Berlin International Film Festival
Genre: All genreBerlinale is widely regarded as one of the top three festivals for feature films in the world (alongside Cannes and Venice) with more than 329,000 tickets sold, one of the largest public film festivals in the world, and around 20,000 plus industry attendees annually.
It screens about 243 films across all genres and lengths across Competition, Berlinale Shorts, Panorama, Forum and Forum Expanded, Generation, Berlinale Special. TV Series are now incorporated into general programming. From 2025 it will have a first fiction feature competition called Perspectives with a EURO50,000 prize.
Integrated into Berlin’s structure is the European Film Market (EFM), plus the Co-production Market and Berlinale Talents. The EFM is a major annual film business market. The Festival and the EFM attract around 20,000 accredited professionals from 157 countries and 2,600 media.
Tips for Attendees
‘Having been to the EFM before, and attend some events at the Berlinale, I could see how it has a mix of the following: artistic integrity … and respect for innovative work, but also seems to have a sense of humour; good press coverage and international attention; a high glamour quotient …connection to the market (with the EFM running simultaneously and many buyers and sales agents attending …but also real audiences of regular people …, who attend in huge numbers, and give a good gauge of how the general public will respond to your film.’
‘It is EXPENSIVE to attend an A list festival, with the various requirements of the festival…as well as of course accommodation, flights and meals for you and whoever attends… it is important that you speak with your sales agent well in advance about what they will cover.’
‘… it was felt by us and our Sales Agent that it (Berlin screenings) would significantly raise the profile of our film. As it turned out, the Berlin screenings led to a number substantial sales to and invitations to other festivals… The excellent press we received from Berlin also brought significant attention to our film.’
‘I would absolutely recommend that any filmmaker should insist on seeing 5 mins of his/her DCP screened at least 2 days prior to the premiere to avoid any disasters on the night. I insisted on seeing a few minutes with the new German subtitles, which I had not seen. As it turned out… it was immediately apparent that there had been a mistake made… It would have been a disaster if we had screened this print on the night of the premiere.’
Awards
2025 - Won - Lesbian Space Princess - Teddy Award
2025 - Won - Fwends - Caligari Film Award
2023 - Won - Sweet As - Children's Jury Generation Kplus - Crystal Bear For The Best Film
2023 - Won - Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped In Black) - Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize for Short Film
2023 - Won - Survival of Kindness, The - Critics’ Fipresci Award
2023 - Won - Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped In Black) - Best Short Film, Teddy Awards
2022 - Won - Tinashé - Special Mention - Generation 14plus
2020 - Special Mention - H is for Happiness - Crystal Bear for the Best Film
2018 - Won - Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl, A - Crystal Bear - Best Short Film by the Youth Jury , Generation KPlus
2017 - Won - Wolfe - Crystal Bear - Best Short Film
2014 - Won - 52 Tuesdays - Else - Siegessäule Readers’ Jury Award
2014 - Won - 52 Tuesdays - Crystal Bear - Best Film
2014 - Won - Emo (The Musical) - Special Mention - Youth Jury Generation 14plus
2013 - Won - Rocket, The - Crystal Bear - Best Film
2013 - Won - Amber Amulet, The - Crystal Bear - Best Short Film
2013 - Won - Satellite Boy - Special Mention - Children’s Jury Generation Kplus
2013 - Won - Satellite Boy - Special Mention - International Jury Generation Kplus
2013 - Won - Rocket, The - Best First Feature
2013 - Won - Rocket, The - Amnesty International Film Prize
2012 - Won - Julian - Crystal Bear - Best Short Film
2012 - Won - Bino - Special Mention - Best Short Film
2012 - Won - Bino - Special Prize of the Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk - Best Short Film
2011 - Won - Lily - Crystal Bear - Best Short Film
2011 - Nominated - Minnie Loves Junior - Special Mention
2010 - Won - Franswa Sharl - Crystal Bear (Kplus Short Film)
