wtorek, 20 stycznia 2026

Berlinale 2026. Konkurs Główny i Perspektywy

Rose

Organizatorzy 76. Międzynarodowego Festiwalu Filmowego w Berlinie zaprezentowali pełne składy dwóch najważniejszych sekcji wydarzenia – Konkursu Głównego i Perspektywy. W tym pierwszym o Złotego Niedźwiedzia będą rywalizować 22 filmy, w tym jedna polska koprodukcja.

Tricia Tuttle, koordynatorka festiwalu i jej zespół, programowy przygotowali konkurs składający się z 22 tytułów, w którym znalazły się nowe filmy cenionych przez krytyków reżyserów oraz kilka tytułów z udziałem gwiazd, zapewniających blask na czerwonym dywanie.

Jest kilka filmów, na które wiele osób zwraca szczególną uwagę. Należą do nich: „At The Sea” w reżyserii Kornéla Mundruczó z amerykańską gwiazdą Amy Adams w roli kobiety, która wraca do rodzinnego kurortu po pobycie w ośrodku odwykowym; długo oczekiwany „Rosebush Pruning” w reżyserii Karima Aïnouza z Callumem Turnerem, Riley Keough, Jamie Bellem, Elle Fanning, Pamelą Anderson i „Rose” w reżyserii Markusa Schleinzera z Sandrą Hüller w roli głównej.

W swoim przemówieniu otwierającym Tuttle nawiązała do toczącej się obecnie walki o kino niezależne. „To walka o utrzymanie niezależnych kin; o to, by dystrybutorzy i wystawcy, którzy promują kino niezależne, mogli się rozwijać i nadal podejmować ryzyko. To walka o to, by kultura kinowa zachowała swój szeroki zasięg” – powiedziała.

Wśród innych reżyserów z ugruntowaną pozycją na festiwalach znajduje się rdzenny australijski filmowiec Warwick Thornton, autor „Wolfram” , westernu z lat 30. XX wieku o trójce aborygeńskich dzieci, które uciekają przed brutalną niewolą w kopalniach wolframu i wyruszają w niebezpieczną podróż przez Australię Środkową. Thornton zdobył Złotą Kamerę w Cannes za swój debiutancki film „Samson i Dalila” w 2009 roku i powrócił na festiwal w 2023 roku z filmem  „The New Boy”  z Cate Blanchett w roli głównej.

Niemiecko-turecki reżyser İlker Çatak powraca również do festiwalowych zmagań z dramatem rozgrywającym się w Turcji „Yellow Letters” . To pierwszy film fabularny od czasu jego osadzonego w Niemczech dramatu „Pokój nauczycielski” , który cieszył się dużym zainteresowaniem w sezonie nagród w 2024 roku, po premierze w berlińskiej sekcji Panorama w 2023 roku.

W gronie filmów konkursowych znajduje się też „Dust” w reżyserii Anke Blonde, który jest belgijsko-polsko-grecko-brytyjską koprodukcją. Akcja filmu rozgrywa się pod koniec lat 90. XX wieku, w szczytowym okresie belgijskiego boomu technologicznego, a jego bohaterami są przedsiębiorcy Luc i Geert, którzy obserwują upadek swojego imperium, gdy rozchodzą się wieści o ich oszustwie. Mając przed sobą zaledwie jeden dzień wolności, ruszają na poszukiwanie odkupienia. Polskimi koproducentkami filmu są Joanna Szymańska oraz Krystyna Kantor z firmy Shipsboy. Produkcja wsparta została przez Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.

76. Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy odbędzie się w Berlinie w dniach 12-22 lutego 2026 roku. Poniżej program Berlinale (Konkurs, Perspektywy – w wersji angielskiej).

 

At the Sea

by Kornél Mundruczó | with Amy Adams, Murray Bartlett, Chloe East, Brett Goldstein, Dan Levy

USA / Hungary 2026

Competition | World premiere

After a stint in rehab, a woman returns to her family’s Cape Cod home where sobriety forces her to confront buried trauma and the terrifying question of who she is without her career as a dancer.

 

Dao

by Alain Gomis | with Katy Correa, D’Johé Kouadio, Samir Guesmi, Mike Etienne, Nicolas Gomis

France / Senegal / Guinea-Bissau 2026

Competition | World premiere

A film in which two celebrations of life, a wedding in France and a commemoration in Guinea Bissau, are organically intertwined with the threads of a family and heritage that live and travel between these two worlds. Perpetual circular movement framing reality.

