# 74th Berlin International Film Festival

The 74th annual Berlin International Film Festival, usually called the Berlinale, took place between 15 and 25 February 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong'o was named the Jury President for the main competition. This year's Berlinale was Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek's final edition in charge, following their dismissal in 2023. The festival opened with Tim Mielants' Small Things Like These.
Dahomey, directed by French-Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, won the Golden Bear, making it the second year in a row that a documentary won the festival's top prize, following On the Adamant's win in 2023. The Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize was awarded to A Traveler's Needs by Hong Sang-soo, and the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance was awarded to Sebastian Stan for A Different Man. American filmmaker Martin Scorsese was awarded with the Honorary Golden Bear.

## Background
### Iranian Censorship

Shortly before the Iranian film My Favourite Cake was selected for the Main Competition, filmmakers Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moqadam were banned from leaving Iran to attend the Festival, had their passports confiscated, and will face a court trial in relation to their work as artists and filmmakers. The Iranian government decision was met, once again, with international protests, following Golden Bear winners Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof arrests in 2022/2023, and numerous others censorship attempts in the last years.

### AfD Uninviting

Amid controversy, Berlinale's directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian uninvited representatives of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) from attending the festival's Opening Ceremony Gala. The decision followes further controversies around the party statements in opposition to immigration. An open letter was signed by over 200 German cultural industry professionals expressing outrage with the invitations.

### Israel–Hamas War

In the introductory press release for the 2024 festival, Berlinale opted not to mention freedom of speech as one of their core values, despite having done so in the previous year's statement. During the festival, hundreds of past and present Berlinale participants signed open letters criticizing Berlinale's complicity in Germany's censorship of pro-Palestine voices, including over 280 Berlinale Talents alumni, over 190 filmmakers with films in the 2024 festival and over 60 Berlinale contractors. In further protest, John Greyson, Suneil Sanzgiri and Ayo Tsalithaba all withdrew their films from the festival, while Maryam Tafakory, Advik Beni, and Monica Sorelle dropped out of the Berlinale Talents programme and Emilia Beatriz withdrew from the European Film Market. Unlike its response to the public's outrage at the AfD invitation, Berlinale directors remained silent to the demands of their filmmakers, alumni, and contractors in support of Palestine.
Throughout the festival, artists continued to use their platforms to make statements in solidarity with Palestine. On February 16, curators of the Berlinale's Forum Expanded program joined artist's expressions of solidarity, stating, "We, too, want to add our voice and share our concern by expressing that the Forum Expanded curators support the urgent call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza." On February 18, pro-Palestine activists laid down on the front steps of the Gropius Bau drenched in fake blood with a sign reading, “Welcome to the Red Carpet,” while inside the building others unfurled pro-Palestinian banners from the upper floor.
During the Closing Night Ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, on February 25, there were numerous pro-Palestine statements and protests during the red carpet and acceptance speeches, including from Golden Bear winner Mati Diop, and No Other Land Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor. The Teddy Award jury posted a statement in solidarity with Gaza which was met with audience applause as well as loud booing. An Instagram account linked to the Panorama section published an allegedly official statement from the festival organizers, stating "we acknowledge that our silence makes us complicit in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestine" adding: "From our unresolved Nazi past to our genocidal present – we have always been on the wrong side of history." Minutes later, the Berlinale's main Instagram account stated that the Panorama account was hacked and the posts "do not represent the Berlinale's position", and announced plans to “file criminal charges against unknown persons”.
During No Other Land acceptance speech, after winning the Best Documentary award, co-director Yuval Abraham stated, referring to his Palestinian co-director Basel: "I am under civilian law; Basel is under military law. We live 30 minutes from one another but I have voting rights. Basel does not have voting rights. I am free to move where I want in this land. Basel, like millions of Palestinians, is locked in the occupied West Bank. This situation of apartheid between us, this inequality, has to end". Berlin Mayor, Kai Wegner, and numerous other German politicians expressed outrage, calling the closing ceremony statements "anti-Semitic". Germany's minister of state for culture Claudia Roth was criticized for clapping during Basel and Yuval's speech, later she claimed that she was only clapping for the Israeli half of the filmmaking team, and declared that "The statements at the Bears ceremony were shockingly one-sided and characterized by a profound hatred of Israel". While the Festival is mainly funded by the German government, the organizers stated that the "filmmakers' statements were independent and should be accepted as long as they respect the legal framework". Following the ceremony, Abraham said that a right-wing mob in Israel had threatened his family after he was called antisemitic, stating, "The appalling misuse of this word by Germans... to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire... empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world".

