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22.01.2024: Press Dossier for the 74th Berlin International Film Festival

The press dossier comprises the film selection of the 74th Berlinale [...]

Competition

22.01.2024: The Programme of the Competition

20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, among them two first features as well as two documentary forms [...]

Additional Information

22.01.2024: Berlinale Goes Kiez 2024: Celebrating Neighbourhood Cinemas

Together with its audience, the festival would like to celebrate film and the cinema in particular. True to the established formula, from February 17 to 23 the little red carpet will be making its way from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, and even to the outskirts of the city [...]

Additional Information

19.01.2024: Berlinale Statement

Film festivals provide a space for artistic expression and enable peaceful dialogue. They are places of encounter and exchange and contribute to international understanding [...]

Competition

18.01.2024: Small Things Like These Starring Cillian Murphy Set to Open Berlinale

The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 15, 2024 with the world premiere the Irish-Belgian production [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

17.01.2024: Berlinale Series Market Celebrates Tenth Anniversary

The Berlinale Series Market is the EFM's main industry platform for serial content from around the world [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

17.01.2024: Co-Pro Series 2024: Ten Exceptional Series Projects at 10th Anniversary Edition

On February 20 and 21, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will be organising its tenth Co-Pro Series, consisting of a pitch event, meetings and networking around promising international series projects selected for presentation to interested partners [...]

Panorama

17.01.2024: Bridges Between Lived Experiences and Cinematic Possibilities

The world around us is shaped by global crises, wars and social divisions. The filmmakers in this year’s Panorama programme use their stories to send an audible and, above all, visible signal of protest against these developments [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

17.01.2024: From Unseen Corners. The 30 Films in the Main Programme of the 54th Forum

Under new section head Barbara Wurm, the Forum presents itself in typically daring fashion in relation to its pressing interest in the filigree and the fragmentary. Yet the programme also shows a clear openness towards larger-scale forms of cinema that might at first glance seem familiar [...]

Generation

17.01.2024: Songs of Violence and Love

The 2024 programme for Generation encompasses 34 works, including seven debut films and 24 world premieres [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

17.01.2024: Forum Expanded 2024: Distant Connections

The 19th edition of Forum Expanded presents 19 cinematic works from 20 countries. The selected films, installations and performances repeatedly draw our attention to communities – their constitution, the breaking points they face and the dangers and constraints to which they are exposed to [...]

Berlinale Special

15.01.2024: Genre, Acclaimed Masters and Great Performances

After announcing an initial batch of Gala and Berlinale Special presentations, the section confirms another twelve titles [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

15.01.2024: The 2024 Berlinale Classics Section Presents Ten World Premieres of Films in Their Digitally Restored Versions

The selection ranges from early sound film experiment to a sober and distanced black-and-white drama, to colourful, artful exploitation [...]

Berlinale Shorts

15.01.2024: Forms of Us

In the scope of the Berlinale Shorts competition, 20 short films enter into dialogue with one another and reflect on the status quo of our world today [...]

Awards

12.01.2024: Berlinale Camera 2024: Tribute to Edgar Reitz

Since 1986, the Berlinale has awarded the Berlinale Camera to honour personalities and institutions who have made a special contribution to filmmaking [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

12.01.2024: Books at Berlinale 2024: Ten International Books on Route to Screen Adaptation

On Sunday, February 18, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will present ten current books selected due to their great potential for screen adaptation in Books at Berlinale [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

09.01.2024: Relations & Resistance: The 2024 Forum Special

This year’s Forum Special is dedicated to films that show a stance – whether in the 1970s or 2023 [...]

Berlinale Talents

09.01.2024: Talent Multiplied: The 2024 Participants Have Been Announced, Talents Footprints Jury Selects Sustainability Projects

Berlinale Talents welcomes 202 selected filmmakers to Berlin from February 17-22, 2024 and connects them with the film industry and the Berlinale audience in numerous talks, workshops and public discussions under the fitting theme "Common Tongues – Speaking Out in the Language of Cinema“ [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

09.01.2024: A Home for International Co-Productions: 34 Film Projects to Meet International Partners at Berlinale Co-Production Market

34 film projects from 27 countries have been selected for the 21st Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 17-21) [...]

Additional Information

22.12.2023: The Art of the Film Poster

Running until March 3, 2024, 300 film posters ranging from the early days of cinema up to today can be seen in the Kulturforum – just a five-minute walk from the Berlinale Palast. In this interview, the exhibition curators talk about the focus of the collection, true rarities and what makes the perfect movie poster [...]

Awards, Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

21.12.2023: Berlinale 2024: Honorary Golden Bear for Martin Scorsese

The 74th Berlin International Film Festival will award US-director, producer and screenwriter Martin Scorsese the Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

20.12.2023: Forum Expanded Announces the First Seven Films Selected for the 2024 Programme

The works selected shed light on both the palpable and more ephemeral effects of power, grief, and dispossession [...]

