76th Berlin International Film Festival Line-Up - In Progress

Please note: this post is a Work In Progress until all films have all info at official site, which usually happens a week or two before the festival begins.

This year the festival will run from February 12 to February 22 and the Program Press Conference is scheduled to be held on January 20, 2026 and will be available to watch from 10:45 CET on Berlinale live stream and live on YouTube.

Festival Director Tricia Tuttle gives an overview of the entire festival program. She will then present the films in the Competition and the Perspectives section together with the Co-Directors of Film Programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz.  Press Conference video is at post bottom.
European Film Market

The European Film Market (EFM), taking place from February 12 to 18, 2026 as a key part of the 76th Berlinale, officially launches its new edition with an expanded programme, new strategic partnerships, and a continued focus on innovation and cross-sector collaboration to reflect the evolving needs of the global audiovisual industry.

The first edition of the EFM Animation Days marks a major expansion of the Market’s portfolio. Over three days, the program gathers global animation creatives, studios, producers, buyers, financiers and cross-IP partners for curated showcases, pitch formats, case studies, workshops and networking opportunities.

In 2026 the EFM spotlights Morocco as its Country in Focus, highlighting the exceptional production landscape and co-production potential. Through curated pitching sessions, showcases and networking events, the EFM sheds a spotlight on one of the most dynamic creative countries in the MENA region.

The Poster

Colorful, festive, and playful, the bear returns to the center of the poster and media campaign. The beloved symbol of the festival takes shape in a composition of bright colours that convey movement, vitality, and light in the darkness — just like cinema itself. Berlin-based graphic designer Claudia Schramke has once again created this year’s festival poster.



Homage

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 award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast on February 12, 2026.
Michelle Yeoh is considered one of the most versatile and influential actresses of her generation. With a career spanning four decades and multiple continents, she has made a lasting impact on international cinema. 

Michelle Yeoh served as a member of the Berlinale International Jury in 1999. Since then, she has captivated audiences at the Berlinale and around the world time and again with work such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and more recently the phenomenon that was Everything Everywhere All at Once.

The Selection
My spontaneous first impression of the films In Competition is that selection is very-strange as for example, there are some well-known directors like Kornél Mundruczó but his doing a film in English with well-know actors like Amy Adams, Brett Goldstein and Dan Levy; then there is Lance Hammer with a film starring Juliette Binoche in English and Brazillian Karim Karim Aïnouz with a film in English starring Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, Callum Turner, Elle Fanning and Pamela Anderson. Yes, there will be stars in the red carpet as also there are films starring Bill Pullman, Laurie Metcalf, John C. Reilly, Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Tom Courtenay, and Sandra Hüller .

The Program

Competition
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. Productions from 28 countries are represented. 20 films are world premieres. Nine films were directed or co-directed by women. 14 filmmakers have been at the festival before, six even in Competition.

At the Sea, Kornél Mundruczó, USA and Hungary
À voix basse (In a Whisper), Leyla Bouzid, France and Tunisia
Dao, Alain Gomis, France, Senegal Guinea-Bissau
Dust, Anke Blondé, Belgium, Poland, Greece and UK
Etwas ganz Besonderes (Home Stories), Eva Trobisch, Germany
Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Grant Gee, UK and Ireland
Fleur bleue (Nina Roza), Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, Canada, Italy, Bulgaria and Belgium
Gelbe Briefe (Yellow Leters), İlker Çatak, Germany, France and Turkey
花緑青が明ける日に Hana rokushô ga akeru hi ni (A New Dawn), Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, Japan and France (animation) (debut film)
Josephine, Beth de Araujo, USA
Kurtuluş (Salvation), Emin Alper, Turkey, France, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, and Saudi Arabia
Meine Frau weint (My Wife Cries), Angela Schanelec, Germany and France
Moscas (Flies), Fernando Eimbcke, Mexico
Queen At Sea, Lance Hammer, UK
Rose, Markus Schleinzer, Austria and Germany
Rosebush Pruning, Karim Aïnouz, Italy, Germany, Spain, and UK
Soumsoum, la nuit des astres (Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars), Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, France and Chad
The Loneliest Man in Town, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, Austria
Wolfram, Warwick Thornton, Australia
我们不是陌生人 Wo Men Bu Shi Mo Sheng Ren (We Are All Strangers), Anthony Chen, Singapore
Yo Love is a Rebellious Bird, Anna Fitch and Banker White, USA (documentary)
Yön Lapsi (Nightborn), Hanna Bergholm, Finland, Lithuania, France and UK

