76th Berlin International Film Festival

76th Berlin International Film Festival

Official festival poster
Location	Berlin, Germany
Founded	1951
Artistic director	Tricia Tuttle
Festival date	Opening: 12 February 2026 (2026-02-12) Closing: 22 February 2026 (2026-02-22)
Website	www.berlinale.de
Berlin International Film Festival
77th 75th

The 76th annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, will take place between 12 and 22 February 2026 in Berlin, Germany. German filmmaker Wim Wenders was named the Jury President for the main competition. ^{[1] [2]}

During the opening ceremony, Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh will be awarded the Honorary Golden Bear. ^[3]

Background

World premieres of Hong Sang-soo's At The Middle of Life, Alain Gomis' Dao, Carlos Reygadas' Wake of Umbra, Lisandro Alonso's La Liberdad Doble, Markus Schleinzer's Rose, Anton Corbijn's Switzerland , Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Soumsoum, Emily Atef's Call Me Queen, Ulrike Ottinger's The Blood Countess, Angela Schanelec's Thomas le Fort, Werner Herzog's Bucking Fastard , Bertrand Mandico's Roma elastica , Kamila Andini's Four Seasons in Java , Abu Bakr Shawky's The Stories, Emin Alper's Salvation, Leyla Bouzid's A Voix Basse, Amanda Kernell's Brace Your Heart, Qiu Jiongjiong's Fuxi: Joy in Four Chapters, Wei Shujun's Mr. Crane is Back and Mees Peijnenburg's A Family, are expected in the main competition or parallel section.

Juries

Main Competition

• Wim Wenders, German filmmaker – Jury President

Perspectives Jury (GWFF Best First Feature Award)

• TBA

Short Film Competition

• TBA

Generation Jury

• TBA

Berlinale Documentary Award Jury

• TBA

Official Sections

Short Film Competition

The following films were selected for the Short Films Competition: ^[4]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
An Accident	Ein Unfall	Angelika Spangel	Austria
A Woman’s Place is Everywhere		Fanny Texier	United States
Chuuraa		Evgenia Arbugaeva	United Kingdom
Cosmonauts		Leo Černic	Slovenia, Italy
Flim Flam		Siegfried A. Fruhauf	Austria
Graft Versus Host		Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze	Germany, Georgia
Henry is a Girl Who Likes to Sleep		Marthe Peters	Belgium
Incident on the Mountain	Oupatevak het tam phnom	Savunthara Seng	Cambodia
Les juifs riches		Yolande Zauberman	France
Kleptomania	Di san xian	Jingkai Qu	China
Kontrewers		Zuza Banasińska	Netherlands, Poland, France
Miriam		Karla Condado	Mexico
Shot Reverse Shot	Plan contraplan	Radu Jude and Adrian Cioflâncă	Romania
Someday a Child	Yawman ma walad	Marie-Rose Osta	France, Romania, Lebanon
Souls of Fouta	Les âmes du Fouta	Alpha Diallo	France, Senegal
Stallion and a Crystal Ball	Stallion y la bola de cristal	Christian Avilés	Spain
TAXI MOTO		Gaël Kamilindi	Switzerland, France
Time to Go	La hora de irse	Renzo Cozza	Argentina
Unidentified Nonflying Objects (UNO)	Unidentifizierte Unflugobjekte (UUO)	Sasha Svirsky	Germany
With a Kind Regard	Mit einem freundlichen Gruss	Pavel Mozhar	Germany
Yuragim		Varia Garib and Kirill Komar	Austria, Uzbekistan

Panorama

The following films were selected for the Panorama section: ^[5]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Allegro Pastell		Anna Roller	Germany
Iván & Hadoum		Ian de la Rosa	Spain, Germany, Belgium
London		Sebastian Brameshuber	Austria
Mouse		Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan	United States
Numb	しびれ	Takuya Uchiyama	Japan
Only Rebels Win		Danielle Arbid	France, Lebanon, Qatar
Prosecution	Staatsschutz	Faraz Shariat	Germany
Panorama Dokumente
A Russian Winter	Un hiver russe	Patric Chiha	France
Bucks Harbor		Pete Muller	United States
Enough is Enough	Trop c'est trop	Elisé Sawasawa	France, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jaripeo		Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig	Mexico, United States, France
Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest	东山飘雨西山晴	Viv Li	Germany, Netherlands