 

Dust

by Anke Blondé | with Arieh Worthalter, Jan Hammenecker, Thibaud Dooms, Anthony Welsh

Belgium / Poland / Greece / United Kingdom 2026

Competition | World premiere

At the end of the 1990s, during the height of the Belgian tech boom, visionary entrepreneurs Luc and Geert watch their empire collapse as news of their fraud breaks. With just one day of freedom left, they part ways in search of redemption.

 

Home Stories (Etwas ganz Besonderes)

by Eva Trobisch | with Frida Hornemann, Max Riemelt, Eva Löbau, Gina Henkel, Rahel Ohm

Germany 2026

Competition | World premiere

“Who are you and what defines you?”, Lea is asked by the production crew of a reality talent show. She does not know. And with this question, her search for an identity within and beyond her family’s hotel in the forests of the former East Germany begins.

 

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

by Grant Gee | with Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Laurie Metcalf

Ireland / United Kingdom 2026

Competition | World premiere

At the height of his career, legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans loses his bassist and musical soulmate in a tragic car crash. The film portrays the inner life of a musical genius as he struggles to learn that sometimes an intermission is part of the music.

 

Yellow Letters (Gelbe Briefe)

by İlker Çatak | with Özgü Namal, Tansu Biçer, Leyla Smyrna Cabas, İpek Bilgin

Germany / France / Turkey 2026

Competition | World premiere

Life is good for Derya and Aziz, a celebrated artist couple from Turkey, until an incident at their play’s premiere. Suddenly targeted by the state and struggling to balance their ideals with life’s necessities, their marriage is pushed to a breaking point.

 

Josephine

by Beth de Araújo | with Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Mason Reeves, Phillip Ettinger, Syra McCarthy

USA 2025

Competition | International premiere

After eight-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a crime in Golden Gate Park, she begins to act out violently to protect herself. This emotional trauma leads to conflicts between her parents as they search for justice, and a way to feel safe again.

 

Salvation (Kurtuluş)

by Emin Alper | with Caner Cindoruk, Berkay Ateş, Feyyaz Duman, Naz Göktan, Özlem Taş

Turkey / France / Netherlands / Greece / Sweden / Saudi Arabia 2026

Competition | World premiere

In a remote village, an exiled clan returns, reviving a decades-old land feud. Seized by divine visions, Mesut challenges his brother’s leadership to save his people. Will this new path bring salvation or tragedy?

 

The Loneliest Man in Town

by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel | with Alois Koch, Brigitte Meduna, Alfred Blechinger, Flurina Schneider

Austria 2026

Competition | World premiere

Blues musician Al Cook lives in an apartment filled with memories. Outside, the world carries on without him. But when his home is slated for demolition, out of the ruins of his existence, a long-forgotten dream suddenly resurfaces.

 

My Wife Cries (Meine Frau weint)

by Angela Schanelec | with Vladimir Vulević, Agathe Bonitzer, Birte Schnöink, Pauline Rebmann, Clara Gostynski

Germany / France 2026

Competition | World premiere

An ordinary workday on a building site. Forty-year-old crane operator Thomas receives a call from his wife: he has to pick her up from the hospital. Once there, he finds her sitting alone on a park bench, crying.

 

Flies (Moscas)

by Fernando Eimbcke | with Teresita Sánchez, Bastian Escobar, Hugo Ramírez

Mexico 2026

Competition | World premiere

Olga rents out a room to a man whose wife has been admitted to a hospital nearby. However, the man has a nine-year-old son he has been sneaking into the room, which leads to Olga’s carefully controlled world shifting as their lives become intertwined.

 

A New Dawn

by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya | with Riku Hagiwara, Kotone Furukawa

Japan / France 2025

Competition | World premiere | Debut film | Animation

Keitaro lives in a fireworks factory that is about to be shut down. He is determined to unravel the mystery of the Shuhari, a mythical firework created by his father before he disappeared without a trace – and launch it before the factory closes.

 

Nina Roza

by Genevieve Dulude-de Celles | with Galin Stoev, Ekaterina Stanina, Sofia Stanina, Chiara Caselli, Michelle Tzontchev

Canada / Italy / Bulgaria / Belgium 2026

Competition | World premiere

An art dealer travels from Quebec to the homeland he abandoned to see the paintings of an elusive pre-teen prodigy in the Bulgarian countryside. It is only by viewing her work firsthand that he will be able to determine if she is a fraud, or a genius.