International Jury
President: Wim Wenders, director, writer and photographer, Germany
Min Bahadur Bham, filmmaker, Nepal
Bae Doona, actress, South Korea
Shivendra Singh Dugarpur, director, producer and archivist, India
Reinaldo Marcus Green, screenwriter, director and producer, USA
Hiraki, director, writer and producer, Japan
Ewa Puszczyńska, producer, Poland

Berlinale Special
This year’s Berlinale Special comprises 19 works plus one opening film for a total of 20 films from 15 countries so far, among them six documentary films and a series program of six titles.

Berlinale Special Gala
Opening Film: Kabul Jan (No Good Men), Shahrbanoo Sadat, Germany, France, Norway, Denmark and Afghanistan
Die Blutgräfin (The Blood Countess), Ulrike Ottinger, Austria, Luxembourg and Germany
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, Gore Verbinski, Germany
Heysel 85, Teodora Ana Mihai, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, Noah Segan, USA
The Testament of Ann Lee, Mona Fastvold, USA and UK
The Weight, Padraic McKinley, Germany

Berlinale Special Presentation
Tutu, Sam Pollard, UK (documentary)
Un Hijo Propio (A Child of My Own), Maite Alberdi, Mexico (documentary)
Wax and Gold, Ruth Beckermann, Austria and Italy (documentary)
Who Killed Alex Odeh?, Jason Osder, USA (documentary)

Berlinale Special Series
House of Yang, Stefanie Ren and Mia Spengier, Germany
La Casa de los Espíritus (The House of the Spirits), Francisca Alegría, Chile
Lord of the Flies, Marc Munden, UK
Mint, Charlotte Regan, UK
Ravalejar (Ravalear: Not For Sale), Pol Rodríguez, Spain
The Story of Documentary Film, Mark Cousins, UK (documentary)

Berlinale Special Midnight
Monster Pabrik Rambut (Sleep No More), Edwin, Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Germany, and France
Saccharine, Natalie Erika James, Australia
The Ballad of Judas Priest, Sam Dunn and Tom Morello, USA (documentary)

Perspectives
The Perspectives competition is comprised of 14 feature film debuts. Of the films twelve are world premieres, one is an international premiere, one is a European premiere. 23 production countries are represented. Six films were directed by women.

17, Kosara Mitić, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia
A Prayer for the Dying, Dara Van Dusen, Norway, Greece, UK and Sweden
Animol, Ashley Walters, UK
Chronicles From the Siege, Abdallah Alkhatib, Algeria, France and Palestine
Der Heimatlose (Trial of Hein), Kai Stänicke, Germany
El Tren Fluvial (The River Train), Lorenzo Ferro and Lucas A. Vignale, Argentina
Filipiñana, Rafael Manuel, Singapore, UK, Philippines, France and Netherlands
Forêt Ivre (Forest High), Manon Coubia, Belgium and France
Hangar Rojo (The Red Hangar), Juan Pablo Sallato, Chile, Argentina and Italy
Han ye deng zhu (Light Pillar), Xu Zao, China (animation)
Nosso segredo (Our Secret), Grace Passô, Brazil and Portugal
Take Me Home, Liz Sargent, USA
Truly Naked, Muriel d'Ansembourg, Nehterlands, Belgium and France
Where To?, Assaf Machnes, Israel and Germany

