Berlinale Press Service

Welcome to the service pages of the Berlinale Press Office.

The Berlinale Press Office is available all year-round for all members of the press and is based at Potsdamer Platz. The accreditation process for the Berlinale 2025 has begun.

Due to changes in our internal software systems and processes, the accreditation process for the 2025 Berlinale is changing. Your old Berlinale account and all the data saved in it will no longer be available. In order to submit an accreditation application, you will have to create a new account. Please use a personal email address as a login because this address will also be used for other Berlinale online services (e.g. online ticketing, EFM online services). The new software system will continue to be developed over the upcoming festival editions.

If you encounter technical problems when creating an account or filling in your accreditation application, please contact our web support team via email at or by phone on +49 30 25920 800.

At the beginning of the festival in February the Press Office will move to the Press Centre on the 1st floor of the Grand Hyatt Berlin, directly opposite the Berlinale Palast. The various areas of the Press Office and the Press Conferences will also be located there. Now that the construction work around the Berlinale Palast is complete, the festival can make better use of the square in its new design and create more opportunities for encounters. The Stage Bluemax Theater at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz will become a new premiere screening venue for the Berlinale 2025.

The Berlinale Press Office will be happy to answer any questions you may have and provide further information on Competition, Berlinale Special, Perspectives, Panorama , Generation, Berlinale Shorts and Homage. There are separate press contacts for Forum / Forum Expanded and Retrospective / Berlinale Classics.