Eye For Film >> Festivals >> A-Z >> Berlin International Film Festival >> 2024
The festival returns for its 74th edition from February 15 to 25. This year it will open with Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy.
View Films by Strand:
- Berlinale Classics
- Berlinale Shorts
- Berlinale Special
- Competition
- Encounters
- Forum
- Forum Extended
- Generation KPlus
- Homage
- Panorama
View previous years coverage of the Berlin International Film Festival festival:
BIFF Latest Reviews
During a seaside commercial shoot, a complex art piece vanishes overnight. As the situation comes to a standstill, the assistant art director journeys in search of the installation.
The destruction caused by the war against Ukraine is shown in lengthy tableaux. Intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families set up a parallel world.
An archival constellation from the still and moving images of the British Petroleum Archives, documenting the expansive colonial network behind the British geophysical expeditions that spanned across Iran in the early 20th century.
A prison officer faces a dilemma after a young man from her past is transferred to the jail where she works.
A religious man dreams of finding gold coins hidden in a cave. Aware that his belief prohibits him from claiming the treasure, he hires a non-religious young man to assist in its retrieval.
A documentary meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveals our destruction - and offers hope for survival.
The forces of good and evil battle it out in a village in France.
A middle-class family’s fate becomes intertwined with their only son’s enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.
Ensemble drama about members of an estranged family.
An astronaut, has been on a space mission for months. He realises that his wife might not be waiting for him once he returns to Earth. In his desperation, he turns for help to a mysterious creature lurking deep in the bowels of his spaceship.
Berlin International Film Festival Features
Berlin International Film Festival News
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:
Sands Film Festival
Weekend film event in St Andrews
Visions du Réel
Swiss documentary showcase
New Directors/New Films
New York's celebration of new voices
Cannes Film Festival
Archive of festival coverage.
Sundance Film Festival
Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.
Berlin Film Festival
Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.