Perspectives Jury
Sofia Alaoui, screenwriter and director, Morocco
Frédéric Hambalek, director and screenwriter, Germany
Dorota Lech, festival director, Poland and Canada

Documentary Competition 
There are 16 documentary competing for the Documentary Award

Competition
Yo Love is a Rebellious Bird, Anna Fitch and Banker White, USA (documentary)
Berlinale Special
Tutu, Sam Pollard, UK (documentary)
Wax and Gold, Ruth Beckermann, Austria and Italy (documentary)
Panorama
Bucks Harbor, Pete Muller, USA (debut film)
Im Umkreis des Paradieses (Around Paradise), Yulia Lokshina, Germany
لجانب الآخر من الشمس The Other Side of the Sun, Tawfik Sabouni, Belgium, France and Saudi Arabia (debut film)
Traces, Alisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk, Ukraine and Poland
Tristan Forever, Tobias Nölle and Loran Bonnardot, Switzerland
东山飘雨西山晴 Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest, Viv Li, Germany and Netherlands
Un hiver russe (A Russian Winter), Patric Chiha, France
Generation
A Fabulosa Máquina do Tempo (The Fabulous Time Machine), Eliza Capai, Brazil (documentary)
Forum
Effondrement (Collapse), Anat Even, France
If Pigeons Turned to Gold, Pepa Lubojacki, Czechia and Slovakia (debut film)
まさゆめ Masayume, Nao Yoshigai, Japan (debut film)
The Moths and the Flame, Kevin Contento, USA
Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt (Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party), Daniela Magnani Hüller, Germany (debut film)

Jury Berlinale Documentary Award
Lemohang Mosese, director and visual artist, Lesotho
B Ruby Rich, film scholar, critic and professor, USA
Shaunak Sen, filmmaker and writer, India

Panorama
A total of 37 films from 36 countries.

Feature Film
Opening Film: لمن يجرؤ Seules les rebelles (Only Rebels Win), Danielle Arbid, France Leabanon, and Qatar
Allegro Pastell, Anna Roller, Germany
Árru, Elle Sofe Sara, Norway, Sweden and Finland (debut film)
El Jardín Que Soñamos (The Garden We Dreamed), Joaquín del Paso, Mexico
Enjoy Your Stay, Dominik Locher, Switzerland, France and Philippines
그녀가 돌아온 날 Geunyeoga doraon nal (The Day She Returns), Hong Sangsoo, South Korea
Ich verstehe Ihren Unmut (I Understand Your Displeasure), Kilian Armando Friedrich, Germany
Isabel, Gabe Klinger, Brazil and France
Iván and Hadoum, Ivan de la Rosa, Spain, Germany, and Belgium (debut film)
Lady, Olive Nwosu, UK (debut film)
Lali, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, Pakistan
London, Sebastian Brameshuber, Austria
Mouse, Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson, USA
Narciso, Marcelo Martinessi, Paraguay, Germany, Uruguay, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, and France
Paradise, Jérémy Comte, Canada, France and Ghana (debut film)
Roya, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Germany, Luxemburg, Czechia and Iran
Rumaragasa (Raging), Ryan Machado, Philippines
إنتركوم Safe Exit, Mohammed Hammad, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Qatar, and Germany
Se eu fosse vivo... vivia (If I Were Alive), André Novais Oliveira, Brazil
上海女儿 Shanghai Daughter, Agnis Shen Zhongmin, China (debut film)
しびれ Shibire (Numb), Takuya Uchiyama, Japan
Staatsschutz (Prosecution), Faraz Shariat, Germany
The Education of Jane Cumming, Sophie Heidman, Germany, Switzerland, and UK
The Moment, Aidan Zamiri, USA and UK (debut film)
Vier minus drei (Four minus Three), Adrian Goiginger, Austria and Germany