 

Queen at Sea

by Lance Hammer | with Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay, Anna Calder-Marshall, Florence Hunt

United Kingdom / USA 2026

Competition | World premiere

As advanced dementia erodes an older woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interests, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy.

 

Rosebush Pruning

by Karim Aïnouz | with Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell, Elle Fanning, Pamela Anderson

Italy / Germany / Spain / United Kingdom 2026

Competition | World premiere

In a Spanish villa, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune. When Jack wants to move in with his girlfriend and Ed uncovers the truth about their mother’s death, the fabric of the family begins to unravel.

 

Rose

by Markus Schleinzer | with Sandra Hüller, Caro Braun, Marisa Growaldt, Godehard Giese, Augustino Renken

Austria / Germany 2026

Competition | World premiere

In the early 17 th century, a soldier arrives at an isolated Protestant village in Germany claiming to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead. Even though he proves to be a good man, the villagers’ suspicions about his identity grow and they force a reckoning.

 

Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars (Soumsoum, la nuit des astres)

by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | with Maïmouna Miawama, Ériq Ebouaney, Achouackh Abakar Souleymane

France / Chad 2026

Competition | World premiere

Seventeen-year-old Kellou has been gifted with supernatural powers she does not understand. Her disquiet and uncertainty only change when she meets Aya. It is an encounter with destiny that forges a mystical world where the visible and invisible converge.

 

In a Whisper (À Voix Basse)

by Leyla Bouzid | with Eya Bouteraa, Hiam Abbass, Marion Barbeau, Feriel Chamari

France / Tunisia 2026

Competition | World premiere

Lilia returns to Tunisia for her uncle’s funeral and reunites with a family that knows nothing about her life in Paris, especially her love life. Determined to confront her family’s secrets, Lilia sets out to unravel the mystery of her uncle’s sudden death.

 

Wolfram

by Warwick Thornton | with Deborah Mailman, Erroll Shand, Joe Bird, Thomas M Wright, Ferdinand Hoang

Australia 2025

Competition | International premiere

1930s Australia, the colonial frontier. Two swaggering outlaws roll into a mining town and unleash a wave of cruelty. Three kids use this opportunity to break free from their white masters and set off across the “sweet country” of central Australia.

 

We Are All Strangers (Wo Men Bu Shi Mo Sheng Ren)

by Anthony Chen | with Yeo Yann Yann, Koh Jia Ler, Andi Lim, Regene Lim

Singapore 2026

Competition | World premiere

A life-altering event forces 21-year-old Junyang and his girlfriend to face reality. At the same time, while Junyang’s father is struggling to hold their modest life together, a woman enters his life and both generations are forced to redefine their family.

 

YO Love is a Rebellious Bird

by Anna Fitch, Banker White | with Yolanda Shea

USA 2026

Competition | World premiere | Documentary form

Anna spends a decade building a 1/3-scale version of the house of her late friend, Yo, that she can fit into – along with a puppet of Yo. When the pair first met, Yo was 73 and Anna 24, but they formed a deep bond that defied the gap in age and experience.

 

Nightborn (Yön Lapsi)

by Hanna Bergholm | with Seidi Haarla, Rupert Grint

Finland / Lithuania / France / United Kingdom 2026

Competition | World premiere

Eager to start a family, Saga and Jon move to her childhood home in the Finnish forest. But after their baby is born, the couple’s dream of a perfect child turns into a nightmare – and only Saga senses the unsettling truth.

 

Perspectives

 

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by Kosara Mitic | with Eva Kostic, Martina Danilovska, Dame Joveski, Eva Stojchevska, Petar Manic

North Macedonia / Serbia / Slovenia 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

Seventeen-year-old Sara is hiding a secret on a school trip. When the trip spirals out of control and Sara witnesses a classmate’s sexual assault, she and the girl seal a bond that will last forever.

 

Animol

by Ashley Walters | with Tut Nyuot, Vladyslav Baliuk, Sekou Diaby, Stephen Graham, Sharon Duncan-Brewster

United Kingdom 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

Behind the walls of a young offender institution, Troy is thrust into a brutal world of gangs, loyalty and violence from the moment he arrives. When an unspoken bond develops with a fellow inmate, it becomes a dangerous vulnerability for them.

