Two estranged brothers with chequered childhoods in the care system suddenly find themselves living under the same roof. They must now reconcile with their pasts and make decisions about the future.

Genealogy, uncomfortable questions and reams of archival material are Tavares-Abel’s tools in discovering the political truths of her family and the Dominican Republic. Election fraud and dictatorship are frighteningly topical. Activism suggests itself.

With creative director Farah Bouamar, screenwriter Samuel Gheist, and author/director Till Kleinert, moderator Jenni Zylka explores the vampire movie revival and current developments in genre cinema.

Three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, meet in the villa that one of the sisters has inherited. Shared memories and buried grievances come to the surface and put their fragile relationship to the test.

A group of animals live on a wild coastline and try to heal the ills caused by the contemporary world. A kind of rehab.

New York, 1961. An unknown 19-year-old named Bob Dylan arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide.

Ankara, 1999. Arzu takes one call after another in the erotic call centre where she works. When an earthquake hits Istanbul, a young client she spoke to earlier phones her back, begging her to rescue him from the rubble.

This film is the sixth episode in the serial-based project X Characters, which revolves around the attempt to update the identities of iconic female film characters from modern cinema to produce contemporary versions of them.

Costume designer Bina Daigeler and production designer Inbal Weinberg have brought to life the worlds of many award-winning films, most recently Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door. Here, they discuss visual storytelling and the importance of collaboration.

The electronic monitoring has transformed Tehran into a digital panopticon, turning the nightmare of constant surveillance and control into reality. But what happens when the roles are reversed and the focus is turned on the surveillants?

Daye, a 14-year-old Nubian albino with a golden voice, is used to having to stick up for himself. Inspired by his idol Mohamed Mounir, he and his family journey to Cairo so he can audition for “The Voice”.

Under the torrid sun in an abandoned desert settlement, there is a lethal battle over the spoils of a bank robbery. This heady spaghetti western features psychedelic music by Cologne kraut-rockers Can.

A wealthy German family hires a young woman as a maid during their summer holiday in Provence. Gradually, the life of the entire family changes – with dramatic consequences.

A fictional TV series reveals how the justice system in Brazil can commit injustices against underprivileged youths. Six young actors perform stories in different genres on a theatre stage.

Elvira will go to any lengths to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister. In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, she uses blood, sweat and tears to catch the Prince’s eye. A twisted take on the classic Cinderella story.

The film tells the story of the victims’ relatives and the survivors of the racist attack in Hanau in 2020, in which nine young people were murdered because the perpetrator did not consider them to be German.

Ina Weisse established herself as an idiosyncratic storyteller with her films Der Architekt and The Audition. Now the director and actor is presenting her third film, Zikaden, at the Berlinale.

In conversation with the director and screenwriter Jan Ole Gerster. The trained paramedic had a huge hit with Oh Boy in 2012. His third feature, Islands, is being presented in this year’s Berlinale.

In conversation with the director Rosa von Praunheim. The regular Berlinale guest discusses his current film Satanic Sow and casts his eye back on numerous festival stories since 1971.

The fears of five stoic young siblings abandoned by their parents mix with those of their schizophrenic grandmother who now looks after them, blurring and gradually dissolving the boundary between reality and imagination.

Karim Aïnouz (Motel Destino) and Burhan Qurbani (No Beast. So Fierce.) explore the ways in which filmmakers can engage with the world around them, taking into consideration the current socio-political climate and its influence on their creative work.

Honey Bunch (dir: Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli) and The Ugly Stepsister (dir: Emilie Blichfeldt) brilliantly subvert the body-horror genre. A conversation with the directors, hosted by Berlinale selection committee member Jessica Kiang at HUB75.

The Berlinale’s new Perspectives section is a competitive strand for fiction feature debuts. This conversation with filmmakers in the section from Austria, India, Slovenia and Hungary is hosted by Berlinale selection committee member Jessica Kiang at HUB75.

A sniper is threatening San Francisco. Harry Callahan, a gunslinger with a badge, is out to take him down. The picture was restored from an 8K scan of the 35mm camera negative, with a newly mastered multi-channel audio track being created.