Factory owner Maryati exploits her employees with excessively long shifts, luring them with incentives to make them prioritise productivity and greed over sleep. Putri is convinced that, because of ...

A kind but grieving widower volunteers at a school and meets a quiet third-grade boy who has not spoken all year. Together, they discover a magical pen and a diary, and the boy slowly begins to trust ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

The Berlinale Forum sharpens the gaze for films of social relevance and as a form of aesthetic reflection. These are films by people who take their work and its impact seriously: the way it affects ...

"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 ...

Over the past 40 years, the TEDDY AWARD has become deeply woven into the very fabric of the Berlinale. Before it was fashionable to do so at other major festivals, the award recognized the cultural ...

The Berlinale Retrospective 2026 celebrates a special decade! “Lost in the 90s” tours an era of upheaval, rebellion, and cinematic experimentation. The fall of the Berlin Wall, political chaos, MTV, ...