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Freshly created as the festival’s new platform for emerging filmmakers, the competitive section <em class="mark_section">Perspectives</em> will unveil fourteen ...

In 2025, the Berlinale presented the "on scene" photography project in cooperation with the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences. From February 14 to 21 29 students had the opportunity to prove ...

At the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, film expert and Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Rainer Rother will be honoured with the Berlinale Camera. Unlike retrospectives of, perhaps ...

“Wild, Weird, Bloody. German Genre Films of the 70s” is the topic of the 2025 Retrospective. In this interview, section head Rainer Rother and Annika Haupts, member of the selection committee and ...

For the competitive <em class="mark_section">Perspectives</em> section, a three-person jury presents the Best First Feature Award – funded by der GWFF.

Ina Weisse established herself as an idiosyncratic storyteller with her films <em class="tit2">Der Architekt</em> and <em class="tit2">The Audition</em>. Now the ...

In conversation with the director and screenwriter Jan Ole Gerster. The trained paramedic had a huge hit with <em class="tit2">Oh Boy </em>in 2012. His third feature ...

On February 13, the start of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival will be celebrated at the Berlinale Palast. Festival Director Tricia Tuttle and Jury President Todd Haynes will kick off the ...

In a village in a remote valley on the northern border of Xinjiang, China, a lonely Kazakh boy named Arsin nurses fading memories of his family. He finds solace in the company of plants. The arrival ...

The new Perspectives section is launching in 2025 and is dedicated to discovering and supporting exceptional feature film debutants from around the world. In its 75-year history, the Berlinale has ...