Berlinale: Overview

SECTIONS & SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Please note:

All information currently given on these pages refers to the Berlinale 2019 and is supposed to offer a general overview. Content is subject to change.

Each year the Berlinale comprises about 400 films of every genre, length and format. The festival is divided into the following nine sections and a mutable number of special presentations.

Competition

© Palomar 2018

The festival’s centrepiece screens the films that will be talked about [...]

Berlinale Shorts

© Michal Pietrzyk

With its selection of radically distinctive styles, Berlinale Shorts sets the trends for the art house cinema of tomorrow [...]

Panorama

© Flatland Productions

Sexy, edgy, daring. Panorama screens extraordinary cinema and is a traditional audience favorite [...]

Forum
& Forum Expanded

© Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion

Reflection of the medium of film, social and artistic discourse and aesthetic obstinacy [...]

Generation

© Mo Scarpelli

Films that matter. For young cineastes and everyone else [...]

Perspektive Deutsches Kino

© Sabine Panossian

Talented directors screen their debut films and bring a fresh impetus to the cinema with their individual styles [...]

Berlinale Special
& Berlinale Series

© Peter Lindbergh

Space for the extraordinary, the glamorous and the festival’s special concerns [...]

Retrospective, Berlinale Classics & Homage

© Noll Brinckmann

Discover film history and view it anew in screenings of the highest quality [...]

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Culinary Cinema

© CJ Entertainment, Palari Films

Food for thought with films about the pleasures but also the dark sides of food [...]

Berlinale Goes Kiez

Brings festival films and their casts and crews to art house cinemas [...]

NATIVe – A JOURNEY INTO INDIGENOUS CINEMA

© New Zealand Film Commission

Dedicated to the cinematic storytelling of Indigenous peoples [...]

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© Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin

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