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Curtains up for your project at the 2026 Berlinale! Submissions for the 76th Berlin International Film Festival are now open.   DEADLINES Feature-length films: Oct 22, 2025 Shorts: Nov 05, 2025   The festival will take place from February 12 to 22 in Berlin – be there or be square!   Follow the link in our bio to visit the film entry webpage and find all info on the submission process.   The Berlinale is looking forward to receiving your submissions. We hope to welcome you in February and enjoy some cinema magic!   Good luck, everyone! 🍀🎬🎥

The Berlinale Golden Bear winners with the most fans on Letterboxd 🐻 ✨ Follow Berlinale on Letterboxd and see the full list at the link in bio.

Big News! The 76th Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 12 to 22, 2026. “After the great success of this year's anniversary edition, we are now starting to plan for 2026. We look forward to once again celebrating cinema with the film industry and audiences and to being a platform for the global film industry,” says Berlinale Director Tricia Tuttle. 🎬🎥 Picture: © Nils-Filip Dinkloh / on scene

“Isle of Dogs” by Wes Anderson (Berlinale 2018).

After the blast of the inaugural edition, round 2 of Berlinale Spotlight: Accra is taking place from 3rd to 7th September 2025 at the Goethe-Institut in Cantonments, Accra. Come and see the incredible talent and diversity in independent filmmaking from Africa and its Diaspora on their home turf. The Spotlight is programmed by Berlinale selection committee member Jacqueline Nsiah and includes first time features by Berlinale Talents alumni. GIZ will host two panel discussions on migration and labour mobility, as well as on just and responsible mining – tackling pressing global issues with nuance, inspired by themes raised in the films. The Berlinale Spotlight Screening: Accra is held in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Ghana, GIZ and the German Embassy, as well as the Africa Film Festival Cologne. Find out more via @goetheinstitut_ghana

It was a wonderful Locarno Film Festival for the films, directors and producers supported by the WCF. Congratulations! “Concorso Internazionale” “Dry Leaf” by Alexandre Koberidze from Georgia was awarded with the prize of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). The film also received a “Special Mention” from the International Competition Jury. “Cineasti del Presente” Cecilia Kang from Argentina, who took part to the “Cineasti del Presente” competition with “Hijo Major”, was awarded with the “Best Emerging Director Award - City and Region of Locarno”. Open Doors - World Cinema Fund Audience Strategy Award The award provided by the World Cinema Fund offers a specific program tailored and geared to closely follow the development of an audience engagement strategy. The award went to the producer Kamy Lara (Uika Filmes, Angola). Statement: “We were struck by Kamy Lara's artistic and socio-cultural interests, and her desire to address complex issues, particularly those relating to a society in flux. Kamy Lara's work demonstrates her ambition to transform these issues into authentic cinema.”

In February we welcomed costume designer and member of this year’s International Jury Bina Daigeler and production designer Inbal Weinberg to the Berlinale Talents stage. In this illuminating talk, the two discuss their distinct crafts, and how each helps crafting characters and worlds from scratch. Drawing from films they worked on together (Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door”) and others separately (like “Tár”, whose costumes were designed by Bina, or “The Lost Daughter”, whose production design was overseen by Inbal), the two reflect on the cinematic worlds they’ve conjured through the years, their visual storytelling and the importance of collaboration in their creative teams. Head to our YouTube channel or the Berlinale Talents website to watch the full talk. Link in bio.

Swiss Oscar submission! Petra Volpe’s “Late Shift” was selected as Switzerland’s official entry for a nomination in the International Feature Film category for the 98th Academy Awards. “Late Shift”, starring Leonie Benesch celebrated its world premiere at the 75th Berlinale earlier this year and has since captivated international audiences and become a box office success. The film sheds light on the shortage of skilled workers in the healthcare sector and is a stirring tribute to a profession that is essential to society, yet little appreciated.

We are celebrating International Youth Day ✨🎈 Over the past decades, Berlinale Generation has offered a stage for many incredible films for young audiences. Take a look at some of our favourite moments from the past 16 years.

Taking a look behind the lens! The production of Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” took twelve years. The film chronicles the growth of a young boy from first grade through entering college, with Linklater directing the same actors throughout the decade-long process. Ethan Hawke who portrays the boy’s father in the film, described it as a “time-lapse photography of a human being”. Linklater outlined the key plot points for each character and planned the ending, including the final shot, but wrote the script for each year’s shoot only after reviewing the footage from the previous year. He additionally adapted the story based on the actors’ evolving performances and used some of their own life experiences to shape their characters. Filming began in 2002 and took place once or twice a year, typically lasting three to four days each time. The production process included roughly two months of pre-production followed by about a month of post-production each year. “Boyhood” was shot on 35mm, which the director called the most stable format to shoot on. While he was not a fan of HD formats anyway, the constant changes and developments in technology would have made the production process more difficult and might have resulted in inconsistent looks throughout the film due to the decade-long shoot. Richard Linklater took home the Silver Bear for Best Director for “Boyhood” at the Berlinale in 2014.

Release Radar – Berlinale films. Grab your Popcorn! Here are the releases for August and September in the US, UK, and more countries: – “Monk in Pieces” by Billy Shebar & David Roberts (Germany: August 21). – “Lurker” by Alex Russell (USA: August 22, Canada: August 29). – “Das Deutche Volk” by Marcin Wierzchowski (Germany: September 4). – “Deaf” by Eva Libertad (UK & Ireland: September 12, Netherlands: September 25). – “Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting” by Edgar Reitz (Germany: September 18). – “The Moelln Letters” by Martina Priessner (Germany: September 25). Follow the Berlinale on Letterboxd for an overview on all release dates and check your local cinemas for more information. 🍿🎥

Friendship is the heart of many great stories — and over the years, we have seen so many of them come to life on screen. ✨ For International Day of Friendship, we want to share one of our favourite films about it from this year’s programme: “Little Rebels Cinema Club” by Khozy Rizal. The film is set in 2008 in Indonesia. The 14-year-old Doddy tells his three best friends about his trips to the cinema in the capital, Jakarta. There is no cinema in Parepare where the four live. Doddy eloquently recounts the plot of a zombie film, but refuses to reveal the ending to his friends. He has a better idea: in a few weeks’ time, he will be moving to Jakarta with his family. As a farewell present, he invites his friends to recreate the film’s final scene and record it with a video camera. They can then watch the result in his home, where Doddy’s mum will help him set up a cinema.