Sections & Special Presentations

The festival's centrepiece screens the films that will be talked about.

Space for the extraordinary, the glamorous and the festival's special concerns.

The new competitive strand for fiction feature debuts shines a bright spotlight on new filmmakers.

Panorama screens extraordinary cinema and is a traditional audience favourite.

Films that matter. For young cineastes and everyone else.

The short film competition of the Berlinale is a seismograph of the present and reflects it with the means of cinematic art.

Reflection on the medium of film, social and artistic discourse and aesthetic obstinacy.

Discover film history and view it anew in screenings of the highest quality.

Brings festival films and their casts and crews to art house cinemas.