All Festivals articles
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News‘Yellow Letters’ wins Berlinale’s Golden Bear as politics dominate closing ceremony
Other winners included Salvation by Emin Alper, Lance Hammer’s Queen At Sea and Sandra Huller for Rose.
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News2026 film festivals and markets calendar: latest dates
Bookmark this page to keep track of all the latest festival dates.
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NewsMarianne Khoury steps down as El Gouna Film Festival artistic director
The filmmaker oversaw three editions of the festival in Egypt.
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Reviews‘Yo (Love Is A Rebellious Bird)’ review: Joyful, creative documentary portrait of grief, love and friendship
Anna Fitch pays tribute to her late friend Yolanda Shea in this celebratory Berlin Competition title
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Features‘Lady’ director Olive Nwosu on her filmmaking inspirations, next projects
Nwosu aims for ”a body of work that looks at the world from a modern African lens.”
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Reviews‘Once Upon A Time In A Cinema’ review: Dublin opener is nostalgic drama set in 1980s Limerick
David Gleeson bases his feature on his own experiences growing up in a family of Irish cinema owners
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Reviews‘A Child Of My Own’ review: Intriguing Maite Alberdi Netflix doc on Mexican fake pregnancy case
The Berlinale Special screening follows ‘The Mole Agent’ and ‘Eternal Memory’
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Reviews‘Soumsoum, The Night Of The Stars’ review: Gentle magical-realist fable follows a spiritual connection in rural Chad
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s follow-up to Lingui, The Sacred Bonds is a less propulsive, more pensive work
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Reviews‘Lali’ review: First all-Pakistani film to play Berlin is heady, tonally disjointed comedy thriller
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s Berlin Panorama title is unafraid of defying genre convention
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NewsIdris Elba on how building “practical pathways” for African filmmakers will help diversify the industry
Elba is an exec producer on Berlinale Forum documentary ‘Crocodile’, directed by five Nigerian YouTubers and NZ filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly.
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Reviews‘The Loneliest Man In Town’ review: Viennese musician Al Cook stars in slow, meditative drama
Berlin Competition title will most appeal to Cook’s existing fans
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Reviews‘Sleep No More’ review: A decaying Indonesian wig factory hides a dark secret in Edwin’s outré horror
The filmmaker’s follow-up to Locarno winner ’Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ bows as a Berlin Special Screening
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NewsBuzzy titles, busy EFM, the politics row: unpicking the 2026 Berlinale - The Screen Podcast
The team discusses politics, parties, and highlights from the programme and market so far.
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Reviews‘The Garden We Dreamed’ review: Mexican migrant drama puts lyrical, affecting spin on a well-worn genre
Joaquin del Paso’s third film stars Nehemie Bastien and Faustin Pierre as a couple attempting to make a forest home
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Reviews‘The Day She Returns’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s slight, ponderous character study stars Song Sunmi
Sunmi’s expressive performance lifts the director’s slow-burning Berlin Panorama title
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Reviews‘Wolfram’ review: Warwick Thornton’s period Outback thriller is visually stunning, narratively flat
The acclaimed director’s Berlin Competition title is a sequel-of-sorts to 2017’s ’Sweet Country’
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Reviews‘A New Dawn’ review: Slight Japanese debut pairs delicate 2D animation with story of resistance
Yoshitoshi Shinomiya’s Berlin Competition title is set in a legendary fireworks factory scheduled for destruction
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Reviews‘Roya’ review: An imprisoned Iranian teacher struggles to hold herself together in vivid, challenging political drama
Mahnaz Mohammadi’s follow-up to ’Son-Mother’ features an expressive performance from Melisa Sözen
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Reviews‘Home Stories’ review: Eva Trobisch weaves an ambitious portrait of a modern German family
The director follows ‘Ivo’ and ‘All Is Well’ with meticulously-crafted Berlin Competition title
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NewsBerlin Film Festival director Tricia Tuttle responds to Gaza open letter
Tuttle says “we recognise the depth of anger and frustration” but also highlights “misinformation, inaccurate claims about Berlinale”.