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Berlinale 2026 / Competition

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34 articles available in total starting from 20/01/2026. Last article published on 21/02/2026.

Hanna Bergholm  • Director of Nightborn

Interview: Hanna Bergholm • Director of Nightborn

“It’s important for art to venture out of its comfort zone because that’s how we experience and discover something new”

BERLINALE 2026: The director breaks down the central themes of her peculiar horror flick, and discusses the governmental cuts for art and culture in her native Finland  

16/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Ilker Çatak  • Director of Yellow Letters

Interview: Ilker Çatak • Director of Yellow Letters

“It was a process of fine-tuning it so that half of the audience would side with the male character and the other half with the female one”

BERLINALE 2026: The German helmer unpicks his second feature, about a couple targeted by the state and struggling to balance their ideals with life’s necessities  

16/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Dust

Review: Dust

BERLINALE 2026: Anke Blondé follows the last 36 hours of freedom of two Flemish tech entrepreneurs on the verge of being arrested at the dawn of the 21st century  

15/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Rose

Review: Rose

BERLINALE 2026: Markus Schleinzer casts Sandra Hüller in the role of a man during the Thirty Years’ War, while probing societally ingrained xenophobia and misogyny  

15/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Salvation

Review: Salvation

BERLINALE 2026: A dormant feud between two Kurdish tribes reawakens in Emin Alper’s careful and consistent examination of how hatred, paranoia and tribalism take root  

15/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Nightborn

Review: Nightborn

BERLINALE 2026: Being a parent is horrifying in the literal sense in Hanna Bergholm’s film, which offers more than just an exercise in genre and improves over its running time  

15/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Rosebush Pruning

Review: Rosebush Pruning

BERLINALE 2026: Karim Aïnouz’s wild remake of Marco Bellocchio’s classic Fists in the Pocket is a star-studded, absurdist parable of violence inside the family  

15/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Alain Gomis • Director of Dao

Interview: Alain Gomis • Director of Dao

"A film can be compelling without necessarily relying on that slightly caricatural kind of dramaturgy we’re often pushed into creating”

BERLINALE 2026: The Franco-Senegalese filmmaker discusses his largely non-narrative film, moving back and forth between Guinea-Bissau and France  

14/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Dao

Review: Dao

BERLINALE 2026: Alain Gomis delivers an astonishing cinematic experience intertwining time and space, Africa and France, tradition and modernity in fiction  

14/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

Review: Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Review: Everybody Digs Bill Evans

BERLINALE 2026: Anders Danielsen Lie gives a well-tuned performance as the titular jazz piano maestro in Grant Gee’s moody and cerebral biopic  

14/02 | Berlinale 2026 | Competition

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