After a first announcement (read news), the Berlinale has completed the selection for its Panorama and Generation sections for the 76th edition of the festival (12–22 February), revealing a rich and wide-ranging programme that brings together 37 Panorama titles and 41 films across Generation Kplus and 14plus.

Panorama, which will open with Only Rebels Win [+lee también:
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entrevista: Danielle Arbid
ficha de la película] by French-Lebanese filmmaker Danielle Arbid, once again positions itself as a key platform for formally ambitious, socially engaged cinema, with a particularly strong documentary presence and an emphasis on queer histories, feminist perspectives and stories of displacement, survival and resistance. The new additions to the line-up include works by established auteurs, alongside a notable number of feature debuts.

According to section director Michael Stütz, this year’s Panorama programme is defined by contrast, both visually and emotionally, with films that seek to reshape how audiences perceive the world beyond the cinema. Love, desire and self-determination emerge as central thematic threads, often functioning as lenses through which broader social norms and power structures are examined.

Migration, survival and systemic injustice form another backbone of the programme. Films such as Enjoy Your Stay [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dominik Locher y Honeylyn …
ficha de la película] by Dominik Locher (Goliath [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dominik Locher
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entrevista: Mahnaz Mohammadi
ficha de la película] by Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi (Son-Mother [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]) directly challenges state power. Meanwhile, master Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo (recent Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize for The Novelist's Film and A Traveler's Needs) returns to Panorama with The Day She Returns, offering a subtle meta-reflection on performance, repetition and memory.

Documentary cinema plays a prominent role, with Ukrainian filmmakers Alisa Kovalenko (We Will Not Fade Away [+lee también:
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entrevista: Marysia Nikitiuk
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ficha de la película] by Finlay Pretsell.

Queer cinema takes centre stage in a year marking the 40th anniversary of the Teddy Award, with works such as Narciso [+lee también:
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entrevista: Marcelo Martinessi
ficha de la película] by Marcelo Martinessi (Alfred Bauer Prize winner in the festival’s competition with The Heiresses [+lee también:
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The Generation section presents one of its most expansive and diverse programmes to date, comprising 18 feature films and 23 short films from 31 countries, including 30 world premieres and ten feature debuts. The section opens with Sunny Dancer by George Jaques starring Bella Ramsey in Generation 14plus and The Fabulous Time Machine by Eliza Capai in Generation Kplus, setting the tone for a selection that understands cinema as both a space of imagination and a tool for social engagement.

Across both Kplus and 14plus, the programme repeatedly returns to questions of time, memory and transformation. Childhood and adolescence are portrayed not as static life stages, but as periods shaped by political realities, inherited trauma and collective struggle.

The section includes films exploring themes of autonomy, courage and friendship, such as Atlas of the Universe [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Paul Negoescu (Men of Deeds [+lee también:
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entrevista: Paul Negoescu
ficha de la película]), in which a ten-year-old sets off on a countryside quest after buying two right-footed shoes, and A Family [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Mees Peijnenburg’s (Paradise Drifters [+lee también:
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entrevista: Bilal Wahib
ficha de la película]), which portrays siblings caught in their parents’ divorce. Generation continues to champion debut filmmakers and formally adventurous storytelling, offering intimate portraits of youth negotiating identity, resilience and belonging, like in Saša Vajda’s The Lights, They Fall [+lee también:
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entrevista: Saša Vajda
ficha de la película], which follows sixteen-year-old Ilay as he navigates summer on Berlin’s outskirts.

Documentary remains a vital strand within the section, with works such as What Will I Become? by Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos approaching cinema as a communal resource, addressing the legacy of young trans men and the realities of suicide with directness and care. Short films across both competitions further expand the programme’s scope, tackling themes of protest, migration, grief and imagination through animation, essayistic forms and observational documentary.

The full list of titles:

Panorama

Only Rebels Win [+lee también:
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entrevista: Danielle Arbid
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The Hidden Face of the Earth – Arnaud Alain (France)
Enjoy Your Stay [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dominik Locher y Honeylyn …
ficha de la película] – Honeylyn Joy Alipio, Dominik Locher (Switzerland/France/Philippines)
London [+lee también:
entrevista: Sebastian Brameshuber
ficha de la película] – Sebastian Brameshuber (Austria)
A Russian Winter [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Patric Chiha (France)
Paradise [+lee también:
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entrevista: Jérémy Comte
ficha de la película] – Jérémy Comte (Canada/France/Ghana)
Iván & Hadoum [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ian de la Rosa
ficha de la película] – Ian de la Rosa (Spain/Germany/Belgium)
The Garden We Dreamed – Joaquín del Paso (Mexico)
I Understand Your Displeasure [+lee también:
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entrevista: Kilian Armando Friedrich
ficha de la película] – Kilian Armando Friedrich (Germany)
Four Minus Three [+lee también:
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entrevista: Adrian Goiginger
ficha de la película] – Adrian Goiginger (Austria/Germany)
The Education of Jane Cumming [+lee también:
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entrevista: Sophie Heldman
ficha de la película] – Sophie Heldman (Germany/Switzerland/UK)
Safe Exit [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mohammed Hammad
ficha de la película] – Mohammed Hammad (Egypt/Libya/Tunisia/Qatar/Germany)
The Day She Returns – Hong Sangsoo (South Korea)
Isabel [+lee también:
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entrevista: Gabe Klinger y Marina Person
ficha de la película] – Gabe Klinger (Brazil/France)
Lali – Sarmad Sultan Khoosat (Pakistan)
Traces [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Alisa Kovalenko, Marysia Nikitiuk (Ukraine/Poland)
Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest – Viv Li (Germany/Netherlands)
Siri Hustvedt – Dance Around the Self – Sabine Lidl (Germany/Switzerland)
Around Paradise [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Yulia Lokshina (Germany)
Raging – Ryan Machado (Philippines)
Narciso [+lee también:
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entrevista: Marcelo Martinessi
ficha de la película] – Marcelo Martinessi (Paraguay/Germany/Uruguay/Brazil/Portugal/Spain/France)
Jaripeo [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig (Mexico/USA/France)
Roya [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mahnaz Mohammadi
ficha de la película] – Mahnaz Mohammadi (Germany/Luxembourg/Czechia/Iran)
Bucks Harbor – Pete Muller (USA)
Lady [+lee también:
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entrevista: Olive Nwosu
ficha de la película] – Olive Nwosu (UK)
Tristan Forever [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tobias Nölle
ficha de la película] – Tobias Nölle, Loran Bonnardot (Switzerland)
Mouse – Kelly O’Sullivan, Alex Thompson (USA)
If I Were Alive – André Novais Oliveira (Brazil)
Douglas Gordon by Douglas Gordon [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Finlay Pretsell (UK/France)
Allegro Pastell [+lee también:
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entrevista: Anna Roller
ficha de la película] – Anna Roller (Germany)
Árru [+lee también:
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entrevista: Elle Sofe Sara
ficha de la película] – Elle Sofe Sara (Norway/Sweden/Finland)
The Other Side of the Sun [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tawfik Sabouni
ficha de la película] – Tawfik Sabouni (Belgium/France/Saudi Arabia)
Enough is Enough [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Elisé Sawasawa (France/DR Congo)
Shanghai Daughter – Agnis Shen Zhongmin (China)
Prosecution [+lee también:
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entrevista: Faraz Shariat
ficha de la película] – Faraz Shariat (Germany)
Numb – Takuya Uchiyama (Japan)
The Moment – Aidan Zamiri (USA)

Generation

Generation Kplus

The Fabulous Time Machine – Eliza Capai (Brazil, opening film)
Not a Hero – Rima Das (India/Singapore)
Gugu’s World – Allan Deberton (Brazil)
Bats & Bugs – Lena von Döhren (Switzerland, short film)
Fire in My Pocket – Janka Feiner (Hungary, short film)
Riding Time – Roopa Gogineni, Farhaan Mumtaz (UK/France, short film)
Ghost School – Seemab Gul (Pakistan/Germany/Saudi Arabia)
Chimney Town: Frozen in Time – Yusuke Hirota (Japan)
Imaginary Numbers – Jelica Jerinić (Serbia/Croatia, short film)
Speedy! – Oh Jiin (South Korea, short film)
Gravity – Dalya Keleş (Turkey, short film)
Papaya – Priscilla Kellen (Brazil)
Under the Wave off Little Dragon – Jian Luo (UK, short film)
Abracadabra – Amay Mehrishi (UK/India, short film)
Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays [+lee también:
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entrevista: Frederike Migom
ficha de la película] – Frederike Migom (Belgium/Netherlands/Germany)
Atlas of the Universe [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Paul Negoescu (Romania/Bulgaria)
Whale 52 – Suite for Man, Boy, and Whale – Daniel Neiden (USA, short film)
White – Navroz Shaban (Iraqi Kurdistan Region, short film)
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe! – Andrea Szelesová (Czech Republic, short film)
A Serious Thought – Jonas Taul (Estonia, short film)
Tutti – Zhuang Rong Zuo (Taiwan, short film)

Generation 14plus

Sunny Dancer – George Jaques (UK, opening film)
When I Get Home – Edgar Adrián (Mexico, short film)
Black Burns Fast – Sandulela Asanda (South Africa)
The Dream of Dancing – Luzbeidy Monterrosa Atencio (Colombia, short film)
What Will I Become? – Lexie Bean, Logan Rozos (USA)
Scorching – Wang Beidi (China, short film)
Nobody Knows the World – Roddy Dextre (Peru, short film)
Hotel Oblique – Merlin Flügel (Germany, short film)
Matapanki – Diego “Mapache” Fuentes (Chile)
The Thread – Fenn O’Meally (UK, short film)
A Family [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] – Mees Peijnenburg (Netherlands/Belgium)
That’s My Sister – Zoé Pelchat (Canada, short film)
Memories of a Window – Mehraneh Salimian, Amin Pakparvar (USA, short film)
Four Girls – Karen Suzane (Brazil/Netherlands)
The Girl – Yucheng Tan (China, short film)
Sad Girlz [+lee también:
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entrevista: Carlo d’Ursi
entrevista: Fernanda Tovar
ficha de la película] – Fernanda Tovar (Mexico/Spain/France)
Mambo Kids – Emanuele Tresca (Italy, short film)
The Lights, They Fall [+lee también:
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entrevista: Saša Vajda
ficha de la película] – Saša Vajda (Germany)
Don’t Come Out – Victoria Linares Villegas (Dominican Republic)
En Route To – Yoo Jae-in (South Korea)