Forum

The following films were selected for the Forum section: ^[6]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Forum Special
AI Realism – Qantar 2022(short film)		Almagul Menlibayeva	Kazakhstan
A Lot Talk	Beaucoup parler	Pascale Bodet	France
Barbara Forever		Brydie O'Connor	United States
Encounter (1963) (short film)	Találkozás	Judit Elek	Hungary
Frauen in Berlin (1981)		Chetna Vora	East Germany
Love Your Nails!(short film)		Narges Kalhor	Germany
MegatrashwannabebigstarXD(short film)		Ava Leandra Kleber and Elisa Deutloff	Germany
The Most Beautiful Man in the World(short film)	L'uomo più bello del mondo	Paolo Baiguera	Italy
My Brother's Wedding (1983)		Charles Burnett	United States
On the Field of God in 1972-73 / A Hungarian Village (1974)	Istenmezején 1972-73-ban	Judit Elek	Hungary
River Dreams		Kristina Mikhailova	Kazakhstan, Switzerland, United Kingdom
The Valley Where Loab Lives(short film)		Georg Tiller	Austria
When You Listen to This Song	Quand tu ecouteras cette chanson	Mona Achache	France

Generation

The following films were selected for the Generation sections: ^[5]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Generation Kplus
Bats & Bugs(short film)	Nachtschwärmer	Lena von Döhren	Switzerland
Everyone's Sorry Nowadays	Tegenwoordig heet iedereen Sorry	Frederike Migom	Belgium, Netherlands, Germany
The Fabulous Time Machine	A Fabulosa Máquina do Tempo	Eliza Capai	Brazil
Ghost School		Seemab Gul	Pakistan, Germany, Saudi Arabia
Papaya		Priscilla Kellen	Brazil
Riding Time(short film)		Roopa Gogineni and Farhaan Mumtaz	United Kingdom, France
A Serious Thought(short film)	ÖÖmõtted	Jonas Taul	Estonia
Tutti(short film)	你吹Do我吹Si	Zhuang Rong Zuo	Taiwan
Generation 14plus
Black Burns Fast		Sanduela Asanda	South Africa
The Girl(short film)	妮儿	Yucheng Tan	China
Memories of a Window(short film)		Mehraneh Salimian and Amin Pakparvar	United States
The Thread(short film)		Fenn O'Meally	United Kingdom

Berlinale Classics

The following films were selected for the Berlinale Classics section: ^[7]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Secrets of a Soul (1926)	Geheimnisse einer Seele	Georg Wilhelm Pabst	Weimar Germany

Retrospective - Lost in the 90s

The 2026's Berlinale Retrospective section celebrates a special decade: the 1990s. The following films were selected: ^[8]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Bamboozled (2000)		Spike Lee	United States
Bells from the Deep (1993)	Glocken aus der Tiefe. Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland	Werner Herzog	Germany, United States
Berlin, Bahnhof Friedrichstraße 1990 (1991)		Konstanze Binder, Lilly Grote, Ulrike Herdin and Julia Kunert	West Germany
The Border Guard (1995)	Der Kontrolleur	Stefan Trampe	Germany
Boyz n the Hood (1991)		John Singleton	United States
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)	Podwójne życie Weroniki	Krzysztof Kieślowski	France, Poland, Norway
From the East (1993)	D'Est	Chantal Akerman	Belgium, France, Portugal
Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991)	Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro	Jean-Luc Godard	France
Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993)	Gorila se kupa u podne	Dušan Makavejev	Yugoslavia, Germany
In the Splendour of Happiness (1990)	Im Glanze dieses Glückes	Johann Feindt, Jeanine Meerapfel, Helga Reidemeister, Dieter Schumann and Tamara Trampe	Germany
Joan of Arc of Mongolia (1989)	Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia	Ulrike Ottinger	West Germany
Juice (1992)		Ernest Dickerson	United States
Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)	Lola und Bilidikid	Kutluğ Ataman	Germany, Turkey
Orange Vests (1993)	Oranzhevye zhilety	Yury Khashevatsky	Belarus, Germany
Run Lola Run (1998)	Lola rennt	Tom Tykwer	Germany

Official Awards

Honorary Golden Bear

• Michelle Yeoh ^[3]

Berlinale Camera

• Max Richter ^[9]

References

1. "The Prizes of the International Jury". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2025-12-12.
2. Shafer, Ellise (2025-12-12). "Wim Wenders to Head Berlin Film Festival Jury". Variety. Retrieved 2025-12-12.
3. "| Berlinale | News & Topics | News". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
4. "Magic and defiance animate Berlinale Shorts". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. 2026-01-12. Retrieved 2026-01-13.
5. Goodfellow, Melanie (December 17, 2025). "Berlinale Unveils First Titles For 2026 Edition". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved December 17, 2025.
6. "Jan 12, 2026 "Be Human Only, Dish Out the Truth": The 2026 Forum Special". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2026-01-13.
7. "Dec 18, 2025 World Premiere of the 4K Digital Restoration of Geheimnisse einer Seele (Secrets of a Soul) with Innovative Interactive Musical Accompaniment". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
8. "Dec 18, 2025 Film Selection for the Retrospective 2026 and Cooperation with the Goethe-Institut". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
9. "Jan 12, 2026 Berlinale Camera 2026: Award for Contemporary Composer and Artist Max Richter". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2026-01-13.

External links

• Official website