The Berlin International Film Festival has revealed its 2026 awards winners, with Ilker Çatak’s Yellow Letters taking the Golden Bear. The Turkey-set drama follows an actress and her professor husband who find themselves targeted by the state and lose their jobs and their home. Elsewhere, the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize went to Emin Alper’s … Read more
The Berlin International Film Festival has announced its 2026 Competition line-up. In the Berlinale Competition, 22 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears – among them one first feature, one animation as well as one documentary. “We’ve found so much to fall in love with in this year’s bumper Competition line up,” said … Read more
The Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the full list of titles set for its official competition alongside perspective and specials sidebars. A total of 19 films have been selected for the international competition. It’s a buzzy selection with multiple titles that have been anticipated and boast high-profile names. Highlights include Richard Linklater’s latest feature Blue Moon, starring Ethan … Read more
20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, among them two first features as well as two documentary forms. Productions from 30 countries are represented. 19 films are world premieres. Six films were directed or co-directed by women. Nine filmmakers have been at the festival before, six … Read more
Chaired by the Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, the Board of Supervisors of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH (KBB) approved the selection committee’s proposal to appoint Tricia Tuttle as director of the Berlin International Film Festival from April 2024. Recent director of the BFI London Film Festival, Tricia Tuttle is currently Head of Directing … Read more
Crises everywhere: Complex social and political conflicts, global warming and the need for environmental conservation, plus all the usual tensions and questions regarding commitment, closeness and distance. In the midst of it all are young film creatives from Germany unafraid to tackle any subject. Their versatile and passionate cinematic takes create hope. Because the first … Read more
For the Berlinale Classics section at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, Rainer Rother and his team shine a special spotlight on films from the 1980s and early 1990s. Oliver Schmitz’ Mapantsula marks the first time the section will screen a film from South Africa. Together with Nanni Moretti’s Sogni d’oro (Sweet Dreams) and the re-discovered Szürkület (Twilight) by Hungarian director György Fehér, … Read more
The Berlinale released the following statement: “The Berlinale staunchly condemns Russia’s war of aggression, which violates international law, and expresses its solidarity with the people in Ukraine and all those who are campaigning against this war. The Russian invasion and attacks on civilian targets such as hospitals, schools and homes have caused a humanitarian and … Read more