2009 - Won - Jerrycan - Special Mention
2009 - Won - Mary & Max - Special Mention
2008 - Won - Black Balloon, The - Crystal Bear - Best Feature Length Film
2008 - Won - Nana - Crystal Bear - Best Short Film
2008 - Won - Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story - 2nd place Audience Award
2006 - Won - Love This Time - Special Mention
2005 - Won - Green Bush - Short Film Award
2005 - Won - Djarn Djarns, The - Crystal Bear - Best Short Film
2004 - Won - Cracker Bag - Special Mention, International Jury Kinderfilmfest
2004 - Won - Fugue - Panorama Short Film Award
2002 - Won - Delivery Day - Special Mention (Kinderfilmfest)
2002 - Won - Delivery Day - Special Mention (Crystal Bear Award)
2002 - Won - Walking On Water - Teddy Award for Best Feature Film
2002 - Won - Walking On Water - Reader’s Prize of the Siegessäule
2002 - Won - Beneath Clouds - Piper Heidsieck New Talent Award - Dannielle Hall
2002 - Won - Beneath Clouds - Premiere First Movie Award - Ivan Sen
2000 - Won - Chrissy - Teddy Jury Award
1994 - Won - No Worries - First prize - Best Children's Film
1986 - Won - Half Life - International Jury Prize-Best Film/Zitty Readers' Jury Award
1986 - Won - Half Life - Berlinale Peace Prize
1985 - Won - Wrong World - Silver Bear, Best Actress - Jo Kennedy
1982 - Won - Killing of Angel Street, The - Special Mention - Teatment of Contemporary Social Problems
1978 - Won - Love Letters From Teralba Road - Special Mention
Screenings
2026 - Saccharine
2026 - Wolfram
2025 - Lesbian Space Princess
2025 - Ornmol
2025 - Fwends
2025 - Howl
2025 - Narrow Road to the Deep North, The
2023 - Limbo
2023 - Bad Behaviour
2023 - Hello Dankness
2023 - Talk to Me
2023 - Muriel's Wedding
2023 - Sweet As
2023 - Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped In Black)
2023 - Survival of Kindness, The
2022 - Tinashé
2022 - Moja Vesna
2020 - Girl and Body
2020 - High Ground
2020 - Mystery Road series 2
2020 - Stateless
2020 - Grevillea
2020 - Flame, The
2020 - Elders
2020 - H is for Happiness
2019 - Buoyancy
2019 - She Who Must Be Loved
2019 - Tanna
2019 - Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland, The
2019 - 2040
2019 - Blackbird
2019 - Second Journey (To Uluru), The
2018 - Gurrumul
2018 - Picnic at Hanging Rock
2018 - Tangles and Knots
2018 - Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl, A
2018 - Lost & Found
2018 - Paper Crane
2017 - RED DOG: True Blue
2017 - After the Smoke
2017 - Smashed
2017 - Monsieur Mayonnaise
2017 - Wolfe
2017 - Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams
2017 - EMO the Musical
2017 - Berlin Syndrome
2017 - Casting JonBenet
2016 - Cleverman series 1
2016 - Girl Asleep
2016 - Kill Your Dinner
2016 - Boyfriend Game, The
2015 - Life
2015 - Elixir
2015 - Paper Planes
2015 - Face of Ukraine, The: Casting Oksana Baiul
2015 - That Sugar Film
2015 - Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose
2015 - Nulla Nulla
2015 - Wawi
2015 - Driftwood Dustmites
2015 - Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under
2014 - 52 Tuesdays
2014 - Galore
2014 - Tim Winton's The Turning
2014 - Emo (The Musical)
2014 - Snowblind
2014 - Darkside, The
2013 - Rocket, The
2013 - Satellite Boy
2013 - Yardbird
2013 - You Like It, I Love It
2013 - Amber Amulet, The
2013 - Summer Suit
2013 - Make Hummus Not War
2013 - Red Obsession
2013 - Top of the Lake series 1
2013 - Beneath Clouds
2013 - Samson & Delilah
2013 - Ten Canoes
2013 - Green Bush
2013 - Nana
2013 - Ngangkari
2013 - Payback
2013 - Lore
2012 - Wilding, The
2012 - Kiss
2012 - Bino
2012 - Julian
2012 - Iron Sky
2012 - Karrabing! Low Tide Turning
2011 - Griff The Invisible
2011 - Red Dog
2011 - Lily
2011 - Minnie Loves Junior
2011 - Pig
2010 - Red Hill
2010 - Bran Nue Dae
2010 - Franswa Sharl
2010 - First Contact
2009 - Ali & The Ball
2009 - Jerrycan
2009 - Mary & Max
2009 - Tomorrow
2009 - Summer Breaks
2009 - Netherland Dwarf
2008 - Black Balloon, The
2008 - September
2008 - Hey, Hey It's Esther Blueburger
2008 - Meditations on a Name
2008 - Yolk
2008 - Nana
2008 - Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story
2008 - Son Of A Lion
2008 - Corroboree
2007 - Home Song Stories, The
2007 - West
2007 - Razzle Dazzle
2007 - Tommy the Kid
2007 - Playground
2007 - Girl Who Swallowed Bees, The
2006 - Candy
