The decisions of the selection process will be announced towards the end of the year.

For information on film submissions to the European Film Market, please visit  www.efm-berlinale.de.

Every year, for two weeks in February, the International Film Festival turns Berlin into a hotspot for cineastes and cinéphiles from around the world. The festival programme consists of the Competition (in which some films are also presented out of competition), the Berlinale Special, the Panorama, the Generation section, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, the Berlinale Shorts as well as the International Forum of New Cinema. These sections are complemented by the European Film Market and the Retrospective, which is curated by the Filmmuseum Berlin – Deutsche Kinemathek.

 

In order to submit a film to the Berlinale you have to send the film and the completed entry form to the Festival before the given deadline (Feature lenth films: Oct 30, 2009; Short Films: Nov 16, 2009). Entry forms can be sent by fax or by regular mail - or simply by using our online film entry (Festival).

 

In any case, we ask you to carefully read the Festival's General Regulations for film entries as well as the specific regulations of the section(s) for which you wish to submit a film. You will find these regulations as well as the "How to Berlinale" short guide to film submission by using the menu on the left.

For further questions the Programme Department will be at your disposal: