Berlin International Film Festival 2026

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At The Sea (Country: US, Hungary; Year: 2026; Director: Kornél Mundruczó; Writer: Kata Wéber; Stars: Amy Adams, Murray Bartlett, Brett Goldstein, Chloe East, Dan Levy, Jenny Slate, Rainn Wilson, Henry Eikenberry, Naheem Garcia)
After rehab, Laura returns to her family at their beach holiday home where sobriety forces her to confront buried trauma.
Dao (Country: France, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal; Year: 2026; Director: Alain Gomis; Writer: Alain Gomis; Stars: Katy Correa, Katy Correa, D’Johé Kouadio, Samir Guesmi, Mike Etienne, Nicolas Gomis, Fara Baco)
A wedding in Paris and a ceremony in Guinea-Bissau are intertwined in this consideration of family and heritage.
Dust (Country: Belgium, Poland, Greece, United Kingdom; Year: 2026; Director: Anke Blondé; Writer: Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Jan Hammenecker, Arieh Worthalter, Éric Godon, Dima Savyan, Thibaud Dooms, Janne Desmet, Verona Verbakel, Armin Mola, Fania Sorel, Koen Verledens, Robin Keyaert, Anthony Welsh, Aldona Jankowska)
At the end of the 90s Belgian tech boom, two entrepreuneurs watch their empire collapse.
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (Country: Ireland, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Grant Gee; Writer: Mark O'Halloran; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Laurie Metcalf, Isabelle Harriet)
When a jazz pianist loses his soulmate in a car crash, this is the story of what happens next.
Flies (Moscas) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Fernando Eimbcke; Writer: Fernando Eimbcke, Vanesa Garnica; Stars: Teresa Sánchez, Bastián Escobar, Hugo Ramirez)
Olga rents out a room to a man whose wife has been admitted to a hospital nearby. However, the man has a nine-year-old son he has been sneaking into the room, which leads to Olga’s carefully controlled world shifting as their lives become intertwined.
Home Stories (Etwas Ganz Besonderes) (Country: Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Eva Trobisch; Writer: Eva Trobisch; Stars: Frida Hornemann, Eva Löbau, Rahel Ohm, Peter René Lüdicke, Max Riemelt, Gina Henkel, Florian Lukas, Ida Fischer, Florian Geißelmann, Thomas Schubert, Nairi Hadodo, Luna Marie Kim, Anton Petzold, Kara Schröder, Maren Kling)
A reality show asks a woman what makes her special prompting her to start a search for her identity.
In A Whisper (A Voix Basse) (Year: 2026; Director: Leyla Bouzid; Writer: Leyla Bouzid; Stars: Marion Barbeau, Eya Bouteraa, Hiam Abbass, Feriel Chamari)
Lilia returns to Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral and reunites with a family that knows nothing about her life in Paris, especially not about the woman she loves.
Josephine (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Beth de Araújo; Writer: Beth de Araújo; Stars: Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Philip Ettinger, Syra McCarthy, Eleanore Pienta, Gretchen Klein, Nate Duncan, Tracy Todd, Grace Kelly Quigley, Malcolm Engel)
After 8-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she acts out in search of a way to regain control of her safety while adults are helpless to console her.
My Wife Cries (Meine Frau Weint) (Country: Germany, France; Year: 2026; Director: Angela Schanelec; Writer: Angela Schanelec; Stars: Agathe Bonitzer, Birte Schnöink, Vladimir Vulević, Pauline Rebmann, Clara Gostynski, Ninel Skrzypczyk, Thorbjörn Björnsson, Laure-Lucille Simon, Theodore Vrachas, Ben Carter)
A normal working day on a construction site. Thomas, a 40-year-old crane operator, receives a call from his wife asking him to pick her up from the hospital. He finds her crying.
A New Dawn (Country: Japan, France; Year: 2026; Director: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya; Writer: Yoshitoshi Shinomiya; Stars: Riku Hagiwara, Kotone Furukawa, Miyu Irino, Takashi Okabe)
Keitaro lives in a fireworks factory that is about to be shut down. He is determined to unravel the mystery of the Shuhari, a mythical firework created by his father before he disappeared without a trace – and launch it before the factory closes.
Nina Roza (Country: Canada, Bulgaria, Italy, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles; Writer: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles; Stars: Galin Stoev, Ekatarina Stanina, Sofia Stanina, Chiara Caselli, Christian Bégin, Michelle Tzontchev, Mart Lachev, Nikolay Mutafchiev, Svetlana Yancheva, Maria-Radena Bozhkova, Sylvie Lemay, Alexia Roc, Raphaël Fournier)
A viral video of a young Bulgarian catches the eye of a major art collector, and Mihail is sent there, 30 years after leaving his home country, to assess the value of the girl's work.
Queen At Sea (Country: UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Lance Hammer; Stars: Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay, Steven Cree, Florence Hunt, Anna Calder-Marshall, Michelle Jeram, Elizabeth Rushbrook, Noah Hunt Basden)
As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.
Salvation (Kurtulus) (Country: Turkey, France, Netherlands, Greece, Sweden, Saudi Arabia; Year: 2006; Director: Emin Alper; Stars: Caner Cindoruk, Berkay Ateş, Feyyaz Duman, Naz Göktan, Özlem Taş, Eren Demirbaş, Mehmet Selim Akgul, Hichi Demi)
In a remote village, an exiled clan returns, reviving a decades-old land feud. Seized by divine visions, Mesut challenges his brother’s leadership to save his people. Will this new path bring salvation or tragedy?
Yellow Letters (Country: France, Germany, Turkey; Year: 2026; Director: İlker Çatak; Writer: İlker Çatak, Ayda Meryem Çatak, Enis Köstepen; Stars: Özgü Namal, Tansu Biçer, Leyla Smyrna Cabas, Şiir Eloğlu, Eray Egilmez, Marco Kühn, Yusuf Akgün, Kerem Can, Aziz Çapkurt)
Life is good for Derya and Aziz, a celebrated artist couple from Turkey, until an incident at their play’s premiere. Suddenly targeted by the state and struggling to balance their ideals with life’s necessities, their marriage is pushed to a breaking point.
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