2006 - Rampage
2006 - Opal Dream
2006 - Love This Time
2006 - Bloody Footy
2006 - Hold Please
2006 - Proposition, The
2006 - Fish
2005 - Green Bush
2005 - Djarn Djarns, The
2005 - Transient
2005 - Harry's War
2004 - Cracker Bag
2004 - Fugue
2004 - Scree, The
2003 - L'envie
2003 - Alexandra's Project
2002 - Delivery Day
2002 - One Night the Moon
2002 - Hildegarde
2002 - Pitch, The
2002 - Walking On Water
2002 - Beneath Clouds
2002 - Shanghai Panic
2001 - Diplomat, The
2000 - Episodes in Disbelief
2000 - Calling, The
2000 - My Mother Frank
2000 - Chrissy
1999 - Pentuphouse
1999 - Praise
1999 - Liu Awaiting Spring
1998 - Pyongyang Diaries
1998 - Boys, The
1998 - Sound of One Hand Clapping, The
1997 - Manganinnie
1997 - Shooting the Breeze
1997 - Life
1996 - Swerve
1996 - What I Have Written
1996 - Not Fourteen Again
1995 - Country Life
1994 - No Worries
1994 - Exile
1993 - Love In Limbo
1993 - Hammers Over The Anvil
1993 - Secrets of the City
1993 - Say a Little Prayer
1992 - Good Woman Of Bangkok, The
1992 - Photo Wallahs
1992 - Last Days Of Chez Nous, The
1991 - Union Street
1991 - Angel At My Table, An
1991 - Green Card
1990 - Return Home
1990 - Return Home
1990 - What the Moon Saw
1990 - Sonnet
1989 - Celia
1989 - Devil's Hill
1988 - Air Pirates Of The Outback
1988 - Burke and Wills
1988 - My First Wife
1988 - Echoes of Paradise
1988 - Surfer, The
1988 - Take Heart
1988 - Traps
1988 - Unfinished Business
1988 - With Love to the Person Next to Me
1988 - Feathers
1988 - Fran
1988 - Fringe Dwellers, The
1988 - Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
1988 - Nice Coloured Girls
1988 - Ground Zero
1988 - We of the Never Never
1988 - Monkey Grip
1988 - Emma's War
1988 - Australian Dream
1988 - Empty Beach, The
1988 - Silver City
1988 - Architectronics: the Video Work of Peter Callas
1987 - Last Day's Work, The
1987 - Half Life
1987 - For Love Alone
1986 - Couldn't Be Fairer
1986 - Shark Callers Of Kontu, The
1986 - Yap ... How did you know we'd like TV?
1986 - Yumi Yet
1986 - Half Life
1986 - Half Life
1986 - Ileksen
1985 - Kemira: Diary Of A Strike
1985 - In This Life's Body
1985 - Wrong World
1984 - For Love or Money: A History of Women and Work in Australia
1984 - Bush Christmas
1984 - Familiar Places
1984 - House Opening
1984 - Three Horsemen
1984 - Wife Among Wives, A
1984 - Warrah
1984 - Heat Shimmer
1984 - Notes on the Passage of Time
1984 - Earth Message
1984 - On Guard
1983 - Angels Of War
1983 - Corpse
1983 - Journey to the End of Night
1982 - For The Term Of His Natural Life
1982 - Hard Knocks
1982 - Killing of Angel Street, The
1982 - Bouddi
1982 - Second Journey (To Uluru), The
1982 - Koko Pops
1982 - Gallipoli
1982 - Winter of our Dreams
1982 - Warrah
1982 - Notes on the Passage of Time
1982 - Grain of the Voice - Two Women
1982 - Island Fuse
1982 - Studies in Image (De) Generation Nos 1,2 and 3
1981 - Witches And Faggots, Dykes And Poofters
1981 - Fatty Finn
1981 - Manganinnie
1981 - Morris Loves Jack
1981 - Tread Softly
1980 - Frontline
1980 - My Survival as an Aboriginal
1980 - Little Convict, The
1980 - Bark Rind
1980 - Taylor Square
1979 - Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The
1979 - Devil's Playground, The
1979 - Cars That Ate Paris,The
1979 - Getting of Wisdom, The
1979 - Newsfront
1979 - In Search of Anna
1979 - Mouth to Mouth
1979 - Irishman, The
1979 - Long Weekend
1978 - Backroads
1978 - Last Wave, The
1978 - Protected
1978 - Storm Boy
1978 - Floating
1978 - Lalai Dreamtime
1978 - Love Letters From Teralba Road
1978 - Sun
1978 - Calendar of Dreamings, A
1978 - Malbangka Country
1977 - Don's Party
1976 - Icarus
1976 - Pace
1975 - Race Of Horses, A
1973 - Australian Colour Diary No. 42 Muster
1972 - In the Seventies Tempo - Australia
1970 - Gallery, The
1968 - Time in Summer
1966 - Surf Beach
1966 - Men of Capricorn
1966 - Wide Pastures
1966 - Concerto for Orchestra
1966 - Perth
1966 - Painting People
1966 - Australia Now
1965 - From the Tropics to the Snow
1964 - Unknown Ocean, The
1962 - Tasmanian Adventure
1961 - Jackeroo, The
1960 - Canberra Today and Tomorrow
1959 - Desert Conquest
1958 - Paper Run
1955 - Queen in Australia, The
1955 - Snowy Flows Inland, The
Markets
- Website:
- www.berlinale.de
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Start:
- 12/02/2026
- End:
- 22/02/2026