Sections & Special Presentations

The festival's centrepiece screens the films that will be talked about.

Space for the extraordinary, the glamorous and the festival's special concerns.

A platform aiming to foster aesthetically and structurally daring works.

The films of Berlinale Shorts are cinema's unsolicitied requests to take the floor and speak.

Sexy, edgy, daring. Panorama screens extraordinary cinema and is a traditional audience favourite.

Reflection on 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.

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

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