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.
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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 alongside Bruce Baillie.
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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.
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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 of new technological frontiers known as Artificial Intelligence.
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After seeing him mentioned on a Bishop’s Transcript held in Gloucestershire Archives, Dan goes for a walk in the woods in search of Daniel, a man buried in Nympsfield on December 31, 1719 and described on the document as “a black stranger.”
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Tamer El Said appropriates another family’s amateur footage to reclaim a memory of a lost sibling. The installation invites visitors to look for their own recollections in the same footage, creating an act of collective remembrance in the process.
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A joyful moment of a child dancing to a contemporary Tibetan song in a Tibetan dwelling. The boy, all the while making lively dance moves, looks straight at the camera—for which he is seemingly performing—humorously and charmingly.
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A collage film about Sri Lankan labor migration to the Middle East, using popular culture and anecdotal, intimate recollections by the filmmaker’s relatives to challenge monolithic narratives of personal history and middle-class Muslim upbringing.
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The artist’s parents are seen sleeping on a single mattress on the floor, akin to the one they used when they first immigrated to the West from Tibet. Despite the uncertainty of the time, this remains one of the artist’s fondest childhood memories.
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The title of this film translates to the Shona word “Gukurahundi,” a cynical euphemism which refers to a series of massacres, executed in wake of Zimbabwe’s liberation. The work unfolds as a mosaic, evoking ghosts in the shape of nationhood and ancestry.
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Pivoting between two stories of women and their relationships with objects—one marries the Berlin Wall, the other stabs a Velázquez painting—Exhibition is a meditation on the assertion and refusal of subjecthood.
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A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labor struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures.
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This short film features Dripp and ChoSkii of the music group BmE composing and recording their latest composition, “Shiesty,” in the Columbus, Mississippi, studio of Country Blakk, only to be interrupted by a John Cage score.
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A story about storytelling: After returning to his hometown to work in his sister’s fruit processing factory, Earth slowly but surely pulls out of the family business to dedicate himself to writing an abstract, gory novel.
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Around a familiar theme—the breakup of a marriage—Yvonne Rainer constructs an honest, graceful, and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, Jack Deller, the man “who almost knows too much about women.” Restored version of the 1978 film.
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The exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary is dedicated to the film collective Yugantar.