The programmer and short film expert Jing Haase (Denmark), film composer Dascha Dauenhauer (Germany) and director Phạm Ngọc Lân (Vietnam) are the International Short Film Jury of Berlinale Shorts.

In 2025, once again a multitalented International Jury will decide who will take home the Golden and the Silver Bears at the Berlinale. 19 films are competing for the awards in this year’s Competition ...

The Berlin International Film Festival has long been committed to the diversity of documentary forms. A distinct award for the best documentary film was launched in 2017. The Berlinale Documentary ...

As early as 2010, the Deutsche Kinemathek held a symposium on “The Pleasure of Genre”. The corresponding publication says ...

A woman’s affair with an enigmatic underground musician throws her life into chaos when he disappears. Forced to fend off his obsessive fans, she also has to confront her fractured marriage, and ...

Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart ... The 1970s. Jeanne, a young runaway, falls under the spell of Cristina, the enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film which is being shot in the studio ...

Die Brüder Philipp und Tobi wachsen in der ostdeutschen Provinz auf. Ihre Kindheit ist geprägt von der Perspektivlosigkeit einer ganzen Region und dem Zerfall der eigenen Familie. Als Jahre später ein ...

Rose and her daughter Sofia journey to a Spanish seaside town to meet an enigmatic healer. As Sofia embraces an affair with an alluring stranger, tensions with her overbearing mother threaten their ...

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which ...

Orsolya is a bailiff in Cluj, the main city in Transylvania. One day she has to evict a homeless man from a cellar, an action with tragic consequences that triggers a moral crisis which Orsolya must ...

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 ...

Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with pupils and teachers striving to carry on learning even under constant threat. The film is a mosaic of the everyday lives of teachers and ...