The audience shows its unflagging enthusiasm. The shirt-sleeved treatment of stars, which is evident in many photos from the time, gave the Berlinale the image of the “festival of the man in the ...

Berlinale reaches out In its fifth year, the festival’s advertising expenditure jumps to 60,000 deutschmarks, equalling 15% of the festival budget. Alfred Bauer places highly visible outdoor posters ...

The 1958 Berlinale was marked by the attempt to present itself as more mature both politically and with regards to its content. Already at the opening ceremony in the new Congress Hall in Tiergarten, ...

The 55th Forum main programme comprises 30 films from five continents – including seven feature debuts – and encounters a world and its people that are in a bad state. “Sounding out a diverse range of ...

Ten-year-old Vittoria is growing up in a Sardinian village untouched by tourism. One day at a rodeo she meets the impetuous Angelica, who is completely different to her own caring mother Tina.

Star, a suicidal teen now too old for foster care, develops a candid rapport with An, a student from Shanghai who is assigned to watch her while she is in hospital. A nightly exchange of secrets, text ...

In 2025, once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale. 19 films are competing for the awards in this year’s Competition ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteThe Filipino documentary filmmaker was born in 1989. In her work, she is particularly interested in examining how transformations in life can be ...

“The mountain spirit exists. If you believe in him with all your heart, he’ll give you all kinds of power.” Eleven-year-old Amra is a child of the Mongolian steppe, where he lives in a traditional ...

Born in Vienna in 1964, author, curator and film historian. He was director of the Viennale (1992–97) and the Austrian Film Museum (2002–17) as well as curator of the documenta 12 film programme (2007 ...

Linn da Quebrada is a black transwoman from impoverished periurban São Paulo; she is also a pop performer who raises her voice for queers of colour from the favelas. Accompanied by her childhood ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official websiteWhen she grows up, she will be a girl. This is something Sasha has dreamed of since childhood. Her family soon realises how serious she is. In ...