Berlin Film Festival: Big 3

The Berlinale is a unique place of artistic exploration and entertainment. It is one of the largest public film festivals in the world, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from around the globe each year. For the film industry and the media, the eleven days in February are also one of the most important events in the annual calendar and an indispensable trading forum.

The Programme: Diverse, Independent and Daring.

Every year, around 400 films of all genres, lengths and formats are shown in the various sections and special presentations of the Berlinale. Across the spectrum from feature films to documentary forms and artistic experiments, the audience is invited to encounter highly contrasting milieus, ways of life and attitudes, to put their own judgements and prejudices to the test and to reinvigorate their experience of seeing and perceiving in the realm between classic narrative forms and extraordinary aesthetics. The programme also thrives on an intense dialogue with its audiences. A rich array of spoken-word events, audience discussions and expert panels facilitate an active participation in the festival.

• The Competition is the festival’s centrepiece and screens the films that will be talked about.
• Encounters  is a platform aiming to foster aesthetically and structurally daring works from independent, innovative filmmakers.
• The Berninale shorts competition radiates the full range of colours, stretches the boundaries and lays down new tracks in the vast field of cinematic possibilities
• Sexy, edgy, daring. Panorama screens extraordinary cinema, is a traditional audience favourite and – with its own audience award – has the festival’s biggest jury.
• The forum and forum expandedstand for reflections on the medium of film, socio-artistic discourse and a particular sense for the aesthetic.
• Generation :presents films that matter – for young cineastes and everyone else.
• In Perspective kino  directing talents screen their debut films and bring a breath of fresh air to the cinema with their individual styles.
• Berlinale offers space for the extraordinary, the glamorous and the festival’s special concerns.
• Berlinale series offers an exclusive first look at the most exciting new series productions from around the world.
• Discover film history and view it anew in screenings of the highest quality:Retrospective Berlinale classics and Homage
• The special presentation Berlinale Goes keiz: brings festival films and their casts and crews to art house cinemas.