Berlinale Special

20.12.2023: Berlinale Special 2024: First Film Titles

Seven productions, including one series, have so far been invited to the 2024 Berlinale Special [...]

Additional Information

20.12.2023: The 2024 Berlinale Key Design

Starting in late January, at Potsdamer Platz and across the city, the Berlinale poster will build anticipation for the 74th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Generation

20.12.2023: First Films at Generation – Aggregate States of Turmoil

Six feature-length and seven short films have already been confirmed. Mascha Halberstad, Philippe Lesage, Ingrid Pokropek, Aslı Özarslan, Luck Razanajaona and Soleen Yusef will all be presenting new works [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

14.12.2023: 2024 Retrospective – “An Alternate Cinema – From the Deutsche Kinemathek Archives” Presents its Final Selection of Films

The Retrospective 2024 “An Alternate Cinema – From the Deutsche Kinemathek Archives” will showcase 21 features and two short films made between 1960 and 2000, with the selection encompassing narrative and documentary films, as well as mixed forms [...]

Berlinale Shorts, Generation

14.12.2023: Berlinale Spotlight: Berlinale Shorts & Generation Guests – at the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation in Berlin

The next Berlinale Spotlight will take place at the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation in Berlin and will present films from the 2018, 2021 and 2022 festival editions in the scope of two events [...]

Panorama

14.12.2023: First Films in Panorama Confirmed: Counter Movements

Panorama is announcing its first eleven titles. Nora Fingscheidt, Jérémy Clapin, Aslı Özge, Josef Hader, Ray Yeung, Jane Schoenbrun, Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann are all presenting their latest films [...]

Additional Information

13.12.2023: 74th Berlinale: Cinema Venues

15 cinemas will be part of the regular venues for the 74th Berlin International Film Festival [...]

Forum & Forum Expanded

13.12.2023: The First Films of the 54th Forum: Women, Communes, Generations

The 54th Forum is blazing new trails. The first eight films selected set their sights on history and the present, on women and different generations [...]

Additional Information

12.12.2023: Tricia Tuttle Appointed New Director of the Berlin International Film Festival Starting in April 2024

Chaired by Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, the Board of Supervisors of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH (KBB) today approved the selection committee’s proposal to appoint Tricia Tuttle as director of the Berlin International Film Festival starting in April 2024 [...]

Competition, Awards

11.12.2023: Academy Award Winner Lupita Nyong'o to Be Jury President of the Berlinale 2024

“I am deeply honored to serve as the President of the International Jury of the Berlin International Film Festival. I look forward to celebrating and recognising the outstanding work of filmmakers from around the world,” states actor, director, producer and New York Times bestselling author Nyong'o [...]

European Film Market & Co-Production Market

06.12.2023: European Film Market 2024 – It All Starts Here

The European Film Market (EFM) at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival will open its doors for seven days from February 15 to 21, 2024 [...]

Berlinale Talents

30.11.2023: Common Tongues – Speaking Out in the Language of Cinema

Language, common language, film language is the theme of the 22nd edition of the talent promotion initiative [...]

Additional Information

29.11.2023: Berlinale Meets Fußball – Film Project for Euro2024

The Berlinale is taking part in the cultural programme for the 2024 European Football Championship with Berlinale Meets Fußball [...]

World Cinema Fund

24.11.2023: Current Funding Recommendations for Production and Distribution / WCF Europe–TFL Audience Design Award

The current funding pot of eleven production and three distribution grants amounts to a total of 360,000 euros [...]

World Cinema Fund

03.11.2023: Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund at “Around the World in 14 Films”

At its 18th edition (December 1-9, 2023), “Around the World in 14 Films” will present an all-day Berlinale Spotlight: World Cinema Fund. One WCF-film is being presented as part of a homage [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

31.10.2023: Berlinale Classics 2024:
Silent Film Classic Kohlhiesel’s Daughters by Ernst Lubitsch in the World Premiere of the 4K Restored Version

The restoration was done by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation and the screening at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) will be accompanied by a new score by Leopold Hurt, performed live by members of the Berliner Philharmoniker under the direction of Simon Rössler [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

31.10.2023: Retrospective 2024:
“An Alternate Cinema – From the Deutsche Kinemathek Archives”

The Retrospective of the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival will celebrate unorthodox protagonists, idiosyncratic cinematic language, and unconventional productions from German film history that stepped outside the box [...]

Additional Information

06.10.2023: Outlook for Berlinale 2024: New Emphases in Commitment to German Newcomer Films and the Field of Partnerships

From February 15 to 25, 2024, the 74th Berlin International Film Festival will again be inviting audiences and the industry to a wide-ranging programme of films, inspiring encounters, and stimulating exchanges [...]