“The Berlin Film Festival has announced the first slate of films for its 2026 lineup in the Panorama and Generation sidebars. The festival on Wednesday unveiled 12 films in the Panorama line-up, including 10 world premieres, five features and seven shorts for the youth-focused Generation section, seven world premieres among them. Typical for Berlin, the”, — write: www.hollywoodreporter.com
The festival on Wednesday unveiled 12 films in the Panorama line-up, including 10 world premieres, five features and seven shorts for the youth-focused Generation section, seven world premieres among them.
Typical for Berlin, the films are an eclectic and global mix, from Danielle Arbid’s Only Rebels Winstarring Hiam Abbass and Amine Benrachid as a couple who meet in crisis-ridden Beirut and begin a Spring-Fall relationship; to Takuya Uchiyama’s Japanese drama Numbabout a boy, tyrannized by his father, who has gone mute; to Patric Chiha’s documentary A Russian Winterabout Ukrainians in exile.
Among the Generation highlights are the Brazilian animated feature Papaya from director Priscilla Kellen; Frederike Migom’s Dutch coming-of-age drama Everybody’s Sorry Nowadays; and Ghost Schoola German/Pakistani/Saudi Arabian co-production from director Seemab Guul about a 10-year-old girl trying to uncover the reason why her school has been suddenly shut.
The stories on offer range from the Congolese city of Goma (in Elisé Sawasawa’s doc Enough is Enough) to an examination of structural racism in Germany (in Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution), that Jaripeoa documentary from Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig, that looks at queer subculture through the lens of Mexico’s hypermasculine rodeos.
Berlin will announce its full festival lineup early next year. The 2026 Berlin International Film Festival runs Feb. 12-22. Iconic German director Wim Wenders (Paris Texas, Perfect Days) will head up the international jury for the 76th Berlinale, picking the winners of the Golden and Silver Bears trophies, which will be announced on Feb. 21.
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