76th Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

12–22 February 2026 · Berlin, Germany

274 films across 11 sections · 35 prizes

  • Opened with No Good Men
Next edition: February 10–21, 2027

Golden Bear

Yellow Letters

İlker Çatak

Venues 1

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The festival's main hall. Its programme names the films, not the rooms.

The prizes

Main Competition

Golden Bear

Yellow Letters İlker Çatak

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize

Salvation Emin Alper

Silver Bear Jury Prize

Queen at Sea Lance Hammer

Silver Bear for Best Director

Everybody Digs Bill Evans Grant Gee

Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance

Rose Sandra Hüller

Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance

Queen at Sea Anna Calder-Marshall

Queen at Sea Tom Courtenay

Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

Nina Roza Geneviève Dulude-De Celles

Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution

Yo (Love Is a Rebellious Bird) Anna Fitch, Banker White

Honorary Golden Bear

Michelle Yeoh

Berlinale Camera

Haile Gerima

Max Richter

GWFF Best First Feature Award

Chronicles from the Siege Abdallah Al-Khatib

Forest High Special Mention:, Manon Coubia

Berlinale Documentary Award

If Pigeons Turned to Gold Pepa Lubojacki

Special Mention:

Tutu Sam Pollard

Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party Daniela Magnani Hüller

Berlinale Short Films Competition

Golden Bear for Best Short Film

Someday a Child Marie-Rose Osta

Silver Bear for Best Short Film

A Woman's Place is Everywhere Fanny Texier

CUPRA Special Award

Kleptomania Jingkai Qu

FIPRESCI Prizes

Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Animol Ashley Walters

Narciso Marcelo Martinessi

AnyMart Yusuke Iwasaki

Panorama Audience Award

: Prosecution Fiction 1st Place, Faraz Shariat

Fiction 2nd Place

Four Minus Three Adrian Goiginger

Fiction 3rd Place

Mouse Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson

Documentary 1st Place

Traces Alisa Kovalenko, Marysia Nikitiuk

Documentary 2nd Place

The Other Side of the Sun Tawfik Sabouni

Documentary 3rd Place

Bucks Harbor Pete Muller

Teddy Award

Best Feature Film

Iván & Hadoum Ian de la Rosa

Best Documentary

Barbara Forever Brydie O'Connor

Best Short Film

Taxi Moto Gaël Kamilindi

Jury Award

Trial of Hein Kai Stänicke

Special Award

Céline Sciamma

Label Europa Cinemas

Four Minus Three Adrian Goiginger

Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse cinemas

Yellow Letters İlker Çatak

The Loneliest Man in Town Special Mention:, Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel

Caligari Film Prize

Peace Film Prize

Tutu Sam Pollard

Amnesty International Film Award

What Will I Become? Lexie Bean, Logan Rozos

Heiner Carow Prize

Prosecution Faraz Shariat

Prize AG Kino – Gilde – Cinema Vision 14plus

What Will I Become? Lexie Bean, Logan Rozos

Sunny Dancer Special Mention:, George Jaques

C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award

Prosecution Faraz Shariat

On Our Own Tudor Cristian Jurgiu

Main Competition 22

Berlinale Special — Out of Competition 22

Special Series

  • The House of the Spirits
    The House of the SpiritsFrancisca Alegría, Andrés WoodChile
  • House of Yang
    House of YangMia SpenglerGermany
  • Lord of the Flies
    Lord of the FliesMarc MundenUnited Kingdom
  • Mint
    MintCharlotte Regan
  • Ravalear: Not For Sale
    Ravalear: Not For SalePol Rodríguez, Isaki LacuestaSpain
  • The Story of Documentary Film
    The Story of Documentary FilmMark CousinsUnited Kingdom

Perspectives 14

Short Film Competition 21

Panorama 37

Forum 45

Forum Special

Forum Expanded 33

Generation 41

Generation 14plus – Short Films

Berlinale Classics 10

Retrospective — Lost in the 90s 15

Teddy 40 14