Berlinale Programme
On this page you can find all the titles that have already been announced for the 2023 Berlinale programme. Further titles will be published here as they are revealed.
The entire Berlinale programme will be released here on February 7, 2023.
Berlinale Special
Competition
Berlinale Shorts
In suburban housing estates in France, young people are wishing for money and success. Their dreams even clog up the air conditioning ducts until everything begins to drip. What might happen if you swallow light?
Generation Kplus
The tumultuous school day is filled with cries of “Aaaah!”: cries of anger, of boredom, of joy and surprise – in short, the full spectrum of young emotions. A charmingly grotesque animated short about unrest in a world dancing to the tune of the adults.
Forum Expanded
A meditation film in 30-second sequences about the artist’s father that links geographies, times, the living and the dead with a metal sword – the montage. A film shot in the spirit alongside Bruce Baillie.
Generation 14plus
A fast-paced comedy, Aatmapamphlet tells the twin stories of a childhood love and of momentous social change in 1990s India. Bold, moving and insightful, this directorial debut places friendship over political factions and love above everything else.
Forum Expanded Exhibition
Achala contains a personal message between the artist’s mother and her sister in Tibet. They discuss keeping in touch through pictures, which represents a safe form of exchange for their monitored communications.
Generation 14plus
When Momo, Hugo and his cactus, Adolfo, meet one night, they are heading in opposite directions. Their peculiar encounter will not only magically change the course of their lives, but also encourage them to warmly embrace the beauty of the unexpected.
Encounters
Panorama
A club in Paris. Driving techno beats sweep everyone away. People dance, consume and talk. Félicie meets Saïd and takes him to her place for an afterparty. On the cusp between night and day, different lives and views collide.
Berlinale Series
As an agent for some of the top names in music and film, Johan’s job is to solve his clients’ private and professional problems. Chronically overstretched, but never short of ideas, he teeters breathlessly between ingenious plans and absolute chaos.
Forum Expanded
This essay film explores the contact zones between African rituals of possession within traditional fishing villages of the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the emergence on new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence.
Forum
In 1908, Allensworth became the first self-administered African-American municipality in California. In lengthy shots, Benning surveys the buildings (school, church, library) of the now-abandoned town and looks for the traces of a Black cultural history.
Panorama
Bambino and Bawa meet in Lagos and hit it off immediately. During their long trips around the city, they develop a deep affection for each other. But in a society which considers homosexuality taboo, they feel the pressure of social norms.