Panorama Dokumente
Bucks Harbor, Pete Muller, USA (debut film)
Douglas Gordon by Douglas Gordon, Finlay Pretsell, UK and France
Im Umkreis des Paradieses (Around Paradise), Yulia Lokshina, Germany
Jaripeo, Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig, Mexico, USA and France (debut film)
La Face cachée de la Terre (The Hidden Face of the Earth), Alain Arnaud, France
Siri Hustvedt - Dance Around the Self, Sabine Lidl, Germany and Switzerland
الجانب الآخر من الشمس The Other Side of the Sun, Tawfik Sabouni, Belgium, France and Saudi Arabia (debut film)
Traces, Alisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk, Ukraine and Poland
Tristan Forever, Tobias Nölle and Loran Bonnardot, Switzerland
Trop c’est trop (Enough is Enough), Elisé Sawasawa, France and Congo
东山飘雨西山晴 Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest, Viv Li, Germany and Netherlands
Un hiver russe (A Russian Winter), Patric Chiha, France

Forum
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 our coexistence, our battles, our reconciliations, our history and stories, how togetherness, beauty and solidarity are experienced and how we shape our social, cultural, ecological and political present and future.

Feature Film
Auslandsreise (Foreign Travel, Ted Fendt, Germany
Cesarean Weekend, Mohammad Shirvani, Iran
チルド Chirudo AnyMart, Yusuke Iwasaki, Japan (debut film)
De capul nostru (On Our Own), Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, Romania and Italy
Doggerland, Kim Ekberg, Sweden
Eight Bridges, James Benning, USA
Ghost in the Cell, Joko Anwar, Indonesia
Günyüzü (Hear the Yellow), Banu Sivaci, Turkey
I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival, Janaina Marques, Brazil (debut film)
Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman, Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Victoire Karera Kampire, Paul Shemisi, and Anne Reijniers, Belgium
Liebhaberinnen (Women as Lovers), Koxi, Germany and Luxembourg (debut film)
Lo Demás es Ruido (Everything Else is Noise), Nicolas Pereda, Mexico, Germany, and Canada
Lust, Ralitza Petrova, Bulgaria, Denmark and Sweden
내 이름은 My Name, Chung Ji-young, South Korea
Panda, Xinyang Zhang, Singapore, China and Hong Kong (debut film)
Piedras Preciosas (Gemstones), Simón Vélez, Colombia and Portugal (debut film)
Sikkalana Kudumbathin Uruppinarhal (Members of the Problematic Family), R Gowdham, India

Documentary
Black Lions -Roman Wolves, Haile Gerima, Ethiopia and USA
Bosque Arriba en la Montaña (Forest up in the Mountain), S Cofia Bordenave, Argentina
Chronos - Fluss der Zeit (Chronos- Flow of Time), Volker Koepp, Germany
Crocodile, The Critics and Pietra Brettkelly, New Zealand and Nigeria
Effondrement (Collapse), Anat Even, France
Einar Schleef - Ich habe kein Deutschland gefunden (Einar Schleef - No Germany Did I Find), Sandra Prechtel, Germany
Flying tigers, Madhusree Dutta, Germany and India
If Pigeons Turned to Gold, Pepa Lubojacki, Czechia and Slovakia (debut film)
まさゆめ Masayume, Nao Yoshigai, Japan (debut film)
Nous sommes les fruits de la forêt (We Are the Fruits of the Forest), Rithy Panh, Cambodia and France
Prénoms (Given Names), Nurith Aviv, France
Szenario (Scenario), Marie Wilke, Germany
يوم الغضب: حكايات من طرابلس The Day of Wrath: Tales from Tripoli, Rania Rafei, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Qatar
The Moths and the Flame, Kevin Contento, USA
Was an Empfindsamkeit bleibt (Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party), Daniela Magnani Hüller, Germany (debut film)

Forum Special
The motto of this year’s edition of the Forum Special is “Be Human Only, Dish Out the Truth”. The Forum thus continues this successful sidebar, which has established a space alongside the main program to think about current social and political questions and keep scrutinising the film historical canon, rewriting it, or writing it anew.

