The Berlinale has announced that its 76th edition will take place from February 12 to 22, 2026, confirming dates that were widely expected by the film industry. The 2026 edition will see Tricia Tuttle return as the festival's director after a successful inaugural first year at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Bankside has inked a slew of sales on Ido Fluk's Köln 75 following its Special Gala premiere at the Berlinale this month. The largely well-received film has sold to Bulgaria (Beta), Canada (Level Film), Czech/Slovak (AQS), Eastern Europe excluding Poland (HBO), Former Yugoslavia…

The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 75th anniversary edition February 13 with the opening-night world premiere screening of The Light, Tom Tykwer’s politically charged film that takes stock of German society in the first quarter of the 21st century. It starts 11 days of debuts including for…

Refreshingly unexpected, Dag Johan Haugerud's Dreams (Sex Love) — the first Norwegian film to win the Berlinale’s Golden Bear — breathes new life into the often oversimplified genre of sexual awakening that seems to draw on his twinned career in both cinema and books. This headlong, hyper-nuanced…

Working in the Korean film industry for more than 30 years, veteran actor Kwon Hae-hyo has collaborated with some of the biggest names in the scene and witnessed Korean cinema’s rise as a global cultural powerhouse. Throughout those three decades, Kwon has also developed a formidable pairing…

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival announced the winners of the fest at the awards ceremony held at the Berlinale Palast on February 22. 19 films competed for the awards in this year's competition with director Todd Haynes heading the International Jury alongside director Nabil Ayouch, costume designer…

Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud’s latest Dreams (Sex Love) has won the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Scroll down for the full list of winners. The film is the third entry in a trilogy from Haugerud. The other films in the trology are Sex and Love, both released in…

Chinese director Vivian Qu is in Berlin Film Festival's competition this year with feminist, film studios-set thriller Girls on Wire, charting the fortunes of two cousins born into China's economic miracle of the 1990s. Qu previously enjoyed success in Berlin as the producer of 2014 Golden Bear…

The 27th Panorama Audience Award at Berlinale have been given out, with this year's winners named as Sorda byEva Libertad (for best feature film) and The Möllner Letters by Martina Priessner (documentary). The prizes are awarded by the Berlinale section Panorama together with radioeins and rbb…

Brendan Canty's Cork-set drama Christy has won the Grand Prix in the Berlinale's youth-focused Generation 14plus section. Based on Canty's short film of the same name, the film follows two estranged brothers as they grapple with their past and resolve to unite over one summer in Cork city's…

German director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's Hysteria has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European film in the Panorama section of the Berlin Film Festival. The film, which has received rave reviews, unfolds against the backdrop of a film shoot which is thrown into disarray when a burned…

Berlin Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle has voiced her concerns about the rise of the far-right as Germany gears up for a general election this Sunday in which the extreme right-wing, Elon Musk and JD Vance-backed AfD party is projected to make significant gains. "I don’t know anyone that…