 

Chronicles From the Siege

by Abdallah Alkhatib | with Nadeem Rimawi, Saja Kilani, Maria Zreik, Emad Azmi, Idir Benaibouche

Algeria / France / Palestine 2026

Perspectives | World premiere

When their city is placed under siege, the lives of a group of ordinary people are turned upside down, forcing each of them to confront impossible choices in pursuit of what they believe is survival in a war zone.

 

The River Train (El Tren Fluvial )

by Lorenzo Ferro, Lucas A. Vignale | with Milo Barria, Rita Pauls, Mariano Barria, Fabián Casas, Lucrecia Pazos

Argentina 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

Nine-year-old Milo lives in a remote Argentinian village where he studies the Malambo, a folk dance full of bravura. He is an excellent dancer, but Milo’s only desire is to escape the countryside on a train for the Buenos Aires of his dreams.

 

Filipiñana

by Rafael Manuel | with Jorrybell Agoto, Carmen Castellanos, Teroy Guzman, Carlitos Siguion-Reyna, Nour Houshmand

Singapore / United Kingdom / Philippines / France / Netherlands 2026

Perspectives | European premiere | Debut film

New girl Isabel is strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, president of the country club where she works. As she pieces together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surfaces, she realises that they are both connected by a sinister shared history.

 

Forest High (Forêt Ivre)

by Manon Coubia | with Salomé Richard, Aurélia Petit, Anne Coesens, Arthur Marbaix, Yoann Zimmer

Belgium / France 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

In the northern Alps, Anne, Hélène and Suzanne take turns looking after a mountain hut. Through the seasons, hikers come and go. Stories bloom and fade, leaving each of them facing the silence of their chosen solitude and the poetry of nature.

 

The Red Hangar (Hangar rojo)

by Juan Pablo Sallato | with Nicolás Zárate, Boris Quercia, Marcial Tagle, Catalina Stuardo, Aron Hernández

Chile / Argentina / Italy 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

As the 1973 military coup unfolds in Chile, Air Force Captain Jorge Silva is torn between duty and conscience as his academy turns into a detention centre.

 

Der Heimatlose (Trial of Hein)

by Kai Stänicke | with Paul Boche, Philip Froissant, Emilia Schüle, Stephanie Amarell

Germany 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

After 14 years away, Hein returns to his home village on a remote island, only to discover that the close-knit community no longer recognises him. Suspecting him to be an impostor, they demand a trial to determine his true identity.

 

Nosso segredo (Our Secret)

by Grace Passô | with Efraim Santos, Flip, Jéssica Gaspar, Ju Colombo, Marisa Revert

Brazil / Portugal 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

A family drifts through their home in silence, struggling to rebuild their lives after a recent loss. Each mourns alone, until the youngest child reveals a secret that enables them to realise that they must come together with love and courage to defy grief.

 

A Prayer for the Dying

by Dara Van Dusen | with Johnny Flynn, John C. Reilly, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh

Norway / Greece / United Kingdom / Sweden 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

In the wake of the American Civil War, veteran Jacob Hansen’s dream of a new life in Friendship, Wisconsin becomes a nightmare. As an epidemic spreads chaos, Jacob – sheriff, undertaker and pastor – must fight to save his town, his family and his soul.

 

Take Me Home

by Liz Sargent | with Anna Sargent, Victor Slezak, Ali Ahn, Marceline Hugot, Shane Harper

USA 2026

Perspectives | International premiere | Debut film

Anna, a 38-year-old woman with a cognitive disability, cares for her ageing adoptive parents until a Florida heatwave shatters their family and Anna’s routine. This intimate drama examines the shifting demands placed on a uniquely vulnerable family.

 

Truly Naked

by Muriel d’Ansembourg | with Caolán O’Gorman, Andrew Howard, Alessa Savage, Safiya Benaddi, Lyndsey Marshal

Netherlands / Belgium / France 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

An introverted teen, who has only ever experienced sex through the lens while working for his father’s pornography business, must step out from behind the camera when a feisty classmate challenges him to embrace a real connection.

 

Where To?

by Assaf Machnes | with Ehab Salami, Ido Tako, Milan Peschel, Rama Nasrallah, Raheeq Haj Yahia-Suleiman

Israel / Germany 2026

Perspectives | World premiere | Debut film

Hassan, a 55-year-old Palestinian Uber driver, shuttles partygoers through endless Berlin nights. Amir, a young Israeli, who is in danger of losing himself to these nights, becomes Hassan’s regular passenger when they find themselves bonded by heartbreak.

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