Documentary
Barbara Forever, Brydie O'Connor, USA (documentary)
Beaucoup Parler (A Lot Talk), Pascale Bodet, France (documentary)
Frauen in Berlin, Chetna Vora, German Democratic Republic, 1981 (documentary)
Istenmezején 1972–73-ban (A Hungarian Village), Judit Elek, Hungary, 1974 (documentary)
My Brother's Wedding, Charles Burnett, USA and Germany, 1983-2007  (drama)
Quand tu écouteras cette chanson (When You Listen to This Song), Mona Achache, France
Сны реки River Dreams, Kristina Mikhailova, Kazakhstan, Switzerland and UK (debut film)

Short Film
AI Realism - Qantar 2022, Almagul Menlibayeva, Kazahstan 24'  (animation) 
Love Your Nails!, Narges Kalhor, Germany 8' 
L'uomo piu bello del mondo (The Most Beautiful Man in the World), Paolo Baiguera, Italy 17' (documentary)
MegatrashwannabebigstarXD, Ava Leandra Kieber and Elisa Deutioff, Germany
Találkozás (Encounter), Judi Elek, Hungary, 1963 23'
The Valley Were LOAB Lives, Georg Tiller, Austria 21'

Forum Expanded
Gaps and omissions, counter-narratives and revisions: many of the film works selected focus on the ways in which individuals and states write their histories. Against the backdrop of current political developments across the world, increasing uncertainty and ongoing wars, the question of who is granted the authority to make historical assessments and designations is explored, as is the possibility of other perspectives. The installations, films, videos and performances from 30 countries thus bring fissures and ruptures to light, pointing to things seemingly forgotten whose presence remains palpable despite all the attempts made to deny them.

Born of the Yam, Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen, Singapore
Film No. 4 (Bottoms), Yoko Ono, USA 1966
Let There Be Whistleblowers, Ken Jacobs and Flo Jacobs, USA, 2005
Metanoia, Bigum and Björge, Germany and France
Oghneyet Touha Al Hazina (Sad Song of Touha), Atteyat El Abnoudy, Egypt, 1972 (documentary)
The Dislocation of Amber, Hussein Shariffe, Sudan, 1975 (documentary)
Uchronia, Fil Ieropoulas, Greece and Netherlands

Short Film
Floresta do fim do mundo (Forest of the End of the World), Felipe M. Bragança and Denilson Baniwa, Brazil
Forever ... Forever, Johann Lurf, Austria and France
İki Laborantın Yorgun Saatleri (The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants), Burak Çevik, Turkey, Germany, UK and Croatia
Katabasis, Martin Moolhuijsen, Germany and Italy (animation)
Nursery Rhymes. (Holy) Water, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Austria and Italy
Pink Schlemmer, Oliver Husain, Canada

Short Film Documentary
A Circle as the Center of the Whole, Utkarsh, USA and India (documentary)
El León, Diana Bustamante, Colombia (documentary)
Exprmntl 4 Knokke, Claudia von Alemann and Reinold E. Thiel, Germany (documentary)
Filme Pin, Maria Rojas Arias and Andrés Jurado, Colombia and Portugal (documentary)
Fruits of Despair, Nima Nassaj, Iran (documentary)
Muscle, Karimah Ashadu, Italy, UK, USA, Germany and Nigeria (documentary)
Narrative, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan (documentary)
Phi Pattana, Komtouch Dew Napattaloong, Thailand (documentary)
The Recce, Daniel Mann, UK and Germany (documentary)
This Desirable Device, Mina Simendić, Serbia and Germany (documentary)
This Suffocating Now, Vika Kirchenbauer, Germany (documentary)
Warnungen an die ferne Zukunft (Warnings to the Distant Future), Juliane Jaschnow and Stefanie Schroeder, Germany (documentary)
Yurugu - Invisible Lines, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo and Laurent Van Lancker, Congo, Belgium and USA

