the immense ...

"Lieschen Müller, that invention, that scapegoat of the film industry, had her greatest hour and then, to her great surprise, found herself faced with the future criticism in what wasn’t exactly an ...

Wooden boxes topped with glass cases sit in an empty house that has stood vacant for a long time. The situation seems at once like an isolated art museum, a resource-depleted near future, and a ...

In der sengenden Hitze des spanischen Sommers reisen Rose (Fiona Shaw) und ihre Tochter Sofia (Emma Mackey) in die Küstenstadt Almería, um den geheimnisvollen Heiler Gomez (Vincent Perez) zu ...

"For the past four years at the Berlinale, I have been fortunate enough to work along with extraordinary people, as in love with movies as I am, who are totally dedicated to revitalising one of the ...

The Berlin International Film Festival will award the 2026 Honorary Golden Bear to Academy Award–winning actress Michelle Yeoh in recognition of her outstanding achievements in film and cinema. The ...