Berlinale Programme
On this page, you’ll find all titles already announced for the 76th Berlinale. Additional films will be revealed gradually.
The full programme – including screening times and venues – will be published here on February 3, 2026.
The film focuses on the light and shadow playing on the walls of the Castro Camera Store, a location in Gus Van Sant’s Milk. The soundtrack features Harvey Milk himself, shortly after his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.
Twelve-year-old Maxi lives in the slums of Manila where he is the calm centre of his petty criminal family. They accept his homosexuality – but when Maxi befriends a young police officer, conflict at home is inevitable.
Three women, three lives in parallel worlds, until the moment a fly causes a bug in the system. The universe collapses, sex is in the air, bras are overrated and the stars twinkle.
A series of moving interviews and encounters with four Black trans sex workers from New York and Georgia in which they talk frankly about their experiences. Questions of belonging and identity within the Black community are candidly addressed.
This provocative, ironic and playful film from the early 1990s focuses on subtitles and other marginal phenomena, making an entertaining attempt to intertwine the various layers of film, visual language, speech and mood.
Seventeen-year-old Gerardo hopelessly wanders the streets after a breakup. He is tormented by images: every male body reminds him of his lover. Gerardo desperately seeks to cling to the dying embers of their love …
A travel film along a trajectory that does not actually allow travel. A gay couple in a place where homosexuality is a punishable felony. Mondial 2010 confronts institutional boundaries in today’s Middle East.
“La Delpi”, the sole survivor of a group of transgender women and drag queens, remembers how lipstick, playback performances and improvised stage outfits galvanised the community and helped them in their struggle against AIDS and police violence.
In this riotous highlight of Black lesbian cinema, a young filmmaker researches the life of a forgotten Black bit player in old Hollywood movies. The film won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film at the 1996 Berlinale.
Laure is new in town. She just moved in with her family in the heart of summer. When she meets Lisa and a group of kids they assume she is a boy. She decides to become Michael.
A young person’s transition is steadily progressing, despite their mother’s vocal objections. To Write From Memory is an essay on moving forward, and the inevitability of confronting one’s own past in the process.
In the mid-1980s, Ichgola Androgyn, BeV StroganoV, Tima the Divine and Ovo Maltine come together in West Berlin to develop shows, political actions and media appearances. They collaborate, argue and love each other – because they see themselves as a family.
Marina is a transgender woman. When her partner dies, she finds herself faced with his family’s anger and prejudice. She fights for her right to grieve – with the same unbroken energy she displayed when she fought to live as a woman.
A Forum film that today remains what the heart desired in 1985: queer and sensual, drama and S & M, cool and hot, avant-garde and subversion, dreamers and toilet slaves, camp and critique, “Venus in Fur” and pure Eighties. Treut and Mikesch – and Udo forever!