Exhibitions/Installations
Butterfly Stories: Malaise II, Laurence Favre, Switzerland and Germany
Casting for a Film, Ihsan's Diary, Lamia Joreige, Lebanon
Fanfictie: Volcanology, Riar Rizaldi, Indonesia and Italy
Industries of Denial, Stage 10: From Musa Dagh to Port Said, Angela Melitapoulos and Kerstin Schoedinger, Germany, Greece and Finland
Land Invaders, Cassandra Gardiner and Juan Mateo Menendez, USA
The sun that fell into the water, Lena Kocutar, Germany and Slovenia
We Deh Here, Maybelle Peters, UK

Generation
Features 18 feature films and 23 shorts, including 30 world premieres and ten feature debuts from 31 countries.

Generation Kplus

Feature Film
Opening Film: A Fabulosa Máquina do Tempo (The Fabulous Time Machine), Eliza Capai, Brazil (documentary)
Atlasul universului (Atlas of the Universe), Paul Negoescu, Romania and Bulgaria
Entotsumachi no Poupelle – Yakusoku no Tokeidai (Chimney Town: Frozen in Time), Hirota Yusuke, Japan (animation)
Feito Pipa (Gugu's World), Allan Deberton, Brazil
مدرسة الأشباح Ghost School, Seemab Gul, Pakistan, Germany and Saudi Arabia (debut film)
Not a Hero, Rima Das, India and Singapore
Papaya, Prisicilla Kellen, Brazil (animation) (debut film)
Tegenwoordig heet iedereen Sorry (Everyone's Sorry Nowadays), Frederike Migom, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany

Short Film
Abracadabra, Amay Mehrishi, UK and India
En, ten, týky! (Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe!), Andrea Szelesová, Czechia and Slovakia (animation)
Imaginarni brojevi (Imaginary Numbers), Jelica Jerinić, Serbia
Lángbogár a zsebemben (Fire in My Pocket), Janka Feiner, Hungary (animation)
Nachtschwärmer (Bats and Bugs), Lena von Döhren, Switzerland (animation)
你吹 Do，我吹 Si Ni chui do wo chui si (Tutti), Zhuang Rong Zuo, Taiwan
Öömõtted (A Serious Thought), Jonas Taul, Estonia (animation)
Riding Time, Roopa Gogineri and Farhaan Mumtaz, UK and France  (documentary)
쓰삐디! Speedy!, Oh Jiin, South Korea
Spî (White), Navroz Shaban, Iraq
Under The Wave of Little Dragon, Jian Luo, UK
Whale 52 - Suite for Man, Boy, and Whale, Daniel Neiden, USA (animation)
Yercekimi (Gravity), Dalya Keleş, Turkey

Generation 14Plus

Feature Film
Opening Film: Sunny Dancer, George Jaques, UK
A Family, Mees Peijnenburg, Netherlands and Belgium
Black Burns Fast, Sanduela Asanda, South Africa (debut film)
Chicas Tristes (Sad Girlz), Fernanda Tovar, Mexico, Spain and France (debut film)
지우러 가는 길 En Route To, Yoo Jaein, South Korea (debur film)
Matapanki, Diego Fuentes, Chile (debut film)
No Salgas (Don't Come Out), Victoria Linares Villegas, Dominican Republic
Quatro Meninas (Four Girls), Karen Suzane, Brazil and Netherlands (debut film)
The Lights, They Fall, Saša Vajda, Germany (debut film)
What Will I Become?, Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos, USA (documentary) (debut film)

