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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many years, the Berlinale has been present around the world with specially curated programmes. The Berlinale Spotlight extends the festival period, and thus, makes the activities of the Berlinale ...

Die Berlinale ist seit vielen Jahren mit speziell kuratierten Programmen weltweit präsent. Das Berlinale Spotlight erweitert den Festivalzeitraum und macht die Aktivitäten der Berlinale über das Jahr ...

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 ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteHaving picked up the ashes of her long-estranged husband in Germany, a woman returns to her Vietnamese home. In her luggage she is carrying a pygmy ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteThe android “Friendship” has been sent to Earth on a peacekeeping mission. On her way to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she ...