It is the summer holidays and ten-year-old Gloria accompanies her mother Antônia, a nurse, to her work in a hospital. Gloria is already familiar with the place and often explores it alone. One day, ...

Heleen Gerritsen has been Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek since June 2025. The role means she is also responsible for the Retrospective and Berlinale Classics sections of the Berlin ...

With this year's theme of “Listen Courageously – Cinematic Narratives in Times of Dissonance” Berlinale Talents extends an invitation to its audiences not only to visit the exciting programme, but to ...

“Welcome to Hell” we hear early on in this documentary, uttered by the goth actor at the entrance to the dark ride at Wildwood Beach. But that, of course, is meant as a joke. In fact, the Wildwood ...

Toby Ashraf contributes to the entire official selection and specialises on German speaking and Queer Cinema. Toby Ashraf works as a curator and writer. He was awarded the Siegfried Kracauer Prize for ...

In 1896, Ethiopia gained victory over Italy, hitting back at its first attempt to conquer the East African country. When Mussolini and the fascists came to power in 1922, the still abstract risk of a ...

In the northern Alps, Anne, Hélène and Suzanne take turns looking after a mountain hut. Through the seasons, hikers come and go; stories bloom and fade, leaving each of them facing the silence. Forêt ...

His guitar is out of tune and Fedor (25) isn’t in the best of moods. At the end of the year, the threat of World War III is constantly on the news, which he listens to hungover. While his sister Nina ...

Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many people in Russia face a weighty choice: military service, prison or exile. Margarita, Yuri and their friends refuse to comply with the regime ...

A “Heimatfilm” with a difference: Kristina Mikhailova asks women and girls to imagine themselves as a river. Village girls, young female city dwellers, LGBT and gender positivity activists, a ...

The promise of love and family has returned to Sándor, a widower, and his young son when an incident occurs that upends his new life. Sándor is the only witness to a serious accident involving his ...

Berlin International Film Festival - official website Introverted 16-year-old Lucia joins the all-girls choir at her Catholic school, where she befriends Ana-Maria, a popular and flirty third-year ...