Short Film
Allá en el cielo (Nobody Knows the World), Roddy Dextre, Peru
C’est ma soeur (That’s My Sister), Zoé Pelchat, Canada
Cuando llegue a casa (When I Get Home), Edgar Adrián, Mexico
Hotel Oblique, Merlin Flügel, Germany (animation)
Jülapüin Yonna (The Dream of Dance), Luzbeidy Monterrosa Atencio, Colombia
Mambo Kids, Emanuele Tresca, Italy 20'
Memories of a Window, Mehraneh Salimian and Amin Pakparvar, USA
Ni'er (The Girl), Yucheng Tan, China
Scorching, Wang Beidi, China
The Tread, Fenn O'Meally, UK

Generation International Jury
Khozy Rizal, director, Indonesia
Lena Urzendowsky, actress, Germany
Kim Yutani, Director of programing Sundance Film Festival

Children's Jury Generation Kplus
Walter Moritz Arndt, Gustav Arnz, Thabani Dabulamanzi, Rosa Sophie Krasznahorkai, Vera Marsh, Emir Efe Özeren, Alma Sofia Villanueva Bullemer.

Youth Jury Generation 14plus
Lorin Aktaş, Sherwin Lo-Kuo, Minou Monfared, Elda Pfäfflin, Curt Willemeit.

Berlinale Shorts
Twenty-one films explore the variety of the short form. Animation films catapult a love rocket into the universe of longing and let “non‑flying objects” collide with absurd attempts of classification. Queer love stories explore genre films to draw new images of masculinity. Archival photos are collaged, commented on from opposing perspectives or transformed into moving images using artificial intelligence. Optical experiments make us doubt our perception and when the world turns upside down, the camera follows.

A Woman’s Place is Everywhere, Fanny Texier, USA, 19′
Chuuraa, Evgenia Arbugaeva, UK, 18′ (documentary)
Cosmonauts, Leo Černic, Slovenia and Italy, 14′ (animation)
地三鲜 Di san xian (Kleptomania), Jingkai Qu, China, 24′
Ein Unfall (An Accident), Angelika Spangel, Austria, 30′
Flim Flam, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria, 15′ (animation)
Graft Versus Host, Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Germany and Georgia, 31′ (documentary)
Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep, Marthe Peters, Belgium, 13′ (documentary)
Kontrewers, Zuza Banasińska, Netherlands, Poland and France, 21′ (documentary)
La hora de irse (Time to Go), Renzo Cozza, Argentina, 20′
Les âmes du Fouta (Souls of Fouta), Alpha Diallo, France and Senegal, 18′
Les juifs riches, Yolande Zauberman, France, 31′ (documentary)
Miriam, Karla Condado, Mexico, 20′ (documentary)
Mit einem freundlichen Gruss (With a Kind Regard), Pavel Mozhar, Germany, 14′ (documentary)
Oupatevak het tam phnom (Incident on the Mountain), Savunthara Seng, Cambodia, 21′
Plan contraplan (Shot Reverse Shot), Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă, Romania, 22′ (documentary)
Stallion y la bola de cristal (Stallion and a Crystal Ball), Christian Avilés, Spain, 19′
TAXI MOTO, Gaël Kamilindi, Switzerland and France, 20′
Unidentifizierte Unflugobjekte (UUO) [Unidentified Nonflying Objects (UNO)], Sasha Svirsky, Germany, 12′ (animation)
Yawman ma walad (Someday a Child), Marie-Rose Osta, France, Romania and Lebanon, 27′
Yuragim, Varia Binazir Garib and Kirill Komar, Austria and Uzbekistan, 19′

International Short Film Jury
Ameer Fakher Eldin, director, Syria
Stefan Grissemann, film journalist, writer and film professor, Austria
Gabriele Stötzer, experimental artist, Germany

Berlinale Co-Production Market
35 film projects from 27 countries. To check projects at EFM official site go here and scroll down for first article.

