Film Festivals & Events

The 9th edition of Anime Berlin presents 30 films celebrating the magic world of anime at Babylon Berlin, with a special focus on the works of Mamoru Hosoda including Scarlet, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, The Boy and the Beast, and Belle.

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The 40th Fantasy Filmfest takes place over eight days in seven German cities in September 2026. The festival tours Germany with a unique mix of genre films - breathless thrillers, obscure sci-fi dreams, hard horror shocks and touching arthouse gems - that you won't find anywhere else in German cinemas.

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The first festival by KIRILL & FRIENDS, the theater company founded in Berlin in 2023 by theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov. For ten days, the festival transforms Berlin into a living cultural ecosystem, presenting theater, a film program curated by Cannes correspondent Joel Chapron, exhibitions, artistic workshops, talks and parties.

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filmPOLSKA, Germany’s largest Polish film festival, is organized by the Polish Institute Berlin and for its 21st edition, once again brings Polish film culture to audiences in Berlin. The program spans the full range of Polish film art: a competition for emerging filmmakers, the “Extreme Situations” panorama, a retrospective dedicated to Andrzej Wajda, the “Two Hearts. Berlin – Warsaw” special, the Millennium Docs Against Gravity guest festival, art-in-cinema works, workshops and numerous talks with filmmakers and invited guests.

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Inaugural edition of Love, Sex & Cinema, a curated, non-competitive Berlin film festival for films dealing openly with intimacy, sexuality, desire, and connection, created by filmmakers Ivan Malekin and Sarah Jayne. Screenings and filmmaker Q&As run September 15-18 at IL KINO and b-ware! Ladenkino, with opening night feature Modern Whore and showcases devoted to love and connection, sex and desire, and after-dark shorts.

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