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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Die „Country in Focus“-Initiative des EFM bedeutende Filmregionen weltweit ins Rampenlicht. Sie bietet vielfältige Einblicke in deren Kreativindustrie und schafft Möglichkeiten für internationale ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websitePhotos from a family album reveal a city that perhaps used to exist. It was built for refinery workers and university employees; its streets were ...

Die Brüder Philipp (12) und Tobias (9) wachsen Anfang der 2000er in der ostdeutschen Provinz auf. Die Familie baut ein Haus. Der hagere Uwe, der auf der Baustelle hilft, ist plötzlich tot. Sein ...

with Itzchak Fintzi, Virginia Kelmelite, Nikolay Urumov Bulgaria 1996 117' ...

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 ...