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.
The festival’s centrepiece screens the films that will be talked about [...]
With its selection of radically distinctive styles, Berlinale Shorts sets the trends for the art house cinema of tomorrow [...]
Sexy, edgy, daring. Panorama screens extraordinary cinema and is a traditional audience favorite [...]
Reflection of the medium of film, social and artistic discourse and aesthetic obstinacy [...]
Films that matter. For young cineastes and everyone else [...]
Talented directors screen their debut films and bring a fresh impetus to the cinema with their individual styles [...]
Space for the extraordinary, the glamorous and the festival’s special concerns [...]
Discover film history and view it anew in screenings of the highest quality [...]
Food for thought with films about the pleasures but also the dark sides of food [...]
Brings festival films and their casts and crews to art house cinemas [...]
Dedicated to the cinematic storytelling of Indigenous peoples [...]