All in My Family, Hao Wu, USA
Black As Snow, Farhad Delaram, France
Cura Sana, Lucía G. Romero, Spain
El Gran Cabrón (The Black Goat), Eduardo Casanova, Spain
Feral, Nihaarika Negi, Moonweave Films, Germany
Il Dominio, Klaudia Reynicke, Switzerland
Karmic Knot, Signe Baumane, Latvia and Germany
Life is Yours, Emma Kawawada, Japan
Lotus Feet, Amanda Nell Eu, Malaysia
Manatee, Anna Roller, Germany and France
Mum is in Puberty, Ami-Ro Sköld, Sweden
Mercury Child, Leonie Krippendorff, Germany
Nativity, Francisca Alegría, Chile
People Still Die of Love, Fernando Guzzoni, Chile and Colombia
riot/girl, Arman T. Riahi, Austria and France
Sylvia, Aida Begić, Serbia
The Talas Affair, Ivan Grbovic, Canada
The Taste of Salt, Deepak Rauniyar, UK and Nepal
The Transmigration of Bodies, Alonso Ruizpalacios), Mexico

Berlinale Directors Projects
La última frontera (The Last Frontier), Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina and Luxembourg
Liberations, Laurynas Bareisa, Lithuania
The Vacation, Dénes Nagy, Hungary and France

World Cinema Market Project
Blue Card, Mohammed Alomda, Sudan and Germany

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express
Beirut Baby, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Lebanon and France
The Dispute, Andrea Ellsworth and Kasey Elise Walker, USA

Talent Project Market
Acts of Kindness, Ellen Ugelstad, Norway
Apnea, Lô Politi, Brazil
Claude, Narcisse Wandji, Cameroon
Fabric of Grief, Samantha Moore, UK
Fear Zone, Alina Simone, USA
Miss Pandora, Jan Forsström, Finland
Porto Alegre, Alvaro Gago, Spain
The Most Romantic Man in the World, Simon Jaquemet, Switzerland
Yesterday I Will Love You, Guillermo Benet, Spain
Watch It Burn, Makbul Mubarak, Indonesia

Co-Pro Series Projects
Ten new, selected drama series projects will be pitched and will meet with co-production and financin partners. To check the projects go to EFm official site here and scroll down to second article.

Books at Berlinale
On Monday, February 16, the Berlinale Co-Production Market in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmess presents 10 books particularly suitable for literary adaptation.  To check the list of books go EFM official site here and scroll down to last article.

Berlinale Celebrates 40 Years of the Teddy Award
The 40th anniversary is celebrated with the special program TEDDY 40, consisting of six short films and eight feature films from the history of the award, as well as a series of discussions. To check the films at the Teddy Award official site go here. Complementary program Wild At Heart will follow.

Berlinale Classics 2026
Presents 10 films from 9 countries. Check info about the films at official site here.

Berlinale Retrospective 2025
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, and the digital revolution birthed a host of unconventional and inquisitive films. The line-up includes 22 film programmes, plus discussions and events. And for the first time, the Retrospective will be working with the Goethe-Institut. Beginning in March 2026, five of the films from the Berlin segment of the programme will be made available for screening in the 150 institutes around the world. To check the films in this section go to official site here.

Berlinale Series Market
The flagship label Berlinale Series Market Selects presents 17 scripted titles and three docuseries. The scripted series span a wide range of genres, from drama and thriller to biopics and tragicomic stories and originate from Argentina/Uruguay, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Chile/Mexico, Denmark/Norway, Germany, Iceland, Canada, the Czech Republic, Morocco, Switzerland, Portugal, and Spain. The docuseries come from Canada, Turkey, and the USA. To check the projects go to EFM official site here.

Berlinale Camera 2026
This year the Berlinale Camera goes to contemporary composer and artist Max Richter and the laudatory speech wil be delivered by Chloé Zhao, with whom Richter recently collaborated on her latest film Hamnet. The presentation of the Berlinale Camera to Max Richter will take place on February 18, 2026, at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Press Conference Video