The main program of the Berlin Film Festival 2026 has been announced

The main program of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival has been announced. The competition will feature 22 films that will compete for the main prize of the festival - the Golden Bear. The president of this show is director Wim Wenders

This is the festival’s second year under the direction of new artistic director Tricia Tuttle. The opening film will be the romantic comedy No Good Men from Afghan director Sharbanu Sadat.

The main competition includes:

“At the Sea” (At the Sea), dir. Kornel Mundruczó
“Dao” (Dao), dir. Alain Gomis
“Dust” (Dust), dir. Anke Blonde
“Home Stories” (Etwas ganz Besonderes), dir. Eva Trobisch
“Everybody Digs Bill Evans” (Everybody Digs Bill Evans), dir. Grant Gee
“Yellow Letters” (Gelbe Briefe), dir. İlker Çatak
“Josephine” (Josephine), dir. Beth de Arújo
“Salvation” (Kurtuluş), dir. Emin Alper
“The Loneliest Man in Town” (The Loneliest Man in Town), dir. Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
“My Wife Cries” (Meine Frau weint), dir. Angela Schanelec
“Flies” (Moscas), dir. Fernando Eimbcke
“A New Dawn” (A New Dawn), dir. Yoshitoshi Shinomiya
“Nina Rosa” (Nina Roza), dir. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
“Queen at Sea” (Queen at Sea), dir. Lance Hammer
“Rosebush Pruning” (Rosebush Pruning), dir. Karim Aïnouz
“Rose” (Rose), dir. Markus Schleinzer
“Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars” (Soumsoum, la nuit des astres), dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
“In a Whisper” (À voix basse), dir. Leyla Bouzid
“We Are All Strangers” (Wo Men Bu Shi Mo Sheng Ren), dir. Anthony Chen
“Wolfram” (Wolfram), dir. Warwick Thornton
“YO: Love is a Rebellious Bird” (YO Love is a Rebellious Bird), dir. Anna Fitch, Banker White
“Nightborn” (Yön Lapsi), dir. Hanna Bergholm

The 76th Berlin International Film Festival will take place from February 12 to 22.