Bedrock is a psychological journey across today’s Poland that weaves together stories of Poles living on Holocaust sites. Through a series of intimate encounters, this poetic film looks at the unsettling contradictions with which people learn to live.

Ane and Thomas are on the verge of being divorced when Ane suffers a stroke, forcing them to stay together and postpone telling their children about the split. Faced with this new reality, the two find hope where they least expect it.

A projection-based installation explores the aftermath of displacement following the creation of a massive dam in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Archival material from three generations of researchers meet on the surface of a screen.

In the marshlands of southern Iraq, Ibrahim feels like a stranger in the world. His sole companion is his faithful buffalo. But a looming environmental catastrophe threatens the only life he knows and the one living being he truly understands.

The International Jury under the presidency of Todd Haynes, the Perspectives Jury, the International Short Film Jury and the Berlinale Documentary Award Jury present the main awards of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

Screening of the Golden Bear-winning film of the 75th Berlinale.

The Berlinale Documentary Award is endowed with 40,000 euros in prize money. The prize money is split between the winning film’s director and producer. Winning the award also entitles a film to take part in the competition for the Oscar® for Best Documentary Feature.

The International Short Film Jury awards the Golden Bear for Best Short Film, the Silver Bear – Jury Prize (Short Film), the Berlinale Shorts CUPRA Filmmaker Award and designates the Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards. The award-winning films will be screened along with the Teddy Award – Best Short Film if the latter is from the Berlinale Shorts programme.

Tom Tykwer joins journalist and curator Jenni Zylka for an in-depth discussion about his favourite radical cinematic playground: Berlin.

Come and hear about the BIPoC Alliance’s mission and film initiatives as part of an hour of networking and film discussions held in the Hub before the final weekend of the Berlinale and the last public panel in HUB75. Coffee and snacks will be available for purchase.

Conceived as a cinematic experience that recreates the sonic textures of a music album, the film weaves fiction and history into an immersive, 247-year journey across land and sea.

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his groundbreaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

A bank robbery in Munich goes south, ending in a hostage-taking and a wave of violence. Loosely modelled on actual crimes, this German-Italian entry in the giallo genre is an impressive blend of realistic and over-the-top elements.

An alcoholic woman and an ailing man forge a life-affirming bond, but old habits die hard. Kang Mi-ja’s austere drama with the great Han Ye-ri in the lead casts an unsparing eye on the ill-fated romance between two lonely souls, crippled by their past.

Fresh off the premiere of his latest feature, the Golden Bear contender Dreams, Michel Franco joins us for this no holds barred chat about the collaborative nature of his craft, his work with actors and stars, and his responsibilities as director and producer.

An eccentric family portrait set during the May 1968 protests in Paris. A nine-year-old boy stays with his grandparents and uncles while his parents protest. When an illustrious guest seeks refuge in the apartment, the family’s dynamics change.

A military-set post-horror. Educating monsters. History teacher Alina is received coldly upon bringing her son Serik to the cadet school that will make him a man. A pupil dies, as the smell of past corpses emanates from the cellar of the present.

Since 1986, the Caligari Film Award honors an innovative film from the Berlinale Forum programme. The €4,000 award, sponsored by the municipal cinemas and the streaming service filmfriend, is split between the director and the distributor.

Moving through Italy’s regions, the De Serio brothers come across an alternative popular culture and shoot a square-shaped film about polyvocal songs, music ethnology and oral tradition. Radically contemporary, energetic, close to nature, local. Lyrical.

The end of the world described in four letters written by native Brazilians in the 17th century: Cartas do Absurdo deals with the devastating effects of the genocide of Brazil’s Indigenous peoples over the last five centuries.

While their mother unpacks removal boxes, Valentina (5) and Quique (11) run riot around the flat. Their parents have separated. When their father picks them up to show them his new, old life, the children receive a painful glimpse into the adult world.

Alejandra lives on a campsite close to the big hotels. She takes care of her siblings, hangs out in the neighbourhood and flirts casually with the tourists – until she meets Amara. A romance develops that grows more serious than Alejandra would like.

This video installation explores Changgyeonggung, a strange place where a zoo, amusement park, and palaces coexist. After uncovering its tragic history, the place – once associated with childhood memories – is stripped of its emotional appeal.

Spring, summer, autumn, winter... still war in Lviv, western Ukraine. Torn between normality and a state of emergency. For one year, Mansky follows the life cycle of a society’s grieving rites and everyday rituals, where death is the order of the day.

Xuan (8) is struggling to find the perfect outfit for her school’s upcoming Children’s Day celebration. Her sisters are mean, her father authoritarian, her mother busy with the new baby. Xuan tentatively approaches a classmate and makes a new friend.