Berlinale 2026, the festival programme dedicated to great auteur cinema
Running from 12 to 22 February, the German festival is now in its 76th edition. The opening film will be 'No Good Men' Shahrbanoo Sadat
The Berlinale 2026 has its own exceptional programme: the programme for the 76th edition of the prestigious German festival, scheduled from 12 to 22 February, was presented today.
The opening film will be 'No Good Men', the third feature by Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat.
As festival director Tricia Tuttle commented, it will focus on the lives of Afghan women, taking inspiration from real events and mixing romantic and deeply political aspects.
The competition
The competition will feature important names such as Kornél Mundruczó, Hungarian director known for "White God" and "Pieces of a Woman", who will be in competition with "At the Sea" starring Amy Adams; French director Alain Gomis with "Dao"; Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke with "Flies"; the German director Angela Schanelec with "My Wife Cries"; the Australian director Warwick Thornton with "Wolfram"; the Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz (author of the beautiful "The Invisible Life of Eurydice Gusmão) with "Rosebush Pruning", starring Callum Turner and Riley Keough.
There are no Italian directors in this competition, which will have Wim Wenders as president of the jury: the great German auteur will also have to judge, among others, 'Yellow Letters' by İlker Çatak (a director who made his name with 'The Teachers' Room'), 'The Loneliest Man in Town' by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel and 'Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars' by the talented Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.