## Juries
### International Jury - Main Competition

* Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress - Jury President
* Brady Corbet, American filmmaker and actor
* Ann Hui, Hong Kong-Chinese filmmaker and actress
* Christian Petzold, German filmmaker
* Jasmine Trinca, Italian actress and filmmaker
* Albert Serra, Spanish filmmaker
* Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukrainian novelist and poet

### Encounters Jury

* Lisandro Alonso, Argentine filmmaker
* Denis Côté, Canadian filmmaker
* Tizza Covi, Italian filmmaker

### International Jury - Short Film Competition

* İlker Çatak, German filmmaker
* Xabier Erkizia, Spanish sound artist and researcher
* Jennifer Reeder, American filmmaker, video artist and lecturer

### Generation Jury

* Amjad Abu Alala, Sudanese filmmaker
* Banafshe Hourmazdi, Iranian-German actress
* Ira Sachs, American filmmaker

### GWFF Best First Feature Award Jury

* Eliza Hittman, American filmmaker
* Andréa Picard, Canadian Senior Film curator at the Toronto International Film Festival and advisor to the Marrakech International Film Festival
* Katrin Pors, Danish producer

### Berlinale Documentary Award and Jury

* Abbas Fahdel, Iraqi filmmaker
* Thomas Heise, German filmmaker
* Véréna Paravel, French artist, and anthropologist

## Official Sections
### Main Competition

The following films were selected for the main competition for the Golden Bear:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Another End | Another End | Piero Messina | Italy, France, United Kingdom |
| Architecton | Architecton | Victor Kossakovsky | Germany, France, United States |
| Black Tea | Black Tea | Abderrahmane Sissako | France, Mauritania, Taiwan, Luxembourg, Ivory Coast |
| La cocina | La cocina | Alonso Ruizpalacios | Mexico, United States |
| Dahomey | Dahomey | Mati Diop | Benin, France, Senegal |
| The Devil's Bath | Des Teufels Bad | Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala | Austria, Germany |
| A Different Man | A Different Man | Aaron Schimberg | United States |
| Dying | Sterben | Matthias Glasner | Germany |
| The Empire | L'Empire | Bruno Dumont | France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal |
| From Hilde, with Love | In Liebe, Eure Hilde | Andreas Dresen | Germany |
| Gloria! | Gloria! | Margherita Vicario | Italy, Switzerland |
| Langue étrangère | Fremdsprache | Claire Burger | France, Germany, Belgium |
| My Favourite Cake | کیک محبوب من | Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moqadam | Iran, France, Sweden, Germany |
| Pepe | Pepe | Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France |
| Shambhala | Shambhala | Min Bahadur Bham | Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, China, Turkey, United States, Qatar, Taiwan |
| Small Things Like These (opening film) | Small Things Like These (opening film) | Tim Mielants | Ireland, Belgium |
| Sons | Vogter | Gustav Möller | Denmark, Sweden |
| Suspended Time | Hors du temps | Olivier Assayas | France, Germany |
| A Traveler's Needs | 여행자의 필요 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Who Do I Belong To | ماء العين | Meryam Joobeur | Tunisia, France, Canada, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia |

### Berlinale Special

The following films are selected for the Berlinale Special section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Berlinale Special Gala ||||
| Cuckoo | Cuckoo | Tilman Singer | Germany |
| Love Lies Bleeding | Love Lies Bleeding | Rose Glass | United States, United Kingdom |
| The Roundup: Punishment | 범죄도시4 | Heo Myeong-haeng | South Korea |
| Seven Veils | Seven Veils | Atom Egoyan | Canada |
| Spaceman | Spaceman | Johan Renck | United States |
| The Strangers’ Case | The Strangers’ Case | Brandt Andersen | Jordan |
| Treasure | Treasure | Julia von Heinz | Germany, France |
| Berlinale Special ||||
| Abiding Nowhere | 無所住 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan, United States |
| At Averroès & Rosa Parks | Averroès & Rosa Parks | Nicolas Philibert | France |
| August My Heaven | オーガスト・マイ・ヘヴン | Riho Kudo | Japan |
| The Box Man | 箱男 | Gakuryu Ishii | Japan |
| Chime | チャイム | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| Dostoyevsky (6 episodes) | Dostoevskij | Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo | Italy |
| Eleven Tomorrows: Berlinale Meets Football | Elf Mal Morgen: Berlinale Meets Fußball | Maximilian Bungarten, Anna-Maria Dutoit, Kilian Armando Friedrich, Indira Geisel, Eva Gemmer, Felix Herrmann, Hannah Jandl, Justina Jürgensen, Hilarija Ločmele, Daniela Magnani-Hüller, Sophie Mühe, Camille Tricaud, Marie Zrenner | Germany |
| The Empty Grave | Das leere Grab | Agnes Lisa Wegner, Cece Mlay | Germany, Tanzania |
| exergue – on documenta 14 | exergue – on documenta 14 | Dimitris Athiridis | Greece |
| Filmstunde_23 | Filmstunde_23 | Edgar Reitz, Jörg Adolph | Germany |
| Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | David Hinton | United Kingdom |
| Sasquatch Sunset | Sasquatch Sunset | David Zellner and Nathan Zellner | United States |
| Shikun | Shikun | Amos Gitai | Israel, France, Switzerland, Brazil, United Kingdom |
| Supersex (episodes 1–3) | Supersex (episodes 1–3) | Matteo Rovere, Francesco Carrozzini, Francesca Mazzoleni | Italy |
| Turn in the Wound | Turn in the Wound | Abel Ferrara | United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, United States |

### Encounters

The following films are selected for the Encounters section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Arcadia | Arcadia | Yorgos Zois | Greece, Bulgaria, United States |
| Cidade; Campo | Cidade; Campo | Juliana Rojas | Brazil, Germany, France |
| Demba | Demba | Mamadou Dia | Senegal, Germany |
| Direct Action | Direct Action | Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell | Germany, France |
| Sleep with Your Eyes Open | Dormir de Olhos Abertos | Nele Wohlatz | Brazil, Argentina, Taiwan, Germany |
| The Fable | The Fable | Raam Reddy | India, United States |
| A Family | Une Famille | Christine Angot | France |
| Favoriten | Favoriten | Ruth Beckermann | Austria |
| Ivo | Ivo | Eva Trobisch | Germany |
| The Great Yawn of History | Khamyazeye bozorg | Aliyar Rasti | Iran |
| Some Rain Must Fall | 空房间里的女人 | Qiu Yang | China, United States, France, Singapore |
| Hands in the Fire | Mãos no Fogo | Margarida Gil | Portugal |
| Matt and Mara | Matt and Mara | Kazik Radwanski | Canada |
| Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing | Through the Graves the Wind Is Blowing | Travis Wilkerson | United States |
| You Burn Me | Tú me Abrasas | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina, Spain |

### Berlinale Short Film Competition

The following films are selected for the Berlinale's Short Film Competition section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Baldilocks | Kaalkapje | Marthe Peters | Belgium |
| Bye-Bye, Turtle | Adieu tortue | Selin Öksüzoğlu | France |
| Circle | 서클 | Joung Yumi | South Korea |
| City Museum / My Paradise | Stadtmuseum / Moi Rai | Boris Dewjatkin | Germany |
| City of Poets | City of Poets | Sara Rajaei | Netherlands |
| Goodbye First Love | 经过 | Shuli Huang | United States |
| Kawauso | カワウソ | Akihito Izuhara | Japan |
| Lick a Wound | Les animaux vont mieux | Nathan Ghali | France |
| The Moon Also Rises | 月亮照常升起 | Yuyan Wang | France |
| An Odd Turn | Un movimiento extraño | Francisco Lezama | Argentina |
| Pacific Vein | Pacific Vein | Ulu Braun | Germany |
| Preoperational Model | Preoperational Model | Philip Ullman | Netherlands |
| Remains of the Hot Day | 热天午后 | Wenqian Zhang | China |
| Sojourn to Shangri-La | 是日访古 | Lin Yihan | China |
| Tako Tsubo | Tako Tsubo | Fanny Sorgo, Eva Pedroza | Austria, Germany |
| That’s All From Me | So viel von mir | Eva Könnemann | Germany |
| Towards the Sun, Far From the Center | Al sol, lejos del centro | Luciana Merino, Pascal Viveros | Chile |
| Unwanted Kinship | Ungewollte Verwandtschaft | Pavel Mozhar | Germany |
| Wandering Bird | Oiseau de passage | Victor Dupuis | Belgium |
| We Will Not Be the Last of Our Kind | We Will Not Be the Last of Our Kind | Mili Pecherer | France |

