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Berlin International Film Festival

12 February – 22 January 2026

The 76th edition of the festival will run from February 12 to 22. The first titles have started to be confirmed, with the full programme going live on February 3. Please check back regularly.

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  • Bats & Bugs
    Review preview for Bats & Bugs

    This is the sort of cast of characters that deserves its own TV series.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    When a streetlamp lights up on a country road in the jungle, a group of insects goes crazy – which proves to be handy for the hungry bats in a nearby cave.
  • Queen At Sea
    Review preview for Queen At Sea

    Lance Hammer’s drama confronts its subject unsentimentally head on with no holds barred.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.
  • Ghost School
    Review preview for Ghost School

    Arsalan really does have something special.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Rabia, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl, sets out to find why her only school in the village is closed.
  • Raging
    Review preview for Raging

    Theo Lozada’s cinematography is crucial to the drama’s effect.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    A young man who witnesses a mysterious plane crash begins to confront his own trauma.
  • Four Minus Three
    Review preview for Four Minus Three

    Goiginger once again proves that he is a keen student of human nature, behaviour, interactions with society and the eternal pursuit of living one’s life in one's own way.

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 3.5 out of 5
    A family of professional clowns is hit by tragedy.
  • Rose
    Review preview for Rose

    Apart from setting the tone and maintaining it, the strongest point of Schleinzer’s filmmaking is casting and directing the actors' interactions between one another and the environment.

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 4 out of 5
    A woman disguises herself as a man in 17th Century Germany.
  • Around Paradise
    Review preview for Around Paradise

    The observational style means the film stops short of being truly illuminating.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    In Caazapá, the “city of magic and legends”, two Paraguayan students are searching for happiness, gold and a magic bird. Their European dropout neighbours are hoping for freedom, healing and salvation from Armageddon. Everything has its price.
  • Jaripeo
    Review preview for Jaripeo

    The documentary is attentive to contradiction without flattening its subjects into symbols.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
  • Narciso
    Review preview for Narciso

    What makes Narciso striking is the way it acquires a contemporary charge without insisting on it.

    Edin Custo · 4 out of 5
    Paraguay, 1958. The charismatic Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock ’n’ roll in his veins. Under the suffocating military regime, he becomes a music sensation and a symbol of freedom. But then, after his final show, he is found dead…
  • Árru
    Review preview for Árru

    Gaup Beaska is an accomplished yoiker, so perfectly cast as Maia, the primal pull of this often ululating music matched by lyrics that speak of her character's connection to her Sámi culture.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Sámi reindeer herder Maia fights to protect her ancestral lands from a looming mining project.

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