### Panorama

The following films are selected for the Panorama section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Afterwar | Afterwar | Birgitte Stærmose | Denmark, Kosovo, Sweden, Finland |
| All Shall Be Well | 從今以後 | Ray Yeung | Hong Kong |
| Andrea Gets a Divorce | Andrea lässt sich scheiden | Josef Hader | Austria |
| Baldiga – Unlocked Heart | Baldiga – Entsichertes Herz | Markus Stein | Germany |
| Betânia | Betânia | Marcelo Botta | Brazil |
| Between the Temples | Between the Temples | Nathan Silver | United States |
| A Bit of a Stranger | A Bit of a Stranger | Svitlana Lishchynska | Ukraine |
| Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Lin Jianjie | China, Denmark |
| Crossing | Crossing | Levan Akin | Sweden, Denmark, France, Turkey, Georgia |
| Cu Li Never Cries | Cu Li Không Bao Giờ Khóc | Lân Phạm Ngọc | Vietnam, Philippines, France, Singapore, Norway |
| Diaries from Lebanon | Diaries from Lebanon | Myriam El Hajj | Lebanon, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia |
| Every You Every Me | Alle die Du bist | Michael Fetter Nathansky | Germany, Spain |
| Faruk | Faruk | Aslı Özge | Germany, France, Turkey |
| I'm Not Everything I Want to Be | Ještě nejsem, kým chci být | Klára Tasovská | Austria, Czechia, Slovakia |
| I Saw the TV Glow | I Saw the TV Glow | Jane Schoenbrun | United States |
| I Saw Three Black Lights | Yo vi tres luces negrasi | Santiago Lozano Álvarez | Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico |
| Janet Planet | Janet Planet | Annie Baker | United States |
| Meanwhile on Earth | Pendant ce temps sur Terre | Jérémy Clapin | France |
| Memories of a Burning Body | Memorias de un cuerpo que arde | Antonella Sudasassi Furniss | Costa Rica, Spain |
| My New Friends | Les gens d’à côté | André Téchiné | France |
| My Stolen Planet | Sayyareye dozdide shodeye man | Farahnaz Sharifi | Germany, Iran |
| No Other Land | No Other Land | Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor | Palestine, Norway |
| The Outrun | The Outrun | Nora Fingscheidt | Germany, United Kingdom |
| Paradises of Diane | Les Paradis de Diane | Carmen Jaquier and Jan Gassmann | Switzerland |
| Rising Up at Night | Tongo Saa | Nelson Makengo | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar |
| Scorched Earth | Verbrannte Erde | Thomas Arslan | Germany |
| Sex | Sex | Dag Johan Haugerud | Norway |
| Teaches of Peaches | Teaches of Peaches | Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer | Germany |
| The Visitor | The Visitor | Bruce LaBruce | United Kingdom |
| Which Way Africa? | À quand l'Afrique? | David-Pierre Fila | Republic of the Congo, Angola, Cameroon |
| Zeit Verbrechen (episodes 1–4) | Zeit Verbrechen (episodes 1–4) | Mariko Minoguchi, Jan Bonny, Helene Hegemann, Faraz Shariat | Germany |

### Forum

The following films are selected for the Forum section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Adamant Girl | கொட்டுக்காளி | PS Vinothraj | India |
| All the Long Nights | 夜明けのすべて | Shô Miyake | Japan |
| The Cats of Gokogu Shrine | 五香宮の猫 | Kazuhiro Soda | Japan |
| The Editorial Office | Redaktsiya | Roman Bondarchuk | Ukraine, Germany, Slovakia, Czechia |
| Exhuma | 파묘 | Jang Jae-hyun | South Korea |
| Henry Fonda for President | Henry Fonda for President | Alexander Horwath | Austria, Germany |
| Holy Week | Săptămâna Mare | Andrei Cohn | Romania, Switzerland |
| L'homme-vertige: Tales Of A City | L'homme-vertige: Tales Of A City | Malaury Eloi Paisley | France |
| The Human Hibernation | The Human Hibernation | Anna Cornudella | Spain |
| In the Belly of a Tiger | In the Belly of a Tiger | Siddartha Jatla | India, United States, China, Indonesia, Taiwan |
| Intercepted | Intercepted | Oksana Karpovych | Canada, France, Ukraine |
| The Invisible Zoo | Der unsichtbare Zoo | Romuald Karmakar | Germany |
| Maria's Silence | Marijas klusums | Dāvis Sīmanis | Latvia, Lithuania |
| Mother and Daughter | Deda-Shvili | Lana Gogoberidze | France, Georgia |
| The Nights Still Smell Of Gunpowder | As noites ainda cheiram á pôlvora | Inadelso Cossa | Mozambique, Germany, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway |
| Oasis | Oasis | Tamara Uribe, Felipe Morgado | Chile |
| Oasis of Now | Oasis of Now | Chee Sum Chia | Malaysia, Singapore, France |
| Reas | Reas | Lola Arias | Argentina, Germany, Switzerland |
| Reproduction | Reproduktion | Katharina Pethke | Germany |
| Republic | 共和国 | Jin Jiang | China, Singapore |
| Resonance Spiral | Resonance Spiral | Marinho de Pina, Filipa César | Portugal, Guinea-Bissau, Germany |
| The Secret Drawer | Il cassetto segreto | Costanza Quatriglio | Italy, Switzerland |
| Shahid | Shahid | Narges Kalhor | Germany |
| Skin in Spring | La piel en primavera | Yennifer Uribe Alzate | Colombia, Chile |
| Sleeping with a Tiger | Mit einem Tiger schlafen | Anja Salomonowitz | Austria |
| Traces of Movement before the Ice | Spuren von Bewegung vor dem Eis | René Frölke | Germany |
| True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 | Chroniques fidèles survenues au siècle dernier à l’hôpital psychiatrique Blida-Joinville, au temps où le Docteur Frantz Fanon était chef de la cinquième division entre 1953 et 1956 | Abdenour Zahzah | Algeria, France |
| The Undergrowth | La hojarasca | Macu Machín | Spain |
| Voices of the Silenced | Voices of the Silenced | Park Soo-nam, Park Maeui | Japan, South Korea |
| Well Ordered Nature | Ihre ergebenste Fräulein | Eva C. Heldmann | Germany |
| What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov? | Was hast du gestern geträumt, Parajanov? | Faraz Fesharaki | Germany |
| The Wrong Movie | The Wrong Movie | Keren Cytter | United States, Belgium |
| Forum Expanded ||||
| for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world | for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world | Gala Hernández López | France |
| Grandmamauntsistercat | Grandmamauntsistercat | Zuza Banasińska | Netherlands, Poland |
| Here We Are | Here We Are | Chanasorn Chaikitiporn | Thailand |
| O Seeker | O Seeker | Gavati Wad | India, United States |
| The Perfect Square | The Perfect Square | Gernot Wieland | Belgium, Germany |
| The Periphery of the Base | 基地之侧 | Zhou Tao | China |
| Quebrante | Quebrante | Janaina Wagner | Brazil |
| Room 404 | Room 404 | Elysa Wendi and Shing Lee | Hong Kong, Poland |
| Sarcophagus of Drunken Loves | Sarcophagus of Drunken Loves | Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige | France, Lebanon |

### Generation

The following films are selected for the Generation sections:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Generation Kplus ||||
| Above the Dust | 沃土 | Wang Xiaoshuai | China, Netherland |
| Aguacuario | Aguacuario | Jose Eduardo Castilla Ponce | Mexico |
| Amplified | Sukoun | Dina Naser | Egypt, Jordan |
| Butterfly | Papillon | Florence Miailhe | France |
| Fox and Hare Save the Forest | Fuchs und Hase retten den Wald | Mascha Halberstad | Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands |
| It's Okay! | 괜찮아 괜찮아 괜찮아! | Kim Hye-young | South Korea |
| The Major Tones | Los tonos mayores | Ingrid Pokropek | Argentina, Spain |
| Porcelain | Porzellan | Annika Birgel | Germany |
| Reinas | Reinas | Klaudia Reynicke | Switzerland, Spain, Peru |
| Sheep | Goosfand | Hadi Babaeifar | Iran |
| Sour Candy | Anaar Daana | Nishi Dugar | India |
| A Summer's End Poem | 夏日句点 | Lam Can-zhao | China, Malaysia, Switzerland |
| Through Rocks and Clouds | Raíz | Franco García Becerra | Chile, Peru |
| Uli | Uli | Mariana Gil Ríos | Colombia |
| Winners | Sieger sein | Soleen Yusef | Germany |
| Young Hearts | Junge Herzen | Anthony Schatteman | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Yuck! | Beurk! | Loïc Espuche | France |
| Generation 14plus ||||
| A Bird Flew | Un pájaro voló | Leinad Pájaro de la Hoz | Colombia, Cuba |
| Cura sana | Cura sana | Lucía G. Romero | Spain |
| Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story | Disco Afrika: une histoire malgache | Luck Razanajaona | France, Germany, Madagascar, Mauritius, Qatar, South Africa |
| Elbow | Ellbogen | Aslı Özarslan | France, Germany, Turkey |
| Fin | Huling Palabas | Ryan Machado | Philippines |
| The Girl Who Lived in the Loo | The Girl Who Lived in the Loo | Subarna Dash | India |
| The Great Phuket | 小半截 | Liu Yaonan | Belgium, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong |
| Invincible Summer | Un invincible été | Arnaud Dufeys | Belgium |
| Lapse | Lapso | Caroline Cavalcanti | Brazil |
| Last Swim | Last Swim | Sasha Nathwani | United Kingdom |
| Maydegol | Maydegol | Sarvnaz Alambeigi | France, Germany, Iran |
| Muna | Muna | Warda Mohamed | United Kingdom |
| My Summer with Irène | Quell'estate con Irène | Carlo Sironi | France, Italy |
| Resentment | Obraza | Gleb Osatinski | Lithuania, United States |
| She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones | 开始的枪 | Qu Youjia | China |
| Songs of Love and Hate | Songs of Love and Hate | Saurav Ghimire | Nepal |
| Who by Fire | Comme le feu | Philippe Lesage | Canada, France |

### Berlinale Classics

The following films are selected for the Berlinale Classics section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| After Hours (1985) | After Hours (1985) | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Battle in Heaven (2005) | Batalla en el cielo | Carlos Reygadas | Mexico |
| The Day of the Locust (1975) | The Day of the Locust (1975) | John Schlesinger | United States |
| Deprisa, deprisa (1981) | Deprisa, deprisa (1981) | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| Godzilla (1954) | ゴジラ | Ishirō Honda | Japan |
| Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (1920) | Kohlhiesels Töchter | Ernst Lubitsch | Germany Republic |
| The Love Parade (1929) | The Love Parade (1929) | Ernst Lubitsch | United States |
| The Sacrifice (1986) | Offret | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union |
| Time of Maturity (1976) | Reifezeit | Sohrab Shahid Saless | West Germany |
| The Wayward Cloud (2005) | 天邊一朵雲 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |

### Retrospective

The following films are selected for the Retrospective section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Ain't Nothin' Without You (1985) | Nicht nichts ohne Dich | Pia Frankenberg [de] | West Germany |
| Angels of Iron (1980) | Engel aus Eisen | Thomas Brasch | West Germany |
| Banale Tage (1991) | Banale Tage (1991) | Peter Welz [de] | Germany |
| Chapeau Claque [de] (1971) | Chapeau Claque [de] (1971) | Ulrich Schamoni | West Germany |
| Dark Spring (1970) | Dark Spring (1970) | Ingemo Engström [de] | West Germany |
| Die Deutschen und ihre Männer – Bericht aus Bonn (1989) | Die Deutschen und ihre Männer – Bericht aus Bonn (1989) | Helke Sander | West Germany |
| The Endless Night [de] (1963) | Die endlose Nacht | Will Tremper | West Germany |
| The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990) | Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker | Christoph Schlingensief | Germany |
| The Goat's Intensity (1988) | Leuchtkraft der Ziege – Eine Naturerscheinung | Jochen Kraußer | East Germany |
| Herzsprung (1992) | Herzsprung (1992) | Helke Misselwitz [de] | Germany |
| Ich (1988) | Ich (1988) | Bettina Flitner | West Germany |
| In the Country of My Parents (1981) | Im Land meiner Eltern | Jeanine Meerapfel | West Germany |
| Jesus – The Film (1986) | Jesus – Der Film | Michael Brynntrup | West Germany, East Germany |
| Just Don't Think I'll Cry (1965) | Denk bloß nicht, ich heule | Frank Vogel | East Germany |
| Kismet, Kismet (1987) | Kismet, Kismet (1987) | Ismet Elçi | West Germany |
| Little Godard (1978) | Der kleine Godard. An das Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film | Hellmuth Costard | West Germany |
| Macumba (1982) | Macumba (1982) | Elfi Mikesch | West Germany |
| Purgatory [de] (1971) | Fegefeuer | Haro Senft | West Germany |
| Shirin's Wedding (1975) | Shirins Hochzeit | Helma Sanders-Brahms | West Germany |
| Supermarket (1974) | Supermarkt | Roland Klick | West Germany |
| Tobby (1961) | Tobby (1961) | Hansjürgen Pohland [de] | West Germany |
| Two Among Millions (1961) | Zwei unter Millionen | Victor Vicas, Wieland Liebske | West Germany |
| Unsichtbare Tage oder Die Legende von den weißen Krokodilen (1991) | Unsichtbare Tage oder Die Legende von den weißen Krokodilen (1991) | Eva Heller | Germany |

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Golden Bear: Dahomey by Mati Diop
* Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: A Traveler's Needs by Hong Sang-soo
* Silver Bear Jury Prize: The Empire by Bruno Dumont
* Silver Bear for Best Director: Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias for Pepe
* Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance: Sebastian Stan for A Different Man
* Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance: Emily Watson for Small Things Like These
* Silver Bear for Best Screenplay: Matthias Glasner for Dying
* Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: Martin Gschlacht for The Devil’s Bath (cinematography)

### Honorary Golden Bear

* Martin Scorsese

### Berlinale Camera

* Edgar Reitz

### GWFF Best First Feature Award

* Cu Li Never Cries by Phạm Ngọc Lân

### Berlinale Documentary Award

* No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
** Special Mention: Direct Action by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell

### Encounters

* Best Film: Direct Action by Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell
* Best Director: Juliana Rojas for Cidade; Campo
* Special Jury Award:
** Some Rain Must Fall by Qiu Yang
** The Great Yawn of History by Aliyar Rasti

### Berlinale Short Films Competition

* Golden Bear for Best Short Film: An Odd Turn by Francisco Lezama
* Silver Bear Jury Prize: Remains of the Hot Day by Wenqian Zhang
** Special Mention: That’s All from Me by Eva Könnemann
* Berlin Short Film Candidate for the European Film Awards: That’s All from Me by Eva Könnemann

### Generation

Generation Kplus International Jury
* Grand Prix of the International Jury for the Best Film: Reinas by Klaudia Reynicke
** Special Mention: Through Rocks and Clouds by Franco García Becerra
* Special Prize of the International Jury for the Best Short Film: A Summer's End Poem by Lam Can-zhao
** Special Mention: Uli by Mariana Gil Ríos
Generation 14plus International Jury
* Grand Prix of the International Jury for the Best Film: Who by Fire by Philippe Lesage
** Special Mention: Maydegol by Sarvnaz Alambeigi
* Special Prize of the International Jury for the Best Short Film: A Bird Flew by Leinad Pájaro De la Hoz
** Special Mention: Songs of Love and Hate by Saurav Ghimire
Children's Jury Generation Kplus
* Crystal Bear for the Best Film: It's Okay! by Kim Hye-young
** Special Mention: Young Hearts by Anthony Schatteman
* Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film: Butterfly by Florence Miailhe
** Special Mention: Amplified by Dina Naser
Youth Jury Generation 14plus
* Crystal Bear for the Best Film: Last Swim by Sasha Nathwani
** Special Mention: She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones by Qu Youjia
* Crystal Bear for the Best Short Film: Cura sana by Lucía G. Romero
** Special Mention: Lapse by Caroline Cavalcanti

## Independent Awards
### Panorama Audience Award

Feature film
* 1st place: Memories of a Burning Body by Antonella Sudasassi Furniss
* 2nd place: Crossing by Levan Akin
* 3rd place: All Shall Be Well by Ray Yeung
Documentary
* 1st place: No Other Land by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
* 2nd place: My Stolen Planet by Farahnaz Sharifi
* 3rd place: Teaches of Peaches by Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer

### Teddy Award

* Best Feature Film: All Shall Be Well by Ray Yeung (Panorama)
* Best Documentary/Essay Film: Teaches of Peaches by Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer (Panorama)
* Best Short Film: Grandmamauntsistercat by Zuza Banasińska (Forum Expanded)
* Teddy Jury Award: Crossing by Levan Akin (Panorama)
* Special Teddy